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Author Topic: Interstellar locations running in 70MM Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-21-2014 01:10 PM                     quote: Marcel Birgelen As far as I know, there is NO IMAX release of this year's Hunger Games movie, not on film and also not in Digital. Last year's release had footage shot on IMAX film in it. I guess they didn't want to compete with Interstellar. The new Hunger Games installment may not be in "IMAX," but its TV commercials are spamming a few of the surcharge priced, house label big screen theater concepts. Exodus: Gods and Kings is doing the same thing.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 11-21-2014 01:31 PM                     Brad, why are two XD-10s required?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 11-21-2014 01:33 PM                     They aren't. The second player is so if the primary one should fail it defaults to the backup the same way that if dts fails mid-show it would revert to analog (or some other form of digital like SRD) to keep the show running. It takes a lot to damage the timecode on a 70mm print, so the weak point is the player itself (even though they are quite robust). Remember older players are reading the data live from a spinning disc. The XD10 and XD20 are reading the data from a hard drive, but both CDROMs and hard drives DO fail, sometimes without warning. Its just an extra (optional) step in the setup of the system to help ensure nothing goes wrong. Think of it like those safety rings around the print on the platter. Odds are we could just tuck the tail and have nothing go wrong, but if the option is there to take an extra step to ensure the safety of the print and shows, why not? These prints are already crazy-scarce, so they really do need to be treated with every precaution possible by knowledgeable projectionists with lots of experience unlike the Cinebistro "projectionists". I wonder if Cinebistro will simply stick with digital going forward or if they will try to play the next movie in 70mm as well? And did Paramount make them pay for the print they destroyed?  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 11-24-2014 08:14 AM                     That's a really cool idea. I had no idea the XD10 could do that. Is it designed to do that out of the box, or did you come up with that scheme? I completely agree with using safety rings, etc, to ensure nothing goes wrong. Probably not going to be necessary, but take the precaution anyway. I assume the question about Cinebistro is a rhetorical one. I don't work there or know anyone who does. And what next 70mm title??  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 11-24-2014 09:05 AM                     quote: Ken Lackner And what next 70mm title?? Tarantino has announced he will probably shoot his next movie in 65mm. It might even be shot in Ultra Panavision 70... There are no other new releases planned in 70mm AFAIK.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-24-2014 11:33 AM                     Inherent Vice, shot in 35mm is slated to get a 70mm release in a couple of weeks...a month ahead of the wide-release. IVANHOE is slated to be shot in 65mm with a presumed 70mm release. And, of course, QT's movie as detailed elsewhere.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 11-24-2014 12:12 PM                     Yeah, indeed, I totally forgot about P. T. Anderson's new movie. But has the 70mm release been confirmed or will it be a road show/film festival only thing with just a single print?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-24-2014 03:02 PM                     I don't understand why Inherent Vice would need a 70mm blow-up print. The movie was shot in 35mm, and in flat format rather than 'scope (which is pretty unusual for P.T. Anderson). Back in the 1980's it wasn't unusual for flat 1.85:1 and 1.66:1 movies to be blown up to 70mm prints, but it was mainly for the magnetic 6-track audio. Once the 35mm digital audio formats arrived that practice ended abruptly. Under proper film handling conditions a 5/70mm film print of a 35mm sourced movie will probably still look better than a 4/35mm print. But the differences are only going to be more noticeable on really big movie screens. Inherent Vice doesn't seem like the kind of movie that would be geared for giant screens. As to other upcoming movies that could utilize 70mm film prints, I really have to wonder if any productions using the new Arri Alexa 65 6K digital camera might try outputting 6K to 70mm film as a means of one-upping 2K & 4K digital theaters.  |  IP: Logged David J Hilsgen Expert Film Handler Posts: 192 From: SAUK RAPIDS,MN . USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 11-29-2014 06:48 PM                     I`m the guy in Mn at willow creek, been here since the theatre opened in 1989. we are still currently running the 5/70 of interstellar it`s a good thing i kept the humdifiers with how dry it`s been, in the booth .i`m running it on simplex w/a x90 behind it & 2 dts readers with a 6d & xd10 with a switch over board & cp650 bi amp with a screen size of 14 by 32.  |  IP: Logged Stephan Shelley Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 854 From: castro valley, CA, usa Registered: Nov 2014 posted 12-05-2014 03:25 PM                     Grand Lake in Oakland is starting its final week of Interstellar in 70mm. Ran two weeks on screen one then two weeks screen two and now back to screen one. There was talk of putting it in screen 3 in a week but with Hobit trilogy and a studio DCP screening of Inherent Vice that is not happining. Yes we can show 5/70mm on three of the four screens at the Grand Lake. We are expecting to get Inherent Vice in 70mm. P. T. Andersons last film The Master was 1:85 on 5/70mm. Had to file a special plate for it. Any place else running Norelco AAs?  |  IP: Logged David J Hilsgen Expert Film Handler Posts: 192 From: SAUK RAPIDS,MN . USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 12-05-2014 05:58 PM                     Heights theatre in columbia heights,mn has a set of norelco AA. he let me borrow his 2 70 dts readers, so i could run interstellar. last time i ran 70, was far & away on mag in 1992 here at the willow creek.plymouth ,mn  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-05-2014 08:10 PM                        quote: Stephan Shelley Any place else running Norelco AAs? The Aero in Santa Monica uses a changeover pair of AA mk. Is, and the Egyptian in Hollywood has AAIIs, both venues with DTS 70 readers.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 12-11-2014 08:08 AM                        Interstellar finalized the 70mm run here this Tuesday. Around 34.000 tickets sold for Interstellar in 70mm. At one point it had sold 20% of all Interstellar tickets in Denmark.  |  IP: Logged Jarod Reddig Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 513 From: Hays, Ks Registered: Jun 2011 posted 12-11-2014 04:13 PM                     Very nice Thomas.  |  IP: Logged David J Hilsgen Expert Film Handler Posts: 192 From: SAUK RAPIDS,MN . USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 12-11-2014 05:50 PM                     How many theatres are sill running interstellar 5/70 in the us, i`m holding till 12/18 maybe thru christmas.  |  IP: Logged

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