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Jason Whyte
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From: Victoria, BC, Canada
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posted 10-22-2014 03:15 AM

The 70mm projector in Toronto's Varsity #8 is still sitting there, ready to go. I was there recently for a screening of THE DROP and it's still an amazing room. Same theater that premiered Star Wars in the city!

To respond to Mark all the way on the front page...the Seattle Cinerama won't be re-opening in time for Interstellar but am more than certain it will be in their next Sci-Fi film fest.

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 10-22-2014 05:44 AM

quote: Carsten Kurz
Believe it or not - there will be no 35mm prints of Interstellar in germany. Zero. Nada.

I somehow expected Warner Brothers to make an exception, after all the pressure from Nolan to push forward a 35mm release. There will apparently also be no prints of any kind in the Netherlands and Belgium. So far for this film revival movement...

So, this German DTS release is a one-of-a-kind.

quote: Carsten Kurz
It is very true that there is a considerable market for OV, but the costs and conditions for the 70mm screening is such that I don't believe that distributor and exhibitor would risc it with an OV-only presentation. Of course, a few screenings with the US dts discs could actually bring in some additional attendance

No screenings in "OV" have yet been announced. It would've made a good combination alongside visiting some old friends [Wink]

. Of course, there still is the Odeon at Leicester Square in London, but I'm quite frankly not really impressed by that auditorium. And whoever decided to destroy the giant screen at the Empire just across the street deserves to be punished for his/her evil deeds.

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Scott Norwood
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posted 10-22-2014 05:52 AM

What happened at the Empire Leicester Square? I visited there in mid-1997 and thought that the picture and sound quality there were of top quality. I have not been to the Odeon across the street.

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 10-22-2014 06:40 AM

They split their monumental "Screen 1" in two, one has become a Digital IMAX screen and the other one something they call an "IMPACT" screen.

You might want to check this blog post for some more info. There are also some pictures of the new "IMAX" screen on-line. Apparently, the current set of digital (IMAX) projectors are not able to use the whole screen...

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Scott Norwood
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posted 10-22-2014 01:27 PM

Ugh. Sorry to hear that they split it. The big house at the Empire was a beautiful theatre and one of my favorites.

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 10-22-2014 04:59 PM

Yeah, it's quite a loss. I'm rather certain they will regret this stupid move in the foreseeable future... There's a rather high quality YouTube video featuring the auditorium in its final days.

As you can see near the end of the movie, they only had one 35mm projector left in production, the last remaining DP70 was already parked against the back wall of the booth. They seemingly also never upgraded to 4K projection, which you probably would expect for such a high profile, giant screen.

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Terry Monohan
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posted 10-23-2014 11:46 AM

Does anyone here know who they split Screen #1 at the Empire? Did they go down the middle with the bowling look or did they do It the correct way, kept the front section with 650 seats same size large wide screen and put another large wide 600 seat in the upper back part. Are the screens still a little curved. Thanks for the info in advance.

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 10-23-2014 01:30 PM

The bigger, Digital IMAX screen is located in the part formerly known as "the circle", the stadium seated part in the back. They apparently needed to raise the original ceiling to fit the screen. The end result is a very wide and rather short room. The IMAX surround speakers are the biggest joke, the seats located in the back of the auditorium will be sitting behind them...
The IMAX screen retains some of the features of the original, majestic room, although everything is now dark grey.

The other screen, the so called "IMPACT" screen is located in the front section, where the stalls used to be. The "IMPACT" screen looks like a 13 in a dozen multiplex shoebox theater.

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Terry Monohan
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posted 10-23-2014 08:06 PM

Thanks Marcel for the note. At least they didn't put a wall down the center like so many of the cheap United Artists Theatres did in the USA many years ago. I guess they have no curtains that open and close at the Empire.

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Carsten Kurz
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posted 10-24-2014 05:23 AM

They just confirmed that Interstellar 70mm is running at Berlin in the german dubbed/dts version exclusively. So indeed DTS created a single disc set. Which probably made this german print even more expensive. They say more than 30.000US$

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Daniel Schulz
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posted 10-24-2014 01:39 PM

quote: Carsten Kurz
They just confirmed that Interstellar 70mm is running at Berlin in the german dubbed/dts version exclusively. So indeed DTS created a single disc set. Which probably made this german print even more expensive. They say more than 30.000US$

I don't mean to be pedantic, but Datasat is providing the discs for this release, not DTS. Normally I'm OK with the industry shorthand of using Datasat and DTS interchangeably, but the Datasat team is working so hard on this release (35mm and 5/70mm soundtracks in multiple languages, captions for 35mm and 5/70mm and subtitles in multiple languages for the IMAX film prints), that I feel like they should be acknowledged. We did indeed make a single Datasat disc for the German dub, and also for the Italian dub.

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 10-24-2014 04:12 PM

quote: Terry Monohan
I guess they have no curtains that open and close at the Empire.

No more curtains, no more movable masking on either screen. Curtains and masking are for old people, not for hipster cinemas charging 18 pounds for a "premium" show...

quote: Carsten Kurz
They just confirmed that Interstellar 70mm is running at Berlin in the german dubbed/dts version exclusively. So indeed DTS created a single disc set. Which probably made this german print even more expensive. They say more than 30.000US$

$30K+ for a single print... Still a pity they didn't include a few shows in OV though, I doubt the extra DTS... sorry, Datasat discs would have made the difference.

quote: Daniel Schulz
I don't mean to be pedantic, but Datasat is providing the discs for this release, not DTS. Normally I'm OK with the industry shorthand of using Datasat and DTS interchangeably, but the Datasat team is working so hard on this release (35mm and 5/70mm soundtracks in multiple languages, captions for 35mm and 5/70mm and subtitles in multiple languages for the IMAX film prints), that I feel like they should be acknowledged. We did indeed make a single Datasat disc for the German dub, and also for the Italian dub.

I didn't know you also do the subtitling for the IMAX prints. You do this for all IMAX prints (the remaining handful that might see the light of day nowadays) or just for the "DMR" features?

We'll give your team the thumbs up for all the efforts to make this possible. [Wink]

Most around here are pretty excited to see this stuff released on 5/70mm and I'm sure many are willing to travel a considerable amount of miles/kilometers/bloits just to see this movie in this format. It's pretty amazing what just the format can do, even without any guarantee the movie will actually be any good at all.

I don't mean to be pedantic either, but isn't *DTS* actually still the official name for this particular "digital audio for film" format, although Datasat is the only company supporting this format? (Probably also the only one licensed by the former mothership to do so?)

Maybe you should sell a bunch of Datasat stickers as an upgrade kit to rebadge old DTS equipment to Datasat [Wink]

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Daniel Schulz
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posted 10-24-2014 04:29 PM

quote: Marcel Birgelen
I didn't know you also do the subtitling for the IMAX prints. You do this for all IMAX prints (the remaining handful that might see the light of day nowadays) or just for the "DMR" features?

Mostly just the DMR 70mm prints. The "traditional" museum-style IMAX features often have one print that stays in one location for years on end, and so will have laser-etched subtitles. It's the DMR movies that have a bunch of release prints made in short order, that need to be moved around between territories. IMAX adopted the CSS system to provide soft subtitles for those releases.

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We'll give your team the thumbs up for all the efforts to make this possible. [Wink] Most around here are pretty excited to see this stuff released on 5/70mm and I'm sure many are willing to travel a considerable amount of miles/kilometers/bloits just to see this movie in this format. It's pretty amazing what just the format can do, even without any guarantee the movie will actually be any good at all.

Yes, we're pretty excited for it. A 70mm project is always fun, but they're usually one-shot prints for the archives or limited plays in places like the AFI or the American Cinematheque. To have a widely distributed 70mm release is very gratifying.

quote: Marcel Birgelen
I don't mean to be pedantic either, but isn't *DTS* actually still the official name for this particular "digital audio for film" format, although Datasat is the only company supporting this format? (Probably also the only one licensed by the former mothership to do so?)

No, it is now officially Datasat Digital Sound. You'll not find any DTS logos on end credits or movie posters any longer. Datasat does not have a licensing arrangement for the technology, they own the patents outright.

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Maybe you should sell a bunch of Datasat stickers as an upgrade kit to rebadge old DTS equipment to Datasat [Wink]

I like it!

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Shawn M. Martin
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posted 10-24-2014 06:06 PM

The DTS logo has been in a few recent movies' credits: Elysium, Sabotage and Brick Mansions are some I recall.

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Daniel Schulz
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posted 10-24-2014 06:13 PM

quote: Shawn M. Martin
The DTS logo has been in a few recent movies' credits: Elysium, Sabotage and Brick Mansions are some I recall.

Fair point - but it shouldn't have been. When we hear about one slipping through we try to contact the title house to correct the error.

I guess my point is that all of the equipment and staff for producing and supporting the film-sound-format-formerly-known-as-DTS went over to Datasat in the sale of the DTS cinema division.

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