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Stephan Shelley
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: castro valley, CA, usa
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posted 11-19-2015 02:58 PM

That is a prototype Dolby Edgecode reader. There is also a small black roller and led/reader there.

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Michael Putlack
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posted 11-20-2015 12:22 AM

I don't think anyone has posted this yet, but I just got word that the runtime of the DCP will be 2h 47m with NO intermission! I was kind of hoping they'd include one with the DCP too, but I guess not. [Frown]

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Stephan Shelley
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posted 11-20-2015 12:49 AM

Left out Century/Cinemark Daly City, CA

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

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posted 11-20-2015 02:16 AM

Most servers now have some means to create your own intermission though you'd be on your own for the intermission card and any music.

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Paul Mayer
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posted 11-20-2015 09:58 AM

Tarantino deliberately made the DCP a bit shorter by trimming the intermission out as well as shortening some of the "scenery porn" shots that the UP70 version lingers on, such lingering being considered pointless on smaller screens. The DCP is not intended to be the "roadshow" version - just like the old days.

Also, BL&S has stayed out of the issue of training 70mm projectionists - too many site specific variables to have to train for. BL&S will install these locations but operators will be the responsibility of each site.

I would love to be able to operate one of these roadshow sites - but there are no 570 sites anywhere in NM. Once the roadshow site list comes out, I hope to pick one that's fairly close and catch a screening there. Maybe Dallas???

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Jonathan Goeldner
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posted 11-20-2015 10:33 AM

15 minutes of 'scenery porn' is a lot

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Mitchell Dvoskin
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From: West Milford, NJ, USA
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posted 11-23-2015 09:37 AM

Apparently there was an advanced screening in 70mm last week in NYC, and the projector broke down.

New Story

quote: pagesix.com

Harvey Weinstein is taking a risk releasing Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” in the extinct, widescreen 70mm format.

While the industry has gone digital, the Weinstein Co. bought more than 100 antique 70mm projectors and restored them so it can show a special “roadshow version” of the film, with an overture and intermission, clocking in at over 3 hours.

But at one of the first screenings Thursday night at Village East Cinema, the projector broke.

Erik Lomis, president of distribution for Weinstein, told me the projector wasn’t one of the 100 he had restored. “It was the theater owner’s and a gear was stripped and then replaced in one hour.”

Producers Shannon McIntosh and Stacey Sher quickly threw together a Q&A with actors Kurt Russell and Walton Goggins to keep the audience occupied during repairs.

One audience member told me of the film, “It’s great. So I’m glad I stuck around.”

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Bobby Henderson
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posted 11-23-2015 10:12 AM

Village East Cinemas? Is that the Loews theater that opened up in 1991? I remember watching Thelma & Louise on the THX screen there. It played Terminator 2: Judgment Day and I think a few other early 1990's movies in 70mm.

There was another multiplex in that part of Manhattan that opened maybe a year or two earlier, boating 70mm capability. But I'm not sure if that theater ever actually showed anything in 70mm.

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Steve Guttag
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posted 11-23-2015 10:28 AM

Hmmm...projector fixed within an hour? If it was digital...odds are, unless they were lucky enough to have the expensive part that can't be off of power for more than weeks or 6 months laying around, that show would have been done.

Yes, they had to have the gear but that was/is a more common thing to have about...they cost MUCH less and have a MUCH MUCH longer shelf life.

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Mitchell Dvoskin
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posted 11-23-2015 12:33 PM

I don't know if it was the former Loews location, or if it was always an independent.

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Mark Ogden
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posted 11-23-2015 01:58 PM

The Village East is owned by Reading/City Cinemas, it was built into a former Yiddish legitimate theatre. The upstairs screen, the one with 70mm, is one of the most beautiful auditoriums in Manhattan.

I think Bobby is probably thinking of the AMC/Loews Village 7 on Third Avenue.

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David Buckley
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posted 11-23-2015 02:24 PM

quote:
...more than 100 antique 70mm projectors

Antique? Really?

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Eric Carter
Film Handler

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From: Redmond, WA, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 11-23-2015 02:37 PM

The City Cinemas Village East's initial engagement in their beautiful upstairs auditorium was THE ROCKETEER in 70mm. The presentation was pretty good.

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Bill Brandenstein
Master Film Handler

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posted 11-24-2015 01:07 PM

Anyone want to comment on BLS pulling projectionists out of retirement as commented on at this Boston Globe article? I mean, we wish them well, but how well can this go?

quote: Boston Globe
Between them, Cutler and Weinstein Co. have trained or recruited about 200 projectionists, enough for two shifts per theater. Many are veterans coming out of retirement.

So, does the MPAA rating of "R" (seen on the poster, for multiple "reasons") perhaps makes this the first 70mm roadshow movie in history with an "R" rating? Not a movie to take the kiddies to on Christmas day, apparently.

Meanwhile, no local screens have been announced in SoCal that I can find. The Cinerama Dome will open Force Awakens in 3D but their website only lists the Dome for 4 days. Surely Disney won't let them bump it in only a week for H8ful, but I'm pretty sure the Dome is the only screen in this part of the world actually made for 2.76:1.

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Eric Carter
Film Handler

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From: Redmond, WA, USA
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posted 11-24-2015 02:32 PM

I think the Dome still has the possibility of showing the HATEFUL EIGHT (one of the two no-brainer venues in the country that should show it, along with the Seattle Cinerama) because the Arclight has all of those black box houses behind the Dome. I think they are using four houses (including the Dome) for SW. Just move it over to a black box and open the 70mm roadshow in the Dome. The Seattle Cinerama is showing SW with their 6P laser projection and Dolby Atmos; they wanted to also play HATEFUL EIGHT at a later date, but that won't work for TWC's 70mm release plans (at this juncture).

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