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Author Topic: Longest Booked Print Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-08-2003 08:37 PM                     quote: Are you sure "sitting" was the only thing the manager and his girlfriend were doing backstage??? Well, if it was only for the THX logo, it would give even more new meaning to the word, "quickie."  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-08-2003 09:00 PM                     Yes, they put subs in over at the Village for the Megasound engagement of "Altered States". The Village is another beast. The Village got remodeled before the one week Academy engagement of the "Deer Hunter" in 70MM. They got a new larger screen and a new water fall curtain. Before that time the Village had a smaller screen and a different curtain. After adding Megasound and THX and the last sound remodel. After all that the Village became the King of Westwood. No other house had the power of the Village. The Village even wore out it's CP200. That CP200 was a special tricked out unit by Dolby. A few of the theatres around the city had CP200's that Dolby re-setup special. The Bruin like some Mann houses got equipment moved over. The two biggest things to happen to the Bruin was when they added 70MM in 1978 and the THXing in the early 80's. Now over at camp AVCO, they were two Happy campers. The Avco was the first THX in Westwood. The Avco had a problem for a while. They would try to play with the big boys across Westwood. By turning up the THX logo like the Village, National, Bruin Theatres. The Avco was under powered, they damaged more surround speakers. Than any other GCC house in the area. Westwood had 8 THX houses at one time. Now the count is down to 6.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-08-2003 09:12 PM                     quote: The Village got remodeled before the one week Academy engagement of the "Deer Hunter" in 70MM. The one-week oscar-qualifying run of THE DEER HUNTER was at the National Theatre (where I saw it). It was the regular run of the film that played at the Village.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-09-2003 11:30 AM                     Paul The Village Theatre had the Reserved Performance Engagement. They used hard tickets for that show. Because I saw it at the Village, but not as a regular engagement run. The National may have been a special screening?  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-09-2003 12:14 PM                     The Village run didn't start until February. I saw it at the National in December for the one-week Oscar qualifying run. (To me, a regular run would include either reserved seat, exclusive engagement, or first-time citywide release). The National's seats weren't reserved, but hard tickets were made for all showtimes that week. I bought my tickets Tuesday afternoon for the 8pm Wednesday performance. I saw it the Wednesday before SUPERMAN-THE MOVIE opened. (If memory serves me, the Village was running an Oscar-qualifying one weeker of THE BRINKS JOB at the time). This was my first experience at the National. My first show at the Village was in 1982: PINK FLOYD-THE WALL.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-09-2003 04:44 PM                     Bill, Re The Deer Hunter in Westwood. Paul is correct. The Deer Hunter initially played for one week at the National (an Oscar-consideration engagement 12/08/78 - 12/14/78). The National opened Superman on 12/15. Universal platformed The Deer Hunter throughout winter and spring 1979 with the L.A. engagements beginning 02/23/79 at the Village and a second engagement in Orange County (Edwards Newport). In the fall of '79 there was a return engagement at the Century Plaza. Re subwoofers at Westwood theaters. quote: Yes, they put subs in over at the Village for the Megasound engagement of "Altered States". The Village is another beast. So did they pull out the subs after the Altered States run? What about the run of Superman II (also advertised as Megasound) a few months later? quote: The two biggest things to happen to the Bruin was when they added 70MM in 1978 and the THXing in the early 80's. But what about that sub story I mentioned a few posts back? The timeframe of that event, if told to me correctly, was spring '83. And what about the spring '81 run of Outland at the Bruin (advertised as Megasound)? They would've used subs for that, wouldn't they? quote: The Avco was the first THX in Westwood. Along with the Northpark in Dallas, they were the first THX houses anywhere in the world. (Tomlinson Holman told me a while ago that he thought there was also a THX house in Florida around that same time.) As for Westwood, the Avco got certified in spring 1983. The Egyptian (aka the Odeon and the Festival) got certified in the fall of '83 (the Coronet may have been certified around that time too; I don't remember; by the time Amadeus opened there in fall '84 it was certified). As for the three big Mann theaters (National, Village, Bruin), I don't remember when they became certified, but I imagine it may have been spring 1984 when Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Star Trek III, and Gremlins opened at each of those three theaters one week apart from one another. That's also the time when Lucasfilm's TAP program really started getting going. In checking ads for May-June '84, only the National (and the Chinese in Hollywood) show any THX indications, so maybe those other Mann theaters got certified later on. I didn't start going to the movies in Westwood regularly until 1985 and by then most of the area theaters were THX certified.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-09-2003 05:05 PM                     When I saw PINK FLOYD-THE WALL at the Village in Westwood (August, 1982, I believe), the theatre had a whole row of Cerwin Vega sub-woofers (which i believe were from Megasound, but I could be wrong)in front of the screen (covered with black cloth). The surrounds being used were BOSE 901's. The theater's original Cinemascope speakers were still in place at the time, but I'm sure were disconected. When I saw 2010 in December, 1984, the subs had disappeared from public view. The theatre had installed THX just a couple of months prior. When I saw STAR TREK IV in 1986, the Cerwin-Vegas were back in place in front of the screen (on the floor). Then when I caught the new edition of STAR WARS, the theatre had been remodeled, the subs were oncde again not in sight, and the surrounds were now JBL's. Also, the original (barely hidden) CinemaScope surrounds were gone.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-09-2003 06:59 PM                     Time flies when your seeing and running movies. The subs stayed in place at the Village for Superman II. I got the Superman II print on the move-over to the Picwood. Yes, they would have used the subs at the Bruin for Outland. The Megasound systems were leased to the theatres from Warner Bros.. I had a memo from Warner, saying they a problem with delivering Megasound systems on time for release. The Cineplex Odeon was certified only for the first few years. During the last years Cineplex ran that theatre, it was no longer a THX house. When Mann took over the house they recerified it.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-09-2003 08:49 PM                        June 2002 through November 2002 - "Big Fat Greek Wedding". Back a few years ago I ran "Steel Magnolias" for 20 weeks or so.  |  IP: Logged Steven Pickles Film Handler Posts: 81 From: Gainesville, FL, USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 01-09-2003 10:13 PM                     My Big Fat Greek Wedding June 19, 2002 - Present  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-09-2003 10:29 PM                     Mike The Coronet became THX certified (2 theatres) right off the bat with the remodeling (from the UA Cinema Center)at the end of 1983. The Mann Village, Bruin, Chinese II, Chinese III were all certified in the fall of 1984 (around the time of the release of THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL).  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-10-2003 05:12 AM                        "Amadeus". We ran it for 16 months, 3 times a day 1984 - 86 at ABCinema+D in downtown Copenhagen. I must have seen it several dozen times and it remain one of my all-time favorites. I even ran it for myself in the middle of the night every once in a while. Back in 1958 - 1962, "South Pacific" was shown in Todd-AO 72 weeks and then 112 weeks at the 3 Falke Bio (3 Falcons Cinema). In 1964-66, "My Fair Lady" ran 20 months in Super Panavision 70 at the same cinema. See list of all films shown at that cinema here.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-10-2003 08:05 AM                        My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Mid to late May 2002 - present Still looks phiggidy!  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-10-2003 08:34 AM                        Showing a print five times a day results in about 150 runs per month. So extended runs can approach or even exceed 1000 showings of a print. Of course that pales in comparison to some of the special venue theatres at theme parks that can get tens of thousands of "Film Done Right" showings from a print. I have a sample of a print that had 60,310 showings at a theme park!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-10-2003 10:40 AM                        And how did it look, John? According to the DLP folks, film NEVER looks as good after its' 100th run as it does on its' first. It's scratched, the colors are faded, it's dirty and the sound is bad (I actually have one of their conference presentations on my PC that says this). You cannot argue with the DLP folks.  |  IP: Logged

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