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Author Topic: Salt Lake City Is Loosing Its Last 70mm Theatre Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2004 08:09 PM                     We will be loosing our last 70mm equipped theatre here, Trolley Corners, in Salt Lake City the end of this month and would like to do a 70mm fest the last two weeks its open Does anyone know who the contact at Paramount is for booking 70mm features? Do they have a classics department that does this? We have been able to book both Lawrence Of Arabia and 2001 so far but unreturned calls from Fox have left us scurrying to find other films to book. Anyone ideas or known titles available would be appreciated!!! Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-14-2004 12:31 AM                     The Sony Pictures Repertory website at www.sonypicturesrepertory.com has several titles listed as being available in 70mm. The contact that I have used for booking is Michael Schlesinger at 310-244-5683.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-14-2004 03:38 AM                     Oh no! Is that the one with the water tower marquee? I remember driving past it all the time as a little kid.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-14-2004 04:35 AM                     From Paramount that I personally know of... A hacked up frankenstein print of Top Gun. An excellent print of Hunt for Red October. An excellent print of Days of Thunder. A partial print of Spaceballs and something else in the cans for The Untouchables. The Northpark print of Titanic which has been so nicely damaged by schmuck operators elsewhere. A very brittle, spliced to hell and brown print of Raiders of the Lost Ark. I'm probably forgetting some. I'll try to look up the Paramount Repertory contact and post it tomorrow.  |  IP: Logged Peter Kerchinsky Master Film Handler Posts: 326 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-14-2004 04:55 AM                     When they did the Cinerama/70MM Wide Screen Festival at the Cinerama here in Seattle the 70MM prints they got from Sony included: Total Recall Ghostbusters Lawrence of Arabia Krull, the Conqueror Silverado plus they ran a 70MM 30fps of OKLAHOMA The projectionist told me most of those prints, excluding OKLAHOMA ran fine and looked OK. OKLAHOMA (not sure who has distribution) has a slight vinegar smell and, as John Pytlak attests to, had a sticky mag track which the 70MM Kinotone didn't like very much. They had a problem with a fuse blowing in a motor because the mag track didn't make it through the runner plate very well. Had to back off the tension on the runner plate and all was fine.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-14-2004 08:26 AM                     We had three 70mm theaters, all within the lower Connecticut area, but soon the equipment will be changed out in one, and we closed another awhile ago. That leaves one left.... ho-hum. Between the cost of the print and unskilled operators, few can maintain them.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-14-2004 07:48 PM                     Bumping this back up in case anyone has any other 70mm ideas. Brad, Would appreciate that guys name and number at Paramount so I can contact him. Thanks Jonathan for the Sony info. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-14-2004 07:54 PM                        Paramount Repertory 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 contact: Tom Molen email: Tom_Molen@paramount.com tel: (212) 654-7208 Theatrical Repertory Sales 5555 Melrose Avenue Marathon Building Suite 4129 Hollywood CA 90038-3197 contact: Robert O'Connor tel: (213) 956-5889 fax: (213) 862-8627  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-14-2004 10:13 PM                     Thanks for the info guys!! Mike Olpin, Was not aware you were fomr around here...... Its not the theatres at Trolley Square... Those closed during the Loews-Cineplex Bankruptcy a number of years back. They have been re-opened by Madstone as an Art film location, they did a very nice job on it too. The Madstone is definately SLC's Nicest Art Film location. The other Art houses here in SLC, the Broadway(ex Loews location and the location of the famous old Centre Theatre), and the Tower Theatre with its wood floors and the worlds worst seating suck big time. Usual stuff wrong with them, poor to no maintainance, movable masking that isn't working, etc. and the places are usually very filthy. If I there is a film I want to see there I will wait and see if the Madstone picks it up, If not then I'll wait and watch it on DVD! Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-15-2004 12:31 AM                     Yep, I lived out in West Jordan up to the age of 4 - when I moved to California. We would pass the water tower marquee almost daily, to get Mom from work. I really only remember seeing two movies when I lived in Utah. I saw Song of the South at a Plitt theatre, although I don't know which one. I saw Roger Rabit at a Mann theatre next to a Leatherby's. Using CinemaTour, I think it was the Mann 5-6-7. I still love visiting that area, althogh West jordan has really grown! It used to just be the small airport, a 7-11 & a Reeme's on one side of the train tracks, and a whole bunch of housing on the other side. Now it's a giant suburb community! Wow. I really drifted off topic there. (EDIT: Now that I think about it, roger rabit was on a trip visiting SLC when I was 6) [ 04-15-2004, 03:49 AM: Message edited by: Mike Olpin ]  |  IP: Logged Mike Perju Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Nov 2002 posted 04-15-2004 01:26 AM                     Hi Mark, Paramount has very nice unfaded 70mm prints of all three Indiana Jones movies, however the prints I'm talking about are in Toronto. You can reach their Booking Dept. at 416-969-9901 and ask to talk to Perry Persad, the nicest guy you'll ever talk to at a major studio.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-15-2004 10:19 AM                     The last time one of the Toronto 70mm prints left to do the rounds of certain US theatres they came back trashed Hopefully that isn't going to be a recurring issue  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-28-2017 06:05 PM                 It has been 4883 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 08-28-2017 06:05 PM                     quote: Mark G We will be loosing our last 70mm equipped theatre here, Trolley Corners, in Salt Lake City the end of this month [April 2004] and would like to do a 70mm fest the last two weeks its open. We have been able to book both Lawrence Of Arabia and 2001 so far but unreturned calls from Fox have left us scurrying to find other films to book. Did this fest take place?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-28-2017 06:24 PM                     Nope... They did run 2001 down in St George at Stadium 10 some years back, but that's about it. There is no where to run 70mm here any more nor anyone working in theaters that is competent enough to even handle a 35mm show properly. Mark  |  IP: Logged

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