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Author Topic: Longest Booked Print Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-07-2002 10:08 AM                     Well, just finished running Lord Of The Rings Runtime: 25 weeks This is a new record for the theatre. Longest before that was either Shrek or The Green Mile at around 16 weeks or so. What is your longest running print? Paul.  |  IP: Logged Brad Haven Master Film Handler Posts: 300 From: fremantle, West Australia Registered: Aug 2001 posted 06-07-2002 10:50 AM                     We screened BARAKA for just over 6 months at the lumiere cinema in perth, unscratched!. i loved every screening i did of that film. We ran a 35mm print, but i would love to see the 70mm version one day!.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-07-2002 11:30 AM                     When I was still a staff projectionist, the longest running print was 'Titanic' at 18 weeks, 14 of them in the largest auditorium. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-07-2002 11:51 AM                        Paul, How did your print of LotR look on it's last run? Be honest!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-07-2002 12:30 PM                     Beauty and the Beast 6 shows a day for 36 weeks, 1512 total runs plus the pre-screening for a grand total of 1513 passes. The print was flawless (no exaggeration). I screened it in it's entirity on the last day. FilmGuard was used in it's testing day before release.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-07-2002 12:44 PM                     Top Gun was our longest. We ran it for 26 weeks.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-07-2002 01:38 PM                        I recall that the initial run of "ET" played first-run for almost a year in Rochester theatres. The 70mm release of "The Sound of Music" played for OVER a year in some cities. Of course, that was before releases numbering many thousands of prints. ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243 e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-07-2002 02:49 PM                        I remember seeing a newspaper ad in 1978 trumpeting the one year anniversary of the original Star Wars playing at the Rimrock 4 theatres in Billings, Montana. The theatre was in the Rimrock Mall, eventually became a Carmike and is now gone (replaced with a 10-plex built in 1997 in the corner of the parking lot).  |  IP: Logged Rachel Gilardi Madam Moderator Posts: 2214 From: Peabody, MA, USA Registered: Dec 2007 posted 06-07-2002 02:58 PM                     Since I've been at my theater I think that Amelie was the longest running film with 19 weeks. When I was at the Gloucester theatre The Perfect Storm was our longest run, if I remember correctly...high 20 something weeks.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-07-2002 03:53 PM                        The longest run I've personally seen was "Star Wars", in 70mm, at the Edwards Newport Cinema. I think it ran for very close to 1 year. Michael Coate probably has the exact figure... More recently it might be "Lord of the Rings", which ran at Cinemark 17 from opening day last year until Ep2 opened (and it was still doing 3 shows a day). On that day it immediately moved to Cinemark's Movies 12 bargain house, still playing 3 times a day, in DTS even.  |  IP: Logged Ray Faultless Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Amington, Tamworth, England Registered: Jun 2001 posted 06-07-2002 05:06 PM                     Sound of Music at the Gaumont theatre Birmingham England. Two shows per day (except Christmas day)for five years. In 70mm on the largest screen in Europe, at that time.  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-07-2002 06:25 PM                     We played Back To The Future for well over a year at the Lacey Cinemas (Olympia, Wash.) in the mid 80's. We got signed posters and signed letters from the producers and director congratulating us. Universal even sent Tom Wilson (who played "Biff") to the theater for a personal appearance and newspaper coverage of the event marking over one year of continuous run.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-07-2002 10:26 PM                     The Uptown I believe celebrated a 1-year birthday for STAR WARS. As one moves back into the 60s, where there were many singles, long engagements were pretty standard for roadshow films. In the art house world, films like La Cage A Follies can have very long runs (over a year). Steve ------------------ "Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-08-2002 12:29 AM                     The Metro in Dunedin played "Waking Ned Devine for 52 weeks at least once a day while the Academy in Christchurch is still playing Gloomy Sunday after 60 weeks. A point to note is they have now switched to A DVD screening.  |  IP: Logged Dan Spence Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Gettysburg, PA, USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 06-08-2002 01:50 AM                     32 weeks, Dances With Wolfs 31 weeks, Home Alone 24 weeks, Forrest Gump  |  IP: Logged

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