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| Compiled by: Michael Coate | Date: 19.03.2024 |
 "Oppenheimer" 5-perf print. Picture: Thomas HauerslevBooked prints only (i.e. what the industry terms a “working print”). Listing does not include extra prints such as backups, replacements, personal copy for director or producer, print(s) set aside for award-season screenings, etc. While the article is focused on North America (i.e. USA and Canada, or what the industry terms the “domestic” market), a few of the titles include a bracketed worldwide figure. 1955 Oklahoma! = 31 1956 Around the World in 80 Days = 48 1957 Raintree County = 0 1958 South Pacific = 50+ 1959 Ben-Hur = 50+ The Big Fisherman = 47 Porgy and Bess = 36 Sleeping Beauty = 40 Solomon and Sheba = 40 1960 The Alamo = 30 Can-Can = 46 (?) Exodus = 50+ Scent of Mystery = 3 Spartacus = 50+ 1961 El Cid = 50+ The King and I (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 2 King of Kings = 40 West Side Story = ? 1962 Barabbas = 3 Black Tights = 1 Lawrence of Arabia = 50+ Mutiny on the Bounty = 50+ 1963 55 Days at Peking = ? The Cardinal = 3 Cleopatra = 50+ It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World = 46 Lafayette = 1 1964 Becket = 20+ Cheyenne Autumn = 5 Circus World = 30+ The Fall of the Roman Empire = 20+ Mediterranean Holiday = 10+ My Fair Lady = 100+ The Unsinkable Molly Brown = 5 Zulu = 1 1965 The Agony and the Ecstasy = 50+ Battle of the Bulge = 50 Doctor Zhivago = 100+ The Great Race = 2 The Greatest Story Ever Told = 25+ The Hallelujah Trail = 42 (?) In Harm’s Way = 6 Lord Jim = 6 The Sleeping Beauty (USSR / Kirov Ballet) = 1 The Sound of Music = 50+ Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines = 48 (?) 1966 The Bible = 50+ Born Free = 1 Grand Prix = 50+ Is Paris Burning? = 26 (?) Khartoum = 48 Russian Adventure = 20+ The Sand Pebbles = ? 1967 Camelot = 50+ Doctor Dolittle = 50+ The Dirty Dozen = 5 Far from the Madding Crowd = 50+ Gone with the Wind (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 100+ Playtime = ? (did not screen in USA until several years later) 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey = 100+ [150+] Chitty Chitty Bang Bang = ? Custer of the West = 15 Dr. Coppelius = 1 Finian’s Rainbow = 50+ Funny Girl = 5 Ice Station Zebra = 68 Oliver! = 9 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 1 The Shoes of the Fisherman = 48 (?) Star! = 50+ War and Peace (USSR) = 1 (?) 1969 Anne of the Thousand Days = 3 Ben-Hur (“conversion to 2.20:1” re-issue) = ? Goodbye, Mr. Chips = 50+ Hello, Dolly! = ? The Jolson Story (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 2 Krakatoa East of Java = 50+ MacKenna’s Gold = 8 Marooned = 8 Paint Your Wagon = 25+ The Stewardesses = 1 Sweet Charity = 50+ Where Eagles Dare = 2 The Wild Bunch = 1 1970 Airport = 10 (?) Brewster McCloud (world premiere event only) Darling Lili = 4 Kelly’s Heroes = 1 Patton = 36 (?) Ryan’s Daughter = ? Scrooge = 1 Song of Norway = 70 (?) Too Late the Hero = 2 Tora! Tora! Tora! = 32 (?) Waterloo = 1 1971 Fiddler on the Roof = ? House of Wax (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 2 How the West Was Won (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 1 The Last Valley = 2 Mary, Queen of Scots = 4 Waterloo = 1 1972 The Concert for Bangladesh = 10 The Cowboys = 3 Deliverance = 3 The Great Waltz = 3 Man of La Mancha = ? The Poseidon Adventure = 6 1973 The Bridge on the River Kwai (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 1 Jesus Christ Superstar (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 1 The Sound of Music (re-issue) = 40 This is Cinerama (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 10+ Tom Sawyer = 1 1974 2001: A Space Odyssey (re-issue) = 25 One by One = 1 That’s Entertainment! = 19 [48] Panorama Blue = 2 The Towering Inferno = 5 The Trial of Billy Jack = 1 1975 Dersu Uzala = 1 Lucky Lady = 4 Paper Tiger = 1 Rollerball = 12 The Wind and the Lion = 16 1976 Logan’s Run = 26 The Return of a Man Called Horse = 15 A Star is Born = 6 That’s Entertainment Part 2 = 14 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind = 35 Metamorphoses = 1 Nights and Days / Noce I Dnie = 1 (imported from Poland) Star Wars = 26 (8 on opening day with the balance struck at various points during run) Tommy (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 2 1978 Black Orpheus (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 1 Capricorn One = 7 Comes a Horseman = 1 Crossed Swords = 1 Days of Heaven = 11 The Deer Hunter = 5 Grease = 3 The Manitou = 1 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band = 10 Star Wars (re-issue) = 12 extant Superman = 26 1979 1941 = 12 Alien = 89 [110] Apocalypse Now = 17 The Black Hole = 18 The Exorcist (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 10 Hanover Street = 1 Hurricane = 5 The Muppet Movie = 2 The Rose = 31 Sleeping Beauty (re-issue) = 50 Star Trek: The Motion Picture (70mm release canceled; at least one 70 struck later) Star Wars (re-issue) = 9 extant 1980 Altered States = 45 The Blue Lagoon = 5 Can’t Stop the Music = 8 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (“The Special Edition” re-issue) = 8 Divine Madness = 22 The Empire Strikes Back = 136 Fame = 3 Heaven’s Gate = 4 The Island = 5 The Jazz Singer = 8 The Ninth Configuration / Twinkle, Twinkle, ‘Killer’ Kane = 2 Raise the Titanic = 18 Saturn 3 = 2 (?) 1981 Dragonslayer = 3 The Empire Strikes Back (re-issue) = 30 extant Heaven’s Gate (shortened cut re-issue) = 2 Outland = 50 Raiders of the Lost Ark = 48 Sharky’s Machine = 2 Star Wars (re-issue) = 4 Superman II = 12 Wolfen = 2 Zoot Suit = 3 1982 Annie = 42 Blade Runner = 11 Dance Craze = 1 The Dark Crystal = 18 The Entity = 1 The Empire Strikes Back (re-issue) = 13 extant E.T. = 34 Firefox = 5 Gandhi = 50 Grease 2 = 8 Hair (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 1 Napoleon (re-issue) = 1 One from the Heart = 1 Pink Floyd: The Wall = 26 Poltergeist = 37 Quest for Fire = 125 Raiders of the Lost Ark (re-issue) = 12 The Road Warrior = 3 Rocky III = 25 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan = 68 Star Wars (re-issue) = 4 extant Tempest = 2 The Thing = 7 Tron = 43 Yes, Giorgio = 2 1983 Around the World in 80 Days (re-issue) = 3 Blue Thunder = 27 Brainstorm = 178 Krull = 24 Let’s Spend the Night Together = 40 Never Say Never Again = 4 Oklahoma! (re-issue) = 3 Octopussy = 12 Return of the Jedi = 164 The Right Stuff = 60 Staying Alive = 40 The Star Chamber = 5 Superman III = 24 WarGames = 24 1984 2010 = 217 Amadeus = 26 The Bear = 1 Carmen = 1 City Heat = 6 The Cotton Club = 11 Dune = 75 Fort Saganne = 1 Ghostbusters = 50 Gremlins = 12 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan = 12 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom = 243 The Last Starfighter = 25 The Razor’s Edge = 3 The River = 2 Starman = 65 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock = 100 Streets of Fire = 17 1985 American Flyers = 5 Back to the Future = 7 The Black Cauldron = 75 Bring on the Night = 7 A Chorus Line = 37 Cocoon = 130 The Emerald Forest = 3 E.T. (re-issue) = 8 Explorers = 3 The Goonies = 16 Ladyhawke = 12 Lifeforce = 9 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome = 20 Out of Africa = 27 Rambo: First Blood Part II = 12 Return of the Jedi (re-issue) = 75 extant Return to Oz = 51 Revolution = 4 Rocky IV = 64 Santa Claus = 4 Silverado = 100 Spies Like Us = 11 Star Wars = 9 new prints for triple feature event White Nights = 17 Year of the Dragon = 10 Young Sherlock Holmes = 90 1986 Absolute Beginners = 4 Aliens = 151 Big Trouble in Little China = 10 The Clan of the Cave Bear = 10 Cobra = 19 The Color of Money = 18 Highlander = 1 Howard the Duck = 30 Little Shop of Horrors = 16 Manhunter = 3 The Mission = 55 The Money Pit = 6 Nutcracker = 2 SpaceCamp = 20 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home = 135 Top Gun = 125 Tough Guys = 6 1987 Adventures in Babysitting = 10 Apocalypse Now (re-issue) = 6 Cry Freedom = 20 Empire of the Sun = 56 Good Morning, Vietnam = 31 Innerspace = 23 The Last Emperor = 15 Lethal Weapon = 10 The Lost Boys = 6 Over the Top = 6 Pathfinder = 1 Predator = 3 The Running Man = 10 Spaceballs = 12 Stakeout = 75 Three Men and a Baby = 18 The Untouchables = 110 Who’s That Girl = 3 The Witches of Eastwick = 11 1988 Alien Nation = 2 Beaches = 9 The Bear = 7 The Big Blue = 7 Cocoon: The Return = 40 Die Hard = 23 Gorillas in the Mist = 16 The Last Temptation of Christ = 3 The Presidio = 17 Shoot to Kill = 6 Tucker = 6 Who Framed Roger Rabbit = 20 Willow = 70 1989 The Abyss = 53 Always = 5 Back to the Future Part II = 7 Batman = 75 Black Rain = 10 Born on the Fourth of July = 13 Casualties of War = 5 Dead Poets Society = 10 Glory = 11 In Country = 4 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade = 200 (195 “A” + 5 “SR”) Lawrence of Arabia (re-issue) = 40 The Little Mermaid = 10 Lethal Weapon 2 = 44 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier = 40 Tango & Cash = 3 The Ten Commandments (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 3 Valmont = 6 West Side Story (re-issue) = 1 1990 Air America = 2 Arachnophobia = 46 Back to the Future Part III = 13 The Bonfire of the Vanities = 14 Days of Thunder = 24 (20 mag + 4 digital) Dick Tracy = 165 (157 mag + 8 digital) Die Hard 2 = 31 Edward Scissorhands = 12 (9 mag + 3 digital) Fantasia (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 34 Flatliners = 5 The Godfather Part III = 22 Gremlins 2 = 35 Havana = 22 The Hunt for Red October = 25 Memphis Belle = 10 Mountains of the Moon = 8 Predator 2 = 3 The Rookie = 5 The Sheltering Sky = 3 The Sound of Music (25th anniversary re-issue) = 2 Total Recall = 24 The Two Jakes = 2 1991 Backdraft = 28 Beauty and the Beast = 15 The Doors = 11 For the Boys = 7 Hook = 26 The Last Boy Scout = 10 Point Break = 2 The Rocketeer = 24 Spartacus (re-issue) = 6 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country = 20 Terminator 2: Judgment Day = 24 (18 mag + 6 digital) 1992 1492: Conquest of Paradise = 15 Alien 3 = 3 Baraka = 7 (?) Far and Away = 163 Hoffa = 125 Howards End = 4 The Last of the Mohicans = 11 Lethal Weapon 3 = 17 Malcolm X = 2 Patriot Games = 31 Shining Through = 2 1993 Cliffhanger = 22 Geronimo: An American Legend = 18 Gettysburg = 20 In the Line of Fire = 13 Last Action Hero = 42 The Remains of the Day = 22 Short Cuts = 12 1994 The Lion King = 1 Little Buddha = 3 Miracle on 34th Street (world premiere event) My Fair Lady (30th anniversary re-issue) = 5 True Lies = 18 1995 Pocahontas = 8 (4 + 4 backups for world premiere event) The Wild Bunch (re-issue) = 3 1996 101 Dalmatians = 1 (world premiere event) Eraser = 1 (special Olympics event) Hamlet = 14 [31] The Hunchback of Notre Dame = 1 (world premiere event) Independence Day = [1] Vertigo (“first time in 70mm” re-issue) = 20 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park = [1] Sleeping Beauty (restoration/re-issue) = 1 (?) Star Wars (Special Edition re-issue) = [1] Titanic = 6 [12 ?] Tomorrow Never Dies = [1] 1998 Armageddon = 1 [world premiere event] Godzilla = [1] Mulan = 1 (plus backups for world premiere event) 1999 Tron (re-issue) = 1 (?) 2000 Dinosaur = 1 [world premiere event] 2001 2001: A Space Odyssey (re-issue) = 5 (mag + digital) Patton (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) Pearl Harbor = 1 [world premiere event] 2002 Baraka (re-issue) = 5 (?) Hello, Dolly! (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) Lawrence of Arabia (40th anniversary re-issue) = 6 (1 mag + 5 digital) Lord Jim (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) Ryan’s Daughter (new print) = 1 (special AMPAS screening w/ interlocked audio) 2003 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (40th anniversary DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) The Sound of Music (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) 2004 The Greatest Story Ever Told (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) Playtime (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) 2005 The Agony and the Ecstasy (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) Doctor Dolittle (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) 2006 Cleopatra (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) South Pacific (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) 2007 Grand Prix (new print) = 1 (special screening only w/ interlocked audio) 2008 Khartoum (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) Star! (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) West Side Story (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) 2011 Samsara = 0 2012 The Master = 15 Spartacus (restoration/DTS re-issue) = 1 (?) 2014 Inherent Vice = 3 Interstellar = 11 2015 The Hateful Eight = 100 2016 Batman v Superman = 9 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them = 10 2017 Dunkirk = 93 [120] Justice League = 15 Kong: Skull Island = 8 Murder on the Orient Express = 3 Phantom Thread = 5 Wonder Woman = 8 2018 2001: A Space Odyssey (50th anniversary “unrestored” re-issue) = 10 (?) Ready Player One = 22 Roma = 6 (?) 2019 The Aeronauts = 3 (?) Joker = 26 Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood = 5 2020 Inception (first time in 70mm) = 1 Tenet = 12 [37] 2021 Licorice Pizza = 15 [23] 2022 Babylon = 3 Boogie Nights (first time in 70mm) = 2 Death on the Nile = 4 Nope = 3 2023 Napoleon = 5 Oppenheimer = 85 [128] Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire = 3 [4] 2024 Dune: Part Two = 23 [33] Special thanks: Brad Miller and Tim Schafbuch. If you believe this article contains any errors or omissions, please consider emailing the author or editor. | More in 70mm reading: The Alleged 70mm Releases 70mm Blow Ups Which Never Were Grant's Blow-Up Blog Grant's Blow-Up-Tagebuch in70mm.com's page about films blown up to 70mm 35mm to 70mm Engagements by Year 35mm to 70mm Engagements by Title Presented on the big screen in 7OMM The Alleged 70mm Releases 70mm Blow Ups Which Never Were |
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