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| Compiled by: Michael Coate | Date: 19.03.2024 |
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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. |
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