Hollywood Cinerama Dome
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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For what its worth: Bill Hunt, who runs the popular digitalbits website, took his posse to see Force Awakens at the above Arclight Cinerama Dome Thursday night. His entire post Friday was on the experience. It seems the head of Christie Digital showed up to make an announcement before the showing. Bill raves about the presentation (and the movie). This reportedly half a million dollar system that was installed is evidently THE definitive way to see this movie. Sadly, I don’t live anywhere near Los Angeles. For those of you who do, you might want to check it out and report back. I don’t know Mr. Hunt, but his credibility in the industry seems legitimate. His article is at www.thedigitalbits.com.
Giles that is the same issue I have been complaining about for years at the Dome, the image just filled part of the screen and they pulled up the bottom corners to compensate for the curve resulting in an image that to me is unwatchable. It was corrected of course for Interstellar since that was 70mm and I think the presentation of American Sniper in digital was fine as well. Every other time I have been there , most recently Mockingjay 2, the image looked small and distorted and did not fill the screen. I have emailed them so many times on this , congrats on getting a response. I’ll go check it out after the Force leaves. My first time here was Apocolypse Now in 1979 when I was in high school and that changed how I saw movies.
^ I’m just curious in knowing what disappointments you’ve noted are?
I got word from Arclight – that they fixed the image in filling the entire curved screen. For some reason this has never been corrected at Washington DC’s Uptown theater screen which displays this very odd fish-eye anomaly at the bowed corners – never a problem with the 70mm/35mm projector, but once digital came around … eck!
Giles that is funny. That has to be a mistake when they say 65 foot screen. If they use the full height of the screen they should be able to fill at least 75 feet of the 86 feet of screen they have if my math is correct. Every time I go to the dome it is such a disappointment ever since they installed digital. I am hoping someone will report back after they have gone.
that extra 21 feet was supposed to be for ‘Hateful 8’ [sarcasm face]
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/arclight-s-cinerama-dome-debuts-850072
I emailed them asking about the screen and got a canned response not telling me anything. Then I read the article above which is quite troublesome. It says
“Just in time for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, ArcLight Cinemas’ Cinerama Dome in Hollywood has installed its dazzling new Christie 6P dual-head laser projection system and Dolby 3D color separation technology.
With a 65-foot curved screen, The Dome — which opened in 1963 for three-strip Cinerama films — now offers a cutting-edge digital projection system that represents an investment of “several hundreds of thousands of dollars,” according to Joe Miraglia, director of design, construction and facilities at ArcLight."
65 foot screen?!? What the heck happened to the other 21 feet?
does the new projector properly fill the whole screen – curve and all?
oh you’re welcome Flix70. ‘Django’ is almost but not quite three hours, two hours and 45 minutes to exact
Jamie was in last year’s “Annie” (and “Dreamgirls” oh and “The Amazing Spider-Man”)– where have you been?
it’s on my bucklist to see a 70mm feature here.
question: does the screen for 2.76 features expand horizontally?
Giles: Thanks for helping make my point that “three-hour westerns” can bring out the masses. Those are pretty good numbers. Sure Leo helped, but Jamie Foxx? The guy hadn’t done a thing since “Ray”…in 2004. Oh, maybe you were thinking of “Stealth?” I forgot to ask: Have you ever actually seen a 70mm film at the Cinerama Dome? It’s quite an experience, one that would make you wish Hateful 8 would screen there.
silver – there are at least three online stories (National SunTimes, Variety, Slash) regarding the news that Arclight installed the dual-head Christie 6P laser system on the Dome – but it’s odd that Arclight didn’t release an official press release story regarding this – maybe they have, but I’m not having luck finding anything online reporting this.
Flix70: $162,805,434 domestically to be exact. $30,122,888 (opening weekend). Mid January was the release of the movie internationally. It also had the big name draw of Leonardo DeCaprio and Jamie Foxx
Hold on—–
Who removed the posting regarding Arclight’s new 3D laser system?? And why??
Yesterday evening there was a quite long comment that IIRC was basically reprinting a long detailed Arclight press release about a new 3D laser projector being installed for the upcoming Star Wars The Force Awakens (supposedly 2 or 3 times brighter).
It was late so I only skimmed it, and was going to read it in full today. But now that comment is completely gone… Why?
Apparently your unfamiliar with another “three-hour western” called Django Unchained that grossed $425 million a few years back. Granted it’s no Star Wars, but the masses still came out for it. There’s no reason to believe Hateful 8 couldn’t have moved into the Dome on Christmas and played to a packed house for its entire two-week Road Show run, especially with Star Wars playing at the nearby El Capitan and Chinese Theatre.
and yet ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ comes out first … wah-wah cry me a river Tarantino. It’s down to the buck and what brings in the masses (a three-hour western?), regardless of who’s the director.
Entertainment Weekly is reporting this morning that Tarantino told EW’s Dalton Ross in a SiriusXM interview that Hateful 8 was scheduled to play on the Dome screen starting Christmas Day but Disney made Arclight “break” their commitment so Star Wars could screen throughout the holiday season. And if they didn’t comply, Disney would pull SW from “all the Arclight theaters.”
now I hope they can install a laser system over at Arclight’s Bethesda theater – they are having difficulties with the 3D system on it’s “widescreen” screen. [damn it!]
Great news about the laser projection. I hope this solves The masking issue and they finally use most of that glorious screen!
Tickets now up for Hateful 8 in 70mm @ Arclight Hollywood starting Christmas Day. As Cliffs reported earlier, no Dome screening, it’s in one of the smaller auditoriums. Five shows daily: 8:30 AM, 12:15, 4, 7:45 & 11:30.
Christmas day shows for Star Wars now on sale in the Dome. So there’s your confirmation that there will be, in fact, no Hateful Eight 70mm in the Dome. At least not until mid January.
My point, HowardBHaas, was that they maybe should have picked another theater to hold the advance screening, a venue where they could have used one of their restored projectors, avoid embarrassing pre-release issues like they had at the Village East.
I spoke to management at The Arclight and nothing is locked down and they are still in negotiations regarding The Hateful Eight.
NYC’s Village East showed Interstellar in 70mm, so since they have their own 70mm projectors, there would be no reason to install projectors meant for theaters that don’t have them.
I see they already had a 70mm projector break at an advance screening in NY last Thursday (Village East Cinema). Weinstein Co. claims it was the theater owner’s projector, not one of the 100 they restored. Took ‘em an hour to fix it. Kind of odd to hold an advance screening and NOT USE one of the projectors you just had restored.
but the Shrine is not available as it has a band booked new years eve
The Shrine is the largest theater in this country! It is bigger than Radio City!
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