AMC Lincoln Square 13

jojoa… OK.. around twice as wide as high!! Where is it being shown in your 1.90:1 ratio??

Well.. Well. Saw LK in 3D yesterday at 09:30 AM in Theater 7 at Kips Bay. (I took a look into the IMAX theater to see how the refurbish is coming along. The only IMAX item left is the screen!! Sadly fear that IMAX will not be coming back, as I’ve mentioned earlier.. the whole mall block is being demolished to make way for a new, larger NYU medical building. Excuse this off topic note!! I’m putting a couple shots of the IMAX theater as it stands now.) Also sad to report LION KING in the Kips Bay theater 7 is not in the wide screen seen in the ads!! More like the TV ratio. What a disappointment. Sorry I couldn’t see it here at Lincoln. I did enjoy the “movie”. It is a remarkable technical accomplishment!! Note: The previews were so loud they shook my seat and made me nauseous. I reported to the manager and he did give me a pass!! Thanks Anthony!!

The original Lion King played at this theater first in 35mm and dolby 5.1 during a holiday reissue in 1994, then was reissued in 70mm imax with the added morning report scene in 2002 and redrawn animation (that version was on the DVD when the film debuted on that format the following year) and a remixed soundtrack and again in 2011 with a 3d conversion that made the original the highest grossing 2d cartoon of all time, a record of which still stands today when stacked up with other classics like Snow White, which was the most reissued Disney movie of all time from 1937 until the early 90s, when it hit home video for the first time in a restored version. The new Lion King is breaking records at the box office and will last for two months. It might come back during the holidays if its nominated for Oscars like the original movie.

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1.43:1 is the original ratio for those five scenes. In standard theaters the movie is in 1.85:1, where it is cropped for those sequences. So we’re not losing any width, we have the same plus more footage on the top and bottom.

You can get discounted tickets for Tuesday shows with a free Stubs account. The reason there may not be early morning shows for 3D is because they try to have both IMAX 3D and IMAX 2D showtimes, so they switch around and can’t give both formats a matinee time.

Select musical sequences of the new Lion King are in 1.43:1 and will fill this IMAX Laser screen. One of only 12 U.S. theaters. https://www.imax.com/content/LK-143-preview

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to Peter A.– I thank you for your reply. if I remember correctly theaters scheduling the least amount of time between showings of a film lasted till the early 90s. patrons whop are slops night be the reason. weren’t people back in the 60s and 70s slops as well?

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a question for my fellow moviegoers. i’m dating myself but i remember a time when theaters would schedule the least amount of time between showings of a film during they figured they could get the old audience out and the new audience in. for instance when The Godfather opened at the Loews State I & 11 March of 1972 each auditorium scheduled showings every3 hours for a film that was 2hrs. 50mins.. likewise when The Planet of the Apes opened at the Loews Capitol Feb. of 1968 they scheduled showings every 3 hours for a film that was 1hr. 44mins.. my point being simple. nowadays it seems theaters schedule and inordinately large amount of time between showings of a film. what gives?

Nope, it will be shown exclusively in 35mm and 4k as to echo the cheapness at the time. BTW, lion king tickets went on sale today. When the first movie came out 25 years ago today, this theater was a few months away from opening and the film would be shown there during its fall reissue and again in 2002 for the imax version and the 2011 3d reissue. The imax version is the version I own on dvd and can also be found on the bluray version of the film which includes redrawn cells and the morning report song. I’m glad that this theater still shows real film in the imax and 70mm screens.

Same here markp. Can’t wait to see QT’s latest in 35mm in wide release. lol.

At the Men in Black premiere, they had press and GA in the regular auditorium (with masking) and the stars from the film in the Dolby with a scope floating screen. Since MiB: International is flat, the cast saw their film pillarboxed here. Just amazing to have a premiere screening of this magnitude with the stars be pillarboxed. Hopefully they didn’t have mice run under their seats as well, as I read a Google Review with that happening in the Dolby here. One misses the Zigfield for these things.

Movies were about fifteen minutes long in 1910. No theatre was ever built for that. As bigjoe has often been told, Regency and Rialto are the answer.

Good question. I’d love to know the answer myself. One of the issues is that some of the theaters might have been built primarily for movies, but had stage shows with the films, like the Loews State and Radio City Music Hall.

One source of info is if you have an online subscription to the NY Times, you can go to Times Machine site and look at the pages of almost any issue going back to the Civil War. The Times wasn’t always a great entertainment paper, so it won’t have everything, but if you start around 1920, make a list of theaters featuring stage plays or Vaudeville and then as you get into the film section, see if there are theaters that played films, but never previously played live shows. This site might help as well – just go through every Manhattan theater and see in the description if it ever had live performers.

Not sure of its exact location, but there was a west side theater called “City Photoplays” built in 1910 with 2267 seats (not sure where I got that info). Sure sounds to me like it was built for movies.

I’ve also gotta' believe that most of the East Side theaters were built as movie theaters.