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"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter |
| Written by: Michael Coate and William Kallay (Copyright 2003) | Date: August 4, 2003 |
 What follows is a list of the known 70mm engagements of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". As one can glean from the list, 70mm engagements were aplenty on this title, with many "out-of-the-way" places often playing the movie in 70mm.Additional contributors to this project: Peter Fraser Bill Kretzel John Sharp If you have comments or corrections, or information to contribute to this list please contact Michael Coate, William Kallay or Thomas Hauerslev | Further in 70mm reading: Doug Trumbull Gets an OSCAR Blade Runner: The Original 70mm Engagements The Original Reserved Seat Engagements Of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ “Alien” 70mm openings The Original First-Week Engagements Of “Star Wars” “The Empire Strikes Back” openings Internet link: |
| World Premiere held on November 15, 1977 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York Released 16 November 1977 New York (Manhattan): [Walter Reade] Ziegfeld Released 18 November 1977 Los Angeles (Hollywood): [Pacific] Cinerama Dome Released 14 December 1977 CALIFORNIA Costa Mesa: [Mann] South Coast Plaza Los Angeles (Hollywood): [SRO] Paramount (cont. from Cinerama Dome) Lakewood: [Pacific] Lakewood Center Orange: [Syufy] Cinedome Pasadena: [SRO] Hastings San Diego: [Mann] Cinema 21 San Francisco: [UA] Coronet Santa Clara: [UA] Cinema 150 COLORADO Denver: [Cooper Highland] Cooper HAWAII Honolulu: [Consolidated] Waikiki 3 ILLINOIS Belleville: [BAC] Cinema Calumet City: [Plitt] River Oaks Chicago: [Plitt] Esquire Evergreen Park: [M&R] Evergreen Skokie: [M&R] Old Orchard KENTUCKY Louisville: [Redstone] Showcase MASSACHUSETTS Boston: [Sack] Cinema 57 MICHIGAN Livonia: [Nicholas George] Mai Kai Southfield: [Nicholas George] Americana Southgate: [Nicholas George] Southgate NEW JERSEY Paramus: [RKO-Stanley Warner] Triplex Paramus NEW YORK Pittsford: [Loews] Pittsford Triplex OHIO Toledo: [Redstone] Showcase OREGON Gresham: [Moyer] Rose Moyer Portland: [Luxury] Eastgate PENNNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: [Sameric] Sameric TEXAS Fort Worth: [ABC] Ridglea Houston: [ABC] Alabama Houston: [Loews] Town and Country Village UTAH Salt Lake City: [Plitt] Regency WISCONSIN West Allis: [Marcus] Southtown Released 21 December 1977 CALIFORNIA Monterey: [Kindair] Cinema 70 Palm Springs: [Metropolitan] Camelot Santa Barbara: [Metropolitan] Granada INTERNATIONAL 70MM ENGAGEMENTS AUSTRALIA (Released 16 March 1978) Sydney: Hoyts DENMARK (Released 3 March 1978) Copenhagen: 3 Falke Bio MEXICO (Released 30 June 1978) Mexico City: Hollywood Cinerama SWEDEN (Released 3 March 1978) Stockholm: Astoria UNITED KINGDOM (Released 13 March 1978) London: Odeon Leicester Square All of the engagements included in this document were presented in 70mm. The majority of the prints were in six-track Dolby Stereo. Selected engagements were in non-Dolby-encoded six-track stereo, and others were six-track Dolby Stereo prints booked into theatres that had non-Dolby-brand, Dolby-compatible equipment. These presentation variations were not always clearly accounted for on theatre marquees and in the original newspaper advertisement materials. | |
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