Films returning to Cinema-A new Trend?

Dman001

I see Universal have announced that the original Jurassic Park will be returning to the Cinema (in the UK at least) to coincide with the Blu Ray release of the Jurassic Park Trilogy.

There was also talk of Star Wars and Titanic returning to the Cinema next year too.

This seems to be a new trend, where old films are brought back to the cinema usually remastered (or in 3D). I think it's a great idea. It's gives many the opportunity to see older films in the cinema where they never got the opportunity before. Is there any more films confirmed to be re-released to the cinema?


http://www.digitalspy.ie/movies/news/a337359/jurassic-park-returning-to-cinemas-next-month.html

johnny_ultimate

It's not necessarily a new trend (an awful lot of Disney films have been re-released, and of course you have Star Wars) but it has increased in popularity.

Good to see classic films getting rereleased though. Seeing 2001, Metropolis, The Thin Red Line and Cutters Way on the big screen have been cinema highlights of recent years. I do like places to emphasise whether they're dealing with original prints, digital restoration or mere DVD projections though. IFI is great for that, but barring big rereleased like Back to the Future too often you're dealing with sub standard, blurry home versions that aren't worth the effort.

As for 3D rereleases, it's an exercise in futility. The film was never designed for it. But still nice to see Toy Story on the big screen, and an opportunity to see Battle Royale in a cinema: even if both suffered with the addition of a superfluous dimension.

Dman001

I was excited to hear Star Wars is planned to be re-released in Cinemas. I've never seen the franchise so I thought this would be a great opportunity to see it. But then heard it is going to be in 3D, and only Phantom Menace is being planned.

amacachi

Certain films should be put in cinemas every so often, some need to be seen on a huge screen. The only problem is that certain directors may well use such a situation as extra opportunities to fcuk around with the film. :pac:

HereticPrincess

Recently went to see Die Hard in the Screen Cinema. I have to agree that some films should be seen on the big screen, and seeing as Die Hard was out the year before I was born, I didn't get to go then!

It was incredible on the big screen! Last year I also saw Conan the Barbarian in the same place, also fantastic in cinema.

D-Generate

I have just had a sex wee knowing that Jurassic Park is coming to the cinemas.
I still fondly remember seeing it on a July night back in 2003. I was 7 years old and supposed to go to the premier but alas I broke my leg that day so had to miss it. I think I cried more about missing JP than the pain of breaking my leg. Fortunately my dad was completely amazing and brought me to it a few days later on and it was my first proper cinema experience where my jaw was on the ground.

Does anyone know what cinemas are showing it in Dublin?

Sad Professor

Cineworld definitely are anyway. I'm not sure about anywhere else.

Voodu Child

I presume Jurassic Park will be digitally projected this time.

For the Bluray release they have already gone to the trouble of cleaning up and rescanning the movie at a reasonably high resolution.

So once you've got a decent high-res master its pretty economical to send out copies on a HDD. Once the interest is there i'd imagine its a decent earner.

I think it was the same with BTTF.

marvsins

Would love if they did more of this. I was in Brisbane in 2002 and they did a 2 movie midweek special for about $15, got to see my favorite Leon and From Dusk til Dawn. Bit of a sore arse after though

paddy kerins

Dman001 wrote: »

I was excited to hear Star Wars is planned to be re-released in Cinemas. I've never seen the franchise so I thought this would be a great opportunity to see it. But then heard it is going to be in 3D, and only Phantom of the Menace is being planned.

They're planning to release all six in 3D

Dman001

Ah I thought it was based on how The Phantom Menace performs. Not thrilled about the 3D release, but at lease it'll be on the big screen.

BlitzKrieg

This seems to be a new trend, where old films are brought back to the cinema usually remastered

This isnt a new trend.

Its an actual staple of cinema that was downplayed by the rise of the vcr and home rentals. Films originally where rereleased a number of times over the years.

It use to be much more common.

take a look at how many rereleases Gone With the Wind recieved

Gone with the Wind was given theatrical re-releases in 1947, 1954 and 1961. The 1961 release commemorated the 100th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, and included a gala "premiere" at the Loew's Grand Theater. Clark Gable had died months before, but other stars from the film attended. It was re-released in 1967 in a 70 mm stereophonic version, which is best known today for its iconic poster.[27][28] It was further rereleased in 1971, by United Artists in 1974, by Turner Entertainment and MGM/UA Communications Co. in 1989, and by New Line Cinema in 1998. The 1954 release was the first time the studio issued the film in widescreen, compromising the original Academy ratio and cropping the top and bottom to an aspect ratio of 1.75:1. In doing so, a number of shots were optically re-framed and cut into the three-strip camera negatives, forever altering five shots in the film.[29] The 70 mm re-issue of the film cropped the film further, to a very narrow ratio of 2.20:1. The 1998 theatrical reissue and the VHS and DVD releases restored the film to its original aspect ratio. On November 14, 2009, on the occasion of the film's 70th anniversary, the film was re-issued in a new high definition transfer to the Blu-ray format.[30] The film has made $400 million in theater receipts since its release,[31] which equates to approximately $2,984 million when adjusted to 2010 prices, making it the highest grossing film of all time.[32] After adjustments for inflation, Gone with the Wind is also estimated to be the highest grossing film of all time in the United States[33][34] and the United Kingdom.[35][36]

Star Wars got it quite a bit too even before the 1997 remasters

The film was originally released as Star Wars, without Episode IV or the subtitle A New Hope. The 1980 sequel, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, featured an episode number and subtitle in the opening crawl. When the original film was re-released in 1981, Episode IV: A New Hope was added above the original opening crawl. Although Lucas claims that only six films were ever planned, representatives of Lucasfilm discussed plans for nine or twelve possible films in early interviews.[55] The film was re-released theatrically in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, and with additional scenes and enhanced special effects in 1997. CBS was host to the film's world broadcast premiere in 1984.

One must also consider that before Jaws films were released slowly across the US and the rest of the world so the notion of re-releases were very common.


VCR toned it down a lot because it was cheaper to push a new *vhs/laserdisc/dvd* copy of the film and bring in as much revenue then to make a new film print to dsitribute.

but with the rise of digital cinema it is cheaper to rerelease both on blu ray and in select cinemas and this has been happening for quite a bit (Blade Runner did a few years back)

I'd throw out there though also the notion its psossible not that more films are being rereleased, its just that the films more instantantly recognisable to the current generation of young adults are the ones now being rereleased as those who were little tykes when jurrasic park came out would be young parents or workers now and would more likely spend the pretty penny to relive the nostalgia of that childhood wonder.

Carl Sagan

I hope we get Jurassic Park over here.

Dman001

Pity Lord of the Rings wasn't re-released, especially with the recent BR release and with The Hobbit being released next year. It's another franchise that I've (shamefully) haven't got around to watch. Although it wasn't exactly long ago since it was out in the cinema.

Sad Professor

Dman001 wrote: »

Ah I thought it was based on how The Phantom Menace performs.

It is. They are doing the 3D conversion one at a time. If the first one doesn't do well then they aren't releasing the second one and so on.

Dman001

Sad Professor wrote: »

It is. They are doing the 3D conversion one at a time. If the first one doesn't do well then they aren't releasing the second one and so on.

Ah I misread what paddy said. I thought he meant they are doing a simultaneous release (obviously with some sort of gap) regardless of performance.

Antar Bolaeisk

I would pay money to see this in the cinema again (I get in for free normally)! The small screen just cannot do this film justice. It's probably going to be a digital only distribution though which means nowhere locally will be showing it

Sad Professor wrote: »

It is. They are doing the 3D conversion one at a time. If the first one doesn't do well then they aren't releasing the second one and so on.

So no hope of seeing any of the other films reappear then

the whole year inn

I def would go ,i seen the matrix in the cinema last year and it was class,will this be all over the country or just dublin?

Galvasean

BlitzKrieg wrote:

those who were little tykes when jurrasic park came out would be young parents or workers now and would more likely spend the pretty penny to relive the nostalgia of that childhood wonder.

ME!!!

ronano

i really want blade runner to come out again and bring the missus. It ain't the same on small screen

krudler

Galvasean wrote: »

ME!!!

I was 12 when JP came out, scared me sh1tless and left me awestruck at the same time. the T-Rex appearance is my generations Star Destroyer "air being sucked out of cinema" moment.

losthorizon

I went to see Spartacus and Scarface about two years ago in Dungarvan when they were released again. I asked were there any more plans for more films and the guy in the cinema said it depended on the demand. So c'mon people demand the classic back up on big screen.

For one thing I would love to see the Searchers or Lawrence of Arabia up where they belong.

BlitzKrieg

well if you live in london they are constantly screening classics all the time. Its just easier for them to get access to the old prints (same in New York and most other major cities)

At the moment the Nomad cinema is on where there are outdoor screenings of raiders of the lost ark and back to the future and ET and The Third Man etc etc

emeraldstar

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

well if you live in london they are constantly screening classics all the time. Its just easier for them to get access to the old prints (same in New York and most other major cities)

At the moment the Nomad cinema is on where there are outdoor screenings of raiders of the lost ark and back to the future and ET and The Third Man etc etc

Or this one: http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/regular_strands/the_disney_50

Fab!

BlitzKrieg

emeraldstar wrote: »

Or this one: http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/regular_strands/the_disney_50

Fab!

no.

I do not want to watch the lion king in 3d where it sucks out all the colour for a different more irritating method of faking depth...

As much as I love that they are showing old classics on teh big screen it seems to be the same films trotted out every year or so and most projected from DVD's. Would love to see some not as famous or iconic films get a screening, stuff like The Gambler, what with the remake being talked up is perfect for a screening. Same for films such as Thief, Manhunter, Platoon, Boogie Nights, and well I could go on for a few weeks.

I'd love to see some cinema give a retrospective of a directors work but not go for the obvious choices, pick someone a little different, would give my right arm for a Michael Mann series of screening. To see Heat on the big screen is something I've always wanted, it's up there alongside Lawrence of Arabia as films that deserve to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Same goes for the Searchers, How the West Was Won, Once Upon a Time in the West, etc. The classic westerns were made for cinema and while the blu Ray of The Searchers is one of the prettiest things you will ever set your eyes upon you can't help but imagine how much better a pristine print would look on a big screen.

emeraldstar

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

no.

I do not want to watch the lion king in 3d where it sucks out all the colour for a different more irritating method of faking depth...

Neither do I. I want to watch the movies that were such a big part of my childhood but never got to experience on the big screen.

I can't stand that 3D crap. TLK is the only one they're doing in 3D, and I don't think it's a wise move.

emeraldstar

emeraldstar wrote: »

Neither do I. I want to watch the movies that were such a big part of my childhood but never got to experience on the big screen.

I can't stand that 3D crap. TLK is the only one they're doing in 3D, and I don't think it's a wise move.

They did Toy Story 1 and 2, Beauty and the Beast and there are plans for more 3D conversions.

emeraldstar

Not as part of the Disney 50 season they didn't, which is what I'm talking about.

Renn

losthorizon wrote: »

I went to see Spartacus and Scarface about two years ago in Dungarvan when they were released again. I asked were there any more plans for more films and the guy in the cinema said it depended on the demand. So c'mon people demand the classic back up on big screen.

For one thing I would love to see the Searchers or Lawrence of Arabia up where they belong.

The Searches was on in the IFI on Saturday.