At 05:07 PM 5/5/06 -0700, David Kusumoto wrote:
>** More than "Star Wars," Spielberg's "Jaws" -- for better or worse -- began
>the concept of opening "wide" (gasp, 400 theaters vs. today's 4,000
>screens!) -- hastening the demise of single-screen movie-houses and the
>"blockbuster" mentality that nearly buried Hollywood in the late 1970s.
Since Star Wars opened on 32 screens, it had quite little to
do with the concept of "opening wide". Prior to the 1970s,
there were lots of "wide" openings. In fact, one of the things
that killed true Technicolor and resulted in the dismantling of
the old imbubition machines is that studios stopped doing
wide openings. They did platform releases, regional rollouts
and roadshows. The old machines weren't economical for
striking that few prints. It wasn't until a few years into the
'80s, I believe, that the studios really started trying to do big
wide releases, to the point that they were taking out trade
ads announcing just how wide they were opening.
Craig.
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