‘Dunkirk’ to Get Biggest 70mm Rollout in 25 Years, (Sorry Quentin Tarantino)
Are Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino rivals? The answer is “no,” and yet that’s still how I prefer to imagine them, and what’s more, it helps make sense of a recent news item. In 2015, Tarantino mounted his Hateful Eight “70mm road show” to great fanfare (much of it self-generated), offering audiences around the country an opportunity to see his Western thriller in all its splendor and glory. It was a massive undertaking: corralling the necessary equipment, shipping it to the participating theaters, installation costs, training multiplex projectionists unfamiliar with the 70mm format, the whole deal. And in what I can only assume is a diss aimed directly at Q.T., Nolan has now announced a 70mm engagement for Dunkirk dwarfing anything attempted in recent memory.
Variety reported that Nolan’s soon-to-come war picture will play on a whopping 125 screens equipped with 70mm projectors (which, for the uninitiated, just means that they run a larger film strip, which contains greater visual detail — think of it like the ultimate HD, except it’s not like that at all, it’s better), the widest such exhibition in 25 years. Nolan previously got 70mm Interstellar prints on a puny 50 screens, but this new Dunkirk run will make that (and The Hateful Eight’s 100 screens, and The Master’s major cities-only tour) look like small potatoes. Below, courtesy of Warner Bros., see the full list of locations where Dunkirk will be showing in 70mm beginning July 21, with tickets going on sale July 7.
ALABAMA
IMAX Dome Theater (Birmingham)
US Space Center IMAX (Huntsville)
ARIZONA
AMC Westgate (Glendale)
Grand Canyon IMAX (Grand Canyon Village)
Harkins Tempe Marketplace (Tempe)
Loft (Tuscon)
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Cineplex Colossus IMAX (Langley)
Cineplex Park (Vancouver)
CALIFORNIA
AMC Burbank 16 (Burbank)
Century Daly City (Daly City)
Regal Hacienda 20 IMAX (Dublin)
ArcLight Hollywood (Hollywood)
Regal Irvine Spectrum IMAX (Irvine)
ArcLight 14 (La Jolla)
Grossmont Center 10 (La Messa)
Regal Long Beach Stadium (Long Beach)
Cinemark 18 (Los Angeles)
Landmark 12 (Los Angeles)
Regal Ontario Palace 22 IMAX (Ontario)
Sagewood Camelot (Palm Springs)
Esquire IMAX (Sacramento)
Tower Theatre (Sacramento)
AMC Mission Valley (San Diego)
AMC Metreon IMAX (San Francisco)
Cinemark San Francisco Center (San Francisco)
Century Oakridge (San Jose)
Hackworth IMAX (San Jose)
AMC Mercado (Santa Clara)
ArcLight Sherman Oaks (Sherman Oaks)
AMC Del Amo 18 (Torrance)
Cinemark Union City 25 (Union City)
AMC Citywalk IMAX (Universal City)
COLORADO
Regal Contiental (Westminster)
AMC Westminster 24 (Vancouver)
WASHINGTON D.C.
Regal Gallery Palace Stadium 24 (D.C.)
FLORIDA
Cinemark Palace (Boca Raton)
Coral Gables Art Cinema 1 (Coral Gables)
AMC Disney Springs 24 (Lake Buena Vista)
AMC Aventura (Miami)
Regal Waterford Lakes (Orlando)
AMC Veterans (Tampa)
AMC Parisian (West Palm Beach)
GEORGIA
Regal Atlantic Station (Atlanta)
Regal Mall of Georgia 20 (Buford)
IOWA
Sci Dome IMAX (Des Moines)
ILLINOIS
River East 21 (Chicago)
Keresotes Showplace Icon (Chicago)
Music Box (Chicago)
Cinemark Evanston (Evanston)
INDIANA
White River IMAX (Indianapolis)
KANSAS
AMC Town Center (Leawood)
LOUISIANA
AMC Elmwood Palace (New Orleans)
MASSACHUSETTS
AMC Boston Common (Boston)
Coolidge Corner 2 (Brookline)
Somerville 5 (Somerville)
MARYLAND
AFI Silver Theatre (Silver Spring)
AMC White Marsh (Baltimore)
Cinemark Egyptian (Baltimore)
Maryland Science Center IMAX (Baltimore)
MICHIGAN
AMC Livonia (Livonia)
AMC Forum 30 (Sterling Heights)
MISSOURI
OMNIMAX (St. Louis)
Marcus Ronnies (St. Louis)
NORTH CAROLINA
Discovery Place IMAX (Charlotte)
Regal Stonecrest (Charlotte)
AMC Southpoint (Durham)
NEW JERSEY
AMC Cherry Hill (Cherry Hill)
AMC Hamilton 24 (Hamilton)
AMC Garden State (Paramus)
NEW MEXICO
Cinemark Rio 24 (Albuquerque)
NEVADA
AMC Town Sqaure (Las Vegas)
NEW YORK
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (Brooklyn)
Farmingdale 14 (Farmingdale)
Regal New Roc City (New Rochelle)
AMC Lincoln Square IMAX (New York)
City Cinemas East 86th St. (New York)
Cinema 1,2,3 (New York)
Village East 7 (New York)
Regal E-Walk Stadim (New York)
OHIO
Gateway Film Center 7 (Columbus)
Cinemark Valley View (Valley View)
ONTARIO
Cineplex Coliseum IMAX (Mississauga)
Cineplex Varsity 12 (Toronto)
Cineplex Colossus IMAX (Woodbridge)
OREGON
Hollywood 3 (Portland)
Regal Bridgeport (Tigard)
PENNSYLVANIA
AMC Neshaminy 24 (Bensalem)
Regal King of Prussia 15 IMAX (King of Prussia)
Tuttleman IMAX (Philadelphia)
AMC Waterfront (West Homestead)
QUEBEC
Cineplex Banque Scotia 12 (Montreal)
RHODE ISLAND
Providence Place IMAX (Providence)
SASKATCHEWAN
Regina IMAX (Las Vegas)
TENNESSEE
AMC Thoroughbred (Franklin)
Regal Pinnacle Stadium (Knoxville)
Regal Opry Mills 20 IMAX (Nashville)
TEXAS
Studio Movie Grill 9 (Arlington)
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (Austin)
AMC Northpark 15 (Dallas)
Look 11 (Dallas)
Studio Movie Grill Royal Lane 9
Cinemark 17 IMAX (Dallas)
OmniaMAX Fort Worth (Fort Worth)
AMC Gulf Pointe (Houston)
Regal Edwards Freenway Grand Palace (Houston)
Cinemark Tinseltown (Pflugerville)
Cinemark West Plano (Plano)
Santikos Palladium 19 (San Antonio)
VIRGINA
AMC Hoffman Center (Alexandria)
AMC Tyson’s Corner (McLean)
WASHINTON
AMC Pacific Place 11 (Seattle)
Cinerama (Seattle)
WISCONSIN
Marcus Majestic Cinema of Brookfield (Waukesha)