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A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in Southern California

 Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay

The Most 70mm Prints In L.A.

During the 1980s and '90s when mass-market, saturation release patterns was becoming the industry norm and when more and more theatres were equipping for 70mm presentation, studios began to oblige with large 70mm print runs for some of their bigger productions. This meant that audiences would not need to drive in to the big city in order to experience a 70mm presentation (unlike during the roadshow era); many theatres in the surrounding counties were playing a film in 70mm simultaneous with Los Angeles. Those releases with about ten or more 70mm prints distributed throughout the Los Angeles metro area include the following:

2010 (1984)
The Abyss (1989)
Aliens (1986)
Batman (1989)
Brainstorm (1983)
Cocoon (1985)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Dune (1984)
Empire Of The Sun (1987)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Far And Away (1992)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Hoffa (1992)
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984)
Last Action Hero (1993)
Quest For Fire (1982)
Return Of The Jedi (1983)
StakeOut (1987)
Star Trek III (1984)
Star Trek IV (1986)
Starman (1984)
The Untouchables (1987)
Willow (1988)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

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