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A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in New York City & Vicinity

 

 Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay

 


 

Longest-Running 70mm Engagements in NYC

 

So...the latest "Spider-Man" and "Harry Potter" chapters stuck around for the entire summer. Wow, eight weeks is an eternity in the megaplex era. For a real trip, get a load of these record-holding, long-running New York City engagements.  Spidey has nothing on these epics!

103 weeks: Around The World In Eighty Days (Rivoli)
93 weeks: The Sound Of Music (Rivoli)
88 weeks: My Fair Lady (Criterion)
77 weeks: West Side Story (Rivoli)
74 weeks: Ben-Hur (State)
72 weeks: Funny Girl (Criterion)
64 weeks: Cleopatra (Rivoli)

64 weeks: Howards End (Fine Arts/Village East)
61 weeks: Star Wars (Astor Plaza)
58 weeks: Doctor Zhivago (Capitol)
58 weeks: Fiddler On The Roof (Rivoli)
56 weeks: The Bible (State)
54 weeks: Gone With The Wind, '67 re-issue (Rivoli)
54 weeks: South Pacific (Criterion/Rivoli)
53 weeks: Spartacus (DeMille)
52 weeks: E.T. (Movieland)
52 weeks: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Warner Cinerama)
51 weeks: Oklahoma! (Rivoli)
47 weeks: Oliver! (State)
45 weeks: Exodus (Warner)
44 weeks:
Lawrence Of Arabia (Criterion)

43 weeks: The Greatest Story Ever Told (Warner Cinerama)
41 weeks: Hawaii (DeMille)
39 weeks: Mutiny On The Bounty (State)

37 weeks: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Capitol/Cinerama)
35 weeks: Doctor Dolittle (State)
35 weeks: The Sand Pebbles (Rivoli)
34 weeks: Camelot (Warner)
34 weeks: Hello, Dolly! (Rivoli)
33 weeks: Can-Can (Rivoli)
33 weeks: El Cid (Warner)
33 weeks: Ryan’s Daughter (Ziegfeld)
31 weeks: Grand Prix (Warner Cinerama)
30 weeks: Porgy And Bess (Warner)

The single, longest-running New York City engagement of all-time remains the 123-week reserved seat Cinerama run of "This Is Cinerama" (Broadway plus Warner move-over).  Boy, times sure have changed.

 


 

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1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974
1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

 

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