From “The King of Kings” to “The Northman,” hundreds of films have premiered within the storied walls of the TCL Chinese Theatre, which celebrates its 95th anniversary May 18. Indeed, as early as 1…
From “The King of Kings” to “The Northman,” hundreds of films have premiered within the storied walls of theIndeed, as early as 1933, the famed movie house appeared in other media as a boilerplate for how a premiere should, and often does, look like. Since then, the theater played itself in dozens of television shows and movies, some of which went on to debut on its iconic screen. The forecourt holds the signatures and imprints of concrete immortalization.
“We’re going to be having screenings of seminal movies that have played or opened at the Chinese Theatre over the years,” says Levi Tinker, a 22-year veteran of the theater who serves as its operations manager and historian. “We’re also trying to work together on some panels with some of the celebrities that have had a relationship with the theater over the years as well.
In 1930, the Chinese offered a version of 70mm, dubbed Fox Grandeur, with John Wayne’s “The Big Trail”; and added Cinemascope in 1953 for Henry Koster’s “The Robe”; George Lucas’s THX audio certification process in 1983 with “Return of the Jedi”; digital projection in 1999 for “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace”; an IMAX screen in 2013 that’s one of the biggest in the Northern hemisphere, thanks to an extensive renovation ; and 4K laser projection with “Furious 7.
“People love coming out there and standing literally in the feet of the people who entertain them from when they were kids until adults,” Tinker adds.
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