Posted on 12/18/2018 11:29:38 AM PST by C19fan
Peter Jackson’s World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, which Warner Bros. acquired global rights to following the pic’s BFI London Film Fest premiere in October, drew an impressive $2.3M at last night’s Fathom Event which took place in 1,122 theaters over two showtimes (4pm & 7pm).
Fathom reports that They Shall Not Grow Old was their largest event year-to-do date at the B.O. out of 160, their largest documentary ever and the fourth largest event of all-time at the domestic B.O. Cineplex Event Screens showed the doc in Canada.
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Is it guys walking for 9 hours?
I saw the previews, but it said not being showing every where and only for two days? What I saw looked amazing... I mean really amazing.
I saw it last night. And yes, it’s amazing.
I saw it. Incredibly moving.
Actually has a weird Wizard of Oz touch...the footage is in grainy black and white until they get shipped off to war. Once the soldiers arrive at the front lines, it transforms into restored HD color.
Two different days. Dec 27 is the next showing. My area has only has one showing that day but at 3 local theaters.
https://www.fathomevents.com/events
A friend saw it yesterday in 3D Imax theater and he said it was amazing. With the new hi tech 3D glasses, he said it was like you were participating.....
INteresting, that's the next viewing here too......
Looks like the 27th are matinee performances.
My maternal Grandfather was one of those “guys”. You should know better and show a little respect!
I downloaded it from a British torrent site when it aired on UK TV. It’s excellent. They even used lip readers to re-create what the soldiers were saying on the old films they used. I had a great uncle who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France. He was killed two months before the Armistice, and is buried in a British Military Cemetery near Boulogne.
The preview looks good.
I wonder why only two days?...
It was a Peter Jackson Hobbit joke.
Calm down tough guy.
I wish I'd had time to linger and see the "behind the scenes" video on how they accomplished it all.
I'll bet the mud eruptions from the German tunneling and trench mining activities were really something in 3-D.
My grandmothers brother was killed at the battle of St Mihiel, 1918.
Why was the USA even part of that AT ALL...?
Needless and stupid, sorta like us mucking around in Syria.
NONE OF OUR BIZ.
In the behind the scenes part, Jackson mentioned that when the colorizing folks got to the uniforms, he loaned them his private collection of WWI uniforms. When the sound folks wanted to do the cannons, he loaned them his private collection of WWI cannons...
I have my ticket for next week. The first showing was sold out yesterday.
Not an excuse, Buddy!
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