Despite unanimous praise at a January 1973 test screening attended by Universal executive Ned Tanen, the studio told Lucas they wanted to re-edit his original cut of "American Graffiti". Producer Coppola sided with Lucas against Tanen and Universal, offering to "buy the film" from the studio and reimburse it for the $775,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) it had cost to make it. 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures made similar offers to the studio. Universal refused these offers and told Lucas they planned to have William Hornbeck re-edit the film. When Coppola's "The Godfather" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in March 1973, Universal relented and agreed to cut only three scenes (about four minutes) from Lucas' cut—an encounter between Toad and a fast-talking car salesman, an argument between Steve and his former teacher Mr.
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Petaluma, "Mel's Drive-In" in San Francisco, Sonoma, Richmond, Novato, and the "Buchanan Field Airport" in Concord were some of the locations.
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In addition to Petaluma, other locations included Mel's Drive-In in San Francisco, Sonoma, Richmond, Novato, and the Buchanan Field Airport in Concord. The freshman hop dance was filmed in the Gus Gymnasium, previously known as the Boys Gym, at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley.
American Graffiti | Filming
The film was released in the United States on August 11, 1973 to sleeper hit reception. The film had cost only $1.27 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to produce and market, but yielded worldwide box office gross revenues of more than $55 million (equivalent to $ million in ). It had only modest success outside the United States, but became a cult film in France.
American Graffiti | Release
American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy film directed and co-written by George Lucas starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, and Wolfman Jack. Suzanne Somers, Kathleen Quinlan, Debralee Scott, and Joe Spano also appear in the film. Set in Modesto, California, in 1962, the film is a study of the cruising and early rock 'n' roll cultures popular among Lucas's age group at the time. Through a series of vignettes, the film tells the story of a group of teenagers and their adventures over the course of a single night.
American Graffiti | Introduction
The genesis of "American Graffiti" was in Lucas' own teenaged years in early 1960s Modesto. He was unsuccessful in pitching the concept to financiers and distributors, but found favor at Universal Pictures after every other major film studio turned him down. Filming was initially set to take place in San Rafael, California, but the production crew was denied permission to shoot beyond a second day. As a result, production was moved to Petaluma.
American Graffiti | Introduction
This would allow the studio to advertise "American Graffiti" as "From the Man Who Gave You "The Godfather"." Production proceeded with virtually no input or interference from Universal. The film was released in the United States on August 1, 1973 to sleeper hit reception. The film cost only $1.27 million to produce and market, but yielded worldwide box office gross revenues of more than $55 million. It had only modest success outside the United States, but became a cult film in France. Universal reissued "Graffiti" in 1978 and earned an additional $63 million, which brought the total revenue for the two releases to $118 million.
Gary Kurtz | "American Graffiti"
Although "American Graffiti" is set in 1962 Modesto, Lucas believed the city had changed too much in 10 years and initially chose San Rafael as the primary shooting location. Filming began on June 26, 1972. However, Lucas soon became frustrated at the time it was taking to fix camera mounts to the cars. A key member of the production had also been arrested for growing marijuana, and in addition to already running behind the shooting schedule, the San Rafael City Council immediately became concerned about the disruption that filming caused for local businesses, so withdrew permission to shoot beyond a second day.
American Graffiti | Filming
Petaluma, a similarly small town about north of San Rafael, was more cooperative, and "American Graffiti" moved there without the loss of a single day of shooting. Lucas convinced the San Rafael City Council to allow two further nights of filming for general cruising shots, which he used to evoke as much of the intended location as possible in the finished film. Shooting in Petaluma began June 28 and proceeded at a quick pace. Lucas mimicked the filmmaking style of B-movie producer Sam Katzman ("Rock Around the Clock" and "Your Cheatin' Heart") in attempting to save money and authenticated low-budget filming methods.
American Graffiti | Filming
Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage are American cinematographers best known for their work with film director George Lucas on the sleeper hit film, 1973's "American Graffiti". "American Graffiti" is a nostalgic portrait of teenage life in 1962 which spawned numerous imitations such as the TV series, "Happy Days", and films like "The Lords of Flatbush". The budget of "American Graffiti" was a mere $750,000 dollars, on a tight 28-day shooting schedule. Nonetheless, the film went on to gross more than $55 million, making it a blockbuster of its day. "American Graffiti" was shot entirely on location in small Northern California towns between the cruising hours of 9:00 p.m., when it was just dark enough, and 5:00 a.m., before the sun would come up.
Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage | Introduction
One character burns his draft card, showing a younger audience what so many Americans had done on the television news ten years before the movie's release. Other characters are shown frantically disposing of their marijuana before a traffic stop as a police officer pulls them over, and another scene shows the police brutality during an anti-Vietnam protest. The fates of the main characters listed at the end of "American Graffiti" are updated at the end of this sequel. Wolfman Jack briefly reprised his role, but in voice only. The drag racing scenes were filmed at the Fremont Raceway, later Baylands Raceway Park (now the site of automobile dealerships), in Fremont, California.
More American Graffiti | Plot
It was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1979 or 1980. It was released on DVD in September 2003 and once more as a double feature with "American Graffiti" (1973) in January 2004. It was released on Digital in 2011. It was released on Blu-ray for Europe in May 2012 and for North America in June 2018.
More American Graffiti | Home media
"More American Graffiti" opened on August 3, 1979. The Numbers cites the gross at $8.1 million, and Box Office Mojo at $15 million. Despite its minor box office success, its gross was nowhere near as high as that of "American Graffiti", even though Ron Howard, Cindy Williams and Harrison Ford were bigger stars (due to their major roles in the TV hits "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley" and the film "Star Wars") in 1979 than they had been in 1973.
More American Graffiti | Box office
The movie was written and directed by Bill L. Norton who was picked by Lucas as being suitable due to his California upbringing and experience with comedy. Lucas was involved in the production by acting as the executive producer, editing both Norton's screenplay and the finished motion picture, and even manning a camera for sequences set in the Vietnam War.
More American Graffiti | Production
Kroot at the sock hop, and an effort by Bob Falfa to serenade Laurie with "Some Enchanted Evening"—but decided that the film was fit for release only as a television movie. However, various studio employees who had seen the film began talking it up, and its reputation grew through word of mouth. The studio dropped the TV movie idea and began arranging for a limited release in selected theaters in Los Angeles and New York. Universal presidents Sidney Sheinberg and Lew Wasserman heard about the praise the film had been garnering in LA and New York, and the marketing department amped up its promotion strategy for it, investing an additional $500,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) in marketing and promotion.
American Graffiti | Release
The film was first shown publicly May 17, 1967, at the Presidio Theater in San Francisco, and opened that September at the 34th Street East Theater in New York. A transcript of the film, with photographs, was published in 1968 by Ballantine Books.
Dont Look Back | Release
The film was theatrically released in April, 2009, and eventually made its way to 30 markets during 2009/2010. There is a Google pin map showing the markets where the film had a theatrical release.
American Harmony | Screening
Each of more than 40 scenes in the film had a continuously playing background song that had been popular around 1962, when the film's story was set. Michael Sragow has characterized the effect as "using rock 'n roll as a Greek chorus with a beat". Fields then left "American Graffiti". It took another six months of editing to create a shorter, 110-minute version of the film, but upon its release in 1973 "American Graffiti" was extremely successful both with critics and at the box office. Shortly after its release, Roger Greenspun described the film and its editing: ""American Graffiti" exists not so much in its individual stories as in its orchestration of many stories, its sense of time and place.
Verna Fields | George Lucas and "American Graffiti"
Despite unanimous praise at a January 1973 test screening attended by Universal executive Ned Tanen, the studio told Lucas they wanted to re-edit his original cut of "American Graffiti". Producer Coppola sided with Lucas against Tanen and Universal, offering to "buy the film" from the studio and reimburse it for the $775,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) it had cost to make it. 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures made similar offers to the studio. Universal refused these offers and told Lucas they planned to have William Hornbeck re-edit the film. When Coppola's "The Godfather" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in March 1973, Universal relented and agreed to cut only three scenes (about four minutes) from Lucas' cut—an encounter between Toad and a fast-talking car salesman, an argument between Steve and his former teacher Mr.
American Graffiti | Release
The film had a very limited release in the United States on January 25, 2002 in 7 theaters for 3 consecutive days. The crew acquired a Mayor's permit to shut down the Queensboro Bridge for the premiere night of the film. The film gross $41,001 on its opening day ranking it on 54th spot and by 3 days of screening the film went on to gross a total of $342,855 in the United States. The film was released on VHS and on DVD on May 30, 2003 by First Look Pictures. The DVD featured an English and Spanish subtitles.
American Adobo | Box office
More American Graffiti is a 1979 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Bill L. Norton. It is the sequel to the 1973 film "American Graffiti". Whereas the first film followed a group of friends during the summer evening before they set off for college, this film shows where they end up a few years later. Most of the main cast members from the first film returned for the sequel, including Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Bo Hopkins, and Harrison Ford. Richard Dreyfuss was the only principal cast member from the original film not to appear in the sequel.
More American Graffiti | Introduction
Lucas spent the rest of 1971 and early 1972 trying to raise financing for the "American Graffiti" script. During this time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Columbia Pictures all turned down the opportunity to co-finance and distribute the film. Lucas, Huyck and Katz rewrote the second draft together, which, in addition to Modesto, was also set in Mill Valley and Los Angeles. Lucas also intended to end "American Graffiti" showing a title card detailing the fate of the characters, including the death of Milner and the disappearance of Toad in Vietnam. Huyck and Katz found the ending depressing and were incredulous that Lucas planned to include only the male characters.
American Graffiti | Universal Pictures
Many other modern classics have used Sonoma County as a filming venue, including "American Graffiti", filmed largely in Petaluma. A few other representative films produced partially in Sonoma County are:
Sonoma County, California | Film
The film was originally scheduled to be released on October 9, 2015, in the United States by Clarius Entertainment However, it was pushed back to November 13, 2015.
My All American | Release
It was the final live-action theatrical film in which Ron Howard would play a credited, named character.
More American Graffiti | Introduction
The film first screened at the L.A. Downtown Independent on August 14, 2015 and continued to screen until August 20, 2015. The film also screened at select Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas across the United States and it had a select showtime at the SVA Theatre of New York and at the Cinema Montrereal CANADA during October 2015.
Regular Show: The Movie | Theatrical release
The film, set over the course of four consecutive New Year's Eves from 1964 to 1967, depicts scenes from each of these years, intertwined with one another as though events happen simultaneously. The audience is protected from confusion by the use of a distinct cinematic style for each section. For example, the 1966 sequences echo the movie of Woodstock using split screens and multiple angles of the same event simultaneously on screen, the 1965 sequences (set in Vietnam) shot hand-held on grainy super 16 mm film designed to resemble war reporters' footage. The film attempts to memorialize the 1960s with sequences that recreate the sense and style of those days with references to Haight-Ashbury, the , the beginnings of the modern woman's liberation movement and the accompanying social revolt.
More American Graffiti | Plot
As a result, the film's structure became increasingly loose and no longer adhered to Lucas's original "ABCD" presentation. Lucas completed his final cut of "American Graffiti", which ran 112 minutes, in December 1972. Walter Murch assisted Lucas in post-production for audio mixing and sound design purposes. Murch suggested making Wolfman Jack's radio show the "backbone" of the film. "The Wolfman was an ethereal presence in the lives of young people," said producer Gary Kurtz, "and it was that quality we wanted and obtained in the picture."
American Graffiti | Editing
Production of the film began on June 24, 2014, and ended on July 16, 2014. The filming was based in Texas. Scenes were shot in 7 different cities ranging from San Antonio to Dallas.
My All American | Filming
"American Graffiti" depicts multiple characters going through a coming of age, such as the decisions to attend college or reside in a small town. The 1962, setting represents nearing an end of an era in American society and pop culture. The musical backdrop also links between the early years of rock 'n' roll in the mid- to late 1950s (i.e., Bill Haley & His Comets, Elvis Presley, and Buddy Holly) and the early 1960s British Invasion, which Don McLean's "American Pie" and the 1972 revival of 1950s acts and oldies paralleled during the conception and filming. The setting is also before the outbreaks of the Vietnam War and the John F.
American Graffiti | Themes
The film screened in Minneapolis in 1983 in the Film in the Cities' Gallery. It had a revival screening at the American Film Institute eight years later, in July 1991.
American Taboo | Theatrical distribution
The film also featured a 24-track soundtrack featuring music from the movie along with voice-over tracks of Wolfman Jack. The soundtrack is out of print and has never been released on CD. A fictional band named Electric Haze featuring Doug Sahm appears in the film, most notably performing the Bo Diddley song "I'm a Man". An earlier album, also titled "More American Graffiti", was an official album sequel to the first soundtrack to "American Graffiti". The album (MCA 8007) was released in 1975, four years before the film sequel of the same name was released. While only one of the songs in this album was actually used in the 1973 motion picture, this collection was compiled and approved by George Lucas for commercial release.
More American Graffiti | Soundtrack
The film was released theatrically in the United States by Cal-Am Artists in April 1978. It was lauded by film critics upon its initial release, but prints no longer appear to be generally available, either on television or on video.
Goodbye, Franklin High | Release
At the end of its theatrical run, "American Graffiti" had one of the best cost-to-profit ratios of any motion picture ever. It was the thirteenth-highest-grossing film of all time in 1977, and, adjusted for inflation, is currently the forty-third highest. By the 1990s, "American Graffiti" had earned more than $200 million in box office gross and home video sales. In December 1997, "Variety" reported that the film had earned an additional $55.13 million in rental revenue.
Gary Kurtz | "American Graffiti"
The film was slated for a March 1927 premiere at New York's Roxy Theatre, which was to have been equipped to show films in Natural Vision. However, producer Spoor refused to release the film because it was "poorly made". Director Blackton protested, claiming that he had not been allowed to complete the picture, and had not been fully paid for his work.
The American (1927 film) | Canceled release
Along with "Easy Rider" (1969), "American Graffiti" was one of the first films to eschew a traditional film score and successfully rely instead on synchronizing a series of popular hit songs with individual scenes. "THX 1138" was released in March 1971, and Lucas was offered opportunities to direct "Lady Ice", "Tommy", or "Hair". He turned down those offers, determined to pursue his own projects despite his urgent desire to find another film to direct. During this time, Lucas conceived the idea for a space opera (as yet untitled) which later became the basis for his "Star Wars" franchise. At the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, "THX" was chosen for the Directors' Fortnight competition.
American Graffiti | United Artists
The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 6, 1990. In January 1991 it was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. On March 18, 1992, it opened in New York City.
American Dream (film) | Exhibition
The film had its world premiere on September 8, 1999, at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Three days later, the film appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival. With the filmmakers and cast in attendance, it screened at several American universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, New York University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Texas at Austin, and Northwestern University. On September 15, 1999, "American Beauty" opened to the public in limited release at three theaters in Los Angeles and three in New York. More theaters were added during the limited run, and on October 1, the film officially entered wide release by screening in 706 theaters across North America.
American Beauty (1999 film) | Theatrical run
Army to transport troops, especially during the Korean War. In 1972 George Lucas used Buchanan Field Airport for one of the last exterior scenes in the movie "American Graffiti". In the scene, Steven Bolander (Ron Howard) says goodbye to friend Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) before Curt leaves for college on the Douglas DC-7C in the background.
Buchanan Field Airport | History
A screening at the Laemmle 4-Plex Theater in Santa Monica, California was scheduled to run until July 25, 2008. On September 12, 2008, the film premiered in Beverly Hills, California. The filmmakers intended to distribute the film throughout the United States and in Israel. There are subtitles available in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian.
David &amp; Fatima | Release
The film premiered in October 1963 at the Gramercy Arts Theater in New York City. When the film was screened at an art theater in Los Angeles, it was protested by the American Nazi Party on the basis that it insulted their flag. The police were ultimately called to the site and arrested the theater manager for public obscenity and canceled the film's run. The case went to the California Supreme Court, where the case was settled in Anger's favor. Anger explained in an interview:
Scorpio Rising (film) | Release
The U. S. theatrical release of the film was on December 20, 1938. The film opened at the Paramount theater in NYC where it played at capacity over the holidays, according to a December 1938 article in "The Film Daily". There were many reviews of this film ahead of its release on December 20.
Artists and Models Abroad | Reception
"American Gothic" was released in Chicago on May 20, 1988.
American Gothic (1988 film) | Release
Filming for "American Movie" began in September 1995 and concluded in August 1997. The film was a critical success upon its debut and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and has since gone on to be considered a cult film.
American Movie | Introduction
The film premiered at the Plaza Theatre in Kansas City on August 21, 1967, as a benefit for the Will Rogers Hospital.
Young Americans (1967 film) | Release
The film premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2003, it was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Boston Irish Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Hamburg Film Festival, the Warsaw Film Festival, the Dinard Festival of British Cinema, and the Austin Film Festival.
In America (film) | Release
"American Graffiti" received widespread critical acclaim. Based on 49 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of the critics enjoyed the film with an average score of 8.43/10. The consensus reads: "One of the most influential of all teen films, "American Graffiti" is a funny, nostalgic, and bittersweet look at a group of recent high school grads' last days of innocence". Roger Ebert gave the film a full four stars and praised it for being "not only a great movie, but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant".
American Graffiti | Critical reception
"American Gangster" premiered in Harlem at the Apollo Theater on October 20, 2007. Over two weeks before the release of "American Gangster", a screener for the film leaked online. The film debuted in the United States and Canada on November 2, 2007 in 3,054 theaters.
American Gangster (film) | Release
Modesto is known for the following tourist attractions and historical sites: The 1973 film "American Graffiti", starring Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, and Cindy Williams, was set in 1962 Modesto; however, the scenes of weekend cruising were actually filmed in Petaluma, California.
Modesto, California | Tourism
The film was due to open November 12, 1969, but was brought forward a month due to the poor performance of another film and opened in more than 30 theaters in the New York area on October 8, 1969.
The Monitors (film) | Release
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
American Graffiti | Accolades
"A Movie" premiered June 10, 1958, at the East and West Gallery in San Francisco. It was part of a reception for Conner's first solo art show. Shortly after, the film was acquired for distribution by Cinema 16 in New York. When local distributor Canyon Cinema emerged in the early 1960s, "A Movie" was one of its more well-known offerings.
A Movie | Release
The film opened on May 14, 2004, in limited release throughout Southern California and on September 17 in theaters in Chicago, Texas, Florida, and New York City as well as San Jose.
A Day Without a Mexican | Release
The film's lengthy casting process was overseen by Fred Roos, who worked with producer Francis Ford Coppola on "The Godfather". Because "American Graffiti"'s main cast was for younger actors, the casting call and notices went through numerous high-school drama groups and community theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the actors was Mark Hamill, the future Luke Skywalker in Lucas' "Star Wars" trilogy. Over 100 unknown actors auditioned for Curt Henderson before Richard Dreyfuss was cast; George Lucas was impressed with Dreyfuss' thoughtful analysis of the role, and as a result, offered the actor his choice of Curt or Terry "The Toad" Fields.
American Graffiti | Casting
The other four were "The Hired Hand", "Taking Off", "Silent Running", and "American Graffiti", directed by Peter Fonda, Miloš Forman, Douglas Trumbull, and George Lucas, respectively. Given this freedom, Hopper spent much of 1970 in Peru, bringing many of his actor and musician friends to Peru—including singer Kris Kristofferson and director Samuel Fuller—and shooting the film under the working title "Chinchero". With hours and hours of footage, Hopper holed up in his home editing studio in Taos, New Mexico, but failed to deliver a cut by the end of 1970. He was in a period of severe alcohol and drug abuse (as shown in an extremely rare and barely released documentary called "The American Dreamer", which was directed by Lawrence Schiller and L.M.
The Last Movie | Production
The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on June 6, 2000. It was subsequently released theatrically in the United States on February 5, 2001.
Skipped Parts | Release
In May 2015, Universal set the film for release on January 6, 2017. On August 8, 2016, the film's release was pushed to September 29, 2017, and its title changed from "Mena" to "American Made". It was released in Europe on August 23, 2017, and in the United States on September 29, 2017, and also screened at the Deauville Film Festival on September 1, 2017.
American Made (film) | Release
"The Dirty Dozen" premiered at the Capitol Theatre in New York City on June 15, 1967 and opened at the 34th Street East theatre the following day. Despite being shot in an aspect ratio of 1.85:1, the film was initially shown in 70 mm which cut off 15% of the film and resulted in a grainy look.
The Dirty Dozen | Release
Charles Champlin of "The New York Times" called it a "masterfully executed and profoundly affecting movie." Jay Cocks of "Time" magazine wrote that "American Graffiti" "reveals a new and welcome depth of feeling. Few films have shown quite so well the eagerness, the sadness, the ambitions and small defeats of a generation of young Americans." Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" was less enthused, writing that the film "fails to be anything more than a warm, nice, draggy comedy, because there's nothing to back up the style. The images aren't as visually striking as they would be if only there were a mind behind them; the movie has no resonance except from the jukebox sound and the eerie, nocturnal jukebox look." She also noted with disdain that the epilogue did not bother to mention the fates of any of the women characters.
American Graffiti | Critical reception
The film was released regionally in the United States in the late summer of 1982, with screenings beginning in Tucson, Arizona as early as August 3, 1982. It later opened in Phoenix on August 27, 1982, before expanding to cities in New Jersey and California during the autumn of 1982.
The Incubus (film) | Release
The Last Edition is a 1925 American silent drama directed by Emory Johnson based on the story by Emilie Johnson. The photoplay is set in San Francisco, California and stars Ralph Lewis as a pressman at the "San Francisco Chronicle" newspaper. The movie was released on November 8, 1925 by Film Booking Offices of America. The motion picture was filmed in and around the "Old Chronicle Building" located at 690 Market Street in downtown San Francisco. However, "In 1924, the "Chronicle" commissioned a new headquarters at 901 Mission Street on the corner of 5th Street." The Chronicle completed the move in 1925, shortly after the film crews were finished shooting.
The Last Edition | Introduction
The film premiered at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on February 1, 2016 and was released in the United States on February 5. The film also opened the Berlin International Film Festival on February 11, 2016 was released in the United Kingdom on March 4, and on Blu-ray on June 7, 2016.
Hail, Caesar! | Release
The world premier of "American Skin" was held at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019.
American Skin (film) | Release
The film had its premiere at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California on July 13, 2019. The film was theatrically released in the United States on August 2, 2019, after being moved from its previous date of July 26, 2019. The film began international rollout on July 31, 2019, and was released in China on August 23, 2019. The release is in 2D, Dolby Cinema, and IMAX. A RealD 3D conversion for the film was originally planned to release but was later cancelled. However, the planned conversion was done by Stereo D.
Hobbs &amp; Shaw | Release
The worldwide premiere took place at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 12, 2014; Deputy Trejo's family members were in attendance. On June 26, 2014, Well Go USA Entertainment acquired the North American distribution rights. A "red carpet event" was held at the Esquire IMAX Theater on January 14, 2015, in Downtown Sacramento, California. This was followed by a limited theatrical release on January 30 in the United States.
Supremacy (film) | Release
"Blood Beach" received trade screenings in December 1980, after which it was given a limited theatrical release twice in the United States: by the Jerry Gross Organization on January 23, 1981, and by Compass International Pictures in 1982. The film was released in the U.S. on VHS by Media Home Entertainment. As of 2012, the film had only been officially released on DVD in Germany. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema re-released the film in a limited 35mm screening on March 14, 2015 as part of the "NY! Hudson Horror Show" event at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, promoted by a new theatrical poster by artist Stephen Romano.
Blood Beach | Release
Problems with financing and distribution kept the film from being released until 1983. The film was well received by audiences, but met with primarily negative criticism.
Americana (film) | Introduction
The film was released in select countries on March 10, 2016, in regular and IMAX theaters, before its official release in North America on March 11, also in conventional and IMAX theaters. Those who attended screenings of the film at AMC IMAX theaters were eligible to receive collectible movie posters, which illustrated the three main characters separately. The film was rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "thematic material including frightening sequences of threat with some violence, and brief language".
10 Cloverfield Lane | Release
The film opened in Argentina on August 19, 2004. In Brazil it opened October 4, 2004, at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. The film has been screened at various film festivals, including: the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Palm Beach, Florida; the Washington Jewish Film Festival, Washington, D.C.; the Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa, Israel; the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco; the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival, Hong Kong; the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Boston; and others.
18-J | Distribution
The film premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival on October 20, 1972 before opening at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco five days later.
Dirty Little Billy | Release
The film was released in the U.S. on February 3, 2017.
American Violence | Release
Adding in semiautobiographical connotations, Lucas set the story in his hometown of 1962 Modesto. The characters Curt Henderson, John Milner, and Terry "The Toad" Fields also represent different stages from his younger life. Curt is modeled after Lucas's personality during USC, while Milner is based on Lucas's teenaged street-racing and junior-college years, and hot rod enthusiasts he had known from the Kustom Kulture in Modesto. Toad represents Lucas's nerd years as a freshman in high school, specifically his "bad luck" with dating. The filmmaker was also inspired by Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni" (1953). After the financial failure of "THX 1138", Lucas wanted the film to act as a release for a world-weary audience:
American Graffiti | Inspiration
The film is touring the United States in the summer of 2013, with screenings scheduled for San Francisco on July 11, Chicago on July 24, and Austin, Texas, on August 24.
Unacceptable Levels | Screenings
The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by New World Pictures on August 14, 1981, opening in cities such as Des Moines, Iowa and Alexandria, Louisiana. It premiered in Los Angeles on November 20, 1981.
Saturday the 14th | Release
The film received negative reviews from critics, in contrast to the critical acclaim received by its predecessor. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 20% of critics were positive based on 10 reviews. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" called it "grotesquely misconceived, so much so that it nearly eradicates fond memories of the original ... The times — the story is scattered like buckshot from 1964 to 1967 — have grown dangerous, but these people haven't awakened at all. They're still the same fun-loving rock-and-rollers, and there's nothing they can't trivialize. So here is a comic look at campus rioting. Here are the beach party aspects of the Vietnam War." Dale Pollock of "Variety" stated in his review that ""More American Graffiti" may be one of the most innovative and ambitious films of the last five years, but by no means is it one of the most successful ...
More American Graffiti | Critical reception
The film opened in wide release in the United States on March 13, 1992 (830 screens). The opening weekend's gross was $3.4 million, and the total receipts for the first three weeks were $9.1 million. The film was in wide release for three weeks (seventeen days). In its widest release the film was featured in 830 theaters across the country. The final box office gross amounted to $13.1 million.
American Me | Box office
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019. It released in the United States on June 7, 2019, having previously been scheduled to be released on June 14.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Release
The film opened in the United States on October 2, 2007 in Los Angeles. It was also shown October 20, 2007 at the Tokyo International Film Festival. The film opened in limited release in the United States in New York City on November 23, 2007, and opened in Los Angeles on December 7, 2007.
Midnight Eagle | Introduction
By the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Fremont Dragstrip was in its heyday. Its booming radio ads were familiar and ubiquitous on all the pop radio stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. The track was used as a location for movies in the late 1970s. "More American Graffiti", a 1979 coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Bill L. Norton, had filmed Paul Le Mat's character, John Milner, drag racing here. "Hot Rod", the 1979 made-for-television directed by George Armitage and starring Gregg Henry and Pernell Roberts, filmed races here.
Fremont Dragstrip | History
Gene Siskel awarded three-and-a-half stars out of four, writing that although the film suffered from an "overkill" of nostalgia, particularly with regards to a soundtrack so overstuffed that it amounted to "one of those golden-oldie TV blurbs," it was still "well-made, does achieve moments of genuine emotion, and does provide a sock (hop) full of memories." Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" wrote, ""American Graffiti" is such a funny, accurate movie, so controlled and efficient in its narrative, that it stands to be overpraised to the point where seeing it will be an anticlimax." A.D. Murphy from "Variety" felt "American Graffiti" was a vivid "recall of teenage attitudes and morals, told with outstanding empathy and compassion through an exceptionally talented cast of unknown actors".
American Graffiti | Critical reception
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Area 51 (film) | Production
On completion of the restoration in 2001, the film was given another theatrical release.
Don't Look Now | Theatrical releases
The film was tested in Jacksonville, Florida, Fresno, California and Providence, Rhode Island on February 14, 1992 and released in the United States on March 6, 1992 in 1,276 theatres. The film was released in Japan under the title "Virtual Wars".
The Lawnmower Man (film) | Release
In 2016, the film underwent digital restoration by Universal Pictures, sourced from both the Cinémathèque Française print, as well as a print featuring the original English title cards owned by the Packard Humanities Institute Collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. The restored print was screened at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival on June 4, 2016. It was again screened in September 2016 at Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles. This restored edition of the film had its home media premiere in a Blu-ray and DVD combination set by Flicker Alley in 2019.
The Last Warning | 2016 restoration
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 28, 2010.
The American (2010 film) | Home media
The film was originally released to theaters on August 24, 1979.
Rock 'n' Roll High School | Release
The film premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 18, 2002, originally planned to have a worldwide theatrical release, but due to the film's critical reception, it was released direct-to-video in 2002.
Liberty Stands Still | Release
The film had its U.S. premiere at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival on March 12, 2009.
My Dear Enemy | International release
The film premiered at the Morelia International Film Festival on 22 October 2013. The film had its U.S. screening at The Strong National Museum of Play theater in Rochester, New York on 15 March 2014. It was shown in both Spanish and English. The film was presented at the San Diego Comic-Con International on 25 July 2014. The title of the conference is "Big Ideas for Movies: Crossing the Borders with Mexican Animation". It had an advanced screening at the 22nd Annual San Diego Film Festival on 14 March 2015. The film had its world carpet premiere on 14 May 2015 at the Regal Cinemas L.A.
El Americano: The Movie | Premiere and theatrical
The film was screened in a tiny number of theaters in October 1982, and earned a box office gross just over US$25,000. Eventually the film made its way to cable television. "Night Flight", the weekend counter-culture programming block on USA Network, began regularly airing the film, and it found an audience. (This was in 1984, and at the time the network was part-owned by Paramount.) Off the positive reception of the airings, subdistributor Films Inc. licensed the film from Paramount, and it eventually made its way to the art house circuit. The film's next theatrical engagements included showings at Film Forum in New York City on Wednesday, March 6, 1985, in Chicago in April 1985, in Atlanta and Los Angeles in July 1985, and at the Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia from Friday, August 23 – Saturday, August 24, 1985.
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains | Release
The film premiered on January 24, 2007 in Sundance Film Festival and on September 14, 2007 in United States.
King of California | Release
The film held its world premiere at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, California on December 15, 2016. It began a limited release on December 16, 2016, before opening wide in 2,223 theaters on December 25.
Fences (film) | Release
In 1967, Fields had hired George Lucas to help edit "Journey to the Pacific" (1968), which was a documentary film written and directed by Gary Goldsmith for the USIA. She had also hired Marcia Griffin for the job, and introduced Griffin and George Lucas; the couple subsequently married. In 1972, Lucas was directing "American Graffiti". While Lucas had intended that his wife would edit the film, Universal asked him to add Verna Fields to the editing team. Over the first ten weeks of post-production, George and Marcia Lucas, along with Fields and Walter Murch (as sound editor), pieced together the original, 165-minute version of the film.
Verna Fields | George Lucas and "American Graffiti"
When the studio didn't like the film, I wasn't surprised. But George just said to me, I was stupid and knew nothing. Because I was just a Valley Girl. He was the intellectual." When principal photography had wrapped on "American Graffiti" (1973), George had wanted Marcia to edit the film, but Universal Pictures executive Ned Tanen insisted on hiring Verna Fields, who had just finished editing Steven Spielberg's "The Sugarland Express" (1974). However, Fields worked on the first rough cut of the film before she left to resume work on "What's Up, Doc?" (1972). For the next six months, Marcia edited "American Graffiti" alongside her husband and sound editor Walter Murch to its contractual runtime of 110 minutes.
Marcia Lucas | Feature film editing
On April 28, 2016, it was announced that "American Pastoral" would be given a limited theatrical release on October 21, 2016, from Lionsgate, followed by a wider release on October 28.
American Pastoral (film) | Release
The film premiered on October 17, 2013 in Trento and the press conference and other official premiere was in Rome, on November 5, 2013. The movie has been released in all the cinemas on November 7, 2013.
Mr. America (film) | Premiere
"Graffiti Bridge" was released on DVD on February 8, 2005. The film was released on Blu-ray for the first time on October 4, 2016 separately in a purple case and as part of the Prince Movie Collection.
Graffiti Bridge (film) | Home media
On August 15, 1979 "Apocalypse Now" was released in North America in only three theaters equipped to play the Dolby Stereo 70 mm prints with stereo surround sound, – the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles and the University Theatre in Toronto. The film, without credits, ran 146 minutes and tickets cost $5, a new high for L.A. It ran exclusively in these three locations for four weeks before opening in an additional 12 theaters on October 3, 1979. On October 10, 1979, the 35 mm version, with credits, was released in over 300 theatres.
Apocalypse Now | Theatrical release
The film was later released on DVD 14 May 2007. The DVD release comes in a 48-page linen hardcover book, which features several photographs from the early years of graffiti in Amsterdam.
Kroonjuwelen | Release
"G.B.F." made its official Hollywood premiere at Chinese 6 Theater in Los Angeles, California on November 19, 2013. Prior to its theatrical release, the film was screened at many film festivals.
G.B.F. (film) | Release
Reshoots occurred in late January 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia.
American Made (film) | Filming
In May and June the San Francisco Bay Area underwent a series of alerts:
American Theater (World War II) | 1942