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Another Major Motion Picture Premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater up on the boulevard, something they've been doing there since May 18, 1927, with the premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings, when the films were black-and-white and silent. This time the film is Splice – straight from the Sitges Film Festival in 2009 and then the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and then the bidding wars – Weinstein Company versus Newmarket Films versus First Look Studios versus Samuel Goldwyn Films – and the winner, in February 2010, was Dark Castle Entertainment via Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers scheduled it for wide release in the United States on June 4 – you go wide on the first big weekend of the summer. That's where the money is. And you have your big premiere two days earlier at the Chinese, for the buzz. Just another day in Hollywood –
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And across the street, the restored El Capitan Theater, where Citizen Kane had its premiere –
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Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik
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