DENVER, Dec. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Film fans can
take a yearlong journey through Hollywood history in 2019 when Fathom Events
and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) come together for the fourth annual
"TCM Big Screen Classics," presenting 14 film favorites
throughout the year, spanning seven decades.
From the Golden Age of Hollywood to groundbreaking movies from the
seventies, eighties and nineties, the "TCM Big Screen
Classics" series combines each film with little-known facts and
insight provided by TCM Primetime Host Ben Mankiewicz. In addition, every film is
presented in its original aspect ratio, offering audiences the
chance to see these movies on the big screen just as they were
originally enjoyed.
The lineup for the 2019 "TCM Big Screen Classics"
includes:
- The Wizard of Oz – 1/27, 29 & 30
- My Fair Lady –
2/17 & 20
- To Kill a Mockingbird – 3/24 &
27
- Ben-Hur – 4/14 & 17
- True Grit – 5/5 & 8
- Steel Magnolias – 5/19, 21 & 22
- Field of Dreams – 6/16 & 18
- Glory – 7/21 & 24
- Hello, Dolly! – 8/11 & 14
- Lawrence of Arabia – 9/1 &
4
- The Shawshank Redemption – 9/22, 24
& 25
- Alien – 10/13, 15 & 16
- The Godfather Part II – 11/10, 12 &
13
- When Harry Met
Sally – 12/1 & 3
"Every year, more and more film fans have flocked to the TCM Big
Screen Classics series, proving the lasting appeal of these movies
and the thrill of seeing them in a movie theater," said Fathom
Events Vice President of Studio Relations Tom Lucas. "From spectacular musicals and grand
Westerns to epic adventures, we are tremendously proud of this
year's lineup and our continuing partnership with TCM."
"This series brings film lovers of all ages together to
experience the magic of the movies on the big screen and allows TCM
to be the ultimate gathering point for fans of classic cinema,"
said Genevieve McGillicuddy, Vice
President of Enterprises and Strategic Partnerships, TCM. "Through
our relationship with Fathom Events and each of our studio
partners, we are able to continue our mission to share and
celebrate the entire spectrum of film history with audiences
everywhere."
Tickets for all films in the 2019 "TCM Big
Screen Classics" series can be purchased
beginning Friday, December 7 online by
visiting www.FathomEvents.com, or at participating
theater box offices. A complete list of theater locations will be
available December 7 on the Fathom
Events website (theaters and participants are subject to
change).
A detailed schedule for the 2019 "TCM Big Screen
Classics" series includes:
The Wizard of Oz (1939) – 80th
Anniversary from Warner Bros.
Sunday,
January 27 – 2:00 and 5:00
p.m. local time
Tuesday,
January 29 – 7:00 p.m. local
time
Wednesday, January 30
– 7:00 p.m. local time
Journey over the rainbow and down the yellow brick road with
Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion … and Toto,
too. One of the crowning achievements of classic Hollywood, The Wizard of Oz stands
apart from almost any other movie for its black-and-white-to-color
cinematography, its standout songs by Harold Arlen and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (who won an
Oscar® for "Over the Rainbow"), and for its perfect cast:
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray
Bolger, Jack
Haley, Bert Lahr,
Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charlie Grapewin,
Clara Blandick and "The Munchkins."
My Fair
Lady (1964) – 55th Anniversary from
CBS
Sunday,
February 17 – 1:00 and 5:00
p.m. local time
Wednesday, February 20 – 3:00 and
7:00 p.m. local time
Audrey Hepburn is
willful, self-aware and ultimately self-reliant Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison is Professor Henry Higgins in this splendid widescreen
adaptation of the smash Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. My
Fair Lady won the Academy Award® as Best Picture of 1964
and seven additional Oscars®, including Best Director
(George Cukor), Best Actor
(Harrison), and Best Art Direction. Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion,
My Fair Lady still dazzles
thanks to indelible performances, gorgeous cinematography, and
songs like "I Could Have Danced All Night," "The Rain in
Spain," "On the Street Where You
Live" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face."
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) from Universal
Pictures
Sunday,
March 24 – 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.
local time
Wednesday, March 27 – 12:00 and
7:00 p.m. local time
Based on Harper Lee's
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the spare and eloquent To Kill a
Mockingbird captures a time, place and mood with
astonishing precision. Its Oscar®-winning screenplay by
Horton Foote and direction by
Robert Mulligan led to
enormous critical acclaim, and the luminous central performance by
Gregory Peck led not only to
the Academy Award® for Best Actor, but to Atticus Finch being named
the single greatest hero of all time in the American Film
Institute's "100 Heroes & Villains" poll. To Kill a
Mockingbird also launched the career of Robert Duvall, who plays "Boo" Radley in
this evocative, nostalgic look at American ideals through the eyes
of a child.
Ben-Hur (1959) – 60th
Anniversary from Warner Bros.
Sunday,
April 14 – 1:00 and 6:00
p.m. local time
Wednesday, April 17 – 1:00 and 6:00 p.m. local time
A monumental epic, Ben-Hur is very rarely
experienced in the way it was intended, as a massive feat of
motion-picture craftsmanship. The production encompassed 300 sets,
nine sound stages, an eight-month production and thousands of
actors, including more than 365 speaking parts. More than 1.1
million feet of film were shot, and the result was an unrivaled
spectacle from director William
Wyler. Starring Charlton
Heston, Jack
Hawkins, Haya
Harareet and Stephen
Boyd, Ben-Hur went on to become a film
legend, with a box-office gross that would equal nearly
$1 billion in today's dollars, in
addition to 11 Academy Awards® -- a record-breaking feat no film
would match for nearly 40 years.
True Grit (1969) – 50th
Anniversary from Paramount
Pictures
Sunday,
May 5 – 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.
local time
Wednesday, May 8
– 12:00 and 7:00 p.m. local
time
The towering and eminently entertaining Western True Grit
celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2019. Called "a
masterpiece" and "one of the most delightful, joyous, scary movies
of all time" by Roger Ebert, the
film stars Hollywood legend
John Wayne as the
unforgettable U.S. Marshal Reuben J.
"Rooster" Cogburn, a role that won him the Academy Award®
for Best Actor in a Leading Role and his only Oscar® after 40 years
on the big screen. Directed by Henry
Hathaway, True Grit pays homage not only to the
great Westerns that came before it, but also to Wayne's
larger-than-life film presence.
Steel Magnolias (1989) – 30th
Anniversary from Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sunday,
May 19 – 4:00 and 7:00 p.m.
local time
Tuesday, May 21
– 7:00 p.m. local time
Wednesday, May 22 – 7:00 p.m. local time
Sally Field,
Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia
Dukakis and Julia
Roberts star in this gem of a comedy that was not only a
box-office hit, but helped rocket Roberts into the stratosphere of
Hollywood super-stardom in just
her third major role – for which she received her first Oscar®
nomination. She plays one of the residents of a fictional
Louisiana town, based on
Natchitoches, the hometown of
screenwriter Robert
Harling who wrote the play on which the film is
based. Directed by Herbert
Ross and produced by Ray
Stark, Steel Magnolias generates laughter and
tears in equal amounts, celebrating the strength and bonds of
unforgettable women who unite in the face of tragedy to provide
unconditional love and support.
Field of Dreams (1989) – 30th
Anniversary from Universal Pictures
Sunday,
June 16 – 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.
local time
Tuesday, June 18
– 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. local
time
"If you build it, he will come," a disembodied voice whispers to
farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) in this classic film fantasy.
The meaning is unclear, and his wife (Amy Madigan) has doubts; but the words push
Ray to make an extraordinary gamble before leading him on a journey
that connects him with three unlikely allies: reclusive author
Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), baseball player Archibald
"Moonlight" Graham (Burt
Lancaster, in his penultimate role) and notorious
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson
(Ray Liotta). Director
Phil Alden Robinson's film
has become synonymous not only with baseball, but with the power of
unwavering belief and long-sought forgiveness.
Glory (1989) – 30th Anniversary from
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sunday,
July 21 – 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.
local time
Wednesday, July
24 – 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. local
time
Denzel Washington received
his first Academy Award® -- a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® -- for
his performance as Pvt. Trip, the intense and passionate former
slave who is part of the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry, the first Union regiment of all-black soldiers. By law,
the troops could be led only by a white man, and Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) assumes command. Also
starring Cary Elwes and
Morgan Freeman, the
spectacular heroism of the soldiers in the regiment is vividly
captured by director Edward
Zwick, from a screenplay by Kevin Jarre, and three decades after its
release, Glory remains one of the most intelligent and
gripping movies ever made about the American Civil War.
Hello, Dolly! (1969) – 50th
Anniversary from Twentieth Century Fox
Sunday,
August 11 – 1:00 and 4:00 p.m.
local time
Wednesday, August
14 – 12:00 and 7:00 p.m. local
time
After 50 years, it's so nice to have Hello, Dolly! back
where she belongs: on the big screen, in this spare-no-expense
adaptation of the Broadway sensation. Barbra Streisand stars
as matchmaker Dolly Levi as she
attempts to find a wife for "half-a-millionaire" Horace
Vandergelder (Walter
Matthau). Director Gene
Kelly transforms Hello, Dolly! from a
Broadway comedy to a lavish motion picture that also stars
Michael Crawford as
Cornelius Hackl and features an
appearance by music icon Louis
Armstrong. Hello, Dolly! has found recent fame as
the favorite movie of Wall-E in the Disney-Pixar film; now fans of
all ages can enjoy it in all of its big-screen splendor.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) from Sony
Pictures Entertainment
Sunday,
September 1 – 1:00 and 6:00
p.m. local time
Wednesday,
September 4 – 1:00 and 6:00
p.m. local time
At once sophisticated and adventurous, literary and epic, and
always strikingly visual, Lawrence of Arabia is a majestic
accomplishment. It's truly a film made to be seen on the big
screen, with breathtaking cinematography by Freddie Young, set to a lush and inspiring
musical score by Maurice
Jarre. Peter
O'Toole stars as T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who
unites the Arabic Empire to fight against the Turks. Alec
Guinness, Anthony Quinn
and Omar Sharif co-star – and
yet it's the vast, unforgiving expanse of the desert that steals
the show, with its impossible landscapes and mysterious beauty.
Lawrence of Arabia won seven Academy Awards®,
including Best Picture and Best Director with screenplay by
Robert Bolt and
Michael Wilson, produced by
Sam Spiegel and directed by
David Lean.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – 25th
Anniversary from Warner Bros.
Sunday,
September 22 – 4:00 and 7:00
pm. local time
Tuesday,
September 24 – 7:00 p.m. local
time
Wednesday, September
25 – 7:00 p.m. local
time
Based on a short story by Stephen
King, The Shawshank Redemption was well-received
when it was released in 1994, but perhaps no one could have
anticipated that the movie would become so beloved that it remains
at the top of IMDB's user-generated list of most popular movies
ever made. Tim Robbins stars
as Andy Dufresne, a banker sentenced
to two consecutive life sentences for the murder of his wife, and
Morgan Freeman plays prisoner
Ellis "Red" Redding in the seven-time Oscar®-nominated film written
and directed by Frank
Darabont. Added in 2015 to the Library of Congress
National Film Registry, it's a movie with a rare power to move and
inspire audiences.
Alien (1979) – 40th Anniversary from
Twentieth Century Fox
Sunday,
October 13 – 1:00 and 4:00
p.m. local time
Tuesday,
October 15 – 7:00 p.m. local
time
Wednesday, October 16
– 7:00 p.m. local time
In space, no one can hear you scream, but in the summer of 1979,
everyone could hear audiences screaming as they experienced the
terror of director Ridley
Scott's science-fiction/horror masterpiece. Working from
a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon
and a story by Dan O'Bannon
and Ronald Shusett,
Alien is a film dripping in dread. Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian
Holm and Yaphet
Kotto are the crew members of the Nostromo, which
investigates a mysterious signal coming from an unknown planet.
When they unwittingly take an alien creature aboard the ship, they
have no idea just how terrifying – and deadly – the ordeal will
be.
The Godfather Part II (1974) – 45th
Anniversary from Paramount Pictures
Sunday,
November 10 – 3:00 and 7:00
p.m. local time
Tuesday,
November 12 – 7:00 p.m. local
time
Wednesday, November 13
– 7:00 p.m. local time
Director Francis Ford
Coppola's brilliant follow up to The Godfather
continues the saga of two generations of successive power within
the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the
roots and rise of a young Don Vito,
played with uncanny ability by Robert De
Niro, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. A movie of
staggering magnitude and vision, The Godfather Part II
received six Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and is widely
considered the best sequel ever made.
When Harry Met Sally… (1989) – 30th
Anniversary from Warner Bros.
Sunday,
December 1 – 4:00 and 7:00
p.m. local time
Tuesday December 3 – 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. local time
There are rom-coms… and then there's When Harry Met
Sally…. Though it was hardly the first film that
brought together romantic opposites and let the sparks fly,
director Rob Reiner's
charming comedy is something special. That's in part because of the
brilliant screenplay by Nora
Ephron – but it's also because of the winning chemistry
between lead performers Meg
Ryan and Billy
Crystal, who become best friends when they drive from
New York to Chicago and Harry claims that women and men
can never be "just friends." Over the years, Harry and Sally keep
running into each other and claiming they are just friends… until a
climactic New Year's Eve party, which brings both the film and the
2019 TCM Big Screen Classics series to a memorable close.
For artwork/photos related to "TCM Big Screen
Classics," visit the Fathom Events press site.
About Fathom Events
Fathom Events is the leading event
cinema distributor with theater locations in all top 100 DMAs®
(Designated Market Areas) and ranks as one of the largest overall
theater content distributors. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc.
(NYSE: AMC); Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK); and Regal, a
subsidiary of the Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L), Fathom Events
offers a variety of unique entertainment events in movie theaters
such as live performances of the Metropolitan Opera, top Broadway
stage productions, major sporting events, epic concerts, the
yearlong TCM Big Screen Classics series, inspirational events and
popular anime franchises. Fathom Events takes audiences behind the
scenes for unique extras including audience Q&As, backstage
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VIP experience. Fathom Events' live Digital Broadcast Network
("DBN") is the largest cinema broadcast network in North America, bringing live and pre-recorded
events to 975 locations and 1,578 screens in 181 DMAs. The company
also provides corporations a compelling national footprint for
hosting employee meetings, customer rewards events and new product
launches. For more information, visit
www.FathomEvents.com.
About Turner Classic Movies (TCM)
Turner Classic
Movies (TCM) is a two-time Peabody Award-winning network that
presents great films, uncut and commercial-free, from the largest
film libraries in the world highlighting the entire spectrum of
film history. TCM features the insights from Primetime host
Ben Mankiewicz along with hosts
Alicia Malone and Dave Karger, plus interviews with a wide range
of special guests and serves as the ultimate movie lover
destination. Currently in its 24th year as a leading authority in
classic film, TCM offers critically acclaimed series like The
Essentials, along with annual programming events like 31 Days of
Oscar® in February and Summer Under the Stars in August. TCM also
directly connects with movie fans through events as the annual TCM
Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, the TCM Big Screen Classics series
in partnership with Fathom Events, as well as through the TCM
Classic Film Tour in New York City
and Los Angeles. In addition, TCM
produces a wide range of media about classic film, including books
and DVDs, and hosts a wealth of material online at tcm.com and
through the Watch TCM mobile app.
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