The Alamo Drafthouse theatre chain has announced big plans for Godzilla this November for his 57th birthday. You can read all about it below, or see the original article here.
Courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse:
Next month marks Godzilla’s 67th birthday, and we’re teaming up with our pals at Toho International, Inc. and Janus Films to celebrate a character – no, a force of nature! – whose influence on worldwide pop culture has spanned a solid 2/3 of a century.
On Wednesday, November 3rd – Godzilla’s actual birthday – Alamo Drafthouse locations across the country will exclusively host a coast-to-coast Godzilla Day world premiere of the highly anticipated 4K remastering of GOJIRA, the 1954 original from Japan that ignited the phenomenon. That’s right, Alamo Drafthouse audiences will be the first theatrical audiences in the world to see this brand new 4K version of GOJIRA.
That’s not all – at select Alamo Drafthouse locations, we’re keeping the festivities going through the first half of November with Happy Birthday, Godzilla, a limited series spanning multiple eras of the King of the Monsters.
Starting November 5th, we're marking fifty years since the release of one of the G-man's strangest adventures ever – GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH. Whether you know him as Hedorah, or The Smog Monster, or even good ol' Smoggy, this 1971 anti-pollution epic is required viewing for Godzilla head.
It won't all be goofy fun. We're also fast-forwarding to Toho's most recent Godzilla outing, the critically-lauded 2016 film SHIN GODZILLA.
Then, on November 14th, select Alamo Drafthouse locations will present the Heisei Godzilla Double Feature – featuring two rarities of the Heisei era as never before seen in American cinemas.
• 1984’s THE RETURN OF GODZILLA, the kickoff to the Heisei era and a direct sequel to GOJIRA. Like the original, RETURN was heavily re-edited and released in the United States as GODZILLA 1985 (also starring Raymond Burr).
• The followup to RETURN OF GODZILLA, 1989’s GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE, which only received a direct-to-video release in the United States and – so far as we can tell – has never been officially released in American theaters.*
*Note: GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE has been screened theatrically at least
twice in the USA, at both the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, IL, and
the Aratani Theater in Los Angeles, CA.
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