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AKA: John Carpenter's Escape From New York
Year: 1981
Runtime: 99 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix: Dolby
Certification: Australia:M / Canada:14A / Finland:K-16 / Norway:15 / Norway:16 (original rating) / Sweden:15 / UK:15 / USA:R / West Germany:16 (w) / Singapore:PG / UK:AA

Business Data:
Budget: $6,000,000
Opening Weekend: $4,162,000 (USA) (12 July 1981) (579 Screens)
Gross : SEK 8,534,336 (Sweden) $25,244,700 (USA)
Admissions: 368,416 (Sweden)
Copyright Holder: Avco-Embassy Pictures Corp. 1981

Release Dates:
France: 24 June 1981
USA: 10 July 1981
Sweden: 27 July 1981
West Germany: 3 September 1981
Finland: 26 November 1981
Norway: 26 December 1981

Locations:
Locations: Indian Dunes, California, USA; New York City, New York, USA; Sepulveda Basin, Los Angeles, California, USA; St Louis, Missouri, USA; Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Assistant Location Manager: Frank Capra III

Technical Specifications:
Film negative format (mm/video inches): 35 mm
Cinematographic process: Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed film format: 35 mm
Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1

Awards and Nominations:
1982, Production Design: Joe Alves (Apex Scroll)
1982, Achievment In Sound Effects (Apex Scroll) (Fennecus Award)
1982, Achievment In Stunt Co-ordination (Fennecus Award)
1982, Best Costums: Stephen Loomis (Nominated)
1982, Best Director: John Carpenter (Nominated)
1982, Best Make-Up: Ken Chase (Nominated)
1982, Best Science Fiction Film (Nominated)

Summary:
By 1997, the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison for the worst criminals in the USA. When the President's aircraft crashes on the island and he's taken hostage by the self-styled Duke of New York, the authorities send war hero turned criminal Snake Plissken in to get him out.

Poster Tags:
1997. New York city is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane.

Alternate Titles:
1997 rescate en Neuva York - Italian title
1997: fuga de New York - Italian title
Die Klapperschlange - German title
New York 1997 - Belgian, Yogoslavian, French title
Ucieczka Z Nowego Jorku - Polish title
Flykten Från New York - Swedish title
Flygten Fra New York - Norweigian title
1997 Escape De Nueva York - Mexican title

Timeline:
1987 February
13: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)

1994 July
6: USA - laserdisc distributor (Image (ID 2330 LI); Nelson (16025)

1996 September
6: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)
30: UK - video release (BMG Video (74321422563 - widescreen)

November
22: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)

1998 March
10: UK - video deleted (BMG Video (74321442803 - rental)

May
Day Unknown: UK - laserdisc release (Pioneer (PLFEB 37181)

1999 June
28: UK - DVD release (BMG Video (74321671589)

2000 May
5: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)
31: UK - video deleted (BMG Video (74321422563 - widescreen)

June
5: UK - video release (4 Front Video (0543603)

2006 January
24: USA - UMD Release (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

July
5: UK - DVD deleted (BMG Video (74321671589)

November
21: USA - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (1001186)

2003 December
16: USA - DVD re-release (MGM Home Entertainment (B0000CNY27)

2005 October
17: UK - DVD release (Momentum Pictures Home Ent (B0002JK73Y)

References:
New York Times (Oct 4, 1980)
Daily Variety (Oct 15, 1980)
Hollywood Reporter (Oct 23, 1980)
Hollywood Reporter: (Oct 24, 1980)
Starlog Magazine (no. 4 Dec, 1980)
Fangoria Magazine (no. 8, 1980)
Cinefantastique  (no. 41, 1981)
Starlog Magazine (no. 45 Apr, 1981)
Starlog Magazine (no. 46 May, 1981)
Starlog Magazine (no. 49 August, 1981)
Cine-Revue (vol. 61 no. 25 18 Jun, 1981)
Fantastic Films (no.11, 1981)
Cinema Programm (no. 23, 1981)
Starburst (2 issues, 1981)
Future Life (1981)
Filme no.11 (Sep, 1981 - October, 1981)
Filmmakers Monthly (vol. 14 no. 11 Sep, 1981)
L'Ecran Fantastique (no.17, 1981)
Creative Screenwriting (vol. 2 no. 4 Winter, 1995)
Starlog Yearbook (vol.14, 1996)
Cinefantastique (vol. 28 no. 2 Sep, 1996)
Fangoria no.156 (Sep, 1996)
Empire no.134 (Aug, 2000)

   : Escape From L.A.

AKA: John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.
Year: 1996
Runtime: 101 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (DeLuxe)
Sound Mix: Dolby
Certification: Australia:M / Canada:14A / Finland:K-16 (video premiere) / Germany:16 (w) / Netherlands:12 / Norway:15 / Portugal:M/12 / Spain:18 / UK:15 / USA:R / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Singapore:PG

Business Data:
Budget: $50,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $8,912,557 (USA) (11 August 1996) (2,312 Screens)

Gross
$25,407,250 (USA) (10 November 1996)
$25,329,895 (USA) (3 November 1996)
$25,164,531 (USA) (27 October 1996)
$24,940,101 (USA) (6 October 1996)
$24,901,770 (USA) (29 September 1996)
$24,828,263 (USA) (22 September 1996)
$24,723,832 (USA) (15 September 1996)
$24,321,918 (USA) (8 September 1996)
$23,695,941 (USA) (1 September 1996)
$21,281,286 (USA) (25 August 1996)
$17,106,662 (USA) (18 August 1996)
$8,912,557 (USA) (11 August 1996)
£842,883 (UK) (20 October 1996)
£754,384 (UK) (13 October 1996)
$42,277,365 (Worldwide) ( 1997)
$16,800,000 (Non-USA)
AUD 1,107,658 (Australia) (31 October 1996)
HKD 1,296,735 (Hong Kong) ( 1996)
ITL 2,441,603,000 (Italy) ( 1996)
¥131,401,000 (Japan) (8 December 1996)
¥9,040,640 (Japan) (1 December 1996)

Admissions
267,987 (France) (3 December 1996)
145,135 (Germany) (3 November 1996)
69,972 (Portugal) (21 November 1996)
55,734 (Portugal) (14 November 1996)
36,304 (Portugal) (7 November 1996)

Release Dates:
USA 9 August 1996
UK 20 September 1996
Australia 10 October 1996
Hong Kong 10 October 1996
Spain 16 October 1996
Argentina 17 October 1996
South Africa 25 October 1996
Germany 31 October 1996
Portugal 1 November 1996
Switzerland 8 November 1996
Belgium 13 November 1996
France 13 November 1996
Japan 23 November 1996
Poland 29 November 1996
Italy 20 December 1996
Hungary 2 January 1997
Sweden 18 October 1999 (TV premiere)
Italy November 1999 (Turin Film Festival)

Locations:
Locations: Los Angeles Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles, California, USA; Miami, Florida, USA; New Braunfels, Texas, USA
Location Manager: Gregory Alpert

Technical Specifications:
Film negative format (mm/video inches): 35 mm
Cinematographic process: Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed film format: 35 mm
Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1

Awards and Nominations:
1997, Production Design - Fantasy: Lawrence G. Paull (Fennecus Award)
1997, Best Costumes:  Robin Michel Bush (Saturn Award) (Nominated)
1997, Best Science Fiction Film (Saturn Award) (Nominated)

Summary:
In the year 2000, a massive earthquake devastates southern California and Los Angeles is torn from the mainland and isolated as an island. A right-wing President uses the island of L.A. as a dumping ground for those who don't meet up to the high moral standards he has imposed on the country. Thirteen years later, terrorist Cuervo Jones brainwashes the President's daughter, Utopia, and has her steal a secret super-weapon. With Jones and Utopia hiding out in L.A., Snake Plissken is again forced back into action to get get the weapon back.

Poster Tags:
Snake is Back.
Plan Your Escape.

Alternate Titles:
John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
Escape From Los Angeles
Flucht aus L.A. - German title

Timeline:
1997 January
21: USA - laserdisc release (Paramount (LV 33249-WS)

August 11: USA - laserdisc release (Pioneer (PLFEB 36121)

1998 December
15: USA - DVD release (Paramount (332497)

1999 June
1: USA - Video release (Paramount)

2006 Januari
7: USA - DVD Re-release (Paramount)

2001 June
4: UK - DVD release (Paramount Home Entertainment)

2002 September
2: UK - Video release (Paramount Studio)

References:
LA Times (Feb 4, 1996)
Sci-Fi Universe (Feb, 1996)
Cinefantastique (Apr, 1996)
Fangoria (No 153, Jun 1996)
Cinefantastique (Jul, 1996)
Cinefastique (Volume 27 Issue 11/12, 1996)
The Calgary Sunday Sun (Jul 28, 1996)
DGA Magazine (Jul and Aug, 1996)
Fangoria Magazine (No. 155 Aug, 1996)
Starlog Magazine (Aug, 1996)
Femme Fetales Magazine (no. 01 Aug, 1996)
USA Today (August 12, 1996)
Entertainment Weekly (Aug 16, 1996)
Fangoria Magazine (no. 156 Sep, 1996)
Infinity (no. 2 Sep, 1996)
New Musical Express (Sept, 1996)
Fangoria Magazine (no. 157 Oct, 1996)
Empire no.88 (Oct, 1996)
Smoke Magazine (Fall, 1996)
Starlog Yearbook (vol.14, 1996)
Starlog Magazine (Nov, 1996)
Starburst (no. 217, 1996)
Videoscope (no. 21, 1996)
USA Today (1996)
SFX magazine (1996)