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The Deer Hunter debuted at one theater in New York and one in Los Angeles for a week on December 8, 1978.
This release-date sentence is off: Los Angeles opened on December 8, 1978, but New York opened a week later, on December 15, 1978.
Full reasoning
Authoritative release records do not show simultaneous openings in New York and Los Angeles on December 8, 1978. The AFI Catalog lists Los Angeles opening: 8 Dec 1978 at Mann's National Theatre; New York opening: 15 Dec 1978 at the Coronet Theatre. A contemporary issue of The Ukrainian Weekly also described the New York run as scheduled to open at the Coronet Theatre on December 15. So the article's sentence incorrectly states that the New York and Los Angeles one-theater openings both began on December 8.
2 sources
- AFI Catalog: The Deer Hunter (1978)
Premiere Information: Los Angeles opening: 8 Dec 1978 at Mann's National Theatre; New York opening: 15 Dec 1978 at the Coronet Theatre.
- The Ukrainian Weekly, Dec. 10, 1978
...scheduled to open at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on December 15 for a one-week exclusive reserved performance...