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Author Topic: Indiana Jones prints are locked (here we go AGAIN) Ben Goodman Film Handler Posts: 32 From: Danbury, CT Registered: Apr 2008 posted 05-16-2008 09:34 PM                     Yeah, uh, the movie comes out on Thursday, so I'm hoping that we don't get the lock code on Thursday morning... that would make it pretty tough to even build the movie in time for the first show, let alone show midnights.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-16-2008 10:08 PM                     Yea, how I got this info is that our theatres are not doing the Wed night mids - thus I thinks Paramount made the change in the lock release schedule to Thurs morning for this very reason. I'm sure that you theatres that are doing the mid showing will get your codes on Wednesday as normal.  |  IP: Logged Robert LaValley Expert Film Handler Posts: 104 From: Tampa, FL Registered: May 2007 posted 05-16-2008 10:52 PM                     Who would you call EFS or paramount for verification for the lock information for the prints? We are booked for 5 prints and all scheduled for 12:01am shows thursday morning so I need to make sure when exactly I would get the codes to get into the prints.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-16-2008 11:31 PM                     DFS: 800-734-3969 --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-18-2008 01:24 AM                     I discovered the combination code for IRON MAN imdb.com on the forum for IRON MAN. There is a forum setup right now for Indy. Hope this helps...  |  IP: Logged Frank Bruno Film Handler Posts: 50 From: houston, tx Registered: Aug 2003 posted 05-18-2008 03:15 AM                     Twice in a month? We kid about it but I really think somebody ought to come up a collective way of showing our asses. Can they really try to fine a few hundred people for cut locks? How about sending IronMan prints back locked with Indy locks & vice versa?  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 05-18-2008 01:06 PM                     They say they want the locks back intact, does the same apply to the boxes? (I am not familiar with the US shipping boxes so don't know if there is an easy way in. If the locks can have their codes changed make sure you choose a secure (random) combination when sending them back.  |  IP: Logged Robert LaValley Expert Film Handler Posts: 104 From: Tampa, FL Registered: May 2007 posted 05-18-2008 01:06 PM                     or just locking the locks in the cans with master locks.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-18-2008 01:53 PM                     Or you could etch the combo on the original lock...  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-18-2008 03:49 PM                     I've never paid enough attention to the locks themselves, but if they are the same locks used at common Home Depots and such, there isn't anything preventing you from purchasing a lock (to get the combination-setting key) then boltcut the lock off and once you get the code, use that code to change the combination to something different, then send the print back with a note "the code didn't work so we had to cut the locks off...here are the remains.)  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-18-2008 09:54 PM                        quote: Frank Bruno Can they really try to fine a few hundred people for cut locks? Why not? They make thousands of prints and managed to keep track of all of them --- it would be a simple matter to have some crew of flunkies send out a few hundred bills for locks.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-18-2008 11:16 PM                        To expand upon what Brad was saying... if they are standard-issue Home Depot locks, just buy some and then cut the ones off the can. When the combination is later released, program that code into the new locks and then just put them back on the can. Nobody would ever know! Maybe change the combination on them so they have to cut them off at the depot.  |  IP: Logged Ben LaCrosse Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Alpharetta, GA, USA Registered: Feb 2008 posted 05-19-2008 04:51 AM                     Anyone heard anything about delivery times? I mean if Paramount truly wants control, then wouldn't they be contradicting themselves if they didn't mandate a delivery time to the couriers to have all prints delivered before noon WED. What's the point of the locks if ETS delivers after noon? That is what bugs me about all this. I can just see our guy showing up at 7 p.m. with the excuse of traffic and our order in line of stops. Historically speaking, what happens in situations such as this? Thurs release with a 12:01 am showing, Deluxe/ETS and anal Paramount execs. Hey, that rhymes.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-19-2008 05:31 AM                     It does?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-19-2008 10:34 AM                     He's referring to ETS and execs. Though that's a "slant rhyme" rather than a true rhyme.  |  IP: Logged

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