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Author Topic: Did Carmike keep their projectors? Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-15-2010 09:56 PM                     I wouldn't buy anything that Carmike used to have since many of their theaters are former Cinema World locations. Cinema World nor Carmike were very well known for their stellar maintenance programs.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-16-2010 08:43 PM                        Joshua: Understatement of the decade. Louis  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 03-16-2010 11:48 PM                     Well, Carmike's booths all had a posters telling the "projectionists" that the Framing knob has a stop point, and that forcing the knob will cause considerable damage. Really says a lot about the people they hire...  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 03-17-2010 12:13 AM                     quote: Joshua Waaland many of their theaters are former Cinema World locations. I has a confused. I worked for a small, new company called Cinema World in Florida many years ago. Surely this must not be the same Cinema Word you speak of. But how can you have two companies with the same name? (Actually, I do believe it was Cinemaworld, but I still don't see how that could be.)  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-17-2010 12:19 AM                        Trust me. . . the one based in Pittsburgh was known around the world. Louis  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-17-2010 08:10 AM                        quote: Jake Spell Really says a lot about the people they hire... Really says a lot about how they (don't) train them.  |  IP: Logged Jake Spell Master Film Handler Posts: 294 From: Johns Island SC Registered: May 2009 posted 03-17-2010 12:35 PM                     I can agree about that from my former employment, my bosses cared and trained me well, but it was obvious that the corporate big wigs couldn't care less  |  IP: Logged Jermery Adkisson Film Handler Posts: 5 From: batesville, AR, united states Registered: Jul 2009 posted 03-18-2010 11:05 AM                     I used to be a projection manager at a carmike and it is my understanding that carmike may have leased the christies they now have in use. So none of the equipment I had was sold or moved out but if carmike drops the lease, good luck getting the 35's running again.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 03-18-2010 11:17 AM                        Likely also is that it's part of many of their leases to leave the theatre equipped with projection equipment. Lease probabably doesn't specify "operating" projection equipment or any that "is capable of presenting a quality image". I'm sure a lot of landlords have stuff like that built in after years of departing competitors slashing screens and seats, cracking lenses, sledgehammering toilets or otherwise just stealing the fixtures.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-18-2010 02:22 PM                        quote: Ken Lackner I has a confused. I worked for a small, new company called Cinema World in Florida many years ago. Surely this must not be the same Cinema Word you speak of. But how can you have two companies with the same name? There are a couple of cinema world theaters in western massachusetts that I beleive are independant unto themselves.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Smith Expert Film Handler Posts: 201 From: Youngstown, OH Registered: Jan 2010 posted 03-19-2010 08:55 AM                     Read more closely. . . That's a FORMER Carmike theatre that is putting 35mm back in. IATSE Local #160 had to send help to the Pbgh. area to do the 35mm re-install Carmike is committed to digital, and I hope that their customers leave in droves so they can appreciate the quality that 35mm projection is capable of. Then again, from what I hear, Carmike had atrocious presentation on film. I'm going to enjoy watching all of these 2K installations loose their shirts, tear their hair out, wear sack cloth and qashes when their equipment is obsoleted by 4K equipment in the not-so-distant future.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-19-2010 10:18 AM                        The exhibitors who are not concerned about presentation quality when they are running film, putting in digital doesn't change that shit mindset. Presentation will suck just the same with digital....maybe not at first since all the equipment will be brand new, but give it a few years, if even that long, not to mention as Jonathan says, the built-in 2K obsolensence factor. What kills me is, how is it that with all 4K already available, anyone is still buying 2K projectors? I mean, it's not like 4K is some secret under developement that no one sees coming round the bend. There is no question that the quality is going to quadruple with 4K and that would be one helluva selling point. All I know is, if I bought a 4K unit, I would be using that fact to beat up all my competitors who only had 2K. And believe me, it matters not if in reality I am getting the same film that has a 2K intermediate as he is, all the public needs to be told is that I've got 4K to my competition's only got 2K; it's simple, it's numbers and they will understand it, even if they don't have a clue what it means. That kind of hype is gold and it will sell tickets. My slogan? Easy: "2K is to 35mm as 4K is to 70mm!" Or, "2K is to AM as 4K is to FM!" And you could go on and on.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-19-2010 11:11 AM                    2k 4k the average Joe public is not going to know the difference or even care. I wouldn't even invest any money in advertising it. When we first got our digital projector we used to put something in our advertising about it for 2D presentations. We would get phone calls with people asking what's the difference. Ticket sales really didn't increase over the 35mm. 3-D is a different matter but 2-D really didn't show any gain so we just quit making any reference to digital for 2-D.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-19-2010 01:51 PM                     The biggest problem with 4K projection systems and being able to do any advertising touting the capability is lack of native 4K movie content. 2K digital intermediate is still the overwhelming de-facto standard for Hollywood studio post production. 4K doesn't mean squat if you're feeding it a movie whose DI, CGI and compositing was all rendered in mere 2K. It's like tits on a bull, pointless. This is also why I really don't care much about 35mm or HDTV video camera blow-ups on IMAX. I'll care if the footage is native 15/65. I won't if its some pretentious bullshit imagery trying to sell itself as something it is not -kind of like what IMAX Digital does.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-19-2010 06:13 PM                        quote: Bobby Henderson lack of native 4K movie content I got a trailer for the new Shrek here that says "4K" in the leaders. Does that mean it was produced for 4K digital or is it unrelated? If they are producing trailers that way, it shouldn't be long until most movies are 4K too, I'd think.  |  IP: Logged

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