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Author Topic: IMPORTANT - New policy for requesting print info Josh Kirkhart Expert Film Handler Posts: 165 From: Austin/Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 04-03-2002 04:42 PM                     Nine times out of ten all info is posted on a film the thursday before release. Therefore is it really necessary to request the info. I believe if you are are having a presentation after the films release date and can't find the info, then a request is in order. Just out of curiosity can wait until thursday night or friday morning. it just seems to me seeing that -request- after a title is unnecessary. Why not post the title without the word request and in your post request the info if so needed. Just offering my opinion and punching this to the top.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-04-2002 04:12 AM                     Regarding quoting the IMDB, I must agree please do not do this. Also, please do NOT go by paperwork received at your theater, whether it be a booking sheet, IME Scoreboards, or even if someone you know attended a trade screening. Many theaters do not have proper aspect ratios and many people easily confuse scope and flat in such auditoriums. As a modification to the rules, everyone please adhere to this: Do not post information regarding a given film unless you have PERSONALLY handled a print. Posting second hand information is not permitted in any form. I have added this to the top of the page.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-10-2002 04:10 PM                     Latest addition, please do not request print info for a print any earlier than the day of it's release. The policy has been modified that info should only be posted to this forum if the member has actually handled a print themselves. Because of this, not all prints have early screenings ran by Film-Tech members, and as such the earliest time for some prints for members to post such data would be the night before it's release anyway. Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-24-2002 09:45 PM                     Bumping this to the top and adding this latest rule to the header of each page.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-13-2002 10:09 PM                     Just bumping this back to the first page. ------------------ ~Manny. Now...where was I ? Leonard Shelby, MEMENTO.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-28-2002 05:39 PM                     *bump*  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-28-2002 07:23 PM                     Grind  |  IP: Logged Steven Gorsky Expert Film Handler Posts: 146 From: Frederick, MD, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-02-2002 05:32 AM                        bump to the top RE: Stuart Little 2 is not released until July 19  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-24-2002 08:05 PM                     bumpedy-bump-bump for  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 07-25-2002 12:21 PM                     Why can't we request info before the opening date? Wanting to know such info is usually helpful for making schedules, but by the time the film is realeased and your theater has the print, the schedule will already be made, and you'll already have the info you need anyway.  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-25-2002 01:33 PM                     Thats what your bookers and buyers are for. We always have the info we need a week ahead of time which is plenty of time to make the schedule. The information may be wrong every once in a while, but when it is, its usually not wrong by much.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-25-2002 06:09 PM                     There's also this need-to-know issue. The way things were going, nary a movie opened where someone didn't bother to post a request before it openned (or so it seemed). If you permit them, it's just needless white noise. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged

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