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Kevin Crawford
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 207
From: Sacramento, CA, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 09-15-2001 12:24 AM

I saw an ad for Big Trouble today on TV. Suppose to be released on the 21st according to the commercial. It even included the bomb in the suitcase going through the xray machine.

I also was instructed to remove the 3 trailers everyone else has pulled.

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Steve Scott
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 09-15-2001 12:42 AM

I saw the official email from sony distributing about the spiderman trailer. It said to remove & store the trailers until instructed by them to return the trailers.

We had "Trouble" along with American Outlaws & Original Sin on our long running print of Legally Blonde. All had to be removed, leaving only a Harry Potter teaser and the Coke "nascar" spot left. I'm hoping they don't call for Zoolander to be pulled or I'm going to have nothing left but Coke & Moviefone on some prints! (Hey, Zoolander has terrorists!

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
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From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-15-2001 02:15 AM

you know, steve, it is possible add a trailer when you start having too few trailers on a print

i did that with jurassic park

we had time machine, big trouble, collateral damage, and spider man on screen.

i forget what i replaced the last three with, but they were replaced.

that is, of course, if you have trailers to replace them with.
I know that is a problem for some theatres.

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Charles Everett
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From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 09-15-2001 11:06 AM

More delays: New Jersey arthouses didn't get to open Innocence yesterday. Montgomery Cinema in Rocky Hill (near Princeton) said on its phone recording that the print couldn't get shipped from Canada. The theater plans to open Innocence on Monday (9/17), conditions permitting.

The AMC Hamilton (outside Trenton NJ) still had its one-sheet and standup for The Last Castle as of last night.

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Mike Spaeth
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From: Marietta, GA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 09-15-2001 02:02 PM

Ziegler -

Mankato is STILL playing Pearl this weekend (the third week of the re-issue). I'll have to give them a call on Monday and see whether business spiked over the weekend - my money's on Yes.

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Steve Scott
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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 09-15-2001 03:38 PM

James: I'm aware that I can add more trailers, it's just that when we're understaffed here, I end up doing all of the repairs & operations in the booth. When I'm not busy I change them, but with eleven (yes, eleven, I counted them) changes to make, time gets tight.

I guess that I should have said I had to switch those trailers with others...

I used K-PAX, Corky Romano, Shallow Hal, Harry Potter, & Spy Game as replacements.

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Ky Boyd
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From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 09-15-2001 09:52 PM

Well we got our print of All Over the Guy for Friday from another Bay Area theatre but we had to cancel our special screening on thursday as the print we were originally slated to get was coming via Airborne. Our print of Down From the Mountain is another story. It shipped via FedEx on Monday but got stuck somewhere and won't be delivered until Monday. I must say that the local newspaper was very accomodating and allowed us to change our ads at the last minute to call theatre for showtimes rather than running the DFTM times. People have been very understanding of the problems with print arrival except for one person who got all huffy, accused us of false advertising and stormed off.

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
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From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-16-2001 03:10 AM

Yeah, Steve, I know all about being
understaffed.
My booth is a bit understafferd at the moment as well.
With school being in, its hard to find people who are available to open and/or close and you get stuck with the same paople having to do it all the time.
In the meentime, you have to train people, which means that many of your working days are spent running shows so you can get people trained which means you have to put some non-emergency maintanence issues aside for a while so your presentations suffer a bit.
Also, I am the only one biulding up right now, as the only other person who knows how to do it is one of my thursday closers and I have been unable to train others lately.
Its an endless cycle.

I also had to spend wednesday pulling all the trailers for big trouble, collateral damage, and spider man off as well as removing the fox 24:00 ad off of almost all of the screens.
Luckily for me, i only had to add trailers onto 4 prints as a result.

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Charles Everett
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From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 09-16-2001 10:50 AM

James R: Thanks for the heads-up on 24:00. The AMC Hamilton had the advert for 24:00 in front of The Deep End on Friday night.

Reading Cinemas in Manville NJ still had its Spiderman one-sheet and Big Trouble banner up last night. The manager told me he had not received word from Sony and BV to take them down. And this theater was waving the flag with "God Bless America"!

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 09-16-2001 12:20 PM

we were instructed here to remove...collateral damage, big trouble,spiderman and the last castle trailers...apparently the last castle trailers feature the upside down flag in it.....have not heard any rumors or official word about Zoolander or Serendipity being moved from there release dates.

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Scott Oakley
Film Handler

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From: Medford, MA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 09-18-2001 12:02 AM

Apparently, Zoolander is scheduled to open as planned but Paramount has asked a visual effects company to remove the World Trade Center towers from some background scenes.

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 09-18-2001 11:31 AM

Zoolander: Changes confirmed per the Upcoming Movies website.

Innocence: Montgomery Cinema in Rocky Hill NJ got its print in time for the last show Saturday night and all shows Sunday.

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Charles Everett
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From: New Jersey
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posted 10-01-2001 07:12 PM

Another 9/11-related change:

Windtalkers -- a WWII movie starring Nicolas Cage -- moved back from 11/9 to June 2002.

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Jason Black
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From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-01-2001 11:26 PM

Charles,
Where did you hear about the change of Windtalkers?

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

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From: Lexington, KY, USA
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posted 10-01-2001 11:39 PM

go to www.cinecon.com it has some info on a lot of things including the windtalker move....seems it will be going agains Scooby Doo on June 14TH

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