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Author Topic: Star Wars Episode 2: Midnight shows or not? Lance C. McFetridge Expert Film Handler Posts: 135 From: Penn Yan, New York Registered: Jul 99 posted 05-08-2002 02:42 PM                     We are doing a midnight, but only one this time around. episode 1 faded quickly for the midnight shows. lance  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-09-2002 12:46 AM                        Everyone's running midnight shows (actually 12:01 am). My freaking problem is that my competition may run 24 hour shows!!!!!!!! Damn the Century Orleans!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh!!  |  IP: Logged Kyle Caudill Film Handler Posts: 92 From: Wichita Falls, TX Registered: May 2002 posted 05-09-2002 09:49 AM                     24 Hours????Who the????What the????Why the????Who could you get to work at 4am. Most of my staff is High Schoolers and I have been told majority of theatre staffs are. State laws in KY would prevent them from working man of the hours needed to fullfill a 24 hour show schedule and I know most states have similiar laws, plus dealing with the parents.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-09-2002 10:02 AM                     I think the reduced midnight show may have to do with the crazy Thursday opening while school's still in session. Of course for EP 1 it was a Wed. during school, but at our theatre we sold out the midnight shows, then didn't sell out any more after that, even during the weekend. ------------------ "Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - Homer Simpson  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-09-2002 10:07 AM                        The World Premiere of Star Wars Episode 2 will be at Robert Dinero's TriBeca Film Center on Sunday Night, here in New York. They are running a film festival this week Wednesday through Sunday. Proceeds from the festival will go to help redevelopement of the WTC area which is only a few blocks from the film center.  |  IP: Logged Carl King Expert Film Handler Posts: 199 From: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-09-2002 01:29 PM                     12:01 a.m. here too. double mats the next day. won't I get lots of sleep, eh? Dennis, nice Strat  |  IP: Logged Jeff Leyland Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Lake Charles, LA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-09-2002 02:21 PM                     I believe 24 hour show schedules are not new to Vegas on big event pictures. If I remember right it began with UA's theatre on the strip when it opened.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-10-2002 09:01 AM                        Looks as if I have been selected (unwillingly so) to have a 12:05am show on Thursday am. Why is totally beyond me. I haven't had the phone calls like we had for EP1, schoool is in the following day, it isn't a holiday, the film isn't generating huge buzz as the first one did, and the booking terms just plain suck. When are the exhibitors going to pull their balls out of their pockets and refuse these ridiculous terms? Lucas need us just lie we need him. It's work together to make us ALL money. I have simply lost all respect for him anymore. Hell, I think he's 100 times worse than Bill Gates. At least my W2K works well... Unlike EP1... ------------------ The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-10-2002 11:18 AM                        In the past, Lucas has done plenty to advance the state of the art of film exhibition. But he's hung up on this digital projection thing and must be in some kind of denial over the fact that the technology isn't ready yet. He's blinded by his desire to play with his high-tech video toys and not willing to wait for technology to advance to a point where digital projection is viable.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-10-2002 11:44 AM                        AMC (fmr. GCC) will be doing midnight shows, at least in the Boston area. (No idea if I'll be "lucky" enough to run it then...)  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 05-10-2002 05:23 PM                     Scott: AMC is doing midnight shows for most (but not all) of its venues that are getting Episode 2. As I emphasized when I started this thread, quite a few theaters are not doing midnight shows on Episode 2.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-12-2002 06:05 PM                        Cinemark 17 here has scheduled 3 midnight shows. The first show is sold out. Unintentional humor on their part: The box offices have a printed page in the window with the midnight showtimes. Someone wrote this next to those times in large block letters: THURSDAY MOURNING. From their regular daily schedule it looks like it's in only 3 auditoriums (Spidey is in 4). BUT they are scheduling a 9AM round of shows, at least for the first week. First time I've seen them do that.  |  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 10:01 PM                     No midnight shows here. I championed the idea for Episode I but not this time. First, we don't exactly have a huge market of die-hard fans. Certainly not after the way Episode I disappointed so many viewers. Furthermore, the reality is most likely that the movie won't sustain the 8-week minimum...no need to go scheduling extra shows. ------------------ ~Manny. Now...where was I ? Leonard Shelby, MEMENTO.  |  IP: Logged Mike Williams Master Film Handler Posts: 255 From: Knoxville, TN Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-14-2002 07:32 AM                     The theater I was at when Ep1 came out tried midnight and 1AM shows on opening weekend... that only lasted one weekend.  |  IP: Logged Paul Cassidy Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 549 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Aug 2001 posted 05-14-2002 07:55 PM                        Midnignt Screenings throughout NZ tonight ,that's Wednesday 15th here and NO Digital Screens in sight ...... ------------------ A KIWI eats,roots & Leaves.  |  IP: Logged

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