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Bill Gabel
Film God

Posts: 3873
From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 05-14-2003 12:03 PM

Here are the show times for tonights screenings of the "MATRIX RELOADED" at the AMC Empire 25 on 42nd Street in Times Square.
Empire shows are listed as SDDS.

10:00 PM
10:10 PM
10:20 PM
10:40 PM
11:00 PM
11:30 PM
11:40 PM
12:00 Midnight
12:20 AM
12:40 AM
1:00 AM

The only other theatres that is doing a large amount of screenings is the UA Battery Park 16 Theatre in the Downtown area of Manhattan and the Village East Cinemas in the East Village. Battery Park and Village East Cinemas shows are listed as SRD.
UA Battery Park Times:

10:00 PM
10:15 PM
10:30 PM
12:15 AM
12:45 AM
1:00 AM

Village East Cinema Times:

10:00 PM
10:30 PM
11:00 PM
11:15 PM
11:30 PM

Everyone else is doing one to three shows tonight. The only DTS
shows in Manhattan are over at the Angelika Film Center.

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 05-14-2003 02:30 PM

Thanks for getting this thread back on topic, Bill!

Variety today has more details:

quote:
Some 3,603 theaters are locked and loaded with a record 8,517 prints of Warner Bros.' "The Matrix Reloaded," set to open May 14 with a fusillade of 10 p.m. showtimes in 2,750 of those venues.

Playdate count is the highest ever for an R-rated pic and trails only the record 3,741-theater launch of 20th Century Fox's "X2: X-Men United," which enters its third weekend with a print run just under 8,000. The "Matrix Reloaded" screen count outpaces even last December's then-record 8,515-print run for Warners' "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."

Meanwhile, "Matrix Reloaded" is expected to sell out most evening showtimes, but the real question is whether action sequel's restricted rating will keep matinees from producing the highest-possible grosses.

Just as Fox did with X2, WB/Village Roadshow will open The Matrix Reloaded day-and-date in most of the world. Imax and large-format screens get Reloaded on 6/6. Also, The Matrix Revolutions will go out in Imax and large-format day-and-date with 35mm.

DLP isn't Reloaded, though: Most if not all the DLP screens are loaded with X2.

FWIW the Village East in NYC is opening 5 prints -- and that theater's 5 previews tonight are sold out.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 05-14-2003 06:36 PM

I saw the Sunday New York Times ads for "The Matrix: Reloaded" in the paper's "Summer Movies" section. Yeah, it is kind of surprising the Angelica Film Center is the only place playing the film in DTS. I was also surprised to see the AMC Empire 25 is listing its shows as Dolby Digital. What happened to SDDS? Isn't AMC supposed to use SDDS if it is there on the print?

The Cache 8 slum-plex is showing "The Matrix: Reloaded" tonight at 10:00pm (in stereo at best since their lone DTS unit apparently is still broken, and no subs are wired up to it either). Even though the marquee is missing all its copy board faces, it still has a handful of chase lights that still work. I suppose it is okay to have a few twinkling lights blinking around a big vacant hole.

I wish I could get some booth photos of the place, but I'm sure the management there is trying hard to keep the bad situation as much of a secret as possible (word is still getting out though). A demolished sign out front sure can't give customers any misunderstanding that it's an all-THX place!

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