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Robert Burtcher
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 194
From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Registered: Jun 2005

posted 10-31-2005 03:18 AM

This week, we got booked with 12 movies (for a 10 screen theatre)...

We're showing Doom In Her Shoes, apparently. =D

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Michael Brown
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1522
From: Bradford, England
Registered: May 2001

posted 11-01-2005 08:18 PM

We have the LED signs above our auditorium doors.

Recently we ran a bollywood movie called "No Entry " (so our LED signs for that auditorium said "No Entry")

We had a few customers come up and ask questions like "Why are people not allowed in there?"
[Roll Eyes]

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Robert Burtcher
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 194
From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Registered: Jun 2005

posted 09-11-2006 08:56 AM

Bumppity.

Our theatre once again got stuck with 12 prints for 10 screens (and 10 spots on the marquee). I ran out of ratings tags, so I grouped titles by their ratings and put them on the same lines with as much space between the titles as possible. However, this didn't stop the chuckles, and we got mentioned in the local weekly entertainment paper!

http://www.okgazette.com/news/templates/cfn.asp?articleid=802&zoneid=9

quote: Oklahoma Gazette, "Chicken Fried News"
‘Invincible Worms’!

Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Editorial Team

CFN is always amused at the conundrum facing local multiplexes when they are forced to cram more movie titles onto their marquees than for which they have space. Their simple solution: Two titles to one line.

Sometimes the results are unintentionally hilarious (who can forget Brixton Square Cinema’s classic “Focker Sideways”?). But Penn Square actually might drum up more than usual business with their current showing — according to the sign facing Northwest Expressway — of the summer blockbuster “Invincible Worms.”

Now, CFN has little interest in seeing either the Mark Wahlberg football feel-gooder “Invincible” or the snuff film that is “How to Eat Fried Worms.” But our curiosity would be totally off-the-charts insane for catching a flick that actually was about unconquerable slimy things that can neither be smashed, sautéed or otherwise sullied. You just know it would star Samuel L. Jackson.

Bonus points to whichever Penn Square employee gets to put up those blocky black letters for not marrying Jackson’s latest to a certain Oliver Stone film to get “Snakes on a WTC.”

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Matt Whitney
Film Handler

Posts: 27
From: Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Registered: Dec 2004

posted 09-12-2006 11:25 PM

I had an employee advertise "Bulletproof Munk" on our marquee one time. When I pointed out his mistake he told me "It sounds like it should be spelled that way". I said okay, then proceeded to ask him how he spells monkey.

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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 962
From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 09-13-2006 09:07 PM

quote:
the snuff film that is “How to Eat Fried Worms.”

They should seriously reconsider their descriptors.

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Bob Plummer
Film Handler

Posts: 10
From: Mount Vernon, WA, USA
Registered: Jul 2006

posted 10-01-2006 06:39 AM

I had a staff member wander over to the managers kiosk (our equivelant of a water cooler) and I looked at her and said "Are you on the doorstand?" And she said "yep!" And then I said, "No, you're standing here..." She glared, I grinned, and she then went back to her post.

Yeah, I'm a mean supervisor.

My favorite truncated name was our tickets when we had Bringing Down the House. The ticket line ran out of space and it said "Bringing Down the Ho"

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Dominic Espinosa
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1172
From: California, U.S.A.
Registered: Jan 2004

posted 10-01-2006 01:20 PM

Bob, I feel your pain.
I've got this kid that "follows the energy" away from her post.
My projectionist and I turned around half way to the booth because I noticed someone was following me, turns out it's my concession attendant. One door and 12 yards away from the counter!
Supervisor or not though you came off a little harsh there.
Unfortunately it's not legal to tie people to their posts...However I wonder about roping them off...

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Charles Greenlee
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 801
From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006

posted 10-02-2006 11:41 AM

Buy each of the a collar, make it part of the uniform, and try invisible fencing. [Big Grin]

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Edwin Sheldon
Film Handler

Posts: 95
From: Mobile, AL, USA
Registered: Sep 2006

posted 10-03-2006 04:32 AM

I left my jacket in the back room of the concession stand for five minutes while the concessions employees were bored. I should know better.

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Martin Brooks
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 900
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: May 2002

posted 10-03-2006 09:46 PM

quote:
Way back in the 90's I had an employee (at a twin) put up on a single line...."Snow White Guilty As Sin"......
Made the paper the next day!!

At the Cinema 1 2 3 in NYC, I remember seeing
The Muppets
Bad Lieutenant

That always cracked me up. I always pictured the Muppets exposing themselves after that.

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