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Author Topic: Dark Knight Sales Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-17-2008 01:24 PM                        Well, here it is Thursday noon. Our county fair is in town, so I went to the fairgrounds this morning and put up some posters advertising the midnight show and I got our marquee kid to come in early this morning and put "MIDNIGHT SHOW TONITE" on the bottom row of the marquee.... ...and our freaking print isn't here yet. Talk about a leap of faith.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-17-2008 01:58 PM                     ..and no locks on the cans ..."Whew!" I put both of our prints together last night (wow, prints arrived on a Wednesday!!) and ran them down for the staff and me to watch! ..went home exhausted from watching the film - what a terrific movie!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-17-2008 02:56 PM                        Well, HALF of our print just arrived. Stupid last-minute shipments. Supposedly UPS screwed up and delivered 4 cans to the theatre in Miles City. Oh well at least we know where it is (45 miles away).  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-17-2008 03:18 PM                        Thought you would enjoy this Dark Knight IMAX Tickets on e-bay Cinematical Auction Block: 'Dark Knight' IMAX Tickets by Erik Davis Jul 17th 2008 // 10:32AM Filed under: Fandom, Exhibition My brother called me up yesterday asking whether he should go see The Dark Knight in IMAX this Friday. I think I laughed for roughly five minutes straight before explaining to him that IMAX tickets for this flick are sold out for at least a week (in NYC). But I'm sure there are a lot of you out there who caught the buzz late and really want to see this film on an IMAX screen opening weekend. I think you know where I'm going with this ... Yes, you can currently find an assortment of Dark Knight IMAX tickets up for sale on eBay. Seeing this film in NYC is so popular that one pair of tickets for a Sunday morning 10am show is about to sell for $89! After 20 bids! That's insane. Someone is going to pay almost ninety dollars to see a movie on a Sunday morning. But not all the tickets are that expensive: You can get three tickets for a showing at the Mall of Georgia for only $30, or you can spend a whopping $200 for two tickets to the one IMAX theater in Kentucky. Or -- and this is the kicker -- what about $350 for the opening 3am show in West Nyack, New Jersey. Anyone crazy enough to buy some jacked-up IMAX tickets off eBay? How much would you pay?  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-17-2008 05:17 PM                        Holy crap, they added 2 more midnight shows here for 9 total, and 6 now show as sold out on Fandango.  |  IP: Logged Robert Crabtree Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Largo, FL Registered: May 2008 posted 07-17-2008 06:51 PM                     The theatre playing this where I graduated, has NINE midnights and a 3:15 SOLD OUT, and a second 3:15 pending sell out. Somewhat small theatres, but still CUH-RAZY.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 07-17-2008 07:14 PM                     You must be talking about Regal Gainesville 14? The midnight sellouts I understand but 3:15????????? For a 3 hour movie???? I know it's a college town but still 3:15 AM for a MOVIE?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-17-2008 08:19 PM                     quote: Lyle Romer know it's a college town but still 3:15 AM for a MOVIE Back in 1999, when SW:I popped on the screen, we had mids three's and six a.m. showings on that film. So, that's a nutting factor there...kids do anything for entertainment..  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-17-2008 09:36 PM                        Well now the Regal 15 here lists 10 midnite shows, and a 3:20AM show, and every one of them is sold out. Cinemark 17 has 4 midnite shows (and no interlock capability?), also with all of them sold out. Tickets are still available for the midnite shows of "Space Chimps" and "Mamma Mia!" though.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-18-2008 02:04 AM                     quote: David Stambaugh and no interlock capability Should have if they're all digital...bet they can tie up as many houses through the server network.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-18-2008 03:16 AM                    quote: David Stambaugh Cinemark 17 has 4 midnite shows (and no interlock capability?), also with all of them sold out. That's a load of They just don't know how to set up and use two or more people to start the shows. I ran 4 prints on 9 screens and they were all sold out.  |  IP: Logged Tristan Lane Master Film Handler Posts: 444 From: Nampa, Idaho Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-18-2008 03:23 AM                     Not quite a load of crap. I've been in that booth a few times.....not an interlock roller in sight. Christie booth. Only 1 digital projector.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-18-2008 03:35 AM                    Is that one of those booths where the projectors are around corners and not in a straight line? On ours I created ways to make it work. Using make up tables and their rollers to get the film from one projector to the one behind it and then going to the next projector using the acumulators on the platters and readjusting rolers on projectors. We are all Christie and we have one digital projector.  |  IP: Logged Ben Goodman Film Handler Posts: 32 From: Danbury, CT Registered: Apr 2008 posted 07-18-2008 04:26 AM                     Sold out 12 theatres at midnight-- attendance of approximately 3000. God bless interlocks.  |  IP: Logged Jaime Tuzzio Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Salem, OR, USA Registered: Apr 2008 posted 07-18-2008 06:22 AM                 quote: Tristan Lane Not quite a load of crap. I've been in that booth a few times.....not an interlock roller in sight. Christie booth. Only 1 digital projector. You know, I always wanted to see their booth. On rare occasion we had to pick up a print from them when I worked at Cinema World but they always brought it down to me. Boo. We were thankful they didn't interlock 'cause we always got their ever-so-grateful sell-out overflow. quote: Darryl Spicer Is that one of those booths where the projectors are around corners and not in a straight line? On ours I created ways to make it work. When I read the first line I was going contest it even mattering that there are corners involved. Heck, I've watched the interlock video here. I had 4 prints & 10 auds with three interlocks (a double, a triple, and a quadruple, and one house on its own). Only the quad was a straight shot, and the triple involves two corners and a double-back. If I hadn't had to steal the analog assy. off of my 35mm paired with my digital there would have been an additional house and two doubles or two triples (never had to make the decision - but the second triple would have been three corners to go around (and blocked access to a store room )).  |  IP: Logged

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