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Author Topic: Sneak Preview Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2003 12:28 AM                     No, I don't think they have official names but when you talk to people (within the company) you can say, "Front Row Joe" or "Image" and they'll know what your talking about. Specifically, they refer to the periods of time when the various Cinemark policy trailers were being used. At first, the F.R.J. trailers were popular. Then Popcorn Penny dumped Joe and ran off with Clyde so the "powers-that-be" at corporate headquarters decided to cancel Penny and Joe's contracts and perpetrate a coverup. They produced new policy trailers (that were totally lame) and pronnounced them "Image" trailers. Right about that time they changed the corporate color scheme to maroon and gold. Therefore, you can point to an "era" in the company timeline simply by refering to "Front Row Joe" or "Image". By the way... An interesting tidbit about the carpet in those new theaters with the "Image" scheme: If you look real closely, you can pick out an image of a FLAMING SKULL hidden in the design! No shit! Take a look for yourself. Close-up of the carpet. Normal, un-enhanced picture. Now, look at it with hilighting. Once you've seen it, the skull jumps right out at you every time you look at it! It's CREEPY!!  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2003 09:18 AM                     Darryl, filming happened last night (12/3/03) for the new 20th anniversary trailer at my theatre. Corp and theatre staff were asked to be extras and greet Joe on the (standard) red carpet, take pictures as he got out of the limosine. Adam, The only reason we are called Legacy is that the theatre is located on the corner of Legacy Dr and Central Expwy. I don't think  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-04-2003 11:45 AM                     I just called it "Legacy" after the first theater to use the design, for lack of a better name. I've seen several "Legacy" or "Image" facades (depending on the market), but they are all the same basic scheme. The original Legacy in Plano and the Cinemark in Victoria: The Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma: "Movies" refers to the FRJ theme with sloped floors and boxy buildings; "Tinseltown" refers to the FRJ theme with stadium seating and (usually) "steamboat" facades with the towers. The Movies 10 in Plano and the Movies 8 in Lewisville: The Tinseltown in Pueblo, Colorado: There's even one transitional Tinseltown, in north Austin, that has the Legacy exterior color scheme on a "steamboat" facade and a Front Row Joe interior. I guess I should also add the weird and not-so-common "Hollywood USA" design with the pastel colors, but I can't think of many buildings with that design other than the Garland theater. The Hollywood Movies 15 in Garland: Next time, we'll discuss the weird carpet history of Century Theatres with guest commentator Scott Neff. For the record, I didn't use the upside-down slide photos to be mean or anything, those are just the photos that came out best without a tripod. I didn't even notice the slides until I got back home. [ 12-04-2003, 01:21 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-04-2003 01:38 PM                        The Cinemark Tinseltown 16 in Rochester NY originally had the "steamboat" facade and lots of neon clearly visible from Interstate 490. But the IMAX screen added a few years ago required changing the appearance. There's also a Cinemark Movies 10 second-run theatre.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-04-2003 06:09 PM                     Post removed (Sorry, Brad! Totally forgot. )  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-04-2003 06:19 PM                     Apparently some people are having problems figuring out what "sneak preview" means.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 12-05-2003 01:15 PM                        I will do my best to assemble a montage of Century carpet patterns so we can have an enthralling conversation about them. It's part of my goofy-ness that I take a picture of the carpet at most any theatre I go to... it just seems more fun that way.  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 12-11-2003 05:07 PM                     The Vista Theatre doesn't quite have the right sound system. They have a Smart-Mod 2B. After all, Smart-Mod 2C is meant for rap music.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-12-2003 11:36 AM                     I don't think rap music is all that popular in an oiltown in northern alberta  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-15-2003 01:42 PM                        Why is the Cinema 72 called "Cinema 72"? That name might actually have worked if it had 72 screens.  |  IP: Logged Jason Burroughs Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 654 From: Allen, TX Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-15-2003 02:04 PM                     Maybe the year it opened?  |  IP: Logged Dino Panagiotopoulos Expert Film Handler Posts: 139 From: Windor, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2003 posted 12-15-2003 02:33 PM                     Those "nipples" that are in the Cinemark Vista Ridge Movies 12 page seem to be HVAC vents but I have no clue why they would be positioned in that manner or if they are even functioning. Possibly could be an aesthetic touch?  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 12-16-2003 07:20 AM                     That's definitely an interesting threading patter from platter to projector in the Else-Lichtspiele pics. I guess you have to be creative while setting up cramped booths.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-16-2003 03:15 PM                     It is located on that highway that is why it is cinema 72  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-16-2003 04:13 PM                     Nipples? Did I miss something? Cinemas named after highways? The Cinema 6 in McAlester, Oklahoma, used to be a 3-plex with a drive-in. It was called ... drumroll, please ... Cinema 69.  |  IP: Logged

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