Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: "The Missing" Print Shortage

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Posted by Bill Carter (Member # 156) on 11-25-2003, 06:11 PM:

Is anybody else having trouble getting their print of "The Missing", set to open tomorrow? I've been told that Sony added a lot of new bookings very late, and there aren't enough prints. I'm being promised one direct from the lab via courier "sometime tomorrow".

Wonder how many shows I'll miss with this one?

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 11-25-2003, 07:25 PM:

Thankfully, ETS brought this one yesterday. Not a bad flick either.

AJG

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 11-26-2003, 01:37 AM:

We have ours, I just built it. Got it in this afternoon.

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 11-26-2003, 04:26 AM:

Mine wasn't available for will-call until 4:30 this afternoon (Tuesday). By the time my delivery people got through the Seattle/Tacoma rush-hour traffic, it was 8pm when I got the print here.

It showed up with no DTS discs. [Mad]

which means I have to go over there myself tomorrow.

Posted by William T. Parr (Member # 677) on 11-26-2003, 11:15 AM:

We recieved our print yesterday with no problems

Posted by Dennis M Dow Jr (Member # 1970) on 11-26-2003, 11:32 AM:

received our print as scheduled and on time

Posted by Bill Carter (Member # 156) on 11-26-2003, 06:45 PM:

After waiting for the courier all day long, it finally got here, barely a couple of hours before the first show. No chance to preview it.

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 11-26-2003, 09:03 PM:

We got ours loaded up, but with "Haunted Mansion" to screen at around 9:30, we ran out of gas & ran the print this morning.

ETS overnighted our DTS discs from wherever their main office is (I tossed the shipper & can't find it now) [Roll Eyes]

We got the DTS up for the 2nd show.

Posted by Jeff Klump (Member # 1870) on 11-27-2003, 03:38 AM:

We got booked late for a second print and it didn't arrive till about 6 hours after the first. Didn't get the DTS discs though, what a shame. They must have hurried on the prints though because the second had like 5 lab splices and it only has 7 reels. That's the most I've seen for a mainstream movie.