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Posted by Amanda Jones (Member # 3326) on 10-05-2005, 01:57 PM:
 
Anyone else having that problem? This is the 3rd week that we have received a fax informing us our prints from Technicolor will be arriving on Wednesday instead of Thursday. So tonight we have 7 prints arriving with only one person scheduled to build and only 4 available to preview. Looks like they won't get all done tonight.
 

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Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 10-05-2005, 02:03 PM:
 
I really dont see that as a problem at all. Thats actually what we all wished would happen more. Just have whoever is working tonight do as much as they can, and the Thursday crew can do the rest.
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 10-05-2005, 02:09 PM:
 
I heard Technicolor switched it's delivery time's to Wed. now, instead of Thursdays. Can anyone confirm that?

Oh yeah, your not alone. I have 5 builds tonight/tomarrow and 5 tear downs. I like everything coming in on wednsday. I don't feel as rushed like I do on thursdays.
 

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Posted by Amanda Jones (Member # 3326) on 10-05-2005, 02:27 PM:
 
I like it better on Wednesday's as well, but I just want comfirmation that this will become a regular thing so that we can schedule accordingly.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-05-2005, 02:59 PM:
 
Amanda, the word "problem" to describe this is sooooo wrong! Bite your tongue young lady!!!

Getting prints in on a Wednesday grants the theater staff to inspect, assemble and fully check them with enough time to secure a replacement reel if there are problems with the print, rather than to run a bad presentation on opening day as is the case with Thursday deliveries.

If your theater doesn't want to staff for Wednesday inspections, big deal. It won't hurt to let the cans sit in the booth overnight before they are opened. For everyone else, this is a HUGE benefit!
 

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Posted by Thomas Dieter (Member # 2507) on 10-05-2005, 03:12 PM:
 

quote: Brad Miller

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Amanda, the word "problem" to describe this is sooooo wrong! Bite your tongue young lady!!!

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I will say that this has been sorta a blessing in our theatre too. But for some reason ETS prints have had a problem showing. Last week WB decided to enforce a policy that has never been enforced, and our print of Dukes showed up 35mins before show time. Keep an Eye on You Suck Thread for more details once I get pics.
 

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Posted by Amanda Jones (Member # 3326) on 10-05-2005, 03:42 PM:
 
The only reason I think it is a problem is that we don't know if it is going to be a weekly thing so it makes it hard to schedule accordingly. We have 5 managers and 6 shift managers (4 of which are part time 1 or 2 shifts only)

I like them coming in on Wednesday better. Thursdays nights can be stressful when you have building/previewing/tears/prints moves/poster and time changing in addition to the Thursday night reports (trailer report, film inspection, boards, dead film report) and the normal nightly inventory and room close.

Our ETS prints always arrive by 3pm on Wednesday which is good because it gives our matinee booth a chance to start building. I just feel sorry for our north side location because they are one of the last stops so they don't get their prints till late, we are one of the first stops because we are down the street from the depot.

The only 2 instances I've experienced with prints showing up so close to first show time was Napoleon Dynamite last summer and a few years ago Sweet Home Alabama. Both showed up 40 minutes prior to show time. Luckily no print damage.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-05-2005, 04:55 PM:
 
I hate it when I have that problem. Personally I prefer it when prints arrive 5 minutes before the first show. Otherwise it is extremely inconvenient.
 

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Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 10-05-2005, 04:56 PM:
 
Amanda,
Do you work for Carmike by any chance???
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 10-05-2005, 05:25 PM:
 
I think the prints arriving early this week has something to do with the monster snow storm working its way across the west than anything else. Fourteen inches of snow in North Dakota right now.

After the 'Life Aquatic' fiasco this last Christmas when many prints didn't arrive in time for their playdates due to a blizzard in Ohio perhaps someone at technicolor is assigned to looked at the weather forecasts now.

Course I could be wrong and it could have nothing to do with that at all.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-05-2005, 06:09 PM:
 
We got that storm, or the edge of it. Interstate 94 closed all the way from MIles City MT to Bismarck, ND -- a distance of 300 miles. We only had about 4 inches of snow in Forsyth and it's mostly melted already, but I heard reports of 15 or more inches in towns around us. Our power was out from 4:30 AM to 9:30 AM today, and a guy on the radio said "If you live between Miles City and Bismarck and you have power, consider yourself lucky."

I was griping about the whole thing but then I thought about the Louisiana storms and this doesn't seem like so much.

Back on topic -- We were getting all our TES prints Wednesday for awhile, in fact they even called and asked if that would cause us a problem. Now, they usually come on Thursday.
 

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Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 10-05-2005, 09:08 PM:
 
We have six prints opening this Friday. We got five of them in today. I have built 3 of them up already and will build the other three tomorrow. I like the Wednesday deliveries if it is the norm. The one we are waiting on is an orange can so I guess everything wasn't coming early.
 

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Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 10-06-2005, 01:33 AM:
 
Crap, I've got to do a "megaplex" build for tomorrow (thursday) at my 6 screener discount house. 12 movies - 6 up and 6 down (double play inning)... all by my little lonesome .. No whining coming from me..(LOL).

Looks like if TECH is delivering on Wednesdays now, circuits gonna have to plan on some rescheduling/re-adjustments for this new procedure to still do their builds/screenings.

Buthey, "booth clowns" haven't a clue on how to organize..

My Kudos to TECH on this - finally, they're getting their act together...(just wish that they quit mixing up the sides of those orange reels up where the spokes don't line up. I have to break apart the ones that are mixed up and match the correct sides up to hold the "HEAD" loop better..my little whine here..lol)

-Monte
 

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Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 10-06-2005, 02:06 AM:
 

quote: Allison Parsons

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I heard Technicolor switched it's delivery time's to Wed. now, instead of Thursdays. Can anyone confirm that?

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quote: Darryl Spicer

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The one we are waiting on is an orange can so I guess everything wasn't coming early.

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quote: Amanda Jones

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Let me guess you are waiting on "Waiting"?

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quote: Amanda Jones

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Let me guess you are waiting on "Waiting"?

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No we got that one. The one I am waiting on is Greatest Game ever Played.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-06-2005, 03:13 PM:
 
The early deliveries are apparently ending this week, as it was a temporary DHL thing.
 

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Posted by Jim Ziegler (Member # 86) on 10-06-2005, 03:16 PM:
 

quote: Brad Miller

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The early deliveries are apparently ending this week, as it was a temporary DHL thing.

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BAH! A pox on all their houses!!
 

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Posted by Amanda Jones (Member # 3326) on 10-06-2005, 03:57 PM:
 
Ahh I was starting to enjoy getting all the prints on Wednesday.

Bahh we just got an email from our booker stating that Waiting will be delivered via courier at 9am tomorrow. I was hoping to preview it.
 

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Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 10-08-2005, 10:12 PM:
 
Man, I loved getting the movies in on Wed, I say we all call Technicolor and bug them until they switch it permanently
 

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Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 10-08-2005, 11:30 PM:
 
Not sure if its entirely up to Tech, that decision likely involves the studios.
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-09-2005, 04:20 AM:
 
Dustin is right, it's not up to Technicolor. Buena Vista started that nonsense when TES was formed by demanding the prints not be delivered more than 24 hours prior to the first showtime for piracy fear...then it just became the way they did business as new studios joined the service.

I suppose if you really wanted to get at the people responsible, you could always conveniently fail to play the trailers and display their posters, banners and standees of the studios that ship from TES.

(Yes, yes I know trailers are mandated by the chains. It's a joke.)
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 10-09-2005, 03:10 PM:
 
Last week I set a personal record of 8-8-16. That's 8 builds, 8 outs, and 16 moves. So when the two orange-can prints came in a day early, I was thrilled and built them both up to hack into the 8-print mountain.
 

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Posted by Jason M Miller (Member # 2597) on 11-02-2005, 11:00 AM:
 
After a couple of weeks of not getting prints on Wednesday but on Thursday I just received one copy of Chicken Little today. I guess I will have to wait until tomorrow for the other one.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-02-2005, 12:27 PM:
 
We got our Chicken Little today too. Guess I'll stage a FREE midnight show tonight for all the little pirates out there! (Note to Disney: I'm kidding.)
 

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Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 11-02-2005, 05:43 PM:
 
Note to Disney: I wouldn't trust him, you'd better go check it out!
 

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Posted by Robert Harrison (Member # 3202) on 11-02-2005, 05:49 PM:
 
And another confirmation of "Chicken Little" arriving tonight (11/2). That's damn fine with me!
 

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Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 11-02-2005, 08:15 PM:
 
Got all 4 of mine today too! Helps alot with 7 in / 9 out day.
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 11-02-2005, 10:15 PM:
 
ARG!! You SUCK, Disney! How come we didn't get ours??

By the way, why is this in Yak?
 

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Posted by Jarryd Beard (Member # 2543) on 11-03-2005, 08:46 PM:
 
We didn't get ours delivered early either. We did get a "North Country" poster, though. (Two weeks after we opened the movie.)
 

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Posted by Olivia Coleman (Member # 3193) on 11-04-2005, 08:24 AM:
 
We had received one of the three prints of Chicken Little on Wednesday but unfortunately I was unable to get to it as our float manager was ill and I was training a fairly new manager upstairs... (We just barely went to a 16 screen a week ago...) Anywho, I was please that they were only 4 reels as it didn't take me long at all.

quote: Thomas Dieter

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Last week WB decided to enforce a policy that has never been enforced, and our print of Dukes showed up 35mins before show time.

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