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Posted by Mike Williams (Member # 1140) on 03-16-2005, 07:41 AM:

Story Posted Here (Netscape News)

Note to New Line: Don't take Jason Voorhees' hockey mask off the shelf just yet. Last week, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the studio was said to be in talks with Quentin Tarantino to write and direct The Ultimate Jason Voorhees Movie, which would mark the 12th installment of the Friday the 13th franchise, as well as the director's first job for a studio other than Miramax. But the report was premature, Tarantino said over the weekend. The Kill Bill filmmaker was in London to accept the Icon of the Decade award from Empire, the British movie magazine, and he told Empire that, while New Line had spoken to him about a Jason movie, he was not planning to make one.
''Whats happening with Friday The 13th? Nothing at all! Its a complete lie,'' he told Empire, whose awards were chosen by a poll of 12,000 readers. ''I like Jason and everything, but Ive no intention of directing a movie! New Line talked to me about it, but it was a complete fabrication, that article. I would love to do a horror film. Im just saying its not going to be Friday the 13th.''

Tarantino said his next project would probably be his long-gestating World War II drama Inglorious Bastards, though he said he had yet to compile the scenes he's written into a shooting script. ''I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies,'' said the 41-year-old, who added that he would then quit filmmaking and Hollywood altogether. ''I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager -- this crazy old movie guy,'' the former video store clerk said. ''I've made enough money that nobody even needs to show up at the theater. It's just having something to do.''

Posted by Mike Spaeth (Member # 524) on 03-16-2005, 10:03 AM:

No.

Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 03-16-2005, 12:07 PM:

Hell Yeah

Posted by Mark Lippert (Member # 2573) on 03-16-2005, 01:08 PM:

I've heard his theater idea before in some other interview. He said the theater would only show his films, even if he only has a half dozen or so by that time. Crazy old movie guy, indeed.

Posted by Christian Appelt (Member # 1067) on 03-16-2005, 01:17 PM:

Tarantino may have some innovative ideas dealing with people who use cell phones and bother the rest of the audience... [Big Grin]

Of course he would have to hire DeNiro and Al Pacino for the boxoffice!

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-16-2005, 02:23 PM:

I had heard he was going to buy a small boarded-up theater in LA's Chinatown. It's the last screen in Chinatown and it used to run continuous Chinese programming. Hasn't run in years, killed off by cable TV and video rentals. I think it would make a great revival or art house. Wonder what happened to that plan?

Gotta have Pesci tear tickets and 'enforce' the house rules. Scorsese could run the booth when he gets tired of makin' stuff.

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 03-16-2005, 02:34 PM:

Don't let the governator get wind of it...He'll want in on it too.

Posted by Dean Kollet (Member # 1789) on 03-16-2005, 10:20 PM:

Tarantino would be a cool ass manager, and he could get Travolta to be his 2nd in command....giving Travolta yet ANOTHER comeback...

Imagine the script for the movie times...

"Hey, welcome to Taratino 6, Chinatown. I know how good our popcorn is, because when I'm shopping I buy the good shit. I want to taste my popcorn, but you know what? It's not the popcorn, it's the dead n......" you get the point

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-17-2005, 05:17 AM:

I bet he would make the best policy trailer ever....

"Shut up, motherfucker!"

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-17-2005, 09:00 AM:

quote: Christian Appelt
Tarantino may have some innovative ideas dealing with people who use cell phones and bother the rest of the audience...

...hire Zed and Maynard as duty managers, perhaps?

Posted by R. Andrew Diercks (Member # 1725) on 03-17-2005, 12:49 PM:

I would, just having him there will bring in a crowd. If he does this he will be very successful. I know several huge fans that would go on vacation to see a movie in Terantino's theatre. I personally think he is a bit of an egotystical SOB, but I can't deny the movie magic he has created.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-17-2005, 11:28 PM:

quote:
Would you hire Tarantino to manage YOUR theater?

Hell no! I'm not convinced he can even make movies.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 03-17-2005, 11:44 PM:

I think Tarantino bought that theater in Chinatown for all the prints stored in it... I heard there were lots of old kung fu flicks and an old article I read on the subject quoted a bystander saying they saw people taking out alot of film cans one day.

Posted by Peter Kerchinsky (Member # 1098) on 03-18-2005, 06:02 AM:

If Quentin was hauling old films out of a closed theatre recently in LA he's probably looking for new projects to "steal" from. That seems to be what he's good at.
I'm sure if he had his own theatre and would greet customers, we would probably hear the same stupid old stories about his life working in some video store, watching movies all day and night and stealing other filmmakers ideas.
Go away Quentin, pleeeease.

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 03-19-2005, 04:56 AM:

Wow, this is a tuff room!
[Big Grin]

Posted by Martin Brooks (Member # 1269) on 03-19-2005, 08:25 PM:

Yes..well that's what postings boards on the internet are all about. People who are completely unsuccessful (and I'm NOT stating that everyone who posted is not successful) feel free to post broad-based and unspecific criticism about someone who has been very successful in an extremely difficult and complex field.

And regardless of what one feels about Tarantino's movies, you can't deny that this is a guy who loves movies. I don't know if he knows anything about presentation (I have a feeling he grew up watching karate movies in the 10th run theaters on 42nd st.), but he'd probably be a hell of a programmer.

Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 04-09-2005, 03:05 PM:

quote: Peter Kerchinsky
he's probably looking for new projects to "steal" from. That seems to be what he's good at.

hmm, isn't that what all filmmaking is? What filmmakers (or, artists in any medium for that matter) don't take from the masters before them? And, those masters learned from the ones before them. Ingmar Bergman, whom I think most would consider a master - at least he’s quite influential on modern filmmaking - certainly took from Victor Sjöström. Sergei Eisenstein (who influenced everyone from John Ford & Hitchcock to modern day filmmakers) took from DW Griffith’s “Intolerance”… hell, even Thomas Edison & (separately) the Lumière bros would not have produced & developed their cameras & projectors quite how they did, had it not been for Eadweard Muybridge’s various series of still photos.

I guess that’s a bit off topic though, eh? Um, I’d hire him, depending on whether his approach to our interview was original or not. [Razz]

Posted by Matthew Ballantine-Patton (Member # 3007) on 04-10-2005, 11:37 PM:

Man, ever since Tarantino started mentioning his desire to retire from film making and open a theater, I've been dreaming of being a projectionist there. This guy knows more about films than most people, and I would dearly love to be exposed to all the films he would likely bring into his theater. Working for Tarantino would be like working in a really crazy archive-this guy has prints of old B-movies not even the stars have seen in decades. He's said he'd like a theater out west, in Nevada or California, and I just like to daydream about working in some dusty western art-house for Quentin Tarantino.

Posted by Tracy Bellar (Member # 3049) on 04-11-2005, 12:09 AM:

The guy is passionate about movies. He loves the business. I think he would soon tire of all his fans making pilgimages to meet him. But it would be a money maker. Imagine the movie promotions he would do.

Posted by Frank Dubrois (Member # 3042) on 04-18-2005, 11:30 PM:

When he learns to put his movies together IN ORDER, then I'd consider it.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-19-2005, 12:06 AM:

I think Tarantino could manage a theater, and most certainly if he has the passion for it. I don't know if his operation would work in a small town if he just stuck to playing only the kind of shows he likes. Well, to clarify that, he's definitely a film buff with a wide range in taste. But he would definitely be playing a lot of revival stuff, everything from "blaxploitation" 70's films and kung fu classics to lots of obscure art films, etc. I would definitely show up, but I might be one of only a few.

Most small town theaters only seem to attract crowds for big, mainstream Hollywood releases. Unless the film had a ton of commercials run on national TV weeks before its release most people aren't going to show up at the box office. Tune into IFC? Search IMDB? Rotten Tomatoes or any number of other sites? Hell, many people still can't figure out Google.

I remember people here in Lawton complaining, "why doesn't any of our theaters get films like The Usual Suspects?" I would have to reply the film played here in town and the Carmike's manager and myself were practically the only people in town who watched it.

If Tarantino buys or builds a theater in a small town, its probably going to have to be in some kinda-affluent/educated little 'burg. The going's going to be tough in a place without much culture. My guess is the guy likes Texas. Maybe he could build not too far from Austin, near where his friend Robert Rodriguez gets a lot of his work done.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-19-2005, 01:49 AM:

There's an abandoned single-screen in the old downtown part of Torrance, CA that could be the perfect setup for such a venue, if Tarantino doesn't go with that Chinatown location. Could be a magnet for film buffs in the South Bay region (read educated and affluent) that don't want to drive up to Santa Monica or Hollywood or downtown LA, or Seal Beach for that matter. There are no good-quality art houses anywhere in the South Bay. The Music Hall in El Segundo, the Warner Grand in San Pedro, and the Art in Long Beach try hard but they just don't have the money to do presentation things right. Lots of potential in those venues but the technical efforts of the last few years have been pretty lacking.

When I win Megabucks (currently sitting at $12.4 million) my dream project would be to resurrect that Torrance theater, much like the American Cinematheque did with the Aero in Santa Monica.

Posted by Jacob A. Velleman (Member # 2533) on 04-19-2005, 02:18 AM:

Posted by Charlie Frisby (Member # 2927) on 04-19-2005, 02:23 AM:

quote:
I bet he would make the best policy trailer ever....

"Shut up, motherfucker!"

HAHA

LMFAO

hehehe, im still giggling
haha

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-23-2005, 04:01 AM:

I agree Charlie!

He is too F*CKING COOL! I'd hire him and Jason Black to manage any theatre I owned!

Posted by Alan Dallas (Member # 2537) on 05-01-2005, 12:19 PM:

My guess is he would purchase and run his own theatre from the comments he made. And for the record, I'd run his booth anyday. [Smile]

I'm a huge Tarantino films Fan... so sue me. [Razz]

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 06-13-2005, 04:24 AM:

NOT WITH CRAP LIKE THIS...

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=20415

Speaking of - at the SHARKBOY AND LAVAGIRL premiere here in Austin, I got to chat with Rodriguez about GRIND HOUSE quite a bit and this is really going to be a hardcore geekgasm of a flick. First - They'll be getting very cool directors to create GrindHouse style trailers for fictional films to put between and before the film. As to who goes first? It seems that in California - Quentin's hour will play first... In Texas - Robert's hour will play first... and everywhere else - it'll be projectionists' discretion. Same with the order of the trailers before and between the "featured attractions". They will be shot digitally - but in post - they'll be made to have that flawed dirty, nappy - film stock changing at the "reel breaks" faded, pink, saturated 70's film look. Sometimes there'll be a "bad splice" to purposefully cause a missing piece of dialogue. In otherwords... it'll be exactly like a GRIND HOUSE experience... only without the piss on the floor and rats residing in old discarded popcorn buckets in the theater. As for this BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 thing... nothing really to it.

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 06-13-2005, 04:57 PM:

I am glad people are still bringing this post up.

When I read about Tarantino aspiring to be a theatre manager - it was a boost to know someone so successful would like to do the job that I have been doing for almost 16 years.

Anyways - I'd hire him - and I'd work for him. I love his movies and I admire his passion for making his movies. After all - he is one of us that lucked out and made it big.

[ 06-18-2005, 10:00 AM: Message edited by: Dennis Benjamin ]

Posted by William Valdes (Member # 2690) on 06-14-2005, 06:44 PM:

Hey he could add some new items for the concession stand:
Hamburgers available in 'Burnt to a crisp' or 'Bloody as hell' varieties.
The Five Dollar Shake - Available in 'Martin and Lewis' or 'Amos and Andy' varieties.
Personally, I would love to see a "Jack Rabbit Slims" type of theme!

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 06-14-2005, 08:52 PM:

YES! I'll bet the 16 year old twerps they hire in multiplexes wouldn't last an hour in THAT house!

Louis