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Posted by Ramin Hashemi (Member # 2694) on 05-30-2008, 10:32 AM:

We usually do not get our prints till Wednesday or Thursday for movies on the break, and Friday morning if it is off the break and theatre transfer. When do you, especially smaller theatres, get your on the break movies?

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 05-30-2008, 12:24 PM:

TES movies: Usually a day before they open via DHL, before noon

Deluxe/ETS movies: Usually the day they open via UPS, by 2:00 PM

Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 05-30-2008, 01:05 PM:

Technicolor prints usually show up around 1:00pm the day before they open. ETS prints usually show up between 4:00pm and 8:00pm two days before release. However, yesterday our ETS courier just told us it may wind up being Thursday mornings most of the time because he's having to replan his routes due to higher gas prices.

Posted by Michael McGovern (Member # 4807) on 05-30-2008, 01:17 PM:

Deluxe prints usually come anywhere between 3pm to 7pm on Wednesday, while I have Technicolor Prints by noon on Thursday.

Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 05-30-2008, 01:22 PM:

Deluxe/ETS Thursday evening between 6 and 9 pm. Technicolor, Thursday between 10am and 1pm.

Posted by Chad M Calpito (Member # 3736) on 05-30-2008, 01:28 PM:

At my theatre, we get our Technicolor Prints on Thursday after 3pm and on Friday morning at around 5am. Sometimes, when a print comes from a different that comes in those Orange TES Cans, we get those on Friday mornings as well.

Occassionally, I will receive a Print from United Artists Horton Plaza 14 in which I or another person makes arrangements for pick-up.

Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 05-30-2008, 02:49 PM:

DFS hard drives: Mondays or Wednesdays
TES hard drives: Wednesdays
AccessIT hard drives: Wednesdays
AccessIT satellite transfers can happen at any time

-Aaron

Posted by Philip Jordan (Member # 4517) on 06-04-2008, 04:55 PM:

Our manager pick's up the film's from Deluxe on tuesday's and and from moving print on Wednesday.

Posted by Michael Dolan (Member # 4808) on 06-08-2008, 05:54 PM:

Usually our owner picks the print up on tuesday in the atlanta depot then he brings them up here to NE GA around 6:00pm on wed.

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 06-10-2008, 06:42 PM:

quote: Philip Jordan
Our manager pick's up the film's...

quote: Michael Dolan
Usually our owner picks the print up...

Theatre staff having to go pick up their own prints from the depot? I've never heard of that before! Is this practice common?

Posted by Michael Dolan (Member # 4808) on 06-10-2008, 07:42 PM:

I don't think it is that common at all. My theater is out in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We are also closed mon-wed. and don't open till 0800pm Thursday night so They make us have to go to Atlanta 2 1/2 hours away to get the film from the depot there. The owner lives in Atlanta so its not that bad he just grabs it on his way up.

Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 06-12-2008, 07:27 AM:

For Deluxe (DFS), most theatres contract with a local shipping company who delivers films from the DFS depot to the theatre. But DFS is also happy to let you do it yourself ("WILL CALL").

--jhawk

Posted by Jeremy Weigel (Member # 4208) on 06-12-2008, 09:04 AM:

We pick up all of our DFS prints since the depot is only 20 minutes away in OKC.

Posted by Philip Jordan (Member # 4517) on 06-12-2008, 09:08 AM:

Michael.

Are cinema is only 10 miles between both depots, when we first opened 10 years ago we used to have a courier that brought us our films but he was getting to expensive so it was decided to use our own staff to get them and pay them travelling allowance.
Our chain of cinema's in Northern Ireland get there own films, but the others still use that same courier.

Posted by Andy Muirhead (Member # 712) on 06-12-2008, 08:02 PM:

quote: Michael Brown
Theatre staff having to go pick up their own prints from the depot? I've never heard of that before! Is this practice common?

I remember it used to be that way when I first started. There was one guy that would go and pick up the prints on Friday morning from Rank in Glasgow, and drop of all the prints at the cinemas. At that time the family I worked for (and still do) had Cinemas in Glenrothes, Kelso and Galashiels. I remember going with him once or twice just for the run, and it was quite amazing going into the Rank depot in Glasgow and seeing all the films in the huge warehouse.

For the record, these days our prints arrive mostly by DHL and usually on a Monday or Tuesday. Rarely as late as Thursday and if they aren't here by Wednesday then they get chased up. Some prints can arrive a week early.

Posted by Michael Hossen (Member # 4274) on 07-12-2008, 02:35 AM:

Our prints usually show up on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning for the first screening on Thursday morning.

Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 07-12-2008, 05:33 AM:

Usually picked up from depot, Tuesday night mostly for Atlab, Deluxe is pot luck.

Posted by Laurie Higgins (Member # 4843) on 07-16-2008, 04:14 PM:

Generally speaking Hollywood movies Thursday afternoon/evening, on the rare occasion, Wednesday evening. Some Bollywood movies I don't get until midnight Thursday.

Posted by Brandon Willis (Member # 2345) on 08-09-2008, 08:09 PM:

For Technicolor, we get our prints early Thursday afternoon. If we have a midnight showing, they will usually come in on Wednesday. We have been having a rough time lately with getting our Deluxe / ETS prints on time. We usually don't get them until 9:00 PM or later. This is especially frustrating when we are waiting on a print for a midnight showing. All of the theatres in this area are having the same problem with getting the Deluxe / ETS prints on time.

Posted by Steve Maggs (Member # 444) on 08-21-2008, 10:36 PM:

In Brisbane, Australia most of our prints arrive between Monday and Wednesday for the Thursday start. At times we can receive prints from the smaller distributors up to two weeks early. For the blockbusters, they often arrive over two days with the odd reel numbers on day one and the evens on day 2 to prevent copyright theft.

Posted by Blaine Young (Member # 3992) on 08-27-2008, 12:30 PM:

From Brandon's description of print delivery in Richmond, it sounds like not much has changed in the past 15 years. Highway Film Distribution was the delivery source when I used to work at Roth's Tysons Corner 8 and GCC Springfield Mall up in Northern Virginia and we would rarely get the prints before 7 or 8pm on Thursday. I recall one Thursday night, the prints arrived about midnight. Thankfully, Roth's was still doing change-over on the main screens, so the builds didn't take all night.