Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Abandoned TES prints?

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-12-2008, 10:10 AM:

So has anybody else experienced a failure of TES to pick up prints, now that the July 1 "transitional" period of revised service windows etc. has commenced? And, are you calling anybody or just waiting?

They didn't pick up our Wall-E print yesterday. Maybe they'll forget about it and I can keep it! [Wink]

Yeah like that'd ever happen.

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 07-12-2008, 11:07 AM:

ME: Hi, We still have print 3958 of "300" here at our theatre and we'd like to know when you are going to pick it up.

TES Rep: Hmm. No... Our records show that print was picked up already.

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 07-12-2008, 11:20 AM:

I wouldn't pick up that DFS feature either.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-12-2008, 06:36 PM:

Mines!

Really. Send 'em both to me. I need to make a few thousand feet of slug.

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 07-12-2008, 11:49 PM:

Oh right. It was Deluxe. Nevertheless, we had a copy of 300 almost 4 or 5 months after it finaled.

Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 07-13-2008, 10:13 AM:

A loooong time ago TES called to schedule pickup of one movie and then said "Oh and our records show you have a copy of 12 Monkeys... oh, that can't be right, that movie is super old. Let me just take that off your account."

Without having to say a word, a copy of 12-Monkeys was suddenly available for those boring midnight when you and the staff wanted to watch something you'd seen over and over again that you all thought was a good movie, but somehow forgot was insanely long with a boring middle part.

Sadly, the print got damaged in a flood. I always attributed that print's slip through the cracks because it was MGM during that period where MGM released 2 movies a year and TES probably wondered why the hell they distrubuted films for them at all.

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 07-13-2008, 02:25 PM:

12 Monkeys was Universal Pictures.

Posted by Laurie Higgins (Member # 4843) on 07-16-2008, 04:05 PM:

I currently have approx. 100+ Bollywood prints that nobody ever came for. They are currently stacked along my back hallway that leads to the stairs that go down the outside of our building.

The old owner didn't ever do anything with them, other than save them. The new owners are trying to figure out what to do with them.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 07-16-2008, 04:10 PM:

quote:
Mines!

Send 'em all to Paul. [Wink]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-16-2008, 04:29 PM:

quote: John Wilson
Send 'em all to Paul.

Nah!

quote: Laurie Higgins
I currently have approx. 100+ Bollywood prints that nobody ever came for.

Please email me the titles and I will give you an address to ship them to... [Wink]

Thanks!

Posted by John Hawkinson (Member # 1135) on 07-16-2008, 07:09 PM:

Anyhow, Mike, I think the transitional stuff only applies to people in outlying areas. We never got such a notice, nor have we had anything weird with pickups. Still DHL here in Boston.

--jhawk

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-16-2008, 07:57 PM:

Yeah, it's only in places without "hubs," small towns.

I finally called TES about this Wall-E print which is still sitting here, and they said they would pick it up when we have a TES delivery again. Which will be at least a month or more, according to my guesstimated schedule....well whatever, I guess it doesn't hurt to have it sitting here.