Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: April Fools at the theater

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Posted by Thomas Pitt (Member # 4322) on 03-29-2009, 05:51 PM:

With April 1st in a couple of days time, are you planning any pranks at your theater? Either on moviegoers, or on the booth/floor staff themselves - let's hear about it!
Maybe you've done April Fools pranks in the past?

There are things I'd like to do, but probably would be impractical and/or illegal to perform. Something like switching the movie screens around, so the audience gets a different film than they were expecting, perhaps.
Or maybe stick an animated slide into the digital preshow (adverts) so it looks like the film melted and broke.

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 03-29-2009, 06:02 PM:

I put up mylars (the signs over the doors that show what movie is playing) for movies that were a few years old (put the right ones in the box office so they could easily switch them back), also put up projection schedules that were a few years old. I'd always wanted to put in some ridiculous trailers like one I found selling Christmas gift certificates with "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" playing disco-style.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-29-2009, 06:39 PM:

There are already a couple of threads about playing jokes in the theater.