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Posted by Joe Tommassello (Member # 4632) on 08-05-2009, 02:26 PM:

What movie had the best legs of any you have shown? I am particularly interested in some of the older veteran's stories.

My time in the booth was short - only four years. Without a doubt "Titanic" was the runaway champ for me. Ten weeks after it came out we were still selling out late shows on weeknights. Imagine 300 people on a work night going to see a movie that isn't going to end until 1:00AM. It was fantastic. Granted I was at the premier theater in the area - the new GCC Franklin Mills 14 - the only theater in Philadelphia that had all digital sound and stadium seating at that time.

Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 751) on 08-05-2009, 04:32 PM:

Star Wars (1977) played well over a year in several theatres here in northern NJ. In fact, Fox sent out a special 1-sheet poster in 1978, intended to be used in those theatres on the anniversary of the films release. It had all the major characters around a birthday cake with one candle in the center.

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-05-2009, 04:37 PM:

Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 08-05-2009, 06:45 PM:

My Big Fat Greek Wedding. If I remember correctly, we ran it for about 16 weeks.

I was not working in theatres when Titanic came out - it was during a short period where I was between two theatres and working at Kinko's.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-05-2009, 07:04 PM:

Mine personally was Big Fat Greek Wedding at a bit over 6 months. Same print, still looked perfect when it ended due to a competent booth staff. I know Brad ran it longer as well as Beauty and the Beast since this topic has been brought up before.

What I am more interested in hearing about is the longest runs of a single print. Did you guys all keep the same exact Star Wars prints for over a year? What condition were they in when they left your theater?

Posted by Benjamin Putman (Member # 5023) on 08-05-2009, 07:53 PM:

Not counting Rocky Horror, still trying to purge those memories...

For me, it's a tie between "Like Water for Chocolate" and "Amelie" at 6 months each.

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 08-05-2009, 08:39 PM:

Sound of Music, Lawrence, Star Wars, tons more. 1 year plus in 70mm r2r. Louis

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-05-2009, 09:48 PM:

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Not counting Rocky Horror,

It shouldn't be counted anyway. One screening per week does not cut it. Seasons only.

For example, I ran BARAKA in 70mm for over 6 years, but only once per week and sometimes not even that so even though 'technically' we did, it doesn't count for much.

We ran CROCODILE DUNDEE for around 70 weeks. The distributor replaced the print around week 56. Top Gun also ran for around 60 weeks.

Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 08-06-2009, 12:02 PM:

Could'nt help myself.

Posted by Michael McGovern (Member # 4807) on 08-06-2009, 12:15 PM:

I remember running Shrek 2 from the day it came out until literally the weekend before it was released on DVD, and the print still looked like new after all that time. Slumdog Millionaire and Gran Torino this year were 2 more recent films that stuck around forever as well and continued to do business.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 08-06-2009, 01:45 PM:

This is yet another thread that should be about Jen from Film-Tech.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 08-06-2009, 04:42 PM:

Tina Turner burns legs for insurance money?
[Smile]

Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-09-2009, 07:13 PM:

They've both already been mentioned here, but it would either be Titanic or My Big Fat Greek Wedding ... but I'm not sure which, I was at different theatres for each, and neither had it from week one, so ...

Well, that would be for 35mm. I've also played a number of 15/70 and 8/70 films for quite a while, but that's a different story.

Posted by Luke Anderson (Member # 5316) on 08-10-2009, 12:51 AM:

Sort of on topic. As many of you working for the big chains understand not booking our own content can be interesting to say the least.

I have had lots of films come and go over the years playing a couple times at my theatres. Ex: The big hollywood opening, and then re-releasing it a few months after it dies out or bringing it back for it's Oscar Run. In that vain we played "No Country for Old Men" on three different booking changes in a 6 month period as it went from Indie to wide release and then again for its award run.

Seemed kind of crazy at the time [Roll Eyes]

, but it did pretty good each time we got it back.

-Luke

Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 08-10-2009, 01:38 PM:

Teaser title!! teaser title!! [Big Grin]

I was expecting to see some hot legs too...