Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Midnight of Inglourious Basterds

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Posted by Andy Bajew (Member # 5330) on 08-12-2009, 09:36 PM:

Any other cinemas doing a midnight of Inglourious Basterds? When my managers presented the news to me I just gave him an insanely blank stare followed by the comment: "You expect people to come see a movie on a work night, the weekend before school starts, and stay until 3am?"

Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 08-12-2009, 09:43 PM:

We ran a midnight of Watchmen during the school year. That was only 9 min. shorter. I haven't heard whether we're doing one for Inglourious Basterds yet, but I hope not, aside from a couple titles, we generally don't do well with midnight showings.

Posted by Matt Young (Member # 5327) on 08-18-2009, 06:27 PM:

we aren't showing it at midnght either. We did have midnights of D-9 and Time Travelers Wife last week, they didnt do too great. We sold out Harry Potter's midnight show when it came out a few weeks ago...1200 seats. Personally I cant wait for Inglorious Basterds [thumbsup]

Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 08-18-2009, 07:38 PM:

Were doing it, we do midnights for all movies though and we do well every week so its a give in that this will do well for us. My guess is we do north of 800 people for this one.

Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 08-21-2009, 04:45 AM:

well i was way off on this.....we did 1100 and could of done more if we had more prints. That was with just two prints. Let me tell ya cousin business is a boomin.

Posted by Aaron Mehocic (Member # 15) on 08-22-2009, 01:01 PM:

Not here, we officially ceased midnight shows for good as of last night, August 21. This brings to an end 13 years of post-12:00 movies on the weekends. We will still do special engagements, but in our area, midnights are now a thing of the past. Truthfully, they died years ago . . .