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Topic: Trailer rants?
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 02-27-2000 10:16 PM
Filled in for a sick projectionist today in our 9-plex and noticed a little teeeny tiny gaffe in the trailer for "My Dog Skip" that was running on "Tigger Movie":About halfway into the trailer the voice-over announcer says, "This JANUARY..." and I am saying to myself 'oh boy this trailers gotta be pulled its advertising the wrong month' then at the end of the trailer it has a title card with music that said it was coming in MARCH! So Which is it, Warners? hehe  Back to the original topic at hand, Lets see more trailers WITHOUT the dates and stuff, makes life better for subrun and international releases, etc... Same goes for posters. Off the soapbox now... Aaron
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Mike Blakesley
Film God
Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-02-2000 12:15 AM
I hate those dated trailers and one-sheets! Disney is the worst. For one-sheets, I keep on hand a variety of colored plastic tape and cover the #%$# date up. For trailers, if the date is in the middle, and if I have any spare time, I cut the date out (after pre-screening the trailer) using this procedure: 1. Run the trailer while sitting next to the projector
2. Hold a "magic marker" near the film just below the sound reader
3. When the offending "this January" or whatever goes by, mark the film edge with the marker
4. Trim the marked section out. Keep an eye on the image and try to trim on a "scene change" if possible so as not to have any "too-short" scenes In some cases, this makes a noticable jump in the trailer, but in most cases, it doesn't. I would guess that 97% of the crowd never notices the splice, but they sure do notice when a date is in there and we're running the trailer a month later! ------------------
Mike Blakesley
www.goforsyth.com/roxy
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 03-02-2000 06:28 PM
Scott:Oh yeah! I forgot about the Titanic 'SUMMER' trailers (and the giant triangle-shaped standee that also read 'summer')- had to ask a projectionist to remove one of those back in November. just looks stupid IMO. Or the Disney stuff that gets moved back as well: 'Mighty Joe Young' stuff that read "SUMMER" (Xmas final release) and "American Werewolf in Paris" 'This October' (Dec final release as well) Release dates on trailers arent the only things that get changed before a film's final release date-titles do too. I have seen way-post-title-change trailer runs in theatres of 'The Flood' (released as 'Hard Rain') and 'Eaters of The Dead' (released as '13th Warrior') for example... Aaron
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Bernard Tonks
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 619
From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-10-2001 06:52 AM
I’m not playing Lord Of The Rings until January. I’ve had to remove from the trailer twice, the text reading December. The splice during the trailer fortunately doesn’t notice, but at the end, the cut sound splice does which is most annoying to presentation. Second run bookings should be entitled to have undated trailers and posters. There have been numerous complaints about these matters at exhibitors meetings, but of course are just consistently ignored. In the UK cinemas are charged for trailers and posters from the majority of renters, with the exception of Buena Vista, Icon Distribution, and Film Four.
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