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Author Topic: Trailers Juan Mendez Film Handler Posts: 17 From: Houston, Texas, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-13-2000 10:56 AM                    How can I go about getting trailers for my theatre? I work in a 30-plex and have asked my booth manager countless times that I need trailers, and he keeps telling me that they are on back order. Is there a way I can get trailers without going through him, or am I going to have to wait it out?  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-13-2000 11:35 AM                     See the posting topic, "Having Trouble Getting Trailers?" from March.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2000 12:23 PM                     I have found that if you send old 20th Century Fox trailers back to Right-Side-Up, Fox will usually send tons of new trailers to your theater. I'm sure you can take old trailers off the Fox prints if you work at a 30 plex and have no trouble getting enough to send in. I send about six to ten trailers in monthly and get about double that back new.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-14-2000 02:49 AM                     Trailers are on back order? That's great! You should be getting that Sixth Sense trailer next week then. ------------------ "It's not the years honey, it's the mileage". Indiana Jones.  |  IP: Logged Juan Mendez Film Handler Posts: 17 From: Houston, Texas, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-14-2000 10:54 AM                    Hey guys thanks for the help on the trailers, but some of those that were on back order came in yesterday, unfortunately I only got one X-Men, one Scary Movie, then I got five 28 Days (which came out yesterday), six Keeping the Faith (also came out yesterday), and a whole bunch of other useless trailers. But I think I will try that thing with Fox. Thanks for everything.  |  IP: Logged Ky Boyd Hey I'm #23 Posts: 314 From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-14-2000 04:25 PM                       Ok, here's my trailer story of the week. We just recieved word that we have a new Miramax movie called East is East booked into our theatre in Santa Rosa in early May. The movie opens today (4/14) in NYC and LA. So I called National Screen Service to order posters, trailers, and ad slicks yesterday (4/13) and was informed by the customer disservice representative that those materials wouldn't be available until "about 2 weeks before the films release." She was a bit surprised when I shot back that the film opend this weekend in NYC and LA. Her story was that materials were back ordered. Having wasted enough time on what should be a one minute phone call, I called the VP of Exhibitor Relations for Miramax to voice my complaint of how am I suppposed to promote your movie without proper materials. Today, a very nice gentleman from Miramax called to find out exactly what I needed and told me it would be FedExed to me. So here's the moral of the story: Shipment of trailers and other materials has no relation to the booking department. And sometimes it pays to be a politely squeeky wheel.  |  IP: Logged

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