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Author Topic: Are you screening the "original" Matrix? John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-30-2003 07:31 PM                     I just got word today that we will be showing the original Matrix each day, four days prior to the opening of Matrix Reloaded. Anyone else heard about this? Details are sketchy. I don't know what day the print will arrive for buildup, or what house we will be playing it in. Hope the print will be in decent shape!  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-01-2003 12:17 AM                    interesting, since our booking department informed one of our other theaters that the distributers were pulling all the original films from release do to there sequals coming out. The other theater was going to do midnight shows of each of the original films the weekend prior to the sequals release. If you all get to play this film then that just blows because someones lieing out there asses.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-01-2003 03:55 AM                        In Denmark, only 3 prints survived their first tour, and they are of course reserved for the 3 biggest cities for reissue. Would have been fun, though. Per  |  IP: Logged Patrick McDonough Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Greenfield Ma. Registered: Jul 2002 posted 05-01-2003 07:47 AM                     That would be very cool, I had asked the owner of our place but he didnt think it would sell.?  |  IP: Logged John Carpenter Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 05-01-2003 11:45 AM                     We requested to get the original film to show prior to "Reloaded" coming out... and the word I got was it is no longer available?  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-01-2003 08:32 PM                     Grossmont College in San Diego is holding a DVD screening this Sunday night in Room 220 (a small theatre room) It will be presented in Dolby Digital through a 6000 watt JBL speaker system.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-01-2003 09:06 PM                        quote: Grossmont College in San Diego is holding a DVD screening this Sunday night in Room 220 (a small theatre room) Hope they licensed this public screening!  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-01-2003 09:18 PM                     pssst: John: SHHHHHHHH!!! ---- I'm sure it is.  |  IP: Logged Aldo Baez Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 05-01-2003 09:25 PM                    The Rialto in Pasadena is having a midnight showing this saturday.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-02-2003 03:01 AM                        pulling a film from distribution right before the sequel comes out sounds like one of the dumbest ideas ever. what an opportunity to make a little extra $ on the original while promoting the sequel at the same time. it's a win-win. it sounds like the real problem is that most of those original prints were junked so there aren't enough to go around now. whoops! carl  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-02-2003 08:45 AM                        Distributors can always make NEW prints if they think there is a market for a re-release, especially to help promote a sequel.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-02-2003 09:34 AM                        Pulling the original film before releasing its sequel is farily common practice. UA has always done this with the Bond titles, for example. I agree that it doesn't make sense, but perhaps the distributors are afraid that some theatres might book the original title at a flat rate or low per centage instead of the new title, possibly causing loss of revenue. Perhaps the original is available in either the theatrical market (only) or the non-theatrical market (only), but not both, which is why some venues are able to show it. I seriously doubt that there aren't at least few dozen prints of the original Matrix in the distributor's inventory somewhere (though I have no way of knowing).  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-03-2003 09:48 AM                     We are running it in our two large format houses (in Fl. and CT.) Both prints are only in fair shape; we've tried to get better reels, but we are told there just isn't any avaible.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-03-2003 05:38 PM                     Here in the UK I believe that it has been pulled from distribution.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-07-2003 09:09 AM                     It's official. We will be showing the original Matrix each evening Sunday through Wednesday at 9:15PM. We are "sharing" the print with another theater that is playing it through Thursday. It is to be shipped to us and arrive on Saturday. We are to have it ready for shipment back to California on Thursday 5/15. Looks like I'm going to be spending some time doing a foot by foot bench inspection on Saturday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it is in good shape and that I will not have to do a post in "Outing Bad Film Handlers".  |  IP: Logged

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