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Topic: Technicolor stupidity with Freaky Friday
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Nicholas Roznovsky
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Posts: 156
From: College Station, TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-19-2003 07:49 PM
quote: Aaron, the situation you describe is likely the fault of your booker and/or the studio, not TES. Imagine all the money it costs them to mess around with shipping prints back and forth.
Whoa - when's the last time TES or a studio paid for shipping a print? I seem to get billed for shipping on every single one, which is great because some bonehead at TES has decided that I need to switch prints between a Thursday sneak preview and the Friday regular engagement.
I'm sure that TES is locking cans on orders of studio execs with too much time on their hands, but as far as print movement goes I doubt the studios have very much to do about it. In the end, the same theaters end up getting prints of the same film. Why would they get some perverse pleasure out of making us switch prints for no discernable reason?
Bookers only care about individual prints when a particular theater hasn't returned one of theirs on time and the studio is breathing down their necks about it. I doubt they're the ones sitting there with a giant map, pushing the little film can markers around to different theaters like war strategists and giggling with delight.
TES, on the other hand, gets to tell everyone that they handled 12 billion print movements last year, when only maybe half of them were necessary. I'm tired of building up and breaking down prints of the same film in the same day so TES can carry out their evil agenda of inefficiency.
Yeah, it does cost a lot to get a print and then send it out two days later only to get the same darn film the day after that. I wish TES would pay for that, then maybe they wouldn't be so inclined to move prints around unnecessarily.
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