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Author Topic: It's a theater ! Jean-Michel Grin Expert Film Handler Posts: 222 From: Geneva & Lausanne, Switzerland Registered: Jul 2002 posted 08-30-2003 05:32 PM                        Today my company opened his new multiplex in Lausanne, Switzerland. We proud of it, for his design and the technical equipement. This saturday august 30, four days before the official opening, we showed reprise movies like: Apocalypse now (redux) / E.T. (20th anniversary issue) / Titanic / Casablanca / Jackie Brown / Grease / Life is Beautiful / The full Monthy, and other succes movies. This week-end all the tickets wil be sold at $ 2.50 for a charrity foundation who help childern in hospitals. I hope in a close future, submitting pics on the picture warehouse, and detailled explainations. Here is a pic of the building: This multiplex feature 7 auditoriums, 1958 seats, running Cinemeccanica V5 projectors, Dolby EX on all auditoriums, QSC amps, and JBL speakers. Bye, and stay tuned for more pics !  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-30-2003 05:44 PM                     quote: we showed reprise movies like: Apocalypse now (redux) Do you happen to know if that was one of the new Dye Transfer prints? Danny  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 08-30-2003 05:48 PM                        That picture looks seriously photoshopped to me. Somehow the relationship between the green cube and the older building seems strange. Are you sure they actually built the theatre? If so, did you install CP650s with EX option? Do you have the QSC digital monitor/crossovers?  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-30-2003 07:08 PM                     yeah the photo looks fake. Where the Europlex and the sky meet, it looks really rough. and no 70MM screens?!?!  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-30-2003 07:16 PM                     I looked at the picture and thought the same thing too -- Photoshop -- but then I paused and thought back on all the photos I've seen of European vacations and realized that Europe just naturally looks Photoshopped. By the way...we're getting ready to retire our first multiplex early next year and I've been toying with the idea of booking some of those fabulous older movies for the final week. I hadn't thought about the charity part though...I may steal that idea. Great looking building...even if it is a phoney.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-31-2003 01:09 AM                        ok, so we've established that this new theater doesn't exist, and neither does europe. i'm going there in a few days and will give an update on its existence. carl  |  IP: Logged Lionel Fouillen Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Belgium Registered: Nov 2002 posted 08-31-2003 01:42 AM                     Nothing looks unnatural on this picture. The fact that a building like this multiplex was erected next to a house like that one is purely arguable on an aesthetic point of view. The only fake element is Jean-Michel. He's a CGI. Next week they'll replace him by Simone.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-31-2003 09:42 AM                     You all are looking at the picture wrong. The Europlex is not flush with that swirly-painted building as it may appear. If you look by the entrance, the theater and the painted building are across the street from each other. The picture was taken from the fourth corner of an intersection. See it? =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-31-2003 10:00 AM                     The perspective of the pic is correct but most of the vanishing points are obscured, causing the buildings to look out of place. The building with the psychedelic paint job is hiding the VP of the theater and presenting its own and your eyes jump from one set of perspectives to the other. Look at all the lines in the buildings. What should be paralell, IS paralell. Also, there's "mosquito artifacts" around the edges of objects and moiré effects on the benches. It's probably a real picture but it is certainly "visually busy".  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-31-2003 10:14 AM                     Jean-Michel, Thanks for posting the photo of your most attractive new theatre. I especially like the choice of fine old features, and the ticket pricing for charity on a WEEKEND! It's good to see a management doing things right for a change... Gerard  |  IP: Logged Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-31-2003 10:57 AM                     It looks like a very cold and unwelcoming place to watch a movie. Gee .. lets go watch a film in a box that looks like an iceberg. I'd rather visit the colorful building. Ron Yost  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-31-2003 11:00 AM                     Looks like a very attractive and appealing building to me wish it was in downtown toronto  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-31-2003 11:13 AM                       Very nice, indeed.  |  IP: Logged Travis Hubrig Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Minot ND, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 08-31-2003 02:39 PM                     I think the theatre looks natural in the picture, but all of the other buildings were added... along with the people...  |  IP: Logged John Anastasio Master Film Handler Posts: 325 From: Trenton, NJ, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-31-2003 07:25 PM                        Bon Chance, Jean-Michel. I wish you well with the new house. I wish that I could be there to see it. I have pleasant memories of Geneva and Aix le Bains in the summer. Part of my family is from Basel, so I have a bit of Helvetic blood in my veins and I know that lots of Switzerland is a unique mixture of old and new.  |  IP: Logged

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