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Topic: ROTK Screening Screw-Up
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Shane Hoffmann
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From: Fond du Lac, WI, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 12-03-2003 05:00 PM
I just came across this article at TheOneRing.net
I hear that New Line Cinema is out for blood over Monday's catastrophic Washington screening of its Christmas blockbuster "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." I'm told that the first full-dress battle scene, more than a hour into the 3-hour, 17-minute epic, was run upside-down for some 30 critics at the Loews Georgetown. "At first I thought, 'Wow, that's a totally cool camera angle, from the perspective of someone who was felled in the battle," one witness told me yesterday. Baltimore Sun movie critic Michael Sragow said: "It was the first massing of forces, and you got these elephant creatures coming on screen upside down. Obviously, it was about the worst way to see a movie." Worse still, the influential audience had to wait 45 minutes while the projectionist re-threaded the film, only to restart it after a huge gap in the action. In due course, an upside-down Frodo appeared, and the screening was halted again for another 45 minutes. "Obviously we're upset as anyone would be, and we're in discussions with Loews," a chagrined New Line spokeswoman told me. "We want to know if Gollum was in the projection booth."
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Tom Ruhling
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posted 12-04-2003 03:21 AM
Well, Hey! That's what you get for $8.50 an hour. The Georgetown runs an usher operator scheme. Lets not be too harsh on New Line. They probably paid for a dedicated operator. It would not be the first time Loews pocketed the $$$ and hoped for the best. In regard to time, I run an 18plex. My last weeks print night was nine in, five out, and 16 moves. Total time--nine hours to completion, by myself, error free. No excuse for this shoddy showmanship.
(You would think that with five booths and four levels, my theatre would have more than one operator at any given time, but that is not the case. Instead they will be cutting our hours and are hoping to put an usher to the task for 30 hours a week. Unfortunately no one seems to want to run my booth for $8.50. They even put one employee on probation for not "steeping up" to the challenge).
You get what you pay for. Unless you are New Line.
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