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Author Topic: Did Santa deliver your prints on time? John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-24-2003 04:55 PM                     After all the about getting out the prints early, how did everyone do? We experienced problems too numerous to recount here, and besides, I don't want to bore everyone with my problems. I can say that the claims by various sources that prints would be made available on the 23rd didn't wash in most cases. It never ceases to amaze me that the industry has lots of time to plan for the crunch, but between the distribs, TES, ETS, and the delivery services, they still manage to screw things up. The best one I had was finding no trailers in our second print of Cheaper By the Dozen. When I called the depot I was told they "ran out" and would be delivered Friday!! I replied "That doesn't help me. You can keep them." When I was greeted by dead silence on the other end, I hung up. How did you make out?  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 12-24-2003 05:08 PM                    Everything fine here. We got our TES prints yeasterday and the ETS prints were at the theater when I got there this morning. No problems everything done.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-24-2003 05:41 PM                        I received a confirmation fax stating that TES prints would come out on the 23rd in all possible locations. Guess mine wasn't one of them.... Got the prints sometime this morning (I'm actaully off today). Haven't had time to screen, so who knows what defects lie in the film... Here's hoping that I don't get that dreaded phone call about needing a replacement reel... Serves the whole lot of them right if a show must be cancelled tho... They wait until the day before one of the biggest Holidays in the US to send us prints that must be 1) Built & 2) screened for quality, and most all of the distribution/delivery services are off Thursday.... Hey Jack... This one is for you and your convuluted piracy theory... head. EDIT Jack Valenti.. not Jack O... [ 12-25-2003, 11:31 PM: Message edited by: Jason Black ]  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-24-2003 06:05 PM                     We must've been lucky down here. Both TES and ETS came through and delivered prints yesterday morning. Got all of them built and screened last night and fortunately, there were no defects bad enough to warrant replacement reels in any of them. I did notice the CRAP code on the "Cheaper" print seems to be a darker shade of red now.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-24-2003 06:13 PM                    In Europe the prints are delivered by the Kriskindl or Sinter Klaas.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-24-2003 07:20 PM                     No, we didn't get our print of 21 Grams on Tuesday. After much calling and yelling to Technicolor, they told us they would get us a print direct from Focus on Christmas Eve. Today they called up and told us our delivery time was 11:00 PM. I told them that was great, but no one would be here after 6:00 PM. So they will be delivering it Christmas Morning. They were trying to circuit us a print on Christmas! Everything else came on Tuesday.  |  IP: Logged Kelly Skaggs Film Handler Posts: 68 From: Springdale UT Registered: Jul 2003 posted 12-24-2003 08:30 PM                        We got all of our prints on Tuesday, except our 2 prints of Cold Mountain which showed up Today at 430 PM. Then at 5 PM we get another print of Cold Mountain, the problem is we are only showing 2 screens. I bet someone is still waiting for their print. Is it me or does there seem to be more movies open on Christmas this year? We had 4 titles and 7 build-ups.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 12-25-2003 12:35 AM                        quote: Hey Jack... This one is for you and your convuluted piracy theory... head. Huh???  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-25-2003 01:15 AM                     This Jack.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-25-2003 08:33 AM                     News links go bad. You need to at upload a picture.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-25-2003 11:12 AM                     Disney must have been an optimistic realist. Remember Snow White singing "Someday, my prints will come?"  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-26-2003 02:51 AM                        [ 12-26-2003, 07:20 PM: Message edited by: Mike Spaeth ]  |  IP: Logged

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