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Topic: Technicolor Botches 'Life Aquatic' Delivery
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Dustin Mitchell
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posted 12-24-2004 10:12 PM
So, Life Aquatic was supposed to open on Christmas Day, Saturday. Its not the only film opening on Christmas Day but to my knowledges its the only film handled by TES opening Christmas Day. Fat Albert and Aviator are also opening Christmas Day and ETS was kind enough to deliver out prints on Thursday. But Technicolor? Well, god forbid they deliver anything more than one day early, and lord knows there won't be any problems trying to deliver things on Christmas Eve, despite the millions of packages in route and possible bad weather.
Right.
So I'll get to the point. Our print of 'Life Aquatic', and at least one other print that was meant for our Moundsview location in the Twin Cities, will not be delivered on Christmas Eve. It will not be delivered on Christmas Day. No, it is going to be delivered on MONDAY December 27. Why? I don't know the details, something about not being able to get a plane. In any event, the print is sititng in the depot in Ohio as I type this, where it will remain until early Monday morning.
So yes, Technicolor, you suck, for as stupid and pointless as it is to have Saturday openers ETS managed to deliever three prints without problems and you couldn't deliver one. What's that you say? Its the sudios that won't let you deliver early? Well, I wonder what Disney will have to say when they found out you botched the delivery and they lost their entire opening weekend gross.
Unecessary. This didn't need to happen.
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Brad Miller
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posted 12-24-2004 11:33 PM
I wholeheartedly agree with Jason except for one clarification. Requesting won't do a damn bit of good. DEMANDING is the only way this nonsense will stop. This "day prior" delivery bs all started with Buena Vista and until a major player steps up to the plate and says "we will book no more of your movies unless you knock this off", it will never change. Remember, it is the THEATERS that get screwed by this. The theaters have to schedule extra personnel for Thursdays because of the last second delivery window and "next morning" pickup of films that are coming off. Then when a reel turns out to be defective, there isn't a chance in hell of getting a replacement before you have to deal with the first show or day's worth of customer complaints on it.
Of course no major chain has what it takes to stand up against a studio, so you can kiss the whole idea goodbye. About the only thing you can do is stop playing X studio's trailers and putting up their promotional items. Sure it won't make any difference in getting your prints at a reasonable time, but it'll personally make you feel better. I know whenever I get a used print (since the odds are 1 in 1000 that the print will actually be in good condition once some schmuck has touched it), I enjoy not playing that studio's trailers or plugging their films in any way for the next 2 months. If the studio doesn't care enough about you, don't worry about them. So the real trick here is to give free admission to any other BV title in your complex for as long as your Acquatic prints have not yet arrived. Buena Vista screwed you, you gave it back, but the customers are happy and that's what matters. Turnabout is fair play, ya know.
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