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Author Topic: How to find a film booker? Charles Wierdsma Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Greeley, CO, USA Registered: Apr 2007 posted 06-28-2007 05:19 PM                    Greetings, I am planning to open a single screen theater (90% done planning) and need to find a booker. We'd like to show 35mm first-runs, subs, and some spanish translations of these as well. Any help is appreciated.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2007 08:57 PM                        Call the Independent Marketing Edge at this number: 406-587-1251 and ask for a copy of the Showtime Buyer's Guide. It has listings on anything you could possibly need for your theatre, including bookers. The same office is home to Clark Film Buying, which is the booking service we use. Ask for Verl or Drew. The Buyer's Guide book is free, although as a non-subscriber to the IME they may ask you to pay postage or a small fee for it. Whatever, it's worth it. 132 pages of everything you could possibly need. Booker listings start on page 12 of the current issue. While you're at it, ask for samples of the IME newsletter. It's expensive ($250/year) but very timely and full of great information. Among other things, it'll provide you with artwork for all your ads. Tell 'em Mike from Forsyth sent you. Good luck with your theatre. As a single screener myself, I'm here to tell you it CAN work. But prepare to work hard!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-28-2007 09:04 PM                     Clark Film Buying P. O. Box 10517 Boseman Montana 59719-0517 1-800-265-8257 Fax 1-406-586-1571 406-587-1251 ..try this one out for he books in COLORADO as well. good luck - Monte  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2007 10:45 PM                        Great post! That's the same booker I recommended.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-28-2007 11:35 PM                     Thx Mike. Verl books for a friend of mine in Utah and is completely satisfied on how Verl has taken care of him. I would recommend Verl to any new owner since his creditability has paid off. Course, I remember Verl from the good ol' T.O.I. days when he was a manager with this infamous circuit... [ 06-29-2007, 03:12 AM: Message edited by: Monte L Fullmer ]  |  IP: Logged Charles Wierdsma Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Greeley, CO, USA Registered: Apr 2007 posted 06-29-2007 11:12 AM                    Thanks for the contacts and advice and encouragement  |  IP: Logged Charles Wierdsma Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Greeley, CO, USA Registered: Apr 2007 posted 06-29-2007 03:04 PM                    Mike, Verl was a good first contact, thanks. He appreciated being referred by you. Sorry, Monte, he hadn't heard of you. IME samples are on their way and they are comping a Buyers Guide.  |  IP: Logged Kara J. McVay Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Delaware, OH Registered: May 2002 posted 07-02-2007 09:46 AM                        I use Theatre Service Network: Steve Felperin 630-340-5811, I have 3 screens and he does a great job for me. We have used him for 5 years now and would never think of changing!!  |  IP: Logged David Graham Rose Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Cambridge, UK Registered: Sep 2002 posted 07-05-2007 03:41 PM                     Greetings Over here in the UK, the best place to find film booker is in the nearest public house to the said bookers office! From Cambridge Goodnight  |  IP: Logged

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