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Author Topic: Tropic Thunder (2008) Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 08-02-2008 12:22 AM                     Dreamworks Scope 2.39 SR/SRD/SDDS/DTS - Cyan 6 reels Deluxe Film Services Run Time: 107min Attached: None (Studio Screening) NOTE: There are a handful of "Fake" trailers at the head of R1. These are part of the feature, so don't splice them off.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 08-02-2008 11:04 AM                     FAX FROM DELUXE Dear Theatre Manager/Projectionist, ATTENTION: There is a unique situation with the TROPIC THUNDER feature, please note below information before you put together your feature prints. TROPIC THUNDER is a “film within a film” themed movie. The actors are playing actors in a film. In keeping with that theme there are three fake trailers at the beginning of the film that are part of the feature. Please do not get confused and clip off these three “previews” as they are part of the film and help to establish the main characters. You will notice that these “fake” trailers do not have MPAA rating bands because they are part of reel number one. The Actual attached trailer on this film is EAGLE EYE and it does have an MPAA Green Band on the head of the trailer. If you have any questions or are unclear at all please call Deluxe Film Services at 1-800-734-3969. Thank you in advance for your assistance and we ask that you share this information with your whole team in case there is any confusion on the part of the film goers as well.  |  IP: Logged Ross Oba Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Kailua Kona, HI Registered: Oct 2005 posted 08-02-2008 04:31 PM                     Those silly guys at Deluxe, they always have to explain to the booth clowns on how to properly build a movie. Kind of reminds me when WB had to explain how to check if Sex and the City is properly framed.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-03-2008 12:38 AM                    and these are the same people that can't splice a trailer on correctly.  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 08-03-2008 04:07 AM                     People complain when there is no communication, and people complain if there is communication. I guess they just can't win.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-03-2008 07:34 AM                     Many times these notes from DFS/TES are from requests from the film makers/studios, because during pre-release screenings there has been problems that have happened. Most of the times its how to handle fade-outs and fade-ins. So these notes are from the studios at the request of the film makers and they have been sent on many films over the years.  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 08-03-2008 10:56 AM                     Similar notes were included with "Grindhouse" and the 'fake' trailers that were on that feature.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-03-2008 11:24 AM                     ...and that's the very last time 'Tropic Thunder' is mentioned as a comparison to 'Grindhouse', I'm sure.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-11-2008 01:08 PM                     I think it would be far more fun to intermix these between the real trailers within the trailer pack, then run the theater's policy trailer/sound logo, then the feature.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 08-11-2008 08:26 PM                        non-fake attached: Eagle Eye enclosed: Max Payne Bolt An American Carol Hamlet 2 Role Models Lakeview Terrace Ghost Town Righteous Kill Disaster Movie College Body of Lies Sex Drive The Women  |  IP: Logged Frank Bruno Film Handler Posts: 50 From: houston, tx Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-12-2008 05:07 PM                     EDIT to say nevermind. My print just didn't have the attached & I panicked that they'd hidden it somewhere. Sorry; would have deleted this post if I knew how & wasn't in a hurry.  |  IP: Logged

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