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Topic: Get In Here If You're Creative! (We're coming up with chain names)!
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Andrew McCrea
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 645
From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-21-2001 02:58 PM
Chain Name: "Great Thespian"
Slogan: "Isn't It Great?!"Great is another word for famous and Thespian is another word for Player(s) so the thesaurus says! Go figure! ------------------
Andrew McCrea "I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Drawn That Way!" - Jessica Rabbit
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 02-22-2001 12:25 PM
I don't know -- Criswell Cinemas would have a nice ring to it, but it would nice to have a fairly dumb name. Since North Alabama has had some dumbly named entities such as "The Mall" in Huntsville (1966-1999). I'm going to the mall -- which one? The Mall. ???
A theatre in Florence, AL was called "The New Theatre" when it opened in 1948 until it was given another name about a month after opening. Florence also had two different theatres called "Cinema", the "Cinema Theatre", which was renamed that in 1958. What was wrong with "Princess Theatre", which it was before then? There was a different theatre called the "Cinema Twin Theatres" which opened in 1973. Thank goodness the other one closed in 1966.  These examples I just gave are the dumbest names I've encountered for theatres in real life. A good name would have a good sound to it and would be easy to remember. A good "slogan" would help, too. For a national chain, it would be good for the city or location name to not be a part of the theatre's main name, so that all theatres would have the same main identity. How about "Sprocket Cinemas" with a slogan "Movies delivered on a silver platter" "Celluloid Cinemas" with slogan "Reel movies for reel people". (ugh) "The Theatre" (see my comments about "The Mall" above -- it would make conversations awkward, which would be a conversation piece in itself). "The Cinerarium" with slogan "Hottest movies in town!" (Look up cinerarium in the dictionary) Other possibiliites would be to take initials of people's names involved in ownership or corporate management and anagram the collection of letters. Take Mike Campbell, the chairman for Regal Cinemas. You can rearrange his letters to spell "Embalm Pickle", so maybe they should rename themselves. Just think, if Brad Miller started a chain, he could call it the "Ill-Bred Ram" theatres or the "Limber Lard" theatres. If Andrew McCrea, who started this thread started one, I don't think "Warmed Cancer" work too well as a theatre name. Dustin Mitchell could open a Dutch theatre with the name "Dutch Lens Limit"
Evans
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 02-22-2001 02:59 PM
It's Wordplay 7.21, a public domain anagram program that I wrote back in 1991 and last touched in 1995. Many WWW sites that provide anagrams use my anagram engine. I never even finished version 8, which I use myself, which is about 5 times faster than version 7.21. It uses a more ingenious integer masking system, although it has a limitation of 32-character input strings, which the older version did not, with 26-bit integer masking. Such a program could be used to generate names from sets of letters (such as from collections of initials, names, or whatever).Maybe "Regal Cinemas" could rearrange their letters to form "Carnage Smile", "Single Camera", "Carnegie Slam", "Magical Sneer", or best of all: "Slice Manager" or "Sacrilege Man", or why not "Increase Glam" or "Magi-Cleanser" (maybe a good name for FilmGuard). "Screaming Ale", "Malice Angers", "Genial Scream" -- Regal Cinemas has a lot of possibilities! Unfortunately, "John Pytlak" doesn't.  Bad combination of letters. Evans
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