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Author Topic: Star Wars Episode 2: Midnight shows or not? Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 05-06-2002 07:06 PM                     Many theaters had midnight shows for Star Wars Episode 1 when it opened 5/19/1999. However, some of those theaters will not have midnight shows when Episode 2 opens 5/16/2002. Why not? After the World Trade Center went down many malls and theaters put additional security measures into place. These venues see a midnight opening of Episode 2 as an inviting target for an attack -- and not of any clones. The AMC Bridgewater Commons 7 had a midnight show for Episode 1 (as a GCC) but will not have a midnight show for Episode 2. Any other theaters in a similar situation?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-06-2002 07:59 PM                     That's just stupid reasoning for not running midnight shows. If terrorists are going to go after a theater, they will do it on the evening round opening night of Episode II. That way they can kill more people that are watching other movies as well as the lines waiting to get into the 10:00 round.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-06-2002 08:11 PM                        I don't quite understand the logic either. Grauman's Chinese is prominently advertising a midnight show of Ep2 and that's about as high-profile a public location as any.  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-06-2002 08:21 PM                     I think many of the theaters will have midnight shows this time around again. There is way too much money to be made for the majority to pass them up. I agree with Brad that if terrorists wanted to get a theater, they would do it on a Friday evening when many theaters in a multiplex are crowded.  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-07-2002 10:05 AM                     My theatre will run midnight shows for however many prints we receive. (This point is still up in the air.) Don't even know how the DLP is going to settle out because of Foxs' demands on placements. Paul.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-07-2002 01:09 PM                     I just got the word that we will have midnight shows. We are booking three prints, so it should be interesting to see what developes, since we hadn't opened when EP I came out. And, yes, we are in a mall.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-07-2002 01:22 PM                        We will have late shows (against my will) for EP2. I've not heard the public interest to support such shows, but hey, what do I know.... I'm the same one who thought Spidy would do so-so at the box office... LOL. We are not even officially slated to open a SINGLE print yet due to ludicrous terms. Hopefully, I'll know more later as to which direction we take. Personally, I say we balk his/their terms and skip the print. Then again, what do I know? ------------------ The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-07-2002 02:20 PM                     Some Central Ohio theatres are advertising tickets on sale for 12:01 shows. AMC hasn't weighed in yet.  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 05-07-2002 03:27 PM                        I've been told that I will be running a 12:01ish AM show of Attack of the Clones on 5/16. Which is fine with me, provided that both of my prints show up on Tuesday, and can be built & screened before they're shown to the public. It's not that I am concerned about making any 'mistakes' while I build the prints, my concern would be that I'd end up cussing out someone on the "management team" (as I was tempted to do when I was building three prints of Harry Potter). Whenever there is an issue of having a print ready by a certain time, there is one person at my theater (who, by the way, knows very little about the booth ), that seems to feel that it is their duty to constantly invade my work enviroment and check on where I am in the whole process, and proceed to tell me what I ought to be doing. ...I work better without such misguided interruptions! ...Maybe I'll just stuff a film can full of trailers, and keep it handy to drop on the toes of anyone who tries to interfere...  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-07-2002 04:04 PM                        Gracia, Rest assured that the depots will be delivering all prints for Thursday openers on WED. regardless of the fact that the late show(s) that may be held. They don't seem to care about build quality and I often wonder if they think the magic build-up fairy just "makes it all better".... ------------------ The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese!  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-07-2002 04:42 PM                     I remember that EP1 prints came in on Monday for the Thursday? release.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-07-2002 05:07 PM                     Why would any theatre owner voluntarily run any extra shows the first week of something? All you do is make it more likely you will hit the 90/10 figure and thus pay even more film rental on the whole weeks's engagement to the film distributor.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-07-2002 06:03 PM                    Episode1 opened on a Wednesday. According to the service that delivers our prints, they will be coming sometime on tuesday night.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-07-2002 06:38 PM                     Oh yea...a midnight show. I could get some sleep during that. Mark  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-08-2002 12:08 AM                     We will be running midnights.  |  IP: Logged

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