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Author Topic: ShowWest 2004 / Film-Tech Drink Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-19-2004 02:00 PM                        Anyone have the date(s) handy? We're going to be in Vegas the 23rd-27th of Feb. edit Nevermind... I found out that it's the 3rd week of March.... Oh well...  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-19-2004 09:31 PM                     Hey - It's never to early to make plans! What day should I ask off for the gathering?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-19-2004 10:17 PM                     The Film-Tech Drink will be as always on Wednesday evening. It will be at Bally's as it has been the last few years. Details will be available at the Jack Roe booth (next to the restrooms) on Wednesday, as Bally's won't reserve us a specific room until that day. I will make it a point to post a note on the website sometime Wednesday morning/afternoon once we know.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-20-2004 12:43 AM                     Brad, we hopefully will have an SUV for the ShoWest trip this year (Costco, anyone?) and this time no turn signals that can be heard for six miles We also should get a list prior to arrival for Quark's so we can have a ballpark number to reserve for at a better time this year. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-21-2004 07:37 AM                        I'm planning on attending.  |  IP: Logged Brian D. Whitish Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-21-2004 12:00 PM                     Ill be at Showest this year, count me in.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-21-2004 01:07 PM                     Okay, I'll try again this year... Who's gonna pay for me to go? =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-21-2004 02:13 PM                     Does anyone know what the cost of the single day trade show only pass is? $225 for all three days is a little out of my range. Also, what "credentials" do I need to bring to prove that I'm in the industry? Will a pay stub do?  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-21-2004 03:56 PM                     For a one-day trade show pass, ask a trade show exhibitor for a guest pass. You don't think Brad forked over $800 for a ticket, do you? [ 01-21-2004, 05:45 PM: Message edited by: Ian Price ]  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-22-2004 12:55 AM                        I'll be there  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-22-2004 03:52 PM                     As usual, I will be working there in some fashion or another. I may actually get to meet more than 2 members for once. For the last 3 years, I have just missed everybody that usually goes by just a few minutes or something happens at my theatre where I have to go back (like an audit last year).  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-22-2004 04:32 PM                        Out of curiousity.. How many of you MANAGERS out there are able to go to ShowWest on the company? I'm betting next to none, unless you work for a "indie". It's a shame that in 16 years, not once has anyone inside this company, aside from corporate exec's, been afforded the opportunity to attend. Realistically, I can see why, but you'd think that it could be used as a company "reward" of sorts.. After all, it is written off as a business expense for them anyway... If not, could this expense be written off one's taxes if one chose to attend and paying out of their own pocket?  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2004 05:21 PM                     So Regal Entertainment Group has 530 theatres. So that's 530 times $800 for ShoWest, $200 for the average plane ticket to Las Vegas, $400 for staying at Ballys, if they are lucky. So than some hot, young executive comes along and says, I can save the company $750,000 per year. How, you ask? By not sending the managers to ShoWest. United Artists used to send one manager per district with "date" to ShoWest. They were the winners for the UA Presidents Club. That said, there are plenty of theatre managers at ShoWest. They come from Regal, Century and Crown and are all working in the Las Vegas area. But remember N.A.T.O stands for National Association of Theatre Owners. These are the people, like me, that get to make the decisions as to what kind of popcorn popper to buy, which seat to buy and which projector system I can't afford to place in my theatre. Theatre managers don't make these kinds of decisions. If there were a National Association for Theatre Managers (NATM), then they could all gather, debate the finer points of staff discipline, and see a few films. However, as a manager, you can always swing the cheap ticket to Las Vegas, Stay at the Bourbon Street for $50 per night and finagle a Trade Show Pass from one of your buddies who work for Dolby, your cinema supplier or candy rep. Yea, I used to bitch and whine about not getting to go to ShoWest when I was a theatre manager too. You can crash just about any party you want, you just have to show up. Before you start thinking of me as a heartless bastard, we are planning on taking a manager to ShoWest this year.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-22-2004 06:15 PM                        I'm going to try and make it this year. But who can I speak to for a trade-show pass??? Aaron? Hook me up.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-22-2004 07:46 PM                  I'm not going this year cuz: 1) That cheap-ass Maar won't give me a pass. 2) Brad told me to stay away...or else! 3) The mayor of Las Vegas still wants me to pay for last year's damages! 4) Some people don't like my piercings: Studs, bars, and "rings"... I'm a "bad" influence on the "youngin's" ya know... 5) Joe and Josh will tease me about my tattoos. What a bunch of jerks! >>> Phil [ 01-22-2004, 09:34 PM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]  |  IP: Logged

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