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Author Topic: show times for 2 prints Ryan Navaroli Film Handler Posts: 63 From: Athens, OH, USA Registered: Nov 2005 posted 12-04-2005 04:26 PM                        my company recently opened an 11 screen stadium seating theatre outside of town. We opened the weekend Chicken Little came out with 2 prints and have run 2 of Potter and will run 2 for King Kong and Narnia. How do you recommend scheduling the show times when you have two prints, especially ones for longer movies like, well, all of the Holiday big movies. Do you run them close to eachother incase of sell outs so it over flows into the next stadium, or spread out to offer a greater variety of times? Any comments would be appreciated thanks.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-04-2005 04:30 PM                     A lot depends on your auditorium size. If you keep your showtimes at least half an hour apart but not more than 45 minutes-say like 1, 1:30, 4, 4:30, etc-it will help with sell outs. You could go with the variety of showtimes option, like 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9:45 or something like that. Problem is if your 1 show sells out then customers need to wait 2 hours to see the next showtime. I'd be less inclined to go with this showtime setup if I had competition, especially if they were playing day and date.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-04-2005 04:32 PM                     Long shows for two prints equals at least a good half hour between the two sets. For "Chronicles" @140m: One set - 12:30 4:00 and 7:00 with an optional 10:00 time for weekends only, and the other set will be 1:00, 4:30 and 7:30 time For "KONG" @180m : One set will be a 12:00n, 4:00 and a 8:00 time, the other will be a 12:30, 4:30 and a 8:30 time. This is setup with trailers and a 20min cleanup time. good luck and try this one out. - Monte  |  IP: Logged Ryan Navaroli Film Handler Posts: 63 From: Athens, OH, USA Registered: Nov 2005 posted 12-04-2005 04:36 PM                        Our biggest auditoriums are 202 and 203 followed by 185ish and two at about 160. We had Harry Potter spread out by 20min and sold out all the shows except matinees all opening weekend. Chicken Little saw no sell out success but we wanted to open with 2 prints to show the studios that we wanted to do it. In the town our competetition is a 10 screen (not so good) theatre about 25min away and the one I run, 3 screen downtown "Art" theatre  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 12-04-2005 08:16 PM                     quote: Ryan Navaroli In the town our competetition is a 10 screen (not so good) theatre about 25min away Hey Ryan- Welcome to Film-Tech! Where's Trevor? Admittingly, the competition is isn't as nice as your guys brand spankin new place, but it isn't all that bad. When I've scheduled two prints, I usually put the earlier showtimes in the largest/best auditorium, then start the second print 30 min later. -Matt  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 12-05-2005 12:43 AM                     I would schedule the first set of shows in the smaller auditorium for one reason: If you sell out that show, the people forced to wait for the next show will get to view the picture in a larger auditorium than the earlier crowd. Compensation rocks  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-05-2005 02:31 AM                        ditto, for another reason: the second auditorium must seat the overflow from the first, in addition to those who intentionally came for that show. carl  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-05-2005 04:06 AM                        I'm going to buck the trend on this one. NEVER EVER schedule 2 prints any closer than 30 minutes. You have two prints in order to provide a variety of showtimes to the customer. Otherwise, why not just interlock? My showtimes would be something like this ... Chicken Little Print 1 12:30p 2:40p 4:50p 7:00p 9:10p (11:20p weekend show) Print 2 1:35p 3:45p 5:55p 8:05p 10:15p (12:25a weekend show) Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire Print 1 12:10p 3:35p 7:00p 10:25p Print 2 1:55p 5:20p 8:45p (12:10a weekend show) The Chronicles Of Narnia Print 1 12:50p 3:55p 7:00p 10:05p Print 2 2:20p 5:25p 8:30p (11:35p weekend show) King Kong Print 1 11:30a 3:15p 7:00p (10:45p weekend show) Print 2 1:25p 5:10p 8:55p (12:40a weekend show)  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 12-05-2005 07:48 AM                     Its been my experience that most people arrive for the earlier showtime, therefore putting the first show in the larger auditorium best meets the customers wishes.  |  IP: Logged Anslem Rayburn Master Film Handler Posts: 476 From: Yuma, AZ, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 12-05-2005 11:57 AM                     I agree with Mike about this. We recently ran 2 screens of Chicken Little in this manner. Went over really well. Longer shows are a little trickier, but we try to never have 2 screens of the same film starting too close to each other. 1 hour seems to be ideal for our location. Makes it so that if someone is late (or the show is sold out), they don't have to wait too long for the next one. If we used the 1, 1:30, 4:, 4:30 example and the 1:30 sold out, we would be asking customers to wait 2 1/2 hours for the next show. If we did 1, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30 we are balancing the wait a little more (although, as I said, with long shows it's a little harder, since the wait time increases no matter what you do).  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-12-2005 08:59 AM                     quote: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Rated (PG) • 2 hrs. 12 min. BUY TICKETS - 12:45pm, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 2:45pm, 2:45pm, 4:00pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:15pm, 6:15pm, 7:15pm, 7:45pm, 8:45pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm This was pulled from a local dallas theatre. Hmmmmm, let's see. 2:45 or 2:45, 6:15 or 6:15. Could it just be a website error or real scheduling?  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-12-2005 09:21 AM                        Three prints on four screens would do it. Your guess is as good as anyone's as to if that's really the case.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-12-2005 05:20 PM                        Most likely an interlock.  |  IP: Logged James Nash Film Handler Posts: 9 From: huntsville, alabama, united states of america Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-12-2005 11:26 PM                        quote: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Rated (PG) • 2 hrs. 12 min. BUY TICKETS - 12:45pm, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 2:45pm, 2:45pm, 4:00pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:15pm, 6:15pm, 7:15pm, 7:45pm, 8:45pm, 9:30pm, 10:30pm This was pulled from a local dallas theatre. Hmmmmm, let's see. 2:45 or 2:45, 6:15 or 6:15. Could it just be a website error or real scheduling? This is why there are multi showtimes. The theaters began to fill up, and sell out. The theater created a duplicate showtime an adjacent auditorium and interlocked. We do that in order for our online ticketing customers to purchase tickets to the interlocked performance. one of our theaters had 2 prints of narnia, and interlocked it twice for a total of 1 print on 3 screens at 7pm, 8:30pm, and the 9pm hour show. all of the screens had been sold out.  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-13-2005 09:29 AM                     I think it was scheduling thing because I checked their times on Wed because Kong would have created a new schedule and then have 4 unique times. I can't see purposely interlocking during the weekdays.  |  IP: Logged

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