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Dustin Mitchell
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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.
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Anslem Rayburn
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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).
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Paul Konen
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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?
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James Nash
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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.
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