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Author Topic: Pirates 3 is 168 minutes??? John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-16-2007 02:14 AM                     Good grief. Whatever happened to a decent pair of scissors when it comes to movie lengths? How on earth can a film like this not get its (already) way overlong story told within 2 hours? Common sense over director's egos every time.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-16-2007 03:48 AM                     This third installment might have so much action that the 168m might just disappear without even realizing it. (after seeing the clips from the presentations at Showest, I think that the running time will not be that all noticable..)  |  IP: Logged Ian Woloschin Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Worcester, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-16-2007 09:24 AM                        The running time will quickly become very noticeable as soon as it's run on an old changeover booth...like mine...  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-16-2007 11:04 AM                        Or a drive-in that can't start films until 8:30 or 9pm and promises double features every night.  |  IP: Logged Richard P. May Expert Film Handler Posts: 243 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jan 2006 posted 05-16-2007 11:31 AM                     Ian, Why would the picture seem longer run with two projectors than one with a platter? More activity for the projectionist, sure, but the audience wouldn't know the difference. DM  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 05-16-2007 12:45 PM                        We run a drive-in. Double features are a fact of life. I don't care about the film length. If the customers want to see it and patronize the place, I'm open and ready to go. I'll sleep in Tomorrow! We went to the screening yesterday. Pirates ran 2 hours and 40 minutes to the start of the end credits. Add around another 6-ish for the credits and the end bit that's been on all the Pirates shows.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-16-2007 03:39 PM                        I'm not worried about having to stay late (I'm the auditor) - I'm more worried about customers not wanting to come see the 9 o'clock show because they know it'll be out late and by the time the second feature starts it'll be near 11:30.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 05-16-2007 03:41 PM                        Are we still talking about drive-ins? If we are, I'd note that our busiest months are July and August, when the shows don't even start until around 10pm. It seems that owners worry about this far more than the patrons do.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-16-2007 05:18 PM                     Looks like it is coming with an intermission to some cinemas in the UK! Guess they've got the projectionists bicyclying a print.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-16-2007 05:40 PM                     I've just seen the schedule at my UK multiplex. We are running prints both with and without intermision. We have 12 showings a day, 6 with intermissions and 6 without. Showing in 5 auditoriums (2 are an inter-lock). We were advertise the timings to the public so they can choose If they want a showtime with an intermission or one without.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-16-2007 06:17 PM                     The first one was ok, the second one sucked, the third one won't get my attention except for the interlock systems I'm in the middle of installing for it. Print quantities are supposedly more limited than usual. After I'm done with these installs... I'll forget about it completely in about an hour. Mark  |  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 05-16-2007 06:55 PM                        Like Jack, I find most of the patrons don't care too much about the second show not ending until around 3:30am. You won't see as many of the locals sticking around for the second feature but they'll be lots of cottagers and tourists around. My only concern is with triple and quad features allowing me enough time to get a bite to eat before heading to work for 8am.  |  IP: Logged Ian Woloschin Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Worcester, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-16-2007 10:31 PM                        quote: Richard P. May Ian, Why would the picture seem longer run with two projectors than one with a platter? More activity for the projectionist, sure, but the audience wouldn't know the difference. DM That's exactly what I meant . We do two showings a week, back to back on Sunday nights. Last year they booked Pirates 2 for Parents Weekend, which meant we did an additional two showings (one Friday, one Saturday). Needless to say, late Sunday evening...I mean early Monday morning...we were very happy to pack up the print and ship it far away. I really like having a changeover booth, it's more interesting than platters...until you get a movie like that. Then I wish I had a platter so I could start it up and take a nap!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-17-2007 02:30 AM                     I'm not talking about running it and being late out...it's simply from a film-making / script writing point of view. It's a movie about a pirate for goodness sake...how long do you need to tell the story? It's the multi-print thing. They don't seem to care how long things run anymore because they can just start another print in an hour and another an hour after that. No problem. If prints were scarce like they used to be and each cinema only got one print running 3 or maybe 4 times a day...do you think Disney'd still be happy with the running time? I doubt it. The multi print is a two edged sword...yes, you can get many more sessions in from a long film, but the patron has to sit through about an hour's more film than is necessary to tell the story.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-17-2007 02:39 AM                     quote: Michael Brown We were advertise the timings to the public so they can choose If they want a showtime with an intermission or one without. That's very interesting. Ideally I would like to do that somewhere as a test, but with identical start times. That way when they buy their ticket for the 7:00 show, there would be 2 auditoriums starting at 7:00, one with and one without an intermission. I do wonder which one would sell more tickets.  |  IP: Logged

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