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Author Topic: Spider-Man/USPS Michael Putlack Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Fort Collins, Colorado Registered: Sep 2011 posted 03-22-2014 11:31 AM                        In new add in which Spider-mans appears to deliver the box with the Amazing Spider-Man 2 dcp to Stan Lee in a projection booth, it is stated the the movie will be "delivered by the USPS." Does anyone think this will literally be the case and USPS will be bringing the DCPs exclusively instead of FedEx or UPS? Here's the ad: http://youtu.be/liPApMnQ4uU  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-22-2014 12:32 PM                        That's probably just advertising talk for "sponsored." Same way Sony said it was "assembling" the Lego movie. USPS doesn't have the overnight capacity to deliver a movie to every location. It would have to be shipped a couple of days earlier than normal to meet the delivery times for some places and I doubt the studio would go for that. Here, for example, if you go into the post office to ship an "overnight" package it can take up to 3 days to arrive. With UPS or FedEx, however, overnight means overnight.  |  IP: Logged Michael Putlack Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Fort Collins, Colorado Registered: Sep 2011 posted 03-22-2014 11:45 PM                        And they wonder why they're struggling... >  |  IP: Logged Connor Wilson Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Sterling, VA, USA Registered: Jan 2011 posted 03-23-2014 07:36 AM                     I thought the DCP would've been shipped through something more discrete and quicker like UPS. I doubt USPS would bring The Amazing Spider Man 2 DCPs to theaters nationwide, I assume it's too much for them. I love the nod to the Ziegfeld Theatre being a New Yorker. The exterior and the auditorium is the Ziegfeld while the lobby is a set and maybe so is the projection booth as I've never been inside. Ironically, I saw the first Amazing Spider-Man at the Ziegfeld.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-05-2014 12:37 AM                     I love how even though he's delivering a hard drive they STILL portray a projection booth as reel to reel when that reality hasn't been so for SO many years. Generally, that is...  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 05-05-2014 02:40 AM                     I had the same thought. Even they know it looks cooler that way!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-05-2014 02:40 PM                        Yep! Looks more interesting than a boring ol' rectangle of a projector. Though that rectangle would probably still be pointed straight down like those film projectors in the ad (only caught a glimpse). Perhaps Spider-man isn't delivering a DCP, but instead the Screenvision rolling stock. Can't let the fans down, after all.  |  IP: Logged

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