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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 04-29-2002 07:48 PM

Does anyone else agree with me when I say that the markets are being deluged with Spiderman prints becuase it's gonna bomb out?

I mean, three prints (at my location), come on.... This is more of a niche film than it is a crossover based film, IMHO. Then again, I've been known to be wrong before!

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Gordon McLeod
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posted 04-29-2002 09:08 PM

Funny most bookers feel it will outdo StarWars

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Aldo Baez
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posted 04-29-2002 09:17 PM

I highly doubt it will outdo Starwars but we will see.

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Darryl Spicer
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posted 04-29-2002 10:44 PM

Been hearing some posative things about it. But who knows till the thing opens. People have been calling asking when tickets go onsale. Could be huge or another Godzilla.

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David Favel
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From: Ashburton, New Zealand
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posted 04-29-2002 11:10 PM

This, and M.I.B. 2 are Sony's big movies for the year.
They are putting a lot of faith in them, hence the wide releases.

In N.Z. they are also going quite wide.

However Godzilla did rather well in my wee town.

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Dustin Mitchell
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From: Mondovi, WI, USA
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posted 04-30-2002 01:41 AM

The running time is 121. If it was going to bomb, like say Time Machine, they would have cut it down to 5 reels, say 96 or 98 minutes, so they could squeeze in 5 shows a day. A 2 hour running time (without trailers mind you) indicates that the studio has faith in the picture.

However, all that doesn't change the fact that Star Wars, a movie that will draw from exactly the same demographic as Spiderman, opens 13 days after Spiderman. The saturation release (our location gets 3 prints also) could probably be compared more to Monsters, Inc. That movie was great, but Disney had to contend with Harry Porrter just two weeks down the road.

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Gracia L. Babbidge
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From: Bowdoin, Maine
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posted 04-30-2002 12:44 PM

I know that I'll be building up two prints of Spiderman this week. *mock enthusiasm* whee.

As far as I know, most of the people I work with just aren't too psyched up for it either.

Comic book superheroes just never did it for me. Oh well.

It's not like I'd actually be able to watch the screening anyway, as lately our bookers seem to have a fascination with changing enough stuff to make me a busy little bee! Recently it's been a bunch of weeks with 3 in, 4 out; or vice versa, and we've been playing 12+ different titles for quite some time, on 10 screens.

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Jason Black
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posted 04-30-2002 01:18 PM

Don't you just love it when the distributors force your bookers to hold over a print of "x movie" when it only grossed $500 for the week?

"Distributor" 'Well, we want you to hold over "x movie" for anotehr week. Go to one show if needed, we just want it there one more week so it makes another $100. Plus, we like causing your operators as much trouble as we can'.

"Booker" Well, we'd rather final, but we'll hold this one for you"

"Manager" 'This makes NO sense whatsoever.. 16 screens with 3 Spiderman prints and double ups on 4 screens.... WTF?'

"Operator" 'If they only had to do this double billing shit once, they'd understand'

"Customer" 'Why is 'x movie' only playing at 9:50? I'd like to see it at 2....

It never ends...

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 04-30-2002 02:35 PM

Spider-Man won't outgross Star Wars 2, but I don't think it'll be another Godzilla either. I'm thinking more like "The Grinch" ... a well-known character that spans the generations. As long as it doesn't suck, it will be a huge hit.

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Jacob Huber
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From: Evansville, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 04-30-2002 02:55 PM

I certainly hope it's nothing like The Grinch. We got hit bad by the Grinch, and I mean BAD. We had two or three prints playing 5 times a day, and every single show sold out every single day for about 2 weeks straight. 'Twas a nightmare, for I was still downstairs at the time.

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Adam Fraser
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posted 04-30-2002 04:07 PM

Jacob,
I dont see that as a bad thing, I hope we fill up for every showing of Spiderman, that is what keeps us in business.

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Jacob Huber
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From: Evansville, IN, USA
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posted 04-30-2002 10:16 PM

Not really a bad thing per se, but just a pain in the arse considering I was getting paid only $5.75/hour to deal with thousands of people a day and much of our staff was new, leading to long lines everywhere.

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Charles Everett
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From: New Jersey
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posted 05-01-2002 08:40 AM

David F: Sony has a big lineup this summer -- Spider-Man, Enough (with J.Lo

), Mr. Deeds (with Adam Sandler), MIIB (Men in Black II), Stuart Little 2, xXx (with Vin Diesel

). The weekly print edition of Variety had a story about the Sony slate a few weeks back.

Most chains' websites have been pushing advance tickets for Spider-Man. Few people are buying advance tickets, though. I did that for Star Wars Episode 1 and have vowed "Never Again!"

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Mike Spaeth
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From: Marietta, GA
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posted 05-01-2002 10:00 AM

Why all the complaining about the bookers intentionally trying to make you do more work? There is a lot more to booking than meets the eye. If you piss a film company off, you risk losing their product. That's why you have to play junk like "Freddy Got Fingered" from Fox. Doubling up prints isn't really that big of a headache anyways. I remember a couple of weeks last fall when I had 15 prints here in my 10-screen. I can count on one hand the number of weeks in the last year when I only had 10 movies showing. It's just part of the job. And for those that still want to complain about their booker, why don't you try doing their job for a week, and then tell me how you like it? Plus most bookers used to be in your shoes. "If they only had to do this double billing shit once, they'd understand." HOW FREAKING DIFFICULT IS IT? I assume you have a 3-deck platter system. All you do is thread a different show! The only way I could possibly see it being a pain is if you don't have automated masking and turret changes. In which case disregard the previous statement.

Rant over.

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
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posted 05-01-2002 10:19 AM

I only saw it a pain a couple of times and that is when they booked us with three prints in the same house. If possable I could connect two of them but when not possable we had to move the prints.

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