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Topic: Midnight Movie Suggestions
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Thomas King
Expert Film Handler
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Posts: 119
From: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 01-20-2005 09:39 PM
Our showings are 'themed' : wednesdays are foreign/arthouse, fridays and saturdays are for fairly recent big hitters, and sundays are for old gold, so to speak. Annoyingly, sundays don't perform well, I can only assume that most people have seen it all on VHS and DVD millions of times before. When I try to explain that watching Se7en in your living room just isn't the same, they look at me bug-eyed.
A few always pull in the crowds, though. Priscilla; Queen of the Desert, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, American Beauty, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, The Crow and Fear and Loathing all got a nice big crowd of geeky types. (But why no Rocky Horror? It's just a jump to the left, you know)
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Scott Norwood
Film God
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-24-2005 08:45 AM
Booking older titles "shouldn't" be a problem. You just call your booker (or the distributor) and book the film.
Sometimes things get interesting and distributors claim that they don't have any prints of a particular title when they actually do. At that point, it's helpful to have the name of a theatre that played it recently and (if you know them and can call and ask) a print number. Sometimes there are rights issues and the company that original produced the film no longer owns the rights, but someone else does. Sometimes you will run into distributors who have rights but no prints, but will license the screening if you can find someone who has a print or if you want to run the show on video or 16mm. Sometimes prints may be available through third-party archives (e.g. UCLA) who might rent them out, but only if you pay for exhibition rights to whoever owns these rights.
Personally, I think it's horrible that an entity can hold the rights to a film (or book, record, etc.) but not own any elements (prints, negs, recordings, etc.) for it. Such is the US legal system, however.
Popular titles shouldn't be a real problem, though. The rare ones sometimes aren't permitted to be run on platters or large reels, but those are issues that need to be addressed with the distributor.
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