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Topic: Wrong movie being shown makes the news AGAIN!
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Jesse Skeen
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From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-29-2008 07:27 AM
This is at least the third time in the past couple years I've heard of this making the news. This time it wasn't paired up, they switched the auditoriums at the last minute, but someone still should have caught it before the actual movie got on the screen.
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705258573,00.html
'Musical' switched for 'Sex' in Megaplex mix-up
By Pat Reavy
Deseret News
Published: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 12:24 a.m. MDT
SOUTH JORDAN — Some Utahns attending the weekend opening of Disney's biggest movie of the year were exposed to a little more than they were expecting.
Friday night, managers at the Megaplex Theatre at the District, 11400 South Bangerter Highway, switched one of the showings of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" to a larger auditorium to accommodate more people. They forgot, however, to switch the movie that had previously been scheduled for the room.
So rather than the family-friendly, G-rated "High School Musical 3," the beginning of the very nonfamily-friendly R-rated "Sex Drive" came on the screen. The opening minutes of the movie include nudity.
"I could not carry my little children out before they were exposed to extremely vulgar and sexually explicit material," one parent complained in an e-mail to the Deseret News.
The film was stopped as soon as the mistake was realized. It was not known Tuesday how long the movie ran until it was turned off.
Megaplex spokesman Jeff Whipple said "Sex Drive" was only on the screen briefly.
Theater managers apologized to the audience and gave everyone free movie passes and concession vouchers. For future movies. Whipple said a policy of secondary confirmation and personal supervision by a theater manager will be required before a movie is shown.
The District Theatre was the 10th busiest in the nation for "High School Musical 3" ticket sales, Whipple said.
— Pat Reavy
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Monte L Fullmer
Film God
Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 10-29-2008 09:13 PM
quote: Dominic Espinosa
If people would just COMMUNICATE and PAY ATTENTION
..this isn't the first time that a form of miscommunication like this happen within the bowels of any LHM cinemas....called, too many chiefs and not enough indians.
What's really odd is that this incident happened on a Friday night, and the DesNews got around to published it on Tues morning ... In my book, that's old news that should have never been brought up.
..and how many times have cinemas forget to change their DTS discs when doing a dbl feature in a house and the leftover discs beging to play the 2nd movie (esp a Disney) and the soundtrack from the leftover discs begin to play and cuss words hits the screen....
Really, what is going on here to those who don't know about the LHM Megaplex Cinemas is that these are the most popular cinemas to attend a movie in the SLC valley.
Check out the grand TOUR to give you an idea on what really goes on within this company.
Larry H. Miller is one of the most successful auto dealer owners in this entire intermountain region and he started his business from the ground up to make it what it is today. He started in the cinema business in 1999 with the opening of the Jordan Commons 17 Giant Screen (which then had the 8/70 presentations) and with this location (of over 177000 sq ft of a building), took over the popularity of the entire valley to be entertained, satisfied in food, drink and going to the movie.
Sad thing about large and well-known complexes: they draw the media attention real bad since they are so carefully watched by all. And when they "fall in the mud puddle" so to say, the "media vultures" glom on to that in a heartbeat.
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