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Author Topic: CinemaCon 2019 Bruce Cloutier Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Gibsonia, PA, USA Registered: Aug 2016 posted 02-15-2019 04:24 PM                        What does everyone do after hours at CinemaCon? INTEG is likely the only booth that is 100% manned by technical people (yeah, no annoying marketing opportunists) and we generally are craving intelligent conversation after hours. That is not so easily found. I mean, the MIT smoker is great but it used to be better. Last year we attended a Samsung event where I ended up dining with someone from Samsung afterwards and having some really good (um, great) conversation. (Didn't mention the JNIOR once). We're getting our booth together and I am thinking about some proactive (this time) arrangements for the evenings. Any ideas?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-15-2019 05:15 PM                     Tuesday is Dolby's night at the Omnia (invited only and they got strict last year), Wednesday is the MIT Cigar Smoke on the top of the Omina and Barco does their Belgium Beer Bash down at the Jupiter pool. It too was better in years past but those were the boom years of digital conversion where most were having issues supplying as fast as the demand...times have changed. If you like drinking, there is always someone at the Seahorse bar. People that get the full-ride on the show have dinners and such in their package or other activities. But hey, it's Vegas so there is always somewhere to eat.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Cloutier Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Gibsonia, PA, USA Registered: Aug 2016 posted 02-16-2019 12:24 PM                        Hmm. We might do the Barco/Cinionic thing as we have new stuff going on with them this year. I suppose I am fishing for opportunities to socialize with techs and less with the top brass. For me it is sort of continuing ed. Oh, and yeah, it would involve a drink or two I am sure.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-16-2019 12:38 PM                        quote: Bruce Clouthier I suppose I am fishing for opportunities to socialize with techs and less with the top brass. Sorry to sound like a party pooper, but after a day of working the booth floor I usually find myself so tired that my evening consists of an hour of answering work emails I wasn't able to get to during the day, a quick meal at the nearest place I can find that doesn't have a long wait time for seating, followed by a bath and an early night. The days of being able to party late into the evening and then being able to function first thing the following morning are long behind me!  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 02-16-2019 06:11 PM                       quote: The days of being able to party late into the evening and then being able to function first thing the following morning are long behind me! They don't make 'em like they used to. There were years at Ballys where I never saw the sun until I headed for the airport.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-17-2019 02:14 PM                     Agreed on the Ballys Show Wests. Those were the best. Caesars is just way way too big. And after hours I go eat and do all sorts of stuff with other friends and other techs... I also try to make it to the Pawn Shop. Always something interesting there. Mark  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-17-2019 04:25 PM                        quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Caesars is just way way too big. Last year I stayed in Bally's, but the show was in Caesar's. Even though they are across the street from each other, according to my Fitbit, the walk from my hotel room to the MiT booth was .98 miles! That is just along corridors, bridges, and up and down stairs and escalators. I was literally walking two miles a day (four if I had to go back to my room in the middle of the day for any reason) to and from my hotel room.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-17-2019 05:17 PM                     I try to stay on east-coast time so I'm up early and deal with east-cost issues before things get going at the show. However, by 10pm Vegas time...I'm starting to fade fast. So it is often dinner and then BED. I used to stay at the Barbary Coast (Bill & Ted's Gamblin' Hall) until it got bought/renovated into its current high-price thing). Now, I tend to stay at Bally's or Harrahs. Bally's is a better stay but Harrahs is often cheaper and one has a street level crossing right to the driveway to the Colosseum. It is also reasonably close to the CVS store if one needs some provisions.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-18-2019 05:36 AM                        I used to live in Vegas. So now, when I go back there for Cinemacon, I have friends that I go out to dinner with - that are actual residents there. Of course Cinemacon is like one big family reunion anyways...  |  IP: Logged Bruce Cloutier Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Gibsonia, PA, USA Registered: Aug 2016 posted 02-18-2019 01:40 PM                        I get it that none of us are party animals (anymore). I'm just not ready to submit to being exclusively diurnal and increasingly anti-social.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2019 05:10 PM                        It's amazing how conventions have changed since I got into the biz (1979). Used to be, most of the best conversations were held in the hotel bar, and nobody ever went back to their room before midnight. I remember one film company rep in particular ("Lyle from New Line") who would set up shop in the bar immediately upon arrival, and he only came out for his product reel presentation and the trade show.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 02-19-2019 04:18 PM                     I've heard CinemaCon 2020 will be held at the Life Care Center of Las Vegas.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-20-2019 09:44 AM                        I will be there working on the show in the Coliseum. I hope to make it the show floor at least once. Hopefully I will run into some of you guys!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-22-2019 09:48 PM                        quote: Marcel Birgelen I've heard CinemaCon 2020 will be held at the Life Care Center of Las Vegas If they put Atmos in the assisted living units I might be up for it...  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-30-2019 08:48 PM                        Thought Brad might like to know that the stuff for his booth made it to Cinemacon safe and sound: We made good progress unpacking and setting up today:  |  IP: Logged

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