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Author Topic: AMC now leaving green bands on? Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 09-02-2006 03:47 AM                     Heard a rumor that the MPAA came down on AMC and is now making them leave greenbands on the trailers. Can anyone confirm? At first I thought "great," but then I realized that this will make their trailer packs even longer.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-02-2006 10:04 AM                        If true, they should apply the same rule to Cinemark.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 09-02-2006 10:39 AM                        If true, I would think they would also apply the rule to Pacific Theatres as well.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 09-02-2006 11:09 AM                     I thought one was legally obligated to leave green bands on? Thats how we operated at Century. I have seen a major screw-up where "R" rated trailers were shown on a "G" rated film, resulting in many horrified and pised-off parents and hysterical children! Kutler  |  IP: Logged Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 09-02-2006 12:10 PM                    I haven't seen many theatres that keep the green bands on.  |  IP: Logged John Joseph Fink Film Handler Posts: 60 From: West Hartford, CT Registered: Feb 2006 posted 09-02-2006 01:28 PM                        Why now? I can't remember the last time they left them on. I remember post Colombine for a stint Regal who used to cut the bands off left them on. That was back in the era when studios were displaying the rating and MPAA reasonin right before the start of the film. I'm not a projectionist, do they still do this and do theaters cut this off as well? I also remember that I went to see some film and a piracy title card apeared from Warner Brothers? Remember these?  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-02-2006 01:39 PM                        I think cutting off the greenbands is the dumbest idea ever. I think all the major chains are doing it or have done it. They are on there for a reason. I just got a film from the Muvico Egyptian 24. They obviously cut their greenbands there. When I went to build a print of "Accepted" I found myself confused as to whether or not a trailer was on the film. I almost put the greenband back on in front of the feature. If this would have happened I would have been ultra pissed off.  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 09-02-2006 02:01 PM                     The one & only time I've been to an AMC recently that cut the green bands off, the trailers were otherwise cut appropriately. I could tell because every splice that passed through the SRD penthouse caused an analog reversion... Besides that problem, it was better than going to a place with sloppy green band cuts.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-02-2006 02:43 PM                     Granted, the 5 second run on the green bands can be somewhat lengthy, frustrating and drawing some impatience when some circuits are showing 5 trailers before the feature start. Thus to trim down the running time, I would cut out some of the green to where there were only 2 seconds of the screen. Being that much shorter but still noticable, the patience and anticipation time was drastically reduced. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-02-2006 02:52 PM                     It'll be interesting to see what the chains that cut green bands off do when they go digital. Most digital trailers are one file but for whatever reason some come with the green band seperate (mostly 'attached' trailers it seems).  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-02-2006 07:34 PM                        quote: Dustin Mitchell It'll be interesting to see what the chains that cut green bands off do when they go digital. Cinemark's digital show of Monster House 3D had the "green bands" on the previews. That's the only time I've ever seen green bands there. To the best of my recollection, Regal has always left the green bands on in their theaters around here.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 09-02-2006 10:08 PM                        The only time I saw green bands was earlier this week when I went to see a movie at Landmark Theatres La Jolla Village 4. The other theatres that I have been too haven't had the green bands.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-02-2006 10:58 PM                        Why would the MPAA have any say in this matter? How could they force an exhibitor to do something like this? (For the record, I agree that removing trailer ratings is dumb.)  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 09-02-2006 11:05 PM                        At Pacific Theatres, where I work at in booth, they told me that they didn't want the green bands on because they wanted consistency. I can't quite figure that one out. Anyway, I happen to agree with Scott that removing the green bands is stupid.  |  IP: Logged Bernie Anderson Jr Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Woodbridge, New Jersey Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-02-2006 11:48 PM                        If you go to Canada, you will see the same trailer, except they are printed without a Green Band. The MPAA has no say outside of the US. Canada's ratings are different than MPAA's. I'm probably one of the few that like the way the trailers look without the green bands. It's very reminiscent of the way trailers used to be. It runs as one complete unit of the show, not this consistant stop and start of trailers in the set. And if you have the 6 trailers we have, it doesn't seem like this endless run of trailers. BA  |  IP: Logged

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