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Michael Goucher
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Posts: 34
From: New York, NY USA
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 07-25-2001 03:26 PM

Reels = Six
A/R = Anamorphic
Sound = SRD, DTS, SDDS, SR
Trailers = "The Deep End" (Fox Searchlight) and "Glitter" (20th)
--I am not aware of trailers from studios other than 20th Century Fox

Advice -- this is the summer super-hit the entire industry needs. Play it "Hot" and get ready to rumble at the box-office.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 07-25-2001 06:25 PM

Did not get those trailers with Planet of the Apes. In these cans are:

Attached: Shallow Hal
Loose: From Hell
Don't Say a Word
Time Machine
The One
American Pie 2
Rock Star
Bandits

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Michael Goucher
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From: New York, NY USA
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 07-25-2001 06:34 PM

Sounds like an armload. I guess Fox should be grateful there was room for the feature. Do you play all those trailers, or is there a schedule made up at the district office?

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Brad Miller
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posted 07-26-2001 04:46 AM

Standard practice for most theaters is to follow the booker's primary requests first. Obviously the attached always gets played as well as *one* of the same studio's loose trailers (but never a total of 3 from the releasing studio). If there is no attached, but there are 2 loose trailers from the releasing studio, then both are played. Past that with other studio's trailers (in this case non-Fox), there is generally a cap such as "maximum of 5", etc that determines the final amount played. I don't know of any theater that runs more than 6 previews grand total though, and most seem to run either 4 or 5.

By the way, this is the first print in a LONG time from Fox that actually had a couple of feet of black leader where the analog and dts timecode did not cut into the attached trailer and as a result, the opening note of the Fox fanfare was not cut!

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Michael Goucher
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From: New York, NY USA
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 07-26-2001 12:01 PM

Actually, I didn't recognize any titles. Admittedly, I don't know all the films in the pipeline but I am aware of what's coming through in the next six months. None of those do I recognize as Fox films.
As for the term "attached" -- 95% of the time, deluxe labs (sometimes Technicolor) will print the trailer along with the first reel continuity; IOW there is no physical splice. Are these attached trailers spliced on your first reel, or are they printed on at the lab?

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John Pytlak
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posted 07-26-2001 01:38 PM

Quite a mix of distributors and release date for Brad's trailers:

Attached: Shallow Hal (Fox, 11/9/2001))
Loose: From Hell (Fox, 10/19/2001))
Don't Say a Word
Time Machine (Dreamworks 12/25/2001)
The One (Columbia 11/2/2001)
American Pie 2 (Universal 8/10/2001)
Rock Star (Warner Bros. 9/14/2001)
Bandits (MGM/UA 10/12/2001)

I wonder who decides which trailers are sent "loose"? Do all theatres get the same titles enclosed with a given feature, or is it random? Since the loose trailers are added to the case at the film exchange, is there a different selection process between TES and ETS?

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Brad Miller
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posted 07-26-2001 02:30 PM

Attached trailers are usually printed onto the first reel of the movie, but can also be hand spliced on (which most every projectionist HATE because the depots do such a sloppy job). Either way is considered an "attached" trailer.

The two depots ship each other's trailers if the studios request it.

If this thread is to continue, the next person to do so please make a new topic in the FHF to continue the discussion.

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