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Topic: What are you showing this week?
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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-10-2000 05:22 PM
We have had several weeks since Labor Day of poor ticket sales. We are just idling along. It is interesting that we have been doing double the business of a local 5-plex and a local 6-plex. We are waiting for them to go away.We were running, Margaret Chow in I'm the One that I Want.
An Iranian film called The Wind Will Carry Us.
A French film called Alice and Martin.
A German film called Aimee and Jaguar.
Another French film called Girl on the Bridge that actually made us some good money.
Chutney Popcorn that manages to combine an Indian family, Lesbianism and Motherhood into one film.
And Steal this Movie! which is about Abby Hoffman but it failed to spark any interest. It's time to clean out the cobwebs of summer and get in to this film thing. We are opening 4 new films this week.
Best in Show, "The best comedy you'll see all year! Howlingly funny. Comic genius." —Steve Iervolino, Launch. We are required to open this film on two screens. Well we will see how this works out.
Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire, Winner of the discovery Award, Toronto Film Festival 1999. This is one of those films you begin to wonder about while you are changing the marquee.
Psycho Beach Party, Fun, Fun, Fun! 'Till your Drag Queen takes the surfboard away, and kills you!
Phish, Bittersweet Motel, Phish is the most revered band in America now that the Grateful Dead are gone. And they have made a documentary film about their concert experience.
Ian
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Dave Cutler
Master Film Handler
Posts: 277
From: Centennial, CO
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 10-11-2000 02:07 PM
Wade,
How's business with the rep films. I would be willing to bet they are some of your top grosses. I am trying to convince my local theatre to do it since nothing else is making money.If you get Top Gun, the print should be beautiful. I just finished running it, and it was BRAND NEW, not digital but a very wonderful image with a great Dolby SR soundtrack. BTW, this week I am running... Mysteries of Egypt
Encounters in the 3rd Dimension
Magic of Flight
Mark Twain's America in 3D
The Mummy (1932 - 35mm) If you haven't guessed it's a large format theatre.
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Kathleen Cook
Film Handler
Posts: 1
From: West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 10-14-2000 12:13 AM
We are a 750 seat, single screen, independant art/foreign theatre.(also a concert venue) Our summer duldrums continue, with no end in sight. Today, Friday the 13th, we're running The Tao of Steve. We had 1 patron in the first show, 3 in the 2nd, 9 in the third, and 0 in the 4th. Total patrons = 13. Coincidence? The Indian movies are starting to look good to me.------------------
Kathleen Cook
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Gracia L. Babbidge
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 709
From: Bowdoin, Maine
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-14-2000 01:15 AM
hmm...I'm at a 10 screen, first run theater, located in an area of Maine where there is little appreciation for art house or foreign films.  (Bums me out, for I do appreciate such films). On occasion we do get the oddball feature though...  This week we have (more or less in order of how long the feature has been showing at our location)
~Bring It On
~Urban Legends: Final Cut (one late evening show a day, sharing a screen w/Digimon)
~Remember The Titans
~Almost Famous
~Digimon: The Movie (matinees & a first evening show, sharing a screen w/ UL: FC)
~Get Carter
~Meet The Parents
~The Ladies Man
~Lost Souls
~The Exorcist
~The Contender Yes, we only just got the re-issue of the Exorcist.  Maybe if I keep pestering the powers that be, we'll get the re-issue of The Nightmare Before Christmas (scheduled for 10/27)...  I can hope anyway... ~The Purple-Tressed Booth B*itch ------------------
In some cultures, what I do is considered normal.
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