my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Operations   » Ground Level   » Shooting Gallery

Author Topic: Shooting Gallery Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-27-2001 05:20 PM                     Last year we were pissed because the Shooting Gallery Film Series was played at United Artists theatres across the country, regardless if there was a good independent cinema in town or not. So all of the people who wanted to see these films would call us up and ask if we were getting the films and we would have to say, no they are playing exclusively at United Artists. So we picked up some of the films after they were nominated for Academy Awards and played them to much larger audiences than the United Artists did, here in town. So this year, Shooting Gallery awarded the series to us. I guess they realized that independent theatres market their films better and let them play longer. We were to get LAST RESORT, WHEN BRENDAN MET TRUDY, TOO MUCH SLEEP, THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN, THE LOW DOWN and EUREKA. We opened Last Resort last week to not much attendance. This week we were looking forward to When Brendan Met Trudy which has gotten good reviews in NYC & LA. So last night at 5:30 PM Technicolor calls up Ky and tells him that they won't be able to ship our film out this week because Shooting Gallery went out of business today. We called our booker in a hurry and tried to get in touch with the newspapers to change our ads. Can you believe it? We just lost 6 titles in a blink. I don't even know if they will pick up Last Resort. Our booker already told us not to pay the weeks rental on this film. Well luckily we have a backlog of titles to play, so I guess this will not hurt us too much.  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 06-27-2001 05:46 PM                     Ian: The Shooting Gallery series involved Loews Cineplex, not United Artists. In New York the Shooting Gallery series was based at the Loews State (Broadway & 45th). With the Loews E-Walk and AMC Empire running full-tilt the State stayed open only because of the Shooting Gallery. Loews wants to close the State as part of its own Chapter 11 reorganization -- and the demise of the Shooting Gallery should be the deciding factor.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2001 04:45 PM                     I know that Shooting Gallery was partnered with Lowe's. But in markets where there were no Lowe's, they went with UA. I just think it would have been smarter last year for Shooting Gallery to look at each individual market before committing to one company. We were looking forward to their series this year. We have spent considerable time and effort in marketing the series this year and we have disgruntled patrons to consider.  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 07-21-2001 10:36 AM                     There's more in this week's Village Voice on how the Shooting Gallery shot itself dead.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.