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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 06-08-2002 09:45 AM

That huge 3rd-weekend falloff on Episode 2 tells me Fox and Lucasfilm have had to renegotiate those ironclad terms.

Here's how Reading Cinemas in Manville NJ has run Episode 2:

Weeks 1 & 2: 3 prints (2 giant houses + 1 large house)
Week 3: 2 prints (2 giant houses) -- drop 3rd print
Week 4: 2 prints (1 large house + 1 medium house)

I assume Reading will drop the 2nd print next week to accommodate product flow.

Have your theaters moved Episode 2 into smaller houses?

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Ken Lackner
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1907
From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 06-08-2002 10:31 AM

One of our prints is in our second-to-smallest house, and I think the other is in a medium house. But there's still the problem with the DLP! We have that thing for 8 weeks, and it's wasting our largest house!

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 06-08-2002 10:42 AM

Well if you would have listened to Lucas you'd have DLP in ALL of your auditoriums and you could just e-mail Episode 2 down to a smaller house as needed. That'll teach you not to make the radical changes that Lucas suggests!

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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1452
From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 06-08-2002 11:43 AM

I have to agree with Joe on this. Funny thing is Spiderman is still outdrawing that Star Wars POS.

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

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From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-08-2002 12:19 PM

We just dropped one of our Star Wars prints, but we still have all of our Spider-Man prints.

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-08-2002 12:58 PM

The inverse square law is starting to take effect up here, too.

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Adam Wilbert
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 590
From: Bellingham, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2002

posted 06-08-2002 10:03 PM

We're doing better for spiderman (in our smallest house) than star wars (in our largest). Hopefully we'll be able to change auditoriums next week, or at least for Scooby Doo. I'm looking forward to putting that "Ends Thursday" snipe on our roof marquee for SW! tee-hee!

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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 06-09-2002 01:26 AM

Isnt there another thread somewhere that we kind of took a guess at how each would face each other? I would like to know just how we each thought the respective pictures would do?

Dave

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-09-2002 01:28 PM

Dave,

Yep, it's in this forum. Title is "Spider-Man vs. Star Wars Episode II."

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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 06-09-2002 05:16 PM

From the Associated Press:

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"Attack of the Clones" continues to slump well behind its predecessor, "Episode I The Phantom Menace," which was approaching $300 million by this point three years ago.

"Attack of the Clones" is expected to top out at a bit more than $300 million, compared to $431 million for "The Phantom Menace."

Factoring in ticket prices that are about 16 percent higher today, "Attack of the Clones" grossed less than half the $25.6 million "The Phantom Menace" did in its corresponding fourth weekend.
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Hehe, sorry about that Georgie. But how could this happen when it was filmed and in some cases presented, in digital?

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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 962
From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 06-09-2002 07:29 PM

Its not a real huge surprise after seeing them both. Spider-Man is the better movie, and that's what I'm hearing from customers. Plus, it's got popular songs in it, so you've got radio stations saying Spider-Man 20 times a day too.

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Tom Fermanian
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 101
From: Sainte Adele, Quebec, Canada
Registered: Dec 2001

posted 06-09-2002 07:46 PM

Hey gang, out of the 363 available indy screens available in Quebec that Flatly refused Georgie and His Original /$%%%$?&$" deal! (meaning Nobody played it) It seems?? that none of these guys will play this picture on a moveover basis! They had all predicted that SWep2 would crash early! Ha! they are supposed to be the small uninformed theatre operators that know nothing! Well they do know that they didn't get screwed with a bad deal!

GL seems to be their attitude!

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Paul Konen
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-10-2002 08:58 AM

We have moved 2 of our prints down to smaller houses. We also will continue to play DLP in really full houses.

Luckily for me, I get to drop the DLP in the big house in two weeks for Lilo & Stitch.

Paul.

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John Pytlak
Film God

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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 06-11-2002 10:15 AM

Paul said: "Luckily for me, I get to drop the DLP in the big house in two weeks for Lilo & Stitch."

Any word on other feature films that will be available for Digital Cinema after "Lilo & Stitch"? I recall the dry spell after "Fantasia 2000" lost its legs a few years ago.

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Ken Lackner
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From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 06-11-2002 12:25 PM

I didn't know Lilo and Stich would be in DLP, but I heard the Windtalkers may be. We should loose Star Wars by the time Windtalkers comes out, but not Lilo and Stitch. We have Star Wars in DLP for 8 weeks. It originally was supposed to be 12. Good thing they were able to get out of that one!

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