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Author Topic: Master Of Disguise Franklin Armstrong Expert Film Handler Posts: 106 From: Orlando, FL, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 10-09-2002 07:01 PM                     Anyone know why i am getting this movie again we lost it about 1 and a half months ago ? is it a re release?  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-09-2002 07:43 PM                        Yes, it is a re-release ... they're trying to bump it up over $40,000,000.  |  IP: Logged Mike Williams Master Film Handler Posts: 255 From: Knoxville, TN Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-09-2002 09:28 PM                     You meant $40,000 right?  |  IP: Logged Franklin Armstrong Expert Film Handler Posts: 106 From: Orlando, FL, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 10-09-2002 09:29 PM                     well thanks for the bad news  |  IP: Logged Paul Goulet Master Film Handler Posts: 347 From: Rhode Island Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-09-2002 09:55 PM                        I think he meant $40.00 !!!  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-09-2002 10:16 PM                        Please you have got to be kidding me  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-09-2002 11:51 PM                     No joke, Sean, my theatre got it as well. Granted its doubled up with something else, but still.... In my mind this makes no sense. Over $40 million? Maybe, but we dropped Trapped this week, you'd think Sony would have prefferred to keep that in first run rather than bring Master of Disguise back. The only other explanation I can think of is perhaps this is in response to Tuck Everlasting. There aren't a lot of kids movies out right now and maybe Sony is hopping to grab some overflow if Tuck is a hit. That's a stretch though.  |  IP: Logged Franklin Armstrong Expert Film Handler Posts: 106 From: Orlando, FL, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 10-10-2002 12:37 AM                     at my theater we are droping ----- signs , ballistic , spy kids2 , trapped , stealing harvard, master of disguise and xxx are going to be together also getting trasnsporter , rules of attraction ,and brown sugar  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-10-2002 04:31 AM                        quote: "Well, through Sunday, October 6, Master of Disguise has grossed $39,516,694." That's an awful lot of money Sony is hoping to make off of that movie to hit the $40,000,000 goal. With any other movie, sure, but Master of Disguise???  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-10-2002 09:30 AM                     I heard something that a movies gross has something to do with the video market and how much the rental houses have to pay for copies, or whatever money they have to give a studio. So, if a title is close to crossing a boundry like $40M, then the deal is better for the rental company. Master of Disguise for us is playing the first matinee only and we also had a re-release of Bad Company a little while ago and this is where this info came from.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-10-2002 03:47 PM                     Don't you just love how we have to jump through hoops for the films companies over shit like this. I really hope that they don't reach their $40 Million goal this week and have to hold it over. I am willing to bet money that if they don't hit their goal, we will be forced not only to keep the film, but run it for a full set of daily shows with the usual threat of pulling their next major film release off of our bookings.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-10-2002 06:18 PM                        Booking is an extremely complicated thing. Sony is an extremely good customer to have ... look at the phenominal year they're having. After providing us with many good movies this summer (Spider-Man, Mr. Deeds, Men In Black 2, Stuart Little 2), we should gladly do this little favor for them.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-10-2002 06:32 PM                     What if it doesn't pass the $40,000,000 mark this week? Does that mean you get to put on your marquees HELD OVER second exciting week.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-11-2002 11:15 AM                     I agree that booking is a complicated monster. However, we are suppose to be in the business of making money the same as the film companies and I would rather use the screen on a movie that someone is actually going to go see. Instead we have to be the film companies bitch in order to keep them happy. This is not a good system. It would even be nice to be able to play the occasional art house film.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-11-2002 12:22 PM                        I don't get this....how does the distributor tell you what you are going to play? And if you are playing something that you would not book on your own, but are doing it for some kind of publicity for the studio, certainly you don't PAY to do them a favor like this, do you? I would four wall the theatre if they want to use my screen as a publicity gimmick, ESPECIALLY if it is to help the video rental store down the block who is my fierce competition. "You want me to play MASTER OF DISGUISE, great....give me the next upcomning Sony blockbuster for 50/50 instead of 90/10.  |  IP: Logged

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