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Author Topic: Tears of the Sun Katie Smith Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Aberdeen, OH, USA Registered: Feb 2003 posted 03-06-2003 01:35 PM                     Why did my theater's print of "Tears of the Sun" come in a cardboard-like plastic box instead of the normal metal cans? This box has an FBI warning on it; was it shipped in this box for security reasons?  |  IP: Logged Coleman L. Zatarain Film Handler Posts: 27 From: Alabama - USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 03-06-2003 01:44 PM                        No, the Depot just ran out of cans.  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-06-2003 01:45 PM                     If they are the grey boxes, then they were used originally for SW:EP1, then again for SW:EP2. Because of the length of Gods&Generals, they were used again. My guess is that they just want to get more use out of them. Maybe it costs less to ship vs. two heavy metal cans.  |  IP: Logged Katie Smith Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Aberdeen, OH, USA Registered: Feb 2003 posted 03-06-2003 02:28 PM                     Yeah, our print of Episode 2 came in one of those boxes too.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-06-2003 03:26 PM                    I had Gods and Generals (13 reels) in two corrugated plastic boxes. With conventional cases at least 4 would have been required.  |  IP: Logged Katie Smith Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Aberdeen, OH, USA Registered: Feb 2003 posted 03-06-2003 03:38 PM                     so why were they ever originally used, on Episode 1?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-06-2003 07:25 PM                     Were the new "Star Wars" movies the first ones to ship in these boxes? Don't they have the 20th Century Fox logo printed on them? "Just Married" was a recent Fox-In-The-Box release. Isn't "Tears of the Sun" a Sony (Technicolor) release? Or are these particular boxes generic versions?  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-06-2003 07:34 PM                     Sony switched over to ETS in early January. Besides Fox the only other studios that have used the boxes were New Line for their release of Final Destination 2 and Warner Brothers for Gods and Generals. Now we can add Sony to the list I geuss. Is this the beginning of a trend? Who knows.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-06-2003 07:53 PM                     ETS in the Los Angeles area started testing those types of boxes back in 1996 with a few Fox releases. But they stopped using them a few months later.  |  IP: Logged Justin McLeod Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-06-2003 08:06 PM                     My theater recieved 4 cans for "Gods and Generals", but both Starwars films we recieved came in the grey FBI boxes.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 03-06-2003 08:37 PM                        We got our "Tears" in a box, too. It's sure a pain to haul the whole print by one hand. It's fun to balance yourself, especially going up the stairs!  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-06-2003 09:02 PM                     Last week, we got one of our prints of Cradle 2 The Grave in cans, and the other one in a box. Other than Star Wars, G&G, and now Tears of the Sun, we've also recieved Just Married and Kangaroo Jack in such a fashion.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-06-2003 11:15 PM                     Same with the boxes here on Tears Of The Sun... but my reels were shipped FLAT in the box, instead of upright. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-06-2003 11:23 PM                        I can just imagine how much the bus drivers would complain if I were to receive prints in a box. They complain enough about having to carry one can at a time! BTW, do these boxes survive getting wet or set down in the snow?  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 03-07-2003 12:31 AM                        quote: from Daryl... BTW, do these boxes survive getting wet or set down in the snow? Probably. The one I got for "Tears" is made of that plastic corrugated stuff like they make real estate signs out of. Looks like cardboard box construction, only it's plastic. Water probably won't hurt it any, as long as you don't pour it in over the handle.  |  IP: Logged

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