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Author Topic: additional rental charge for archive prints? Alex Rolfe Film Handler Posts: 37 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 07-09-2003 12:04 PM                        We (http://lsc.mit.edu) are booking a print of Real Genius from Sony Rep through Swank. After originally quoting us $x for the rental, Swank is now trying to tell us it's $x + $250 because it's an archive print (after a _long_ rigamarole where we had to contact Sony to ask about the archive print because Swank wouldn't do it, it seems). Have other people been charged more for archive prints, or did Swank just make this up? And does anyone know how much of the non-theatrical rental fee will end up going to Sony and how much Swank keeps?  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-09-2003 12:31 PM                     It somehow seems at though distrubutors are doing everything they can to screw non-profit/non-theatrical venues out of as much money as they can. We've had to cancel a couple of movies this season because of similar circumstances. They didn't try to pull THAT trick on us but they DID try to hit us up for a higher price. They seem to LOVE cranking up the shipping charges... AFTER we had alredy sent the film back to them! I already sent the film back via E.T.S. and we got an invoice for an extra $125 on top of the $35 (each way) that we normally get charged! Cripes! They should GIVE you Real Genius for free since half of the characters and jokes were inspired by the students and culture at MIT! (and Cal Tech) Heck! I knew a guy there who was a dead ringer for Laslow Ollifled!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-09-2003 12:56 PM                        We used to book cartoons through Kit Parker. They tried to hit us with a $50 shipping charge, for UPS'ing three cartoons in a cardboard box! (The real cost was something like $12.50.) After we complained, we got it lowered to $20. I figured that was OK since they had all the hard labor of throwing the reels in the box....  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-09-2003 01:32 PM                       Booking through Swank has always required liberal amounts of Vaseline. The Red Barn student center theatre at U of L just used a regular film booker, and said to heck with Swank. Don't ask me how they got by with it, but they did.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-09-2003 04:15 PM                        Swank is annoying. Try sending mail to michael_schlesinger@spe.sony.com. He has been very helpful in the past when dealing with another Sony/Columbia booking through Swank.  |  IP: Logged Alex Rolfe Film Handler Posts: 37 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 07-09-2003 08:49 PM                        Emailing Michael Schlesinger was the reason we got the booking at all. Swank told us it just wasn't available. We emailed Michael and he arranged it, but this pissed Swank off (they don't like us talking to studios. guess we might find out that they don't really check on print availabilty after all).  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-09-2003 11:06 PM                       quote: this pissed Swank off (they don't like us talking to studios. That's because it exposes them as extortionists.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-10-2003 09:30 AM                     Hey, didn't there used to be a really BAD porno mag named "Swank"? At the top of the heap you have the "Big Three": Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler. (Pretty much in that order.) Then at the bottom there were all of these really cheesy mags like, Cheri and Club International. Way down there at the bottom of the bottom, I remember this mag, Swank, that had mostly "beaver shots" of drugged-out chicks that looked like runaways trying to make a quick buck. No class, whatsoever. Well, whenever I hear the name "Swank" I can't help but snicker under my breath. I know the company is named after the owner, Ray Swank, but old memories die hard. I'll never associate the name with anything else but the words "Cheesy" and "Low Class".  |  IP: Logged Tao Yue Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: Princeton, NJ Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-10-2003 10:07 AM                        Tim Reed wrote: quote: The Red Barn student center theatre at U of L just used a regular film booker, and said to heck with Swank. Don't ask me how they got by with it, but they did. I'm curious -- which "L" is this U of L? ("university student center red barn" yields lots of irrelevant Google hits, even with quotations around "red barn")  |  IP: Logged

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