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Author Topic: One-screen dilemma: Flightplan or Corpse Bride? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-06-2005 07:05 PM                        So if you only had one screen, which of these two movies would you take on the break? Any insights or opinions would be appreciated. I'm leaning toward Flightplan but am flexible. I'm considering saving Corpse for Halloween weekend. I'm also wrestling with a decision on King Kong vs. Chronicles of Narnia. Kong comes out one week after Narnia, so we can only play one on the break.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-06-2005 07:10 PM                        I would go with Flightplan. Both movies look like $50 million total grossers to me. King Kong over Chronicles, though very close ... King Kong is tracking to do approx. $170 million, Chronicles about $160. Plus, Chronicles will have better legs. You can pick it up for a week after the Kong run.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 09-06-2005 07:10 PM                     Thats an interesting question Mike. First what is your average customer base, is it more family oriented or is it all over the map? Do they prefer cartoon/clay mation, or thriller/action movies? Just a few questions to kinda get the ball rolling here. Something you could do, not sure how viable and smart this is but give the customers the choice, put up a ballet box and let them vote. That would be something diffrent and let your customers get the chance to voice there opinion.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-06-2005 07:30 PM                     Tough call here, Mike. Maybe you should go with the studio that gives you the best terms.  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 09-06-2005 07:48 PM                     I feel that Flightplan has a slight edge of Corpse. Corpse probably a bit too "weird" for my small town audience. I think Kong is going to be be HUGE and I think Narnia will be big, but not Kong sized.  |  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 09-06-2005 08:21 PM                        I'd say Flightplan except for the fact that I'd rather share my money with Warner Bros and not BVP.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-06-2005 10:09 PM                     Flightplan if you have a family or older audience; Corpsebride if you have tennagers and college kids as the main part of the audience. I am sure no one here will agree with me but I am really leary of King Kong. Sure it will open huge for one week but I still can't shake the feeling this belongs in the category of they should have left well enough alone ( e.g. Psycho). I also am old enough to remember the Dilaurentis version from 1976 and all the hype that went with it. Dilarentis said "When the monkey die, everybody gonna cry" They sure did -they were laughing so hard at the bad acting and dialogue. I think Chronicles will surprise - going to start off slow but it will end up being one of the top grossers of the year. I believe it is the start of a new sort of LOTR franchise.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-06-2005 11:05 PM                        Thanks all for your quick response and opinions. We have a strong kid/teen audience, but I would have to say that our audience probably skews more to the family/older side. So that's another vote toward Flightplan. Kurt's idea of a ballot box is interesting but I guess it's really a bit too late now to really get a good representative sample. Wish I'd thought of it a couple of months ago! By the way, on a completely unrelated note -- today, September 6, is my theatre's 75th anniversary. It opened 9/6/1930 with a film called "The Bad One," starring Dolores Del Rio. Our actual "anniversary celebration" will be in November to coincide with the new Harry Potter flick.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-06-2005 11:48 PM                        Check out the "Coming Soon" on our website ... www.spotlighttheatres.com The customers vote for what movies they want to see.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-07-2005 01:14 AM                     "Narnia" will do great at your little "palace", Mike - Monte  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-07-2005 11:45 AM                        75 and still rollin'! Congratulations Mike!  |  IP: Logged Brian D. Nelson Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Powell River, BC, Canada Registered: Jul 2005 posted 09-07-2005 12:27 PM                     Indeed, 75 years is quite the milestone, congratulations Mike. We are coming up on our 77th in November and for the 75th we had a 'reunion' of sorts involving as many of the former employees as we could locate. I wish we knew what the first movie that was played when it opened but I think there was a vaudeville show for opening back in Nov of '28.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-07-2005 12:48 PM                        Mike S. -- that's a cool feature! (Movie voting, that is.)  |  IP: Logged Robert Harrison Expert Film Handler Posts: 239 From: Harwood Heights, Illinois, USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 09-07-2005 09:53 PM                     Come on, Mike. Where I work, the bosses have a saying that goes something like this.... Come for the slides, stay for the commercials! You could book "Hoppity Goes To Town" and it wouldn't matter as long as you have pre-show ads followed by regular rolling stock ads, Disney be damned! Why drive yourself crazy trying to pick the right "horse" when all you need is all the advertising you can get! (Okay, I'll shut up now.)  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-08-2005 01:40 AM                        In defiance of the current conventional wisdom that dictates that you must have advertising to succeed, we don't do any advertising. (Thank God.)  |  IP: Logged

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