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Author Topic: GRINDHOUSE and Your Theatre Operation Sam King Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 04-04-2007 07:11 PM                     So what's everyone's plan as far as showing Grindhouse warning guests about how it's "supposed to look and sound." Additionally, is anyone going to have thir own intermission? I mean 3 and a half hours without going pee is gonna be tricky. What's everyone's plan?  |  IP: Logged Ross Oba Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Kailua Kona, HI Registered: Oct 2005 posted 04-04-2007 08:37 PM                     From what I have researched, there will be fake trailers between the two movies. This will serve as an intermission.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-04-2007 11:28 PM                     We recieved an informational fax from Weinstein today that, among other things, specifically stated that theatres were NOT to make their own intermissions.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-05-2007 07:38 AM                     The fake trailers/intermission running time is 7 minutes.  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 04-05-2007 04:38 PM                     Not enough time to sell more popcorn...  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 04-06-2007 01:51 AM                     send in retro tray sellers during the trailers, then you would sell some popcorn  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2007 02:20 AM                     Not allowing you to stop between movies is just dumb. 7 minutes is not enough time to go pee, buy popcorn and whatever...the second feature's start is going to be missed by a lot of patrons and they won't be happy.  |  IP: Logged Paul Gordon Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 580 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Aug 2005 posted 04-06-2007 07:01 AM                        We will add an intermission after the first film ...i'm sure. Everynight is a double bill for us...so this might be a triple.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-06-2007 09:19 AM                     quote: John Wilson 7 minutes is not enough time to go pee, buy popcorn and whatever...the second feature's start is going to be missed by a lot of patrons and they won't be happy. Although in the era of double features 5 minute intermissions seemed to be the norm, and sometimes even that was eliminated during non-peak periods. Even top single attraction first runs in big cities would run on the 5-minute break between showings. And this was in the days of few end credits, which could add a bit of extra time for people to leave, etc.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-06-2007 10:01 AM                     quote: John Wilson 7 minutes is not enough time to go pee, buy popcorn and whatever...the second feature's start is going to be missed by a lot of patrons and they won't be happy. As Paul just posted. The way the film makers have made this film look and feel is the way Grindhouse theatres operated in the downtown areas of the major cities in the US. Most Grindhouses ran from 9am till 5am the next day and ran 4 different features and then repeated them. And most changed features twice a week. So on those lucky days you would finish the first round of four features and then start the next weeks four features , so the patrons got 8 features for their $1.50 ticket and a cheap motel in it's day. Intermissions were around 5 minutes in those houses.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-06-2007 01:17 PM                        Maybe they figure if you stop the film and bring up the lights, it would destroy the fantasy world of the movie?  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 04-06-2007 03:39 PM                     quote: Cameron Glendinning send in retro tray sellers during the trailers, then you would sell some popcorn And sell cigarettes too. Just like the old days!  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 04-06-2007 03:52 PM                     I like the tray idea. I would put a note on the door of the screen about the presentation. If there was actually something wrong with the print or the auditorium we'd have a sign at box office and/or tell people when they bought the tickets.  |  IP: Logged Alex Grueneberg Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Chicago, IL Registered: Aug 2004 posted 04-06-2007 03:53 PM                        Here at Cinemark the ring leaders wanted the house lights to come up, and then go back down at the 2nd "feature presentation" snipe. Honestly I'm supprised our automation could handle it... VVV Yeah we got the Holloween Trailer. I also bumped up the "following are prevues" snipe to the front so it opens the show out of the pre-show with some of the dirtiest leader I could find in our booth. Some of the other operators flipped because I put the start cue during the leader.. ITS OK! VVV [ 04-11-2007, 01:37 PM: Message edited by: Alex Grueneberg ]  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-06-2007 04:29 PM                     Did anyone get the promised HALLOWEEN trailer? I so badly wanted to put trailers for HALLOWEEN, HOT FUZZ, and HOSTEL: PART II on front of this movie so that people would get to see real trailers for movies by all the guys who did the fake trailers. That would have been awesome. Also, is it true that Canadian theaters got trailers for the trailer contest winner, HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN, to put on the front of their prints?  |  IP: Logged

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