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Author Topic: Transformers on ALL screens, 7/2 Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-02-2007 08:43 PM                        This is happening in Billings, MT tonight. Two complexes, 17 screens, all showing Transformers tonight at 8:00. This must be happening other places...surprised it hasn't been mntioned here. My wife was wanting to go to some other movie in Billings tonight and was a little put out that there were no other options. The ticket kid told her they'd only sold out about 1 1/2 screens in the 10-screen plex....with about 45 minutes to go until show time. How is it doing elsewhere?  |  IP: Logged Ross Oba Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Kailua Kona, HI Registered: Oct 2005 posted 07-02-2007 11:27 PM                     So THAT'S where our second print is. We are booked for only one print. I was shocked when I saw the bookings. We usually get two prints of all the big blockbusters (minus FF:ROTSS)  |  IP: Logged Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 07-03-2007 12:25 AM                     Are you interlocking a single print on your 17 screens? Or do you actually have 17 prints of the Transformers movie? It seems a bit excessive to run a single movie on all screens at once, unless you anticipate that everyone in the local area will be coming to see it (all screens sold out)! Having said that though, it might be a good idea for people who have to go to the bathroom during the performance. With each screen being a minute or so behind the previous one (due to interlocking), you could choose your own re-entry point so you didn't miss any of the movie  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-03-2007 01:10 AM                     We had less than 100 show up for the 8pm showing.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-03-2007 01:12 AM                        Guys, I don't work at those places. I live in a neighboring town. The cinemas in Billings are Carmikes and are all digital.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-03-2007 02:24 AM                     Not every Carmike is doing this, our 12 screen theatre only had it on 4 screens tonight for the 8 and 11 shows.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-03-2007 02:34 AM                     the Boise/Nampa area had their 8p screenings tonite. Know of one house only had 35 people show up for it..but, it wasnt' advertised in either paper, nor websites. More or less word of mouth sort of thingey.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-03-2007 02:36 AM                     Don't let anyone know it's on...that's an interesting promotional strategy. It did just over 8 Million bucks in Australia for the weekend. Normally, US goes 10 times as much as Australia for the same period meaning it should do $80million for a three day weekend. It should have a boffo first week total considering it's a week-and-a-half in reality.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 07-03-2007 09:38 AM                        We only have two prints of this movie, showing in the 2 biggest auditoriums that we have. We started the movie yesterday at 8, 9:30 and 11:00. I don't know the exact figures yet, but, from what I saw on Sunday, not a whole lot of people purchased advanced tickets. I would say, at least during my shift, less than 100 people did buy tickets. I'm sure that more people did buy tickets after I left from my opening shift.  |  IP: Logged Josh Rosen Film Handler Posts: 49 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canda Registered: May 2007 posted 07-03-2007 09:43 AM                    We ran a show at 8:00, 8:30 and 9 in our three biggest houses. All of them had no trouble selling out and I believe that the 8:00 pretty much sold out from pre-sales.  |  IP: Logged Blaine Young Master Film Handler Posts: 477 From: Kirkland, WA, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 07-03-2007 12:46 PM                     We ran 4 screens during the 8pm set and 2 in the 11:30 set. None 'sold out', but we did have a good crowd. Nothing like the sell outs we had on 4 screens of both 8pm and 11pm showings of Pirates 3.  |  IP: Logged Kamil Jackson-Chaka Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Gainesville, Fl, USA Registered: May 2007 posted 07-03-2007 02:11 PM                     We ran 6 screens for our 8pm, and all of the sold out. we had a 9:45 and a 10:15, but those didn't do to well. I'm in a college town though, so a lot more of our population is the target of the movie.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-03-2007 05:07 PM                     Has it been well-received? I thought it may be the big loser this summer but the trailers are looking better and better and the strategy of not showing too much of the robots before the release seems to be working. Transformers and Simpsons are both being released on the 27th July here. There's also a relatively big Bollywood release as well, so it is going to be the weekend from hell for most UK cinemas.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-04-2007 12:56 AM                     Most of the shows that I have stepped into at the end have had applause from the audience.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 07-04-2007 05:45 AM                     We had a surprise yesterday. After a lackluster 10AM showing on one screen of Transformers with a kids show running on the other largest screen, the floor manager decided to shut-down half of the consession stand for the day. Around 3PM, all hell broke loose with lots of Transformer watchers having to wait while we ran out of popcorn! Everyone that I have spoken to seems to like the film.  |  IP: Logged

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