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Author Topic: when do you get your prints Ramin Hashemi Expert Film Handler Posts: 129 From: Houston TX Registered: Sep 2004 posted 05-30-2008 10:32 AM                     We usually do not get our prints till Wednesday or Thursday for movies on the break, and Friday morning if it is off the break and theatre transfer. When do you, especially smaller theatres, get your on the break movies?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-30-2008 12:24 PM                        TES movies: Usually a day before they open via DHL, before noon Deluxe/ETS movies: Usually the day they open via UPS, by 2:00 PM  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-30-2008 01:05 PM                        Technicolor prints usually show up around 1:00pm the day before they open. ETS prints usually show up between 4:00pm and 8:00pm two days before release. However, yesterday our ETS courier just told us it may wind up being Thursday mornings most of the time because he's having to replan his routes due to higher gas prices.  |  IP: Logged Michael McGovern Film Handler Posts: 57 From: New Britain, CT, USA Registered: May 2008 posted 05-30-2008 01:17 PM                    Deluxe prints usually come anywhere between 3pm to 7pm on Wednesday, while I have Technicolor Prints by noon on Thursday.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-30-2008 01:22 PM                     Deluxe/ETS Thursday evening between 6 and 9 pm. Technicolor, Thursday between 10am and 1pm.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 05-30-2008 01:28 PM                        At my theatre, we get our Technicolor Prints on Thursday after 3pm and on Friday morning at around 5am. Sometimes, when a print comes from a different that comes in those Orange TES Cans, we get those on Friday mornings as well. Occassionally, I will receive a Print from United Artists Horton Plaza 14 in which I or another person makes arrangements for pick-up.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-30-2008 02:49 PM                     DFS hard drives: Mondays or Wednesdays TES hard drives: Wednesdays AccessIT hard drives: Wednesdays AccessIT satellite transfers can happen at any time -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Philip Jordan Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Lisburn / Northern Ireland Registered: Oct 2007 posted 06-04-2008 04:55 PM                     Our manager pick's up the film's from Deluxe on tuesday's and and from moving print on Wednesday.  |  IP: Logged Michael Dolan Film Handler Posts: 77 From: Deerfield Beach, fl. Registered: May 2008 posted 06-08-2008 05:54 PM                        Usually our owner picks the print up on tuesday in the atlanta depot then he brings them up here to NE GA around 6:00pm on wed.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 06-10-2008 06:42 PM                     quote: Philip Jordan Our manager pick's up the film's... quote: Michael Dolan Usually our owner picks the print up... Theatre staff having to go pick up their own prints from the depot? I've never heard of that before! Is this practice common?  |  IP: Logged Michael Dolan Film Handler Posts: 77 From: Deerfield Beach, fl. Registered: May 2008 posted 06-10-2008 07:42 PM                        I don't think it is that common at all. My theater is out in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We are also closed mon-wed. and don't open till 0800pm Thursday night so They make us have to go to Atlanta 2 1/2 hours away to get the film from the depot there. The owner lives in Atlanta so its not that bad he just grabs it on his way up.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-12-2008 07:27 AM                     For Deluxe (DFS), most theatres contract with a local shipping company who delivers films from the DFS depot to the theatre. But DFS is also happy to let you do it yourself ("WILL CALL"). --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 06-12-2008 09:04 AM                     We pick up all of our DFS prints since the depot is only 20 minutes away in OKC.  |  IP: Logged Philip Jordan Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Lisburn / Northern Ireland Registered: Oct 2007 posted 06-12-2008 09:08 AM                     Michael. Are cinema is only 10 miles between both depots, when we first opened 10 years ago we used to have a courier that brought us our films but he was getting to expensive so it was decided to use our own staff to get them and pay them travelling allowance. Our chain of cinema's in Northern Ireland get there own films, but the others still use that same courier.  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-12-2008 08:02 PM                     quote: Michael Brown Theatre staff having to go pick up their own prints from the depot? I've never heard of that before! Is this practice common? I remember it used to be that way when I first started. There was one guy that would go and pick up the prints on Friday morning from Rank in Glasgow, and drop of all the prints at the cinemas. At that time the family I worked for (and still do) had Cinemas in Glenrothes, Kelso and Galashiels. I remember going with him once or twice just for the run, and it was quite amazing going into the Rank depot in Glasgow and seeing all the films in the huge warehouse. For the record, these days our prints arrive mostly by DHL and usually on a Monday or Tuesday. Rarely as late as Thursday and if they aren't here by Wednesday then they get chased up. Some prints can arrive a week early.  |  IP: Logged

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