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Author Topic: Abandoned TES prints? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-12-2008 10:10 AM                        So has anybody else experienced a failure of TES to pick up prints, now that the July 1 "transitional" period of revised service windows etc. has commenced? And, are you calling anybody or just waiting? They didn't pick up our Wall-E print yesterday. Maybe they'll forget about it and I can keep it! Yeah like that'd ever happen.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-12-2008 11:07 AM                     ME: Hi, We still have print 3958 of "300" here at our theatre and we'd like to know when you are going to pick it up. TES Rep: Hmm. No... Our records show that print was picked up already.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-12-2008 11:20 AM                    I wouldn't pick up that DFS feature either.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-12-2008 06:36 PM                        Mines! Really. Send 'em both to me. I need to make a few thousand feet of slug.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-12-2008 11:49 PM                     Oh right. It was Deluxe. Nevertheless, we had a copy of 300 almost 4 or 5 months after it finaled.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 07-13-2008 10:13 AM                        A loooong time ago TES called to schedule pickup of one movie and then said "Oh and our records show you have a copy of 12 Monkeys... oh, that can't be right, that movie is super old. Let me just take that off your account." Without having to say a word, a copy of 12-Monkeys was suddenly available for those boring midnight when you and the staff wanted to watch something you'd seen over and over again that you all thought was a good movie, but somehow forgot was insanely long with a boring middle part. Sadly, the print got damaged in a flood. I always attributed that print's slip through the cracks because it was MGM during that period where MGM released 2 movies a year and TES probably wondered why the hell they distrubuted films for them at all.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-13-2008 02:25 PM                    12 Monkeys was Universal Pictures.  |  IP: Logged Laurie Higgins Film Handler Posts: 45 From: Norcross, GA, USA Registered: Jun 2008 posted 07-16-2008 04:05 PM                        I currently have approx. 100+ Bollywood prints that nobody ever came for. They are currently stacked along my back hallway that leads to the stairs that go down the outside of our building. The old owner didn't ever do anything with them, other than save them. The new owners are trying to figure out what to do with them.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-16-2008 04:10 PM                     quote: Mines! Send 'em all to Paul.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-16-2008 04:29 PM                  quote: John Wilson Send 'em all to Paul. Nah! quote: Laurie Higgins I currently have approx. 100+ Bollywood prints that nobody ever came for. Please email me the titles and I will give you an address to ship them to... Thanks!  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-16-2008 07:09 PM                     Anyhow, Mike, I think the transitional stuff only applies to people in outlying areas. We never got such a notice, nor have we had anything weird with pickups. Still DHL here in Boston. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-16-2008 07:57 PM                        Yeah, it's only in places without "hubs," small towns. I finally called TES about this Wall-E print which is still sitting here, and they said they would pick it up when we have a TES delivery again. Which will be at least a month or more, according to my guesstimated schedule....well whatever, I guess it doesn't hurt to have it sitting here.  |  IP: Logged

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