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Author Topic: Twilight question? Louis Belloisy Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: morris, ct usa Registered: Jun 2006 posted 11-20-2008 08:28 AM                        Many theaters are having midnight showing on thursday night (11/20), including ours. I am away from the office so I cannot make any calls, but I understand that the film will not be delivered until late tonight (thurs) with scant time for building and forget about proofing. The film is from Technicolor but will be delivered by FTS (I thought DHL would be delivering until the end of the year). Does anyone have any further info. Louis  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-20-2008 09:30 AM                        We got a note from Tech saying all deliveries via UPS would be on Wednesdays, and indeed all Tech films since then have been delivered on Wednesday. We're not playing Twilight yet so I can't answer your question, but I'm surprised if they deviated from their new policy already.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 11-20-2008 10:21 AM                    Twilight is coming out of Deluxe film services (Gray Boxes) and I got my prints last night at 10:00 pm.  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 11-20-2008 10:33 AM                     I believe my old theater, which is playing a 12:01 tonight, got it yesterday. I, however, am not playing it (thankfully). Have fun with a theater full of weird teenage girls dressed as vampires!  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-20-2008 12:32 PM                        We're running a midnight and so is our sister theatre. We received our prints Wednesday night. I actually haven't seen this much demand for a midnight movie. We'll often have a good turn out for the major tent poles, but we usually don't sell more than 30%-40% of the tickets until the day of. As of Wednesday night I have already sold about 90% of the tickets.  |  IP: Logged Louis Belloisy Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: morris, ct usa Registered: Jun 2006 posted 11-20-2008 02:42 PM                        Its indeed going to be grey boxes and delivery will be only scant hours before showing. If they are late, there will be many upset vampires. Louis  |  IP: Logged Dennis Udovich Film Handler Posts: 71 From: Sheboygan, WI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 11-20-2008 02:44 PM                        Both prints came in Thursday morning, as usual. (Deluxe) Same with Bolt (DHL). UPS is taking over Dec. 1.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-20-2008 05:40 PM                     Our digital drives were here on Tuesday but the keys were not good until 9am Thursday. Granted if a drive ingested properly 99% of the time there won't be anything wrong, but its still annoying.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 11-20-2008 07:43 PM                     My manager and I were ready to jump off the roof earlier this afternoon. We have 3 screens playing midnights, 3 prints. Our midnights sold out. Our booth guy finds there is no soundtrack at all on Reel 7 on one of the prints. Not even a DTS timecode. Deluxe said the nearest depot to us that has a replacement #7 reel is in St. Louis. Estimated time of arrival in Lubbock: Half Past Midnight tonight. Fortunately the Stars and Stripes has the movie booked, but is not running the midnight. He lent us his #7 reel, which we return to him tomorrow. Odd fluke...  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 11-20-2008 08:21 PM                        James, your example is the reason why the studios really need to make the effort to get us prints at least by Wednesday. Even without the midnight showing it could have put a pinch in Friday.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-21-2008 02:35 AM                        James, you are lucky you have a projectionist who had his wits about him -- it's not beyond the pale that some of these splice-jockeys would have just loaded that reel on the platter and missed the missing track. Can you imagine what would happen if you got that far into the film and the sound just went off? You'd be lucky if they left the seat attached to the floor! Screaming teen girls in heat....and ANGRY...it aint a pretty sight.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 11-21-2008 03:58 AM                     I know. That's the stuff nightmares are made of. This never seems to happen to films like The Haunting of Whats-her-face Hartley, where a bad reel would only be annoying. The replacement reel arrived at 11 PM! We are giving that one to the drive-in so their COMPLETE print will be all new. (After verifying the reel does indeed have a sound track.)  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 11-21-2008 09:29 AM                     quote: James Westbrook Our booth guy finds there is no soundtrack at all on Reel 7 A long time ago, I got a print where the optical track had been printed BACKWARDS. (IE: the tail end of the track was printed at the head end of the reel.) When I first saw it I thought perhaps the sound negative was just mislabeled, but I threw it up on my sound reader and it had indeed been printed backwards. (yet another reason I prefer working without platters- it's easy to spot check stuff like this)  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 11-21-2008 09:52 AM                     A long time ago, we had a reel where its head was actually what should've been approximately 7-9 minutes into the reel and it played to the end, then at that point it hit the normal beginning of the reel and preceeded to play the first 7-9 minutes and when it got to the end of that it went to the next reel. They got a replacement pretty quickly though someone could've just torn down the print to get at the respective reel and chop it up into the right order but at that point you wouldn't be sure if there was anything else missing from the reel as it were.  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 11-21-2008 10:18 AM                  I had a preview once of "Memphis Belle" and the image on the second to last reel was printed in reverse. All the writing on the screen was, of course, inside out and the image didn't fill the right side of the frame.  |  IP: Logged

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