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Author Topic: April Fools at the theater Thomas Pitt Master Film Handler Posts: 266 From: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: May 2007 posted 03-29-2009 05:51 PM                     With April 1st in a couple of days time, are you planning any pranks at your theater? Either on moviegoers, or on the booth/floor staff themselves - let's hear about it! Maybe you've done April Fools pranks in the past? There are things I'd like to do, but probably would be impractical and/or illegal to perform. Something like switching the movie screens around, so the audience gets a different film than they were expecting, perhaps. Or maybe stick an animated slide into the digital preshow (adverts) so it looks like the film melted and broke.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 03-29-2009 06:02 PM                     I put up mylars (the signs over the doors that show what movie is playing) for movies that were a few years old (put the right ones in the box office so they could easily switch them back), also put up projection schedules that were a few years old. I'd always wanted to put in some ridiculous trailers like one I found selling Christmas gift certificates with "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" playing disco-style.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-29-2009 06:39 PM                     There are already a couple of threads about playing jokes in the theater.  |  IP: Logged

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