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Jeremy Weigel
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1062
From: Edmond, OK, USA
Registered: Mar 2007

posted 04-16-2010 11:58 AM

I received the following email:

quote:
Paramount Pictures has created a special [Take Action!] rewards scheme in conjunction with the U.S. theatrical release of Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010).

In order for a theater employee to be eligible for the reward, please note the following:

1. The police must be called and a police report must be made and submitted.
2. The reward is payable to the theater employee and the on-duty manager, to where a maximum of $2,000 ($1,000 maximum per person for the employee who initially spots the camcorder and for the on-duty manager) could be awarded per incident in the US.
3. The reward will only be paid within the first 10 days of theatrical release (*may be shortened if an ample supply of camcords are available).

You must also have ALL the information filled out on the normal reports we fill out. The claim cannot be filed without all information for a reward.

Please publicize this special program with your theater managers, and let me know if you have any questions.

Anybody else receive this?

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 04-16-2010 12:57 PM

The reward program might possibly be more effective if it was payable to someone who was illegally loaned a studio screener DVD. Rat out that actor or movie critic for a cool grand. It would not surprise me one bit if Iron Man 2 was uploaded to the Internet before the movie's early May release. Nevertheless the theaters would get all the blame because piracy only occurs in commercial movie theaters.
[Roll Eyes]

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Jonathan Althaus
Master Film Handler

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From: Bedford, TX
Registered: Dec 2008

posted 04-16-2010 01:38 PM

Get ready for the cans to be locked as well. They'll probably get unlocked an hour before your first show, if that soon.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-16-2010 04:38 PM

We're doing Iron Man 2 and Shrek 4 both. This'll be my first experience with Par's locked cans...wish me luck!

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James Westbrook
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From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
Registered: Mar 2006

posted 04-16-2010 04:45 PM

We received e-mail and fax that Hot Tub Time Machine was supposed to be locked and the codes would only be available after a certain time for 48 hours.
The movie arrived in a Fox Box.
Maybe they ran out of locks and cans?

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Joe Elliott
Master Film Handler

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From: Port Orange, Fl USA
Registered: Oct 2006

posted 04-16-2010 06:55 PM

We received the same message for Hot Tub. Ours came in cans without a lock in sight . . .

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Phil Blake
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 558
From: esperance western australia
Registered: Nov 2003

posted 04-25-2010 09:02 AM

quote: Bobby Henderson
It would not surprise me one bit if Iron Man 2 was uploaded to the Internet before the movie's early May release.

As no cinema has taken delivery of ironman 2 as yet why do i find dozens of files for it on the bittorrent download site already?

looks like paramount has missed the crooks again .

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-25-2010 09:24 AM

You'd all better be hanging around the editing rooms or at the back door of the film lab. This is where many "screeners" escape from. Screeners are the number one piracy point for all movies, not the movie theaters themselves.

Mark

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Chris Slycord
Film God

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From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea
Registered: Mar 2007

posted 04-25-2010 12:48 PM

quote: Phil Blake
As no cinema has taken delivery of ironman 2 as yet why do i find dozens of files for it on the bittorrent download site already?

While at least one of those is probably the real deal, some people put up torrents that are fake just for the lols. I remember a friend had downloaded Superman Returns before it came out only to find the content of the file was Super Troopers.

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 04-25-2010 01:14 PM

Back when Dolby was doing the DCMI cinema inspection thing a few years ago (maybe they still are in some locations) they used to offer a reward to any inspector that caught a camcorder or other recording device in a theater. An unobtrusive sweep of the auditorium looking for such things was a part of the inspection checklist.

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Mike Olpin
Chop Chop!

Posts: 1852
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 04-25-2010 03:41 PM

While someone camcordering should obviously be removed,
I wonder if anyone remembers that girl in Chicago last year who got arrested for inadvertently capturing a few seconds on her camera phone.

Remember all the negative press it generated for that theater?

Not worth it. Incentivizing ushers to become a studio police squad instead of customer service personnel is bad for business.

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Manny Montes
Master Film Handler

Posts: 270
From: United States
Registered: Feb 2010

posted 04-27-2010 01:33 AM

heck, while cams are so rare to find now days, I'll gladly take some extra $$$ if I catch someone recording it.

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 04-27-2010 01:58 AM

People bring entire laptops into the auditorium all the time these days. I saw one on about a year ago or so while the movie was running. I didn't know if someone was actively pirating or not, so I informed the GM. He went in, stopped, turned around and left the auditorium. Turns out it was just a kid (who I couldn't see) playing games on the laptop while the mom or dad or whoever watched the movie. The auditorium didn't have many people in it and the GM felt it was not worth it to approach and talk to the laptop family unless someone else complained.

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Ian Parfrey
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From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E
Registered: Feb 2009

posted 04-27-2010 03:45 AM

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
Screeners are the number one piracy point for all movies, not the movie theaters themselves.

Exactly! Mark, that is spot on.

So why is it so hard to get this through to the studios?

Surely it's a no-brainer. But I guess the studios have to be SEEN to be doing something about the scourge that is piracy.

On the other hand, bombarding patrons with that rotten "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" nag at the start of the show will only piss people off. More than one patron has said to me that it makes them feel like a criminal.

Treat people like criminals and they will act like them.

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John Wilson
Film God

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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 04-27-2010 04:25 AM

quote: Ian Parfrey
"You Wouldn't Steal a Car" nag at the start of the show

You run them?

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