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Author Topic: Super 8 Opening Full Day Early @ AMC Imax Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-08-2011 03:06 PM                     No, this isn't a midnight screening. They are running a full-day set of screenings of SUPER 8 on their IMAX screens starting late morning. Don't know if this is an AMC exclusive or other locations will be joining in. They are giving away a free small popcorn with another concession purchase with this event.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-08-2011 03:18 PM                        The movie is getting great reviews from what I've seen so far...I have high hopes for it!  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 06-08-2011 07:17 PM                     We are doing this as well with our 15/70 print of Super 8. We will also be offering the free popcorn (This is a promotion from Paramount. Its a decent film, going to have a hard time finding a crowd though. -edit because just found out we are giving it out  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 06-08-2011 08:52 PM                        Megaplex Theatres in SLC are on board too.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 06-08-2011 08:53 PM                     Cinemark is doing it as well, with their liemax and xd screens only I believe  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 06-08-2011 10:29 PM                        FREE popcorn? I do an annual "free children's show" in December and the first year I had my theatre in operation I decided to be nice and give away free popcorn for that show. NEVER AGAIN. All kinds of people took the popcorn just because it was free even though they apparently didn't want it. After the show I was literally cleaning up popcorn with a grain shovel that I usually use for moving snow. Ain't gonna be no more free popcorn 'round here. No siree!  |  IP: Logged Mike Frese Master Film Handler Posts: 465 From: Holts Summit, MO Registered: Jun 2007 posted 06-08-2011 10:39 PM                        According to Boxoffice.com, approx. 300 locations (239 Imax) are starting a day early in an effort to create some buzz.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan M. Crist Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 531 From: Hershey, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-09-2011 08:12 AM                     Seems to me that the terms "IMAX" and "get the buzz out" are mutually exclusive. The IMAX in my area (Lancaster PA) where Super 8 is showing charges $15.50 for an adult ticket and $13.50 for a childs ticket. A tough sell where people pride themselves on their Pennsylvania Dutch heritage (translation: they are cheap). If they really want to get the "buzz" going (meaning get people to actually see the picture) what they should have done is the old fashioned "Free Preview" at a conventional theatre - either one where the tickets are given away or where you pay to see the current feature and get the preview for no extra charge. A free popcorn if you buy another item? Good Grief Charlie Brown!  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 06-09-2011 10:51 AM                     in the DC area, all the IMAX-Digital screens are starting today, as well as screens at the Uptown, Bow Tie Annapolis Mall 11 (1 screen), Rave Motion Pictures Fairfax Corner 14 (1 screen), AMC Rio Gaithersburg (1 screen) and the XD screen at Cinemark's Egyptian.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-09-2011 12:28 PM                    quote: Jonathan Althaus Cinemark is doing it as well, with their liemax and xd screens only I believe And some select non Imax and XD screens. We are doing it here.  |  IP: Logged

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