Wonder Woman 2 Anticipation Thread

[Mr. Adventure]

Maybe if they get sophisticated with the seat assignment software they could allow families to order seats next to each other but within distance of the other patron so they could use more seating. So you could sit next to your wife and two kids but then there's distance between those seats and the next blocks. Everywhere I go has assigned seating so at least around here that's the norm.

I always go to the early shows where the theater is generally less than full anyway so I'm used to that but the later shows could be a challenge.

 

[FPAlpha]

Maybe if they get sophisticated with the seat assignment software they could allow families to order seats next to each other but within distance of the other patron so they could use more seating. So you could sit next to your wife and two kids but then there's distance between those seats and the next blocks. Everywhere I go has assigned seating so at least around here that's the norm.

I always go to the early shows where the theater is generally less than full anyway so I'm used to that but the later shows could be a challenge.

You are assuming sensible audience members who will keep distance when told to. This will work as well as when they reopened some beaches and asked the people to keep their distance - result was the closure again because people flooded the beaches.

It's as it has been said by Agent K in Men in Black: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I don't know how your theaters are there. Here they have huge arm chairs and assigned seating so I don't see how anyone can just "take a seat" next to you at least not without being escorted out of the theater. People in my area are generally pretty decent both in the theaters in general and in public re:social distancing so maybe I'm lucky.

 

[Ovation]

I don't know how your theaters are there. Here they have huge arm chairs and assigned seating so I don't see how anyone can just "take a seat" next to you at least not without being escorted out of the theater. People in my area are generally pretty decent both in the theaters in general and in public re:social distancing so maybe I'm lucky.

We have some like that but not all. Bit of a mixed bag.

 

[Morpheus 02]

I don't know how your theaters are there. Here they have huge arm chairs and assigned seating so I don't see how anyone can just "take a seat" next to you at least not without being escorted out of the theater. People in my area are generally pretty decent both in the theaters in general and in public re:social distancing so maybe I'm lucky.

Can they program the websites to allow blocks of seats (so parents can be next to kids) but then automatically block off 2 seats over? (Will that be even needed/recommended by the time they open them back up?)

 

[FPAlpha]

I don't know how your theaters are there. Here they have huge arm chairs and assigned seating so I don't see how anyone can just "take a seat" next to you at least not without being escorted out of the theater. People in my area are generally pretty decent both in the theaters in general and in public re:social distancing so maybe I'm lucky.

Sure.. seatings are numbered here too and assigned per Ticket but i'm not sure about the patience and willingness to follow the rules of the audience. By nature movie theaters are a cramped venue, what do you think will happen when they open and entertainment starved people rush to them en masse?

I'm just pessimistic by nature and recent events and reports have confirmed that you can't count on people to be sensible.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Sure.. seatings are numbered here too and assigned per Ticket but i'm not sure about the patience and willingness to follow the rules of the audience. By nature movie theaters are a cramped venue, what do you think will happen when they open and entertainment starved people rush to them en masse?

Ticket sale only online, thus only the people with an actual ticket will show up.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Can they program the websites to allow blocks of seats (so parents can be next to kids) but then automatically block off 2 seats over? (Will that be even needed/recommended by the time they open them back up?)

I was just brainstorming if they tried to open with diminished capacity. Instead of spacing x---x---x---x they could go xxx---xx---xxxx and so on. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to make an algorithm that only allows purchases of blocks of seats with so many in between.

By nature movie theaters are a cramped venue, what do you think will happen when they open and entertainment starved people rush to them en masse?

See I don't have a point of reference, it says you're in Germany, where I'm at the big multiplexes are not really cramped anymore. Especially if you have a seat or two between you and the next person. https://www.irwinseating.com/case-studies/mjr-cinemas-brighton

 

[The Realist]

I caught part of the original Wonder Woman on TNT last night, and it got me looking forward to the sequel even more (whenever we may actually get to see it). Gadot is a feat of casting magic, and Jenkins clearly has a passion and a vision for the character and material. I'm hoping for great things from WW84.

 

[JD]

That first piece of art looks like it could have come right out of the 80s Wonder Woman (art style wise, at least), and that's really cool. The second pic is weird looking to me for some reason (it looks too digital, if that makes sense) and of course Fake Cheetah is shit anyway. The last picture looks like the cover of an art book or something, I like it.

They could play the movies at triple speed (with subtitles)?

That way, they can have three one third sized audiences watch the same movie, one audience after the next, in the same time it takes a regular sized audience to watch a movie at regular speed.

(Still joking.)

I know you're joking, but to take the idea seriously for moment. I'm just assuming they'll just show the same movie in more auditoriums in the theaters.

Maybe they should consider really cheap specialty screenings of older movies. "Come and see the timeless classic _______ on the big screen for a special low price!"

I think AMC (one of the biggest national theater chains in the US) is going to be doing that. In a story I saw recently where they said they won't be opening back up until Tenet and Mulan come it, it also said that they plan to show popular older movies too.

I don't know how your theaters are there. Here they have huge arm chairs and assigned seating so I don't see how anyone can just "take a seat" next to you at least not without being escorted out of the theater. People in my area are generally pretty decent both in the theaters in general and in public re:social distancing so maybe I'm lucky.

They actually escort people out of the theater who don't sit in their assigned seat where you go? In my theater you have assigned seating, but nobody from the theater actually checks that you're in your seat once you get in the auditorium.

 

[Guy Gardener]

They lose money per auditorium.

Most of the week the theatres are empty screening movies on the off chance that 20 people might want to see Ant-Man 2 on a Monday at 11 am, and they come close to breaking even.

They make up for that loss with Friday and Saturday evenings where they are at capacity, even though the seat prices are double or triple than the calmer points in the week, and all imaginable discounts are excluded.

So if only a 3rd of the people can go out on a Friday night, for date night, the rest of the week is still nearly completely open.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

They actually escort people out of the theater who don't sit in their assigned seat where you go? In my theater you have assigned seating, but nobody from the theater actually checks that you're in your seat once you get in the auditorium.

If they sit in your assigned seat then yes they would be forced to move. Probably not ejected and not normally an issue to switch to unassigned seats in normal times but if social distancing was being enforced I'm sure they would do something if you were to say someone was sitting next to you. I was speaking to the hypothetical scenario which I was suggesting.

 

[UssGlenn]

So if only a 3rd of the people can go out on a Friday night, for date night, the rest of the week is still nearly completely open.

But as showing become "full" it will push people to other showings at other times. Won't make up for all the loss, but it will help.

 

[Starscream2112]

I think studios should give you a digital code for the movie with your ticket. The code would be good once it hits digital platforms to encourage people to go to the theater.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I think studios should give you a digital code for the movie with your ticket. The code would be good once it hits digital platforms to encourage people to go to the theater.

The studios sell the movie to the movie theatres who then sell the movie to us.

You're cutting out the middleman.

John Q Sixpack gets to see the movie, but t he cineplexes turn into graveyards.

 

[JD]

If they sit in your assigned seat then yes they would be forced to move. Probably not ejected and not normally an issue to switch to unassigned seats in normal times but if social distancing was being enforced I'm sure they would do something if you were to say someone was sitting next to you. I was speaking to the hypothetical scenario which I was suggesting.

Oh, I thought you meant that your theaters had ushers or similar people who were in the theater making sure everyone was only sitting in the seat they paid for.

I think studios should give you a digital code for the movie with your ticket. The code would be good once it hits digital platforms to encourage people to go to the theater.

I doubt they'd want to do that, it would lose them way to much money. If they were going to give up one of those, it would be the theater, which is exactly what's happening.
I took a marketing class back in high school and the teacher said that the majority of the studio's money is actually made on the home release rather than at the theater. They're not going to want to give that up.

 

[FPAlpha]

I was just brainstorming if they tried to open with diminished capacity. Instead of spacing x---x---x---x they could go xxx---xx---xxxx and so on. It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to make an algorithm that only allows purchases of blocks of seats with so many in between.


See I don't have a point of reference, it says you're in Germany, where I'm at the big multiplexes are not really cramped anymore. Especially if you have a seat or two between you and the next person. https://www.irwinseating.com/case-studies/mjr-cinemas-brighton

I'm talking Saturday night, 8pm showings (especially if there are some blockbuster movies being shown like the newest Marvel movie) which are usually quite full at the local Multiplexes, especially in the entrance area and at the concession stands until the people disperse to sit down in their respective theaters.

This would be Pandemic Heaven and i seriously doubt a movie theater's ability to regulate such a crowd on a Saturday night.

 

[marillion]

We have some like that but not all. Bit of a mixed bag.

Same. We have a handful of older theaters are still mostly open seating.

Damn I SOOOO miss going to the movies. Cannot wait for the theaters to open.

 

[JD]

I'm talking Saturday night, 8pm showings (especially if there are some blockbuster movies being shown like the newest Marvel movie) which are usually quite full at the local Multiplexes, especially in the entrance area and at the concession stands until the people disperse to sit down in their respective theaters.

This would be Pandemic Heaven and i seriously doubt a movie theater's ability to regulate such a crowd on a Saturday night.

Wow, that hadn't even occurred to me, but it's a good point.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Since we're currently debating how and at what capacity theaters can reopen, and what this would mean for movies released during that time, Dan Murrell, formerly of Screen Junkies fame, has done a thought experiment in his most recent video on charting, using "Avengers: Endgame" as an example.

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The part of the video with his thought experiment starts at 12:05.