Is it still showing where YOU live?

[Crusher Disciple]

I'm checking the $2.00 second run cinema up in Round Rock. The "new" movies up there are Night at the Museum and Terminator.

Still no Star Trek. I'm just a waiting with my $2.00 to pounce...er, get my ticket.

 

[Daneel]

Still playing at my local $3 second-run cinema. In Toronto, it appears to be showing in four theatres -- two independent and two first-run multiplexes. Oh yeah, and it's still at the Ontario Science Centre IMAX too.

 

[Jeri]

I think we are going to catch the 2:20 p.m. show tomorrow at doggeh's Cantera 30.

 

[GNDN]

Now in 3 theaters, each about an hour away... so had to make that drive yesterday! Hooray for viewing #6 that should hold me over till November (unless it shows up at a second run...)

 

[Borgminister]

Saw it again last night, 80+ people in attendance, ranging from young to old, individual to groups and families. Very heartening.

The manager of the IMAX told me they wanted to keep the movie and pair it with Transformers II...

 

[Crusher Disciple]

The manager of the IMAX told me they wanted to keep the movie and pair it with Transformers II...

How to the theaters "get" and "keep" movies, anyway? Do they "rent" them from the studios for a specific amount of time before returning them to the studio??

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Absolutely amazing how it is still going strong in some parts of the country and yet here it cannot be found within a one hour drive. i seriously need to move.

 

[Borgminister]

The manager of the IMAX told me they wanted to keep the movie and pair it with Transformers II...

How to the theaters "get" and "keep" movies, anyway? Do they "rent" them from the studios for a specific amount of time before returning them to the studio??

I suppose so. This particular one seems to be owned by Warner Bros., and its first foray into showing Hollywood blockbusters was with The Dark Knight.

That turned out so well that they tried other WB offerings, like 300 and Watchmen, which didn't turn out as well.

So then they lobbied for and got the first out-of-corporate-family, Star Trek, from Paramount.

Which brings us to this point, where Star Trek has apparently been doing so well, bringing in so much money, that they want to keep it and show Transformers as a double-billing.

 

[cooleddie74]

Absolutely amazing how it is still going strong in some parts of the country and yet here it cannot be found within a one hour drive. i seriously need to move.

That's the way so many areas are. My city has 100,000 or so people in the central city itself and roughly 300,000 in the greater metro area and yet we lose movies before some smaller areas do.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ Eddie, I just don't get it. Im on fricken Long Island, outside of NYC for gawds sake. You'd think there'd be at least ONE theater still showing it!! Jeez. I've said it before and i'll say it again. this sucks verily!

 

[cooleddie74]

^ Eddie, I just don't get it. Im on fricken Long Island, outside of NYC for gawds sake. You'd think there'd be at least ONE theater still showing it!! Jeez. I've said it before and i'll say it again. this sucks verily!

Long Island seems like one of those places where a LOT doesn't make sense if you ask me. LOL

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ You got that right!

 

[cooleddie74]

Long Island alone probably has as many people as most of my state of Virginia...I dont get why movies vanish so quickly there.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

My guess would be the amazingly short attention span most Lawngeyelandas have.

 

[M'Sharak]

^ Eddie, I just don't get it. Im on fricken Long Island, outside of NYC for gawds sake. You'd think there'd be at least ONE theater still showing it!! Jeez. I've said it before and i'll say it again. this sucks verily!

Checking for Hicksville/Levittown area, I get one theater on West 42nd and one on Second Ave. Going farther out toward the end of the island, I get either no listings or ones for theaters in Connecticut. Lawnguyland is a dead zone, looks like.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

<snip>
Checking for Hicksville/Levittown area, I get one theater on West 42nd and one on Second Ave. Going farther out toward the end of the island, I get either no listings or ones for theaters in Connecticut. Lawnguyland is a dead zone, looks like.

A dead zone......

......................filled with darkness & silence.......

 

[T'Cal]

Still at a couple theatres near Chicago. I took my family Thursday believing that that might be the last night, but it's still being shown this week. I've seen it seven times. Eight would be cool...

 

[pookha]

The manager of the IMAX told me they wanted to keep the movie and pair it with Transformers II...

How to the theaters "get" and "keep" movies, anyway? Do they "rent" them from the studios for a specific amount of time before returning them to the studio??

a lot of theatre groups contract for a specific amount of time for a movie at a time based on industry estimates.
some of the local regions may be able to have some differences.
after the initial contract period it is more open to the local theatre .

and then there are thing were a lot of the commercial imax are in one business group together no matter which theatre they are in.

they seem to contract movies together .
this is why so many only had star trek contracted for two weeks and transformers for a month.

 

[Rackon]

The manager of the IMAX told me they wanted to keep the movie and pair it with Transformers II...

How to the theaters "get" and "keep" movies, anyway? Do they "rent" them from the studios for a specific amount of time before returning them to the studio??

a lot of theatre groups contract for a specific amount of time for a movie at a time based on industry estimates.
some of the local regions may be able to have some differences.
after the initial contract period it is more open to the local theatre .

and then there are thing were a lot of the commercial imax are in one business group together no matter which theatre they are in.

they seem to contract movies together .
this is why so many only had star trek contracted for two weeks and transformers for a month.

Yup.

Theaters lease through a distributor - sometimes the studio, sometimes another studio, sometimes a releasing subsuduary of a studio.

Big chains get first crack. Then major regional independents, then smaller independents.

 

[SheliakBob]

Three weeks at the $5 second run theater here in Morgantown.
The Abomination mocks me with its undying tenacity.
sigh.
Maybe I'll go see it a third time...