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My theater is being forced to show this.

posted 13 years ago by sabotagesound
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A few months ago, the theater chain I work for [Great Escape Theaters] was forced to screen "Chain Letter" from the same distributor of this crap, New Film Cinemas.
This company has to be some sort of tax write-off or something. They spend 3.5 million dollars on these films to have them play in no more than 75 screens and make less than 0.6% of the budget.
Dead Awake so far has sold 5 tickets since opening yesterday, and three were refunded due to common sense. With any luck we will be rid of it by Monday.
If this happens again with another one of their films I will just snap or set the hard drive on fire before it can infect our theater and patrons.

[–] YukonAurora 13 years ago

What??!!

[–] rosscosjunk 13 years ago

I totally agree, I am a general manager for Movie House. These films are going nowhere. I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of laundering or tax fraud is funding this rubbish.

Nick Stahl doesn't look well at all. He's not doing himself any favours with this NFC stuff.

[–] barbara-268 13 years ago

This is caused by union contracts, such as with the Screen Actors Guild, who are forcing some films to satisfy a US-release obligation before going to a foreign distributor, which is probably what the film was intended for in the first place. Without the union, it would never have shown in the US. The Union gets a cut of profits from US showings. I dont know the details but the owner doesnt have to do a big release, just a small one, as long as it fulfills the minimum in the contract. The market is better for some kinds of film, like torture movies, in Europe than in the US, but the unions hate it when their people get paid low to make a film, expecting a cut of the US profits, and then it never plays in the US. That's why the provision is in the contract sometimes. When a film is "buried" like this you can bet some of the actors were peeved. But they probably couldn't do anything.