Next Week's Films Feb 6 - 12

To my mild surprise Frost/Nixon was available. Considering it's nominated for Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Editing and Actor I would have expected it to play first run longer. However it's not exactly the highest profile pic and not a subject matter the 'masses' would be interested in. I was also kinda surprised the Hyland hadn't booked it in, normally we would have had to wait for them as well. I booked it in for the 7pm show.

Valkyrie was also available. I booked it in for the late show. If you had asked me before it came out I would have said we would never play it. Every indication was it was going to bomb. However it turned out to be a really good film either because of, or in spite of, Tom Cruise depending on who you talk to. It's more because it has a great director, Bryan Singer. I'm a little leery about it as a late show since it was marketed largely to adults but I think enough students will want to see it.

I had planned to put Yes Man off until the following week but I realized that is a dead week. It's the first week of slack week. The place will be a ghost town. I'm planning to play Australia to 'kill' the week unless something else adult oriented like Doubt comes available.

We may actually get backlogged, Yes Man is available, we should be able to get Doubt and Rachel Getting Married as soon as the Hyland drops them and Benjamin Button was close to coming off. Twilight is still doing pretty good in it's second week that I might bring it back if I have a good late show spot open.

UPDATE: I found out the Hyland is playing Frost/Nixon the same week we are. I bet they aren't too happy. Universal seems to consider us in different zones as this isn't the first time we've both played the same film at the same time.

Next Week's Films Jan 16 - 22

There were two films available for next week.

Quantum of Solace: I've been waiting for this one so I booked it in for the 7pm show.

Seven Pounds: I was actually quite surprised this one was available already. I decided to hold off on it for a week as I think it needs to play as a 7pm show.

Since I was playing Quantum I couldn't play Australia both because of its' length and Fox's no splitting rule.

That left the late show to fill. I tried the following:

FLOW: a documentary about water that a few people had asked about. I saw it at The Hyland and thought it would be a good thing to play here, Unfortunately there is only one print for the entire country and it's out west. It comes out on DVD next week so I probably won't play it at all.

SYNDOCHE N.Y. Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, I've had a few requests for it and I think it could do okay here. It's currently playing at the Hyland and for some reason they wouldn't have known until Tuesday morning whether they were keeping it or not. I know they did well with it Friday night so I figured they would keep it and decided not to wait for an answer. I don't like to wait until Tuesday to make decisions unless I absolutely have to as we don't have a lot of time to get advertising going even when the decision is made on Monday.

I ended up booking in Zack and Miri Make a Porno for another week. The first week we played it was during exams so there are probably (hopefully) a lot of students who didn't have time to see it.

I think Twilight is another two weeks away so I'm not sure what I'll play with Seven Pounds the following week. Valkyrie may come off.

Update: As it turns out The Hyland did drop Syndoche N.Y. I might try again the following week but there may be no prints available. The Hyland also kept Australia which seems odd to me. I hope they aren't keeping it just to keep me from playing it.