Theater Chains that books the bigees in "seems like" shoebox auditoriums

[BorderEevilIII]

Why do theater chains books the big movies, the summer blockbusters on OPENING WEEKEND in a theater that seems like a SHOEBOX? Do they analyze where which movies should be and shift around the others that are going on 3rd weeks and so forth? I just wanna go DAMN you to whoever is making these decisions
I went to see Moulin Rouge the day it came out at the San Francisco Loews and at this complex has up to 14 theaters varying in size. Rooms 13 & 14 is the grand daddies because its super huge big. WELL the chain for SOME reason had Moulin over at the SHITTY end of the theater. I forgot which number exactly but anyone who has been here 1-4 is the crappy end because its SMALLER where 5 and on is medium sized and gets bigger from up on. I felt that a movie like Moulin should have been a bigger sized theater. Soooo much for the ultimate theater experience.:mad:

[Duke Nukem]

What time of the day did you go to see the movie?

I've noticed that when big movies come out, like "Moulin Rouge" was 3 years ago and "Harry Potter 3" right now, they will usually get 2 or 3 auditoriums in major theaters.

Thing is, one of them will usually end in one the of crappy auditroriums and the the other one or two will end up in good ones.

So, in the afternoon, when fewer people come, the afternoon show of the big movie will play in the crappy theater (no sense in wasting a huge auditorium for a timeslot the movie won't sell a lot).

And, in the evening when the theater is jampacked and the big movie is sold out, they have two huge auditoriums to cram all those people in.

I've often went to afternoon shows for big movies and have ended up in crappy theaters. But, it doesn't really bother too much.

Yeah, I know, it isn't the best idea. I'm only telling you what I've noticed and how it seems to work. I know, they should put the major movies in all major auditoriums for full major effect for the audience no matter what. But, we can't get everything we want.

[BorderEevilIII]

Originally posted by Duke Nukem
What time of the day did you go to see the movie?

I've noticed that when big movies come out, like "Moulin Rouge" was 3 years ago and "Harry Potter 3" right now, they will usually get 2 or 3 auditoriums in major theaters.


Moulin was just an EXAMPLE :D And since you mention Harry Potter that I saw over the weekend. The matinee showing that I went to was in this medium sized like auditoirum. So in a sense it seemed SMALL... :(

[HedwigX]

Harry Potter 3 is currently showing in SEVEN out eleven screens in my local cinema. Sweet! :D :cool:

[Unicron]

I find here that our 3 megaplex's (over 16 screens per Cinema) anything showing in theater 10-16 are wayyyyyyyy down the scary wing of the complex and are the pissy screens!

Though i have never watched a major movie in its first weeks down there.

[NuclearMisfit]

When me and my friends took a roadtrip down to coco beach, florida a year or 2 ago we went to this theater it was an AMC 6 so we decided on seeing Blade 2 but when we walked into the theater they all looked no bigger than a small Camper.

Needless to say I hightailed it out of there since im a big guy and the seats were so small they looked like id have to sit on top of the armrests.

[movieguy1021]

The thing is, if a movie's on multiple screens, not all showings can be in the huge theaters. For example, when Catch Me If You Can came out, it was in #5 (out of 22), the smallest there is. I saw it a week later and it was in #12, the largest. It's all dependent on the showtimes.