That was actually wut i was gonna do minus the charging ppl to watch i was jus gonna charge for loitering on my grass lol naw but deffinately good to know
Serious question
Lmao this fuckin guy
That’s the look on your face when a foot goes up your booty with no vaseline
Don’t do it. You can’t even charge them for booze or water unless you have a business license to sell liquor and/or food and beverage.
Is unlikely to happen, but is just good to know that it is illegal and you may face legal consequences if you do, which will likely be much more money than what you could make out of it.
Just host the party and ask for BYOB. That’s usually what I do whenever I host big parties
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Well aren’t you a man of culture.
Don’t make me take you outback and treat you
like a woman
I think Technically your paying for the movie as well, so by extension that would be the theater selling access to a movie they don’t have the rights too.
To explain a little more (because honestly I’m a film-aficionado and I love this stuff) about projecting in a commercial movie theater, projectors in movie theaters come mainly in 3 flavors now
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Old School 35mm film projectors. Which means no digital inputs to project any other thing aside from film reels
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Digital projectors with encrypted HDD’s. These projectors are hooked up to a system in which you swap the encrypted drives containing a digital copy of the film.
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Digital projectors with online streaming. These projectors stream the encrypted film from a system directly hooked up to the internet. The movie is streamed during the scheduled time and it cannot be played outside that scheduled time. This is done to minimize the potential of piracy.
Of all 3, I’m mostly familiar with the latest one, as it is the one implemented in most theaters in cities with access to high speed internet. I’ve seen these projectors and, while they do have HDMI inputs, I am not part of the projection team (I work in IT support) and I have no idea if those inputs work, are disabled or if the projectionists even have the ability to switch to one of them in order to project content from a device hooked up to one of those inputs.
So, aside from all the legal issues, there’s also the technical cumber stones the theater needs to work with, even if they were given the green light to authorize a private screening.
The whole projection system is managed by a third party vendor which works closely with the film studios, distributors and theaters.
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At you said you work at Alamo drafthouse right so your in Texas?
that is what i thought too. Because I believe sometimes the numbers of sold tickets aren’t by actually tickets sold, but as films are ready to project that night and no number of ticket numbers has been counted, My guess is sometimes, cinemas might bid on a number of seats for a particular value and send that money and number right away to the studios even if there were empty seats. Imagine the theatre paying for a minimum of seats just to say there ‘were’ people there where it was just the cinema paying for it (like free for employees or a wellness package for lucky winners of a lottery) ?
There are times like when a questionable film like the Joker will sell millions where most people won’t give a fuck about that film or go out to watch it but in the end its all about what has been bidded on in the effort to score an academy award with the association and film societies.
Yes, I’m in Texas, though Alamo has opened theaters in other state cities
Buy a big ass TV, bro 👍🏻
Where i am from , there is a small cinema . Pretty good setup and I think you are right on the way screenings work .
Sometimes they get movies on opening day and sometimes its not for weeks after release
Well I can tell you we report seat count and pay a fee for each one of them. Unsold seats do not get paid to the studio. That’s all part of the negotiations, otherwise theaters would go bankrupt if the screening costs 50K and they only sold 4 tickets.
On that note, an unsold empty screening still get projected, costing the theater money (power costs). Those projectors draw immense amount of power and generate so much heat, they even have direct exhausts to the outside of the building.
And just to clarify, the third party vendor manages the projection system, not revenue or any other thing related to the theater business. They are just a middle man to ensure or minimize the security of the film
I got a 72 inch but i wanna bigger picture so everyone has a good view.
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How about freebies or lotteries or winners of apparent lucky draws? I’m sure there has to be some each month and those are actually paid for (if they actually do it). I remember working for a theatre in the 90s and there use to be freebies for employees every so often. There would have to be a budget for that. Wouldn’t that budget go to that particular film studio?
Those get paid as if they were sold. Giveaways are covered by the theater themselves, because they are usually the ones who give them away anyway for marketing purposes. Even if tickets are won, let’s say, over a podcast or radio station program, the theater “donated” the tickets.
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Well well well so were in the same state wut you say you jus pull a solid and borrow one of them theatre quality projectors 😎 shit you can even join the watch party lol
hahaha… dude those projectors weight like 800 lbs
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Donated means ‘didn’t go to the studios’?
No, it means the theater bought them.
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