THEATER FRAUD? Sabotage of An American Carol and Its Opening-Week Numbers?

Little Miss Attila ^ | 10/6/08

[DogBarkTree]

There's just no end to the cleverness of the LibTard's crookedness.

[goldstategop]

Liberals are afraid. They operate out of fear when exposed and they act like thugs when they think they can get away with it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[SlowBoat407]

Freedom of Speech - Ur doin’ it rong.

[Schnucki]

I thought cinemas were struggling with attendance numbers. This doesn't sound like it will help business. I rarely go to the cinema, but if I learned that one of them behaved politically like this, I'd never return.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ping.

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[napscoordinator]

They are getting ridiculous trying to figure out how 1700 theaters could only sell 3.8 million dollars....lol. Seriously, I have been to thousands of movies in my day and many times I have been given the wrong ticket for a different movie, but somehow I managed to get into the movie I wanted to see. Sometimes it is a lazy clerk, sometimes they did not print enough tickets for the movie I purchased, etc. I don’t recall conspiracy theories going on these other times. I seriously think this happens a lot.

[G.Mason]

" ... Obviously, the producers and distributors would like to get to the bottom of this and find out the extent of any fraud, but they need our help to determine whether the problem is systemic, or confined to a few theaters in a nationawide release ... "

Now there's a fine piece of perverted logic.

I'm sure Little Miss Atilla thinks she is quite the conservative as she rants about "all for one, and one for all".

[sierrahome]

We have a couple local bookstores that are always out of conservative author’s books too.

[napscoordinator]

Do you relize that each theater owner is independent of the movie studios. I seriously don’t think 1700 theater owners decided to ruin this movie. I just don’t. Funny how all the movies had technical problems with sound and focus...could it be that the movie was poorly made?

[DogBarkTree]

Did you ever notice any of the other examples before?

[napscoordinator]

We have a couple local bookstores that are always out of conservative author’s books too.

To me that sounds like good news for the authors. Many conservatives buying their books. I would hope as an author, they would be happy to hear this. I sincerely believe conservatives read more than liberals do and go to the bookstores more often.

[meandog]

We went to see it on Friday—theater was packed. The only complaint I have is that the guy behind me and my girlfriend was laughing so loud and boisterously that we couldn't fully enjoy the movie.

[napscoordinator]

The only example I have ever witnessed is that I was given a wrong ticket on occasion. I never question it because as long as I see the movie I want to see then I could care less about the ticket. None of the other examples I have witnessed. Perhaps a movie without a poster from time to time, but I can’t be 100 percent sure.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I hope that wasn’t me! LOL! I’m in Arizona.

[CondorFlight]

Theaters sometimes sell tickets to “another” movie, because they get to keep more of the ticket price for that movie than for the one you are going to see. (It depends on how long the movie has been out on release.)

It’s not uncommon in the business (unfortunately).

And yes, movie makers have to keep track of that, otherwise they are the ones who lose money.

[DogBarkTree]

Do you know any theater owners? I do. They’re raging Libs.

[Gorzaloon]

I thought cinemas were struggling with attendance numbers. This doesn't sound like it will help business. I rarely go to the cinema, but if I learned that one of them behaved politically like this, I'd never return.

Just as with the Print Media, the survival of the industry does not matter as long as oposition to the Glorious Red Dawn is squelched.

[Straight Vermonter]

The theater owners have an agreement with the movie distributors to pay a share of ticket sales. If you are getting the wrong ticket it may be because the theater owner has to share $2 from the ticket you want but only $1 for the ticket they actually sold you.

No conspiracy just the usual fraud and greed.

[alicewonders]

I used to work at a movie theatre when I was a teenager. I don’t know if they can still do it - but there was a money-making scheme among workers at the theatre at that time. It was between the employee selling tickets out front & the usher tearing the ticket stubs when you go in.

They would sell two tickets to a couple, when given the two tickets to tear - the usher would just tear one of them in half & give the two pieces back to the couple. The usher would keep the other whole ticket & return it to the cashier to “sell” again. They would then split the proceeds of “their” ticket sales. The only thing they had to be careful of was not selling more tickets than there were seats available.

[OrioleFan]

What we know: in at least ten theaters nationwide, customers were sold tickets they were told were for An American Carol but turned out to be for other movies.

Probably "W"...