Anyone work at a movie theater?

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psteng19

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Does anyone who works at a movie theater (or perhaps have done this before) know what they do with the huge advertising/promotion posters after the movie stops playing?

Do they throw them out, give to employees, recycle them, etc?
Think they would give it to me if I asked?
 
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If it was something in high demand that everyone at the theatre wanted, we'd have a lottery to see who would get dibs. The owner let us buy them for $5 a piece. The ones that didn't get snatched up by workers went into a basket and offered to general public for $10.
 
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my local theater puts a big slash in each poster when it goes up, I guess to keep people from asking for them
 
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I worked at a theatre back in high school. Posters and stands were free for whoever wanted them (for employees, but we sometimes gave out posters to those who asked). As for the more sought after stands and posters, it depended on who asked for it first ... or if it was a manager.
 
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Originally posted by: NuclearNed
my local theater puts a big slash in each poster when it goes up, I guess to keep people from asking for them
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what a tard
 
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Sometimes they are given the the employees, sent to other theatres, or sent back to the film company.

They are usually not given out to customers, unless you know someone who works there.;)
 
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dman

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You can get them from some video rental places too... maybe... if you are lucky.

I signed up for some literature on Video rental biz about 2yrs ago and started getting industry mags w/ rental info, etc. Occasionally I'd get mini-posters in the mail of not-so-interesting movies. Anyway, if you were serious into collecting you could start your own video rental biz and sign yourself up for some of that stuff and probably get some posters that way.

I'm sure there are easier methods of obtaining them, just probably not as cheap on a per-unit basis. :)
 
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V00DOO

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I got the Spiderman 1 poster with the NYC Twin towers from my friend who works for the Theater. Also got the Matix poster with the Twins.
 
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I used to work at a video store and we always gave them away. Posters and the cardboard "standees"
 
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ReiAyanami

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what about those giant stand alone cardboard cutouts. i'm sure somewhere there's a 6ft tall cardboard lara croft sitting in some theater manager's apartment
 
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desteffy

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My good friends fiance is a manager at a theater and they *used* to give them away all the time, but apparently the movie companies have been cracking down and getting pissed off at theaters for giving them away since they often wind up on ebay. Therefore at their theater they cant give them away anymore, not even employees. I think its owned by lowes. May just be the scare of the month though, or due to uptight upper managment who decides to enforce somethign they dont need to.
 
jadinolf

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Originally posted by: NuclearNed
my local theater puts a big slash in each poster when it goes up, I guess to keep people from asking for them
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Interesting. Out local theater punches a few holes in them.
 
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Originally posted by: jadinolf
Originally posted by: NuclearNed
my local theater puts a big slash in each poster when it goes up, I guess to keep people from asking for them
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Interesting. Out local theater punches a few holes in them.
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That's bitchy.
 
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booger711

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Originally posted by: desteffy
My good friends fiance is a manager at a theater and they *used* to give them away all the time, but apparently the movie companies have been cracking down and getting pissed off at theaters for giving them away since they often wind up on ebay. Therefore at their theater they cant give them away anymore, not even employees. I think its owned by lowes. May just be the scare of the month though, or due to uptight upper managment who decides to enforce somethign they dont need to.
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why? all they're going to do is throw the posters in a dumpster
 
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abaez

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Usually not. Only because once word gets around ALOT of people ask for all the posters and it's just a headache to keep saying no and being bugged about it. Usually employees get them if they ask.

When I ran the projection booth I used to take alot of the standees and cut out certain parts and just put them all over upstairs in the projection booth. We probably have alot of stuff up there worth alot. The original Titanic standee, something about mary, original fellowship of the ring standee (which was awesome by the way) lots of pixar stuff, the best standee ever imho was for chicken run and it's upstairs mint condition. Most of the time they get thrown away, especially with the tripe hollywood has been putting out the past few years. There are special circumstances like for libraries asking for harry potter or one time a nurse at camp pendleton asked for the pearl harbor nurse poster to hang in the office, but for the most part the answer is no.
 
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Pepsi90919

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Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
what about those giant stand alone cardboard cutouts. i'm sure somewhere there's a 6ft tall cardboard lara croft sitting in some theater manager's apartment
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i got a bunch of posters when a movie theatre closed down here and i have a life-size mel gibson cardboard thing from Payback
 
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