INTO ETERNITY in my movie theatre!

SwordLord

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As I type this message, the members of INTO ETERNITY are enjoying a private showing of the movie "300" at the movie theatre I own.

After a very successful show in St. Paul, my roommate casually mentioned that I owned a theatre and had the movie "300." The band freaked out and asked to come see it. I was very happy to oblige! :headbang:

I thought you might enjoy these pics which were taken before the film started:


Before the feature shenanigans!



INTO ETERNITY and myself (front row)





How metal is my theatre?! :zombie:
 
That SO rocks!
Wish that I had something to offer bands coming through town other than my charm and wit. Maybe I could sell them on that I know how to get to the movies...
:)
 
It's fairly cool that I.E. got a private screening of '300'..........but it's MAJORLY cool that you own a movie theater!


Hmm, put in a small stage, lights and backline....... "Metal and a Movie." :headbang:
 
SwordLord said:
As I type this message, the members of INTO ETERNITY are enjoying a private showing of the movie "300" at the movie theatre I own.

After a very successful show in St. Paul, my roommate casually mentioned that I owned a theatre and had the movie "300." The band freaked out and asked to come see it. I was very happy to oblige! :headbang:

I thought you might enjoy these pics which were taken before the film started:


Before the feature shenanigans!



INTO ETERNITY and myself (front row)





How metal is my theatre?! :zombie:
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:OMG: DUDE you still have the old Popcorn tubs??? I have not seen those around here in GA in over 15 years. :cry:
 
Just curious who you won the freaking movie theater off of??? Must have been a hell of a game of Poker that night eh! :kickass:

Bear
 
METAL AND A MOVIE!!! DO IT!!!


The only thing I can think to offer bands, when they come through Detroit, is to take em to the best strip clubs in town. And I can easily say, we've got FAR BETTER strip clubs here than in Atlanta! Cheetah's ain't got SHIT on my town! I already told Claus and the Manticorans I'll chauffeur them to the best spot when they finally do their American tour...
 
Pellaz said:
It's fairly cool that I.E. got a private screening of '300'..........but it's MAJORLY cool that you own a movie theater!


Hmm, put in a small stage, lights and backline....... "Metal and a Movie." :headbang:
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Thanks! Well, I have to have something to pay for all of the concerts I do. :lol:

I've often thought about converting one auditorium to a club, but the area(s) that my theatre(s) are in are just not right for a club.

About four years ago, I ran into a big four-screen movie theatre that had gone out of business and I thought it would be a PERFECT nightclub. You could have had two stages and then a room for pool and a room for video games and what-not. I tried very hard to get it off the ground - I had investors and everything ready to go and the city turned the project down! I was so mad ...


Nathan
 
VenomGA said:
:OMG: DUDE you still have the old Popcorn tubs??? I have not seen those around here in GA in over 15 years. :cry:
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Well, I'm not a big fancy-schmansy corporation like AMC or Regal that can afford to have their stuff custom-printed, so I just buy the generic stuff. I think it looks better anyway and it's more fun. Those damn tubs they are holding cost 46 cents each and I shudder to think what the custom printed ones cost!
 
Bear said:
Just curious who you won the freaking movie theater off of??? Must have been a hell of a game of Poker that night eh! :kickass:

Bear
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Actually if SeaStorm (a friend of mine on this forum) would have played that game, he would have won the theatre as he is much better at playing poker than I am! :lol:

The theatre that IE is pictured in actually went out of business prior to me acquiring it. It took 9 months of negotiating with the landlord to acquire it and then I had to negotiate with the prior owner to buy the equipment inside of it. The seats that you see pictured are only 3 years old, I had those installed not long after we re-opened the facility. Obviously the only flaw of the theatre is that it's not stadium-seating, otherwise it's just as good as any other theatre around and we are $2-$3 cheaper on our admission that any other place around.

I charge $6 for evening admission and $4 for matinees before 6:00pm ... beat that spanky! :headbang:
 
Bryan316 said:
METAL AND A MOVIE!!! DO IT!!!
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Actually, I have tried "mixing" my metal and movie promotions and I've come to one inexplicable conclusion:

Most Metalheads Don't Care About Movies

For a while, I was running a "Metal Movie of the Month" promotion where I was showing movies like "Heavy Metal," "Alien," "Evil Dead," "The Devil's Rejects," etc. and I was basically doing free admission and hoping to make money on the concessions. I would show up at concerts and GIVE AWAY the tickets. Hardly anyone showed up. I ended up dumping the program and I was so proud of it, I even had a website devoted to it: metalmovie.com.


Bryan316 said:
The only thing I can think to offer bands, when they come through Detroit, is to take em to the best strip clubs in town. And I can easily say, we've got FAR BETTER strip clubs here than in Atlanta! Cheetah's ain't got SHIT on my town! I already told Claus and the Manticorans I'll chauffeur them to the best spot when they finally do their American tour...
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Yup ... movies for bands ... coming in a distant second to naked women! :lol:

I chartered a limo for Testament to go to a strip club when they played my metal festival in 2004. I think those girls ended up making a LOT of money.

Personally if I was a rock star, why would you go to a strip club when you could hang out with a REAL girl who attended your show? Doesn't make any sense to me ... :rolleyes:


Or maybe I'm just looney ...
 
SwordLord said:
Well, I'm not a big fancy-schmansy corporation like AMC or Regal that can afford to have their stuff custom-printed, so I just buy the generic stuff. I think it looks better anyway and it's more fun. Those damn tubs they are holding cost 46 cents each and I shudder to think what the custom printed ones cost!
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Yeah, I prefer the paper tubs to the paper bags crap that does not hold as much movie delicious popcorn!
 
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