“We’re trying to be a bigger part of the puzzle. Movie theater employees are on high alert for children trying to sneak into the sexually explicit film Fifty Shades of Grey this weekend.The movie, based on a book series, hits the big. The company also is looking at ways to offer IMAX-branded services outside of large theater screens. “Well, why not?….We’re trying to be more open-minded and nimble.”įoster adds that he’s enthusiastic about IMAX’s new technologies to expand the sound systems to 12 channels from five, and to use laser projectors that offer brighter and larger images for digital releases. If the movie business doesn’t work in general then it doesn’t work for IMAX.” Last year, “was not a great year and people get out of the habit of going.” IMAX also missed out on two hits, Frozen and The Lego Movie, because “we didn’t do family oriented movies” - in part because execs believed the tickets would be too expensive. “It’s the mid-level movie that’s having quite a big issue” disappointing consumers. Last week IMAX said that Terrance Malick’s Voyage Of Time would be the first film to benefit from the company’s $50 million Original Film Fund.įoster says that audiences are drawn to small, quirky films and blockbusters. Imax Promotes Natasha Fernandes To Chief Financial Officer “It was a nice counter programming effort to get young people back into the theater.” Now IMAX is optimistic about week-long runs for Will Smith’s upcoming Focus, and sci-fi film Chappie. He’s also pleased with the $2 million generated by the large screen showing of two episodes of HBO’s Game Of Thrones. The company is coming off a win from its decision to show American Sniper, something IMAX agreed to do about 10 days before it came out. “You’ll win or lose based on those periods with singles or doubles, not home runs.” About eight films account for two-thirds of IMAX’s annual box office, but the company wants to boost sales other times during the year. It’s part of IMAX’s growing effort to expand beyond its core audience of fanboys and fangirls and “take some chances” on weeks when it doesn’t have a major franchise release, Foster says. Although Fifty Shades Of Grey will just run in about 75 of the large screen venues when it’s released this weekend “it’s something I think we have to do” in order to “increase our bandwidth.” Those books real life Spanish Fly for chicks.The deal is “something we’re doing literally at the last minute,” IMAX Entertainment CEO Greg Foster told investors today at the Stifel Technology, Internet & Media Conference. The theater sold out of PG-13 film tickets on Valentines Day.
But the 50 Shades series can turn even the meekest girl into a cucumber plunging deviant that would have no problem leaving the evidence behind like Cinderella left her slipper. Which is why I’m not putting it past some Aussie chick to try to pickle a cucumber in the name of Christian Grey.
A classier, more fun, usually more savage version of Florida. I will admit that if this happened in almost any other country, I would immediately dismiss it as fake.
Plus if you picked up that cucumber without wearing gloves, you are either some sort of freak, barbarian, or freaky barbarian with serious hygiene issues.Īnd then we have the scenario where it’s real. Hand on your heart or any part of your body doesn’t mean shit to me. If you swear on your mother and/or your kids lives, I will believe you every single time. Publicity stunt makes sense because while this guy said hand on his heart that it wasn’t a prank, he didn’t swear on anything.
You have a wide array of toys and ticklers to get the job done.
If you are looking to get freaky in a room full of strangers and Cherry Coke, this probably isn’t your first rodeo.
A prank makes sense because I feel like in 2017, nobody would just settle for the finest dick shaped veggie in the produce aisle to take care of them. Now we can debate whether or not this was a prank, a publicity stunt, or someone just looking to get their rocks off while watching an R-rated movie on the silver screen. First of all, lets take a moment from our busy days and say a prayer to the poor soul that discovered this cucumber while cleaning a theater full of empty popcorn bags and soda cups for likely the one billionth time.