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FANBOYS is expanding in 10 more markets! Big Columbus, OH screening! Wow!
Hey folks, Harry here... Ernie Cline, screenwriter of FANBOYS, and geek-nerd extraordinaire sent me the following amazing news about his little film that is having it's own little Cinderella story. Often times when you see these films roll out like this, they never get past stage one... then two months later they hit DVD. Well, we don't yet have an eta on the DVD/Blu-Ray, but there is some good news with FANBOYS. It's per screen business, with basically no AD support at all has been strong enough that the powers that be at the Weinstein Company are doing a further roll out into other College markets. Here's what Ernie sent me:
Fanboys Invades More Cities!
Fanboys expands on Friday, February 20 into 10 more cities/regions including: Boston, Washington DC, Detroit, Atlanta, Phoenix, Orlando, Daytona Beach FL, Hartford CT, New Haven CT, Raleigh-Durham NC, and Columbus OH.
Note: Fanboys will continue to play in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle-Tacoma, Houston, and Austin. However, if you live in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, or San Francisco and wish to see Fanboys on the big screen, please do so by Thursday, Feb. 19 as it will be your last chance.
Below is a list of theater locations for the weekend of February 20:
Los Angeles
1 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Block 30 @ Orange Orange
2 WF Holdings (Mann LA) Mann Chinese 6 Hollywood
3 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. AMC Town Center 8 Burbank
Chicago
4 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. South Barrington 30 South Barrington
Boston (New Market)
5 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Liberty Tree Mall 20 Danvers
6 Landmark Theaters Kendall Square Cinema 9 Cambridge
Washington, DC (New Market)
7 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Hoffman Center 22 Alexandria
8 Phoenix Adlabs Union Station 9 Washington
9 Regal Entertainment Group Countryside 20 Sterling
Detroit (New Market)
10 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Forum 30 - Sterling Hts Sterling Heights
11 Centurion Uptown Birmingham 8 Birmingham
Atlanta (New Market)
12 Paulson Theatre Services Plaza Theatre Atlanta
13 Regal Entertainment Group North Point Market 8 Alpharetta
Houston
14 City Cinemas Angelika Film Center Houston
Seattle-Tacoma
15 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Pacific Place 11 Seattle
16 Regal Entertainment Group Alderwood 7 Theatres Lynwood
17 Regal Entertainment Group Parkway Plaza 12 Tukwila
Phoenix (New Market)
18 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Westgate 20 Theatres Glendale
19 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Deer Valley 30 + Imax Phoenix
20 Harkins Theatres Harkins Chandler Fashion Center 20 Chandler
21 Harkins Theatres Superstition Springs 25 Mesa
22 Harkins Theatres Arizona Mills 24 Theatre Tempe
Denver (New Market)
23 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Westminster Promenade 24 Westminster
24 Kerasotes Theatres Colony Square 12 Louisville
25 Regal Entertainment Group Denver West Village 12 Golden
Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbrn (New Market)
26 American Multi-Cinema, Inc. Universal Cineplex 20 Orlando
27 Regal Entertainment Group Pointe 21 Theaters Orlando
28 Regal Entertainment Group Oviedo Marketplace 22 Oviedo
Hartford & New Haven (New Market)
29 Bow Tie Cinemas Criterion New Haven 7 New Haven
Raleigh-Durham (New Market)
30 Cinema Service Company Raleigh Grand Raleigh
31 Independent Theaters - US Galaxy Theatre - Cary
32 Regal Entertainment Group Crossroads 20 Cary
Columbus, OH (New Market)
33 AMC Lennox Town Center 24 - Columbus, OH ***
34 Marcus Theatres Pickerington - Pickerington, OH
Austin
35 Alamo South Lamar
***COLUMBUS PREMIERE - There will be a Premiere followed by a Q&A at 9:50pm on February 20 in Columbus OH at the AMC Lennox Town Center 24 theater, (777 Kinnear Rd.) with guests Kyle Newman (Director), Ernie Cline (writer), and Matthew Perniciaro & Kevin Mann (Producers). Jason Swank and Jimmy Mac from TheForce-Cast will be in attendance along with members of the 501st, The Rebel Legion, the Ohio FanForce and local TV and Radio.
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Hell yeah
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Digital Dong
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Anybody know and are willing to kick back the info?
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I can't read, missed the info teh first time through.
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Yayyy.......now do this for the Watchmen.
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Is what Harry and 5 other guys would say.
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Mainly to slap Darth Weinstein's face with a giant lightsaber dildo.
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Dammit! My local AMC even has the poster in a prominent place!
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unless it hits Denver or Kansas City/Lawerence/Wichita
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Damn I just started working at the Columbus AMC... thats gonna be a busy night... cool though. now I know. They didn't tell us that yet...
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Kristen Bell in the Princess Leia bikini?
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And its a must see.
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We're not THAT close to Seattle... at least not close enough to JUST go see a movie.
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Are you kidding? Why the hell not St. Louis. I should move back to Columbus.
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it was like $3000 wasn't it? isn't that pretty average?either way, this is cool news. I was thinking it had to pull a Borat to get expanded.
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And no, this site doesn't count.
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Fuck it, someone had to say it!
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Feb 18, 2009 1:18:09 AM CST
I live in Columbus... I'll try to attend it and get back with ya
by kampbell-kid
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and less fun to put up with.
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...a "cult movie", don't you think?
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Lennox AMC is my theater! I live right next to it.
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ok, so i'm the target audience, i may even like the film when i see it but this feels like trying to make something out of what shoulda been a foregone conclusion.
this film should've been rolled out nationwide, have a 10 mil opener and then crawl to 20/30.
opening it slowly is just trying grab whatever hype is possible from the people that would've seen it anyway, it'll just crawl to $20 mil even more slowly.
it's not a 'sensation', it's an average flick that got fucked over. -
I used to work there. Great if you don't have bills to pay. Free movies, $1 hot dogs, 75 cent pop in the break room, and the occasional free posters. $6.75-7 was too little to pay any kind of rent or bills though. And the sporadic shifts sucked too. Hopefully you're a manager or something, if not then have fun sweeping up popcorn and serving idiots beverages. Also, I doubt this movie will be that popular, since it has been and really still is under the radar.
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Feb 18, 2009 1:55:02 AM CST
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex - Home to 6 Million People
by wuher da brewer
Yet not a theater anywhere has it. I know there has been some pressure locally.
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It looks really bad. I mean horribly fucking bad filled with
all the expected SW jokes and cliches. It just doesn't look funny at all. I'll wait for it to stream on netflix, if I ever get laid off and I've ran out of movies. -
too bad it's still not playing anywhere near me
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It's box office take is off 56% from last weekend.It fell from no. 37 to no.48 This movie will gross less than a million in theaters, and i will bet my whole salary on that prediction!!!!!
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Too bad I'm the only one who'll be watching this.
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the oviedo 22? crap i wish i still lived there.
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So that I finally can justify myself saying it's a shitty movie.
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No, seriously, why bother? Its a piece of shit no one ever wanted to see, and now that its out, no one is going to see it.
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I live in Columbus and movietickets.com does not have Friday's showing on yet? What is going on???
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You need another reason to see it?All right, how about Harry Knowles slapping some whiny bitches around. I'm hoping there is some more of that. The Shat as a secret contact who gets them the plans to Skywalker Ranch? Kristen Bell in a Princess Leia Bikini?Seriously, how could anyone who came of age in the 80s not want to see this movie? Even if it is kind of suck?
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Coz weir nationwide, yinz!
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Fuck Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. Give C-Bus a decent limited release!
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I'm really sorry, but calling it a "cinderella story" is a bald-faced lie and Harry knows it. In 44 theaters, Fanboys grossed $171,500 in its opening weekend for a sub-par $3,898 average. (Usually an average of $5K or more is considered solid.) Last weekend, its second, it fell 56.5% to $74,599 in 41 theaters. It has currently made less than one third of one million dollars.
That said, I'm of course happy it's expanding because that means more people who want to see the film will be able to. I'm not sure if the expansion is contractually obligated or if the Weinstein Co. is just trying really hard to push this as a cult movie, but it's not because of its early box office performance. I'm be happy to eat my words if the film does surprisingly well in the secondary markets its going to, but as of now its hard to see a scenario in which it makes more than, say, $2 million. -
...figures.
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I wish I was more excited but meh.
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than have turned out to see this movie.
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March 13-18 @ 9:45 at the historic Belcourt Theatre - http://www.belcourt.org/events?id=61083
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I shall be seeing it at the Harkins Arizona Mills this Friday.
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