r/MovieTheaterEmployees

I don’t even know if I can say it on here from my theater, because it’s graphic and sad. It was all over the news.

I do have an interesting one though- a married manager in her 30s was having an affair with the married security guard in his 60s. The staff had no clue, until a manager found their love notes to one another hidden in a drawer.

What’s yours though? It can be from customers, staff etc. Anything!

Has anyone else noticed this lately?

People aren’t even trying to hide outside food or drinks anymore. They’ll walk in carrying drinks (other than water), walking in with takeouts in their hands like it’s completelyyy normal. Then when you tell them they can’t bring it inside, they’ll argue and justify and call out for a manager to try to change the policy for them. basically causing a whole scene while the ticket reader entrance is getting backed up

The part that gets me is when I actually let someone slide because they concealed it properly, and then they immediately pull it out in the lobby once they get through or while waiting in the concession line. 😭 Like bro… if I let you in with it, at least wait until you’re in the auditorium so I don’t look bad if another employee or manager walks by****…(which I’ve already been talked to by my manager for and got written up**)**

so is this happening everywhere, or is it just my theater? I don’t know if it’s confirmation bias, but I’ve also noticed the same people who bring in outside food seem to be the ones who leave their trash behind for the usher crew to stumble upon.

So I’ve spent the last year getting my friend hyped for this movie and completely sold him on the idea of this being a full IMAX movie. The nearest true IMAX to us is hours away and just not viable so the southgate lieMAX has become a favorite substitute of ours due to its quality. But now when going to get our tickets, I noticed 70mm showings separate from IMAX ones. As I know MJR to be a digital cinema chain, this completely caught me off guard. How are they able to do this, did they actually get a 70mm projector exclusively for the run of this film? Do they just swap out the projectors? Do they hire a specific person who knows how to operate it?

I would love for someone in the know or even works there to explain this for me, I’m so fascinated and excited and now I have to convince my friend to check this format out instead!

My people in future time zones 🙏 my shift is in 2 hours, how bad has today been? Young Washington was a mess for us yesterday, but I'm hoping it's been quieter for the holiday

I will be back here to update after my shift in the event something goes terrible and I want to share

Update: I'm on my lunch right now. It's been so busy with Young Washington, followed by gaps of absolutely nothing

At least I get to sit in my truck and listen to people shoot off fireworks in a city with a firework ban

I don’t mean to offend anyone, and I’m speaking only about a situation I’m experiencing right now. My friends and I are watching the new Minions movie, and a family sitting nearby has a very strong body odor that’s making it difficult to enjoy the movie and is even giving me a headache. I know it wouldn’t be fair to judge an entire group of people based on one experience, but I’m feeling frustrated by the situation. Again, I apologize if this comes across as insensitive—I’m just trying to explain what’s happening.

Looks like it's gone already, a movie I wanted to see that had good reviews. I think it had a supernatural bent to it? Not a big big release--a bit art house but not fully. A few well-known actors. I know, not much to go on.

Hey I'm not a movie theater employee but was curious if this has come up for you all. There's a big controversy in my local Facebook group because a movie theater kicked out a family with an autistic teenager because he was using an AAC device. These are iPad apps that some autistic people (and others with disabilities) use to communicate. Apparently they sat in the back of the theater, but kept the screen on for an hour before the manager told them to put the device away or leave.

The Facebook post has blown up with people arguing about this. Some people say the theater is discriminating against the teenager due to his disability and are encouraging suing or boycotting the (local independent) movie theater. Other people are saying he should go to sensory-friendly screenings, or keep the device with the screen off and put away unless he needs to communicate something important.

Has your theater ever handled this situation?

Any One visit Florence ky

i was looking at the percentage of presales for this movie the other day and it was actually pretty decent. how do you think it’s gonna do at your theater?? im surprised because its fourth of july weekend, but then again its gonna be really hot outside (at least where i live) so maybe people just want to get out of the heat 😭

Hi, I manage a small indie one screen theater and we’re gonna be playing “My Neighbor Totoro” from Fathom’s Studio Ghibli Fest. Our projector is outdated and will be replaced in September and we discovered back in the winter that it’s incompatible with newer captioning files. So, we haven’t been able to provide captioning on any films unless a hard drive we get doesn’t use the new file type and has subtitles burned into the film’s image already (for example we had one for “Fanny and Alexander” from Janus that had them burned in).

I’m trying to see if I can figure this out before I get the hard drive because I want to announce whether the screenings will be sub or dub if I can since people have their preferences (I’m usually on the sub side of things).

If anyone who’s loaded a HD for Studio Ghibli Fest films this year knows about this, please give me your insights! Thanks!

Is this some kind of recent health craze and/or conspiracy theory? I started noticing this like last year, people asking us which concessions don’t contain “artificial dyes” and us having to explain that basically everything has artificial dyes, especially drinks and candy. But especially lately with the recent increase in business from Toy Story and Minions every day we are getting several customers per shift asking us this because they “don’t want their kids having any artificial dyes.” It just seems really strange and is becoming a bit of an annoyance that slows the concession line down. Anyone else experiencing this?