Saturday, November 24, 2007

Upcoming schedule

Why not list some of the upcoming movies, I thought to myself. So here they are!

Disney's ENCHANTED plays through Dec. 5, by the way.

After that, and of course subject to changes:

Dec. 7 - Fred Claus
Dec. 14 - Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium + Beowulf
Dec. 21 - National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Actually the Dec. 21 booking is solid. The other two are the changeable ones. We'll also be adding a matinee on 12/22 but we don't know what it'll be, yet.

Not a lot to talk about?

It's been awhile since I had the time to write anything here. But, that's not surprising given the time of year we're in. This year we've also had the new wrinkle of adding our Gift Card program to the theatre's menu of products. We retired the old-fashioned MovieCard, which was good for five movies. The new Gift Card can be used for movies or concessions and it can be recharged.

If you are nostalgic for the old-fashioned MovieCard, don't despair. It will still be used whenever we donate movies to a charitable cause, so you might see one once in a while.

Otherwise, during November, I'm usually engaged in one of these pursuits:

1. Putting up the train layout at Valley Auto. If you haven't seen it, stop by the store anytime before January 10. It features several buildings built by my buddy Ray Deering (including a really cool 1/48 scale model of the Roxy), about 50 other buildings, a lot of model cars and trucks, and ... oh yeah, Lionel trains.

2. Putting up the Christmas lights at the theatre. If you've never seen them, just look up as you drive by. The lights go over the top of the building's middle arch. Looks like no big deal, but it's a challenge to get those lights up there and make them stay there. We decorate inside too -- the stage lights and the tinsel garlands in the entryway are over 25 years old! -- but the outside
lights are my favorite Roxy Christmas tradition.

3. Putting up the Christmas lights at home. I am constantly amazed at how perfectly-working lights can burn out while in storage at the house. The bulbs also come unscrewed from the sockets...how does that happen?

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

It'll BEE a fun weekend

Well, you'd think after all these years there would be no more "firsts" at the Roxy, but this week, for the first time, we're opening a movie that's exactly one week old.

Normally, if we don't play a film on its opening weekend, we have to wait anywhere from three to five weeks to get it; but this week, Paramount has decided to widen the release of "Bee Movie" by releasing a bunch more prints, so we've managed to snag one.

Their strategy is pretty obvious: There are no major contenders coming out on November 9, so by putting "Bee Movie" into a bunch more theatres, Paramount stands a good chance of claiming the #1 spot on the charts this weekend.

We'll sure do our best to help them achieve that goal. See you at the movies...or as Jerry Seinfeld might put it, "Bee there!"