Cinema Only Free Tickets Discussion thread

LouFace

Queenriderbrekke wrote: »

Full could mean that Sky will only pay for say 100 seats per cinema, they don't know how big a cinema will be allocated by Odeon/Vue on the day as the cinema will put it where they have a space on the day:)

If this is true then it doesn't make much sense to ask in the follow-up questionnaire how full the screen was, as the answer to that question has no relevance to the popularity of the preview.

geordie_ben

LouFace wrote: »

If this is true then it doesn't make much sense to ask in the follow-up questionnaire how full the screen was, as the answer to that question has no relevance to the popularity of the preview.

Not true, if Sky buy 100 seats of a 200 seat screen, and then someone on their questionnaire says it was half full then Sky would know they'd filled their 100 seats. pretty simple really

LouFace

geordie_ben wrote: »

Not true, if Sky buy 100 seats of a 200 seat screen, and then someone on their questionnaire says it was half full then Sky would know they'd filled their 100 seats. pretty simple really

Except it clearly states in the previous post that they do not know which screen the film is going to be shown in.

princessmoneysaver

Every single free screening (over the last 3 years or so) has been at the same screen in my local Odeon so I think they do know which one it's going to be in.

LouFace

princessmoneysaver wrote: »

Every single free screening (over the last 3 years or so) has been at the same screen in my local Odeon so I think they do know which one it's going to be in.

All the ones i've been to have been different screens, so you can't generalise for all cinemas.

And coming back to the original statement; why would they only allocate X amount of tickets because they don't know how big a screen they will be allocated, if they know how big a screen they are being allocated?

geordie_ben

LouFace wrote: »

All the ones i've been to have been different screens, so you can't generalise for all cinemas.

And coming back to the original statement; why would they only allocate X amount of tickets because they don't know how big a screen they will be allocated, if they know how big a screen they are being allocated?

but your generalising for all cinemas

they might only take X amount of certain cinemas because they 1, they want to. 2, based on past experience that's the number that they think will attend or 3, that's all the cinema owner will give them

princessmoneysaver

I wasn't saying ALL cinemas were the same but some of them I'm sure they know which screen they are getting upfront.

tamasina

Sometimes there are lots of different code holders for different companies all in one screening. When i saw Batman, mine was Sky but other people got theirs from Capital FM so we can't tell who has turned up from which promoter only the ticket collectors know

quoia

McBear wrote: »

Sky Rewards

Catch the hilarious I Give It A Year first

See this sharp British comedy from the producers of Bridget Jones's Diary and the writer of Borat first and for free. Starring Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall and Stephen Merchant, watch it weeks before its 8 February UK cinema release.

Tickets will be available to book soon.

Appears this preview screening will take place on Monday 14th January

LouFace

Has this code been posted previously? Seems a little strange that pretty much every single cinema is sold out the second it's posted. Wondered if maybe it had been posted before and I had just overlooked it.

pixiewolfe wrote: »

I Give It A Year

http://www.showfilmfirst.com/pin/832318

Cinema List:

Odeons:
Birmingham Broadway Plaza
Brighton
Cardiff Atlantic Wharf
Glasgow Quay
Greenwich
Guildford
Hatfield Galleria
Lincoln
Liverpool ONE
Manchester Printworks
Newcastle Silverlinks
Norwich
Southampton
Surrey Quays
Tunbridge Wells
Wimbledon