Hateful 8 Not showing in Cineworld.

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Apparently cineworld aren't going to be screening this. Really sucks as I have an unlimited card with them. Just thought I'd let you all know for others in the same boat.

Really annoying.
 
Looks like it was never on their list of films to be showing there, no blog posts or mentions that they usually spam out before big films like this.

email said:
We also wanted to take this opportunity to reassure you that we make every effort to show a wide variety of movie, from the latest blockbusters, Bollywood and event cinema. However, on this occasion we have been unable to reach an agreement with the film’s distributor to show The Hateful Eight at your local Cineworld.
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As an unlimited card holder this really bugs me. Then again most people are saying this is terri-bad so don't know whether to be annoyed or relieved ;)
 
PhillyDee said:
Apparently its on 70mm and Cineworld don't have the equipment. Apparently. Not sure how true that is.
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This article explains it

http://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/01/08/hateful-eight-70mm-version-uk/

It's not about the 70mm version - as there is only 2 cinemas in the country showing the one with the 70mm section - everyone else is getting the standard digital version anyway.

It's about Cineworld (and others) being upset that the Odeon Leicester Square got exclusivity for the West End

Vonhelmet said:
I wondered about whether that might be the issue, but I don't know enough about film projection to understand how or why that might be a problem.
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Again from the article above, here's a little explanation

James Rice, Programme Manager at the Edinburgh venue, explained:

“The 70mm film format offers substantially higher resolution than 35mm film – higher also than the highest-spec digital projection commonly in use anywhere in cinemas today.

“The surface area of the film frame is simply larger as the image is being captured, printed, and projected at the cinema. The image on screen, if it’s shown properly, is therefore considerably sharper than that produced by any other normal form of cinema projection.

“Some hugely prominent films, 2001, West Side Story, Spartacus and Lawrence of Arabia, for example, were all shot and originally released on 70mm. In recent years, the only films released at any scale on 70mm have been The Master and Interstellar, in both cases because of the filmmaker’s particular interest in this format. It’s therefore something of a special occasion whenever someone screens in 70mm, as it looks amazing, and it’s rare.”

Rice also went on to clarify some of the complexities and difficulties that certain cinemas would have accommodating the special 70mm print of The Hateful Eight – which may partly explain its lack of wide availability.

“The 70mm format has a long history but has never been extensively used. The prints themselves are expensive for distributors to strike, and because of the unusually large size and weight of the reels, they’re also expensive to ship out to cinemas. Maintaining the equipment and expertise to project 70mm, moreover, is something that the majority of cinemas have never chosen to do, even in the days before the advent of digital cinema projection. 70mm has consequently not been a common release format, despite its techical merits.

“Tarantino has produced Hateful Eight in an especially uncommon flavour of 70mm called Ultra Panavision 70. This uses anamorphic compression to extend the image to an even wider aspect ratio than normal and requires special lenses that are hard to come by. It’s therefore an even more distinctive choice on Tarantino’s part to make his film in this rare format. The last film made and released in Ultra Panavision 70 was Khartoum, 50 years ago this year.
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From what I can see, cineworld are upset because the 70mm "roadshow" version is showing at the Odeon's West End theatre, but not theirs. The distributor's reason for that is that the Odeon theatre seats 1680 compared to cineworld's 344. So because they can't show that cut in London they've thrown their toys out of the pram nationwide.

However, it seems that the 70mm cut only includes 6 minutes of extra footage in actual woo exciting 70mm and then there's like 12 minutes of opening music and a ten minute musical intermission. So the real issue is that Tarantino has put out some ultra pretentious tossathon cut and people have fallen for it and got to bickering about it. So, because the distributors wouldn't let cineworld show this stupid version of the film in one theatre - in London, so of no relevance to most of the country - they then can't sort it out for the rest of the regular cineworld theatres to show the regular cut.

Pretty ridiculous, really.
 
The distributors just took their greed too far. Exclusivity is never a good thing and cineworld called them out on it.
 
I shall simply not bother with it then.
If people in the film industry cannot be grown up about such things, then I'm not going to patronise any show.
"Other way" - don't care if only one cinema in the whole of the UK had permission to show it, I've never been a scummy free-rider and never will be.

I did 55 films last year, plan on doing the same, if not more this year - can easily afford to miss one.
 
SixTwoSix said:
£6.25, they can do one, i'd expect a free showing and Cineworld to foot the bill. I don't pay for unlimited movies to pay to see it at another cinema.
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Um, you do realise that Showcase are not connected to Cineworld and are doing this to tout for business, right? The same as the big supermarkets will sometimes let you use loyalty points from other stores?
 
That sounds more like Showcase offering a discount rather than Cineworld offering an alternative. The Unlimited card scheme even though not the same company as Cineworld probably wouldn't be allowed to offer such an offer itself due to their contract.
 
Just renewed my unlimited card not paying another cinema for a film that should be shown at Cineworld.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Um, you do realise that Showcase are not connected to Cineworld and are doing this to tout for business, right? The same as the big supermarkets will sometimes let you use loyalty points from other stores?
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Of course I do, however I see it as the fault of Cineworld we can't see it at their own cinemas as card holders.

£6.25 is a pretty poor discount.

Fair play to Showcase though if they initiated this.
 
I don't see why Cineworld should reimburse you for not being able to see this movie at their cinemas. It's not like they have the option but are purposefully choosing not to show it. They don't have the rights to show it. Should they also reimburse you for not having every foreign film and arthouse film available to watch too?
 
Smeghead said:
I don't see why Cineworld should reimburse you for not being able to see this movie at their cinemas. It's not like they have the option but are purposefully choosing not to show it. They don't have the rights to show it. Should they also reimburse you for not having every foreign film and arthouse film available to watch too?
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It's a major film, they can and should have the rights. They just aren't willing to pay for them. This is totally different to things like foreign films.
 
Glaucus said:
It's a major film, they can and should have the rights. They just aren't willing to pay for them. This is totally different to things like foreign films.
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This is a risk you take when you subscribe for a service like this and tie yourself to one chain. My wife signed up for unlimited for a year or so and found she had to pick and choose which cinema she went to, as the local one only showed multiplex popcorn trash and she had to drive out of town to see anything remotely intelligent. Should she be able to claim for the excess mileage every time she drove to the farther cinema?
 
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