8/27/2023 0 Comments Movie intermission![]() ![]() I help do the programming/scheduling at a cinema and the general idea is that it makes it harder to fit in more sessions with that 5-10 minute extension of it. I don't know of a single theater that screens for 26 hours a day. If they'd stuck with the original 7? 26 hr 10 min. The total runtime of those 6 screenings? 24 hr 30 min. Okay, fine, it doesn't need to be a full screening, so let's say half: that means you'd be down to 6 screenings with a 20-minute intermission, instead of 7 without. It would take at least 11 intermissions to bump out a full screening. let's do the math here:ģ hour movie + 20 minutes of coming attractions + maybe 30 minutes between screenings. And for those talking about losing screenings. ![]() Yeah, I'd be down for an intermission in a 3 hour movie. My trick also doesn't work as well in ensemble films with a lot of parallel action (Infinity War was entirely parallel action - entire groups of characters never meet) since it's sort of like watching a bunch of 30-minute movies cutting back and forth and so the plot structure is completely different. I'm going to a midnight screening (12:30 to be precise), so I'm not getting out of there until 4, and at that hour pretty much anything can happen. I am worried I'll have to go during Endgame. The trick I use that usually works: if you realize early on you're going to need to go at some point, don't try to hold it instead, wait until the end of a very important scene - the more climactic, the better - there's usually a cool-down beat afterward, and you'll miss less if you go the moment that mid-climactic scene ends. I've yet to need a break in a Marvel film, but have regularly had to go during other films, more and more as I age (and still in my 20s). Sometimes when things are particularly important to me, my body notices and cooperates. ![]() It would be even worse for an intermission. There will be a line to get in, a line for stalls and urinals. Hell, go to a large AMC, Regal, whatever during a big big weekend, check out the bathrooms after the film is over. There's no way every one will go to the bathroom before the intermission is over. With multiple screenings of Avengers all going on at once, some at the same time, you're looking at hundreds of people leaving the theater to go to the bathroom, buy food and drink, just stretch, etc. An IMAX screen could have over 300 people. Most theaters have multiple screens, some more than 10. That would mean fewer showings of the film per day, which is money lost for the studio and the theater. How long would the intermission be? To account for an entire theater (I don't mean the building as a whole, I mean one of the screens) you would need probably 15+ minutes. I believe Disney and Marvel would have to permit an intermission, as theaters don't have that authority (I mean, as long as they want to keep showing Disney films, they don't).Īnother thing is money. ![]()
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