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Presentation Issues: The fire alarm went off towards the end of the first round. Did my tour of the building and manually re-started all the shows (for the most part — see below). This slowed things down a bit, but, we were able to get the second round running without much hassle. Preshow Clips/Playlist: still waiting on Capernaum feature before we can building and schedule the playlists Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): received updated keys for Vice, which I have ingested. All shows should be good to run for the week. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: theater 2 does not seem to be accepting macro execution cues from any TMS program. When the fire alarm was triggered, it continually failed to run the Fire Alarm Clear executable. This prevented me from doing any of the other steps necessary to get the show running...

Presentation Issues: None. QC'd Cold War in T1, T2, and T3. Everything looks good. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Made/scheduled A1_FreeSolo, A1_Groundhog, and A1_ColdWar. Capernaum DCP arrives tomorrow morning, will have to be ingested and scheduled. Trailer Updates: Updated trailer packs with content from Kris King Special Events/ AV set up: Groundhog Day is ready to go. Please have eyes on the feature when it plays in case any adjustments need to be made to sound, etc. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Still waiting on a delivery from Vision. Hopefully Capernaum, Cold War, and Lego Movie 2 show up tomorrow. Please hang out front when they do. Ordering/Receiving (content): Capernaum will be arriving tomorrow AM. Please keep eyes and ears peeled. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Still trying to send out these DCPs, but I'm having trouble logging into the UPS account. Print/video Inspection: none Distro Doc updated/checked?: none Maintenance/cleaning: none ...

Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Added a cue to lower the volume for the Willy Wonka, Casablanca, and Groundhog Day trailers as managers said these were too loud. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Groundhog Day DCP ingested to TMS. A trailer DCP was also delivered but I couldn't get TMS to read anything off it, possibly a faulty drive. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes: Updated KDMs for everything but Vice, requested new ones for this title. Preemptively uploaded ones for Cold War and Groundhog Day too

Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): DCPs are still in server station 7 Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Made cue sheets for next week and scheduled all I could. Tip for making cue sheets: in practice the playlists tend to end 2-4 minutes after the end time on the film schedule so I reflected this in the cue times for start/end credits. Its not uncommon for a manager to ask me to adjust the cue sheets when these two cues are off. Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Lo-Res : Additional Notes: Servers 1 and 2 are very low on scape because when I scheduled everything TMS automatically started necessary ingestions on those servers.

Presentation Issues: None today! Preshow Clips/Playlist: I updated the Basis of Sex preshow and the Hawks with Babies playlist with new content from Kris King Trailer Updates: None yet Special Events/ AV set up: None Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Waiting on Lego Movie 2 poster to arrive. Will put in order for Cold War and Capernaum tomorrow AM. Ordering/Receiving (content): Waiting on Cold War and Capernaum DCPs Outgoing/Shipping (content): I scheduled a pick up for tomorrow morning. I have 20 DCPs on the cart in Theater 7's server station for FedEx. Print/video Inspection: none Distro Doc updated/checked?: none Maintenance/cleaning: none Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Just got the film schedule, will update the cue sheets later this week. Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: I tested the Shoplifters DCP in Theater 3 towards the end of the night, and the last 20 minutes or so played through perfectly fine, with nothing resembling what was supposed to have happened this afternoon (black screen, Japanese dialogue, and no subtitles). Weird... Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None tonight Preshow Clips/Playlist: Updated preshow packs and trailer packs per instructions from Kris King. Trailer Updates: Added Cold War trailer to the Adult pack Special Events/ AV set up: none Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Cue sheets and scheduling are all finished through the week Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes: Added Bohemian Rhapsody to the marquee!

Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: I tried out the new "House Lights MID" setting on the ground floor theaters in T5 during the first round preshow, thought it looked super! I set this level manually for the preshows down there all day. Trailer Updates: Replaced Lego Movie 2 trailer and took out Us trailer in the Adult pack. My mistake, I forgot about the trailers document. Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Made cue sheets for next week, and scheduled through next Thursday (with the exception of Bohemian Rhapsody) Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Lo-Res : Additional Notes: Need new KDMs for Mary Poppins Returns, Green Book, Vice, and On the Basis of Sex before Friday

Presentation Issues: Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Added a cue to raise the volume for the Oscar shorts trailer in the Adult and All Ages packs, and switched out the Lego Movie 2 trailer for the Us trailer in the Adult pack Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Didn't see/hear about any new posters, is there a specific place I should check? Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: Everything went fine tonight Preshow Clips/Playlist: No updates until Thursday Trailer Updates: same Special Events/ AV set up: none Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): I’m expecting posters to be delivered tomorrow! Please hang up Captain Marvel and Lego Movie 2 if/when they arrive. Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: the final round of Beale Street was scheduled to start ten minutes too late. This is my fault, though, I am confused why the cue sheet had the correct start time on it regardless. Anyway, Alexis caught this right around seating time and I manually started the show with an appropriate offset — crisis averted (also keep an eye out for any other scheduler/cue sheet discrepancies like that — and again, sorry for missing this) Preshow Clips/Playlist: the 6:30 Aquaman and final round of Mary Poppins needed to be manually started. Everything else was a pretty smooth auto-start tonight. Trailer Updates: the volume level on the Oscar Shorts trailer is way, way too low (very noticeable in theater). I was going to the program a new volume cue to add to the trailer packs, but then realized I do not know how to do this on TMS. Can somebody take a look at this on Monday? (and also tell me how to do this please) Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters ...

Presentation Issues: I was radio'ed during the last round that the masking in Theater 7 was off, but at this point the screen was only showing flat trailers, so I have no idea what could have been happening. I ran the scope masking macro and the manager said this fixed the problem, and I didn't get a chance to look at the actual screen before the feature started (which there were no problems with). Preshow Clips/Playlist: The managers had asked me to start preshow early during the last round, but I didn't realize this was possible. Are there extra pre-show clips we can show? Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes; leaving the lights in theater 6 o...

Presentation Issues: Playlist in Theater 2 got stuck on the GPI cue during the second round, so I had to manually start it. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None -- but keep an eye on what playlists, if any, fail to auto-start over the weekend Preshow Clips/Playlist: scheduled shows for Saturday through Thursday —— however, please double check these if you can Trailer Updates: Added US to the adult trailer pack. Keep in mind that "TRL1" was what was on the Trailmix, so this is what I used —— I saw there was already a "TRL2" version on the TMS, but since we only had the Scope version ingested, I went with the version from Trailmix (does anybody know where this Scope trailer came from?) ** replaced Dumbo with Captain Marvel on the all ages playlists since Dumbo was not included on Matthew's list of trailers to show this week. Feel free to switch it back if we are actually supposed to show it. Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): we received a poster for US. It is currently in booth 4/6. Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): ...

Presentation Issues: none! Preshow Clips/Playlist: Made a Mary Poppins 5.1 SPL for next week's schedule since we do not have 7.1 KDMs for Theater 7. Trailer Updates: Replaced Glass in the Adult Trailer Pack with Cold War (for now) Special Events/ AV set up: none Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes: Put together the utility cart! It's loaded up with DCP drives in booth 3/7 right now. Also took Shoplifters off the marquee and replaced it with Glass.

Presentation Issues: It seems that the fire alarm was triggered sometime over night — all of the servers were on red-light mode when I came in. I did the rounds of the building and re-set the override in each booth. Everything was fine from then on. ** both evening shows in theater 2 (Vice and The Favourite) failed to auto-start and had to be run manually *** the final show in theater 7 (Vice) also failed to auto-start and had to be started manually Preshow Clips/Playlist: scheduled the rest of Thursday's shows where possible (beware of a few manual starts in there) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): we received KDMs for Glass. They have been uploaded to all screens — feature should be good to go (it's reading as playable in Thursday's scheduler) ** we did also eventually get the updated Green Book keys for tomorrow & Thursday. These have been ingested and are good to g...

Presentation Issues: Tonight I tested a few CaptiView devices in some theaters for connectivity; the only one that gave me trouble was theater 2, the captions worked from the booth but once I entered the actual theater the connection was lost. Didn't get a chance to check 3 or 5. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: One of the fluorescents in Theater 4 has gone out. Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes: To repeat what I wrote in my e-mail about closed captioning... DCPs we currently show that  have  English closed captions are: The Favourite If Beale Street Could Talk Vice Mary Poppins Returns Shoplifters is foreign langu...

Presentation Issues: The lamp on the Christie in booth 6 shut off again while Dan was working on the 35's, we figured out it only happened when he turned on the projector to the left, as we switched the motor/lamp on on the other one and the Christie wasn't affected. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Glass DCP ingested to TMS, I also transferred it to Server 1 but Server 2 is running low on space so something will have to be removed before it can get ingested there. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None today! Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Put up Oscars shorts poster, moved Beale St poster to Green Book's spot and put that poster in booth 3/7 Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: Everything went great this evening! Preshow Clips/Playlist: Ingested the Vice preshow, along with all the CPLs from the Scope trailer pack, to servers 3 and 4 for next week's shows -Finished scheduling shows through Wednesday and started Thursday (only ones up on the website minus Glass) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes: Wrote this down before, but there are a lot of turns next week with only one minute between end of one playlist and the beginning of another, and you can pretty much count on having to manually start those

Presentation Issues: TMS was offline when I first came in, but Max/Sam/Bill were able to get it working again with plenty of time before the first show. However, theater 7's server was not accessible through the TMS overview for the first round and did not receive the automatic start trigger — we had to start it manually from upstairs. Keep an eye out for any weird/faulty cue stuff this weekend. ** the 6:45 show of VICE in theater 2 did not auto start. Luckily we caught it quickly and I was able to manually start the show. Not sure why this happened. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built playlists/packs for ON THE BASIS OF SEX, sent them out to projectors for tomorrow. ** Began scheduling shows for the week. Everything seems fine so far, but BE FOREWARNED that the Monday shows in theater 5 will need to be manually started for the 6PM round (the end of Mary Poppins overlaps with the scheduled start of Aquaman) Trailer Updates: we went onto Eclair to grab the Oscar Shorts trailer, ...

Presentation Issues: Max and Billy & Sam from DMS will be here tomorrow morning to work on the TMS problems Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Put up On the Basis of Sex poster Ordering/Receiving (content): On the Basis of Sex DCP in Booth 4/6, will be ingested tomorrow morning due to issues with TMS Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Lo-Res : Additional Notes: Ingested KDMs for On the Basis of Sex and updated Shoplifters KDMs

Presentation Issues: Nothing serious, the last show of the night in Theater 3 didn't start on schedule because (I think) there was only one minute between the end of the prior show and the beginning of the next preshow, i.e. there wasn't enough time for TMS to start the next playlist. Just something to be aware of. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None today! Billy and Sam came in this morning and updated the firmware on the Christie for Screen 6 and it's been playing all day without a problem. Preshow Clips/Playlist: none Trailer Updates: none Special Events/ AV set up: none Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Still waiting on new posters from Vision Ordering/Receiving (content): Still waiting on Basis of Sex DCP as well Outgoing/Shipping (content): need to start shipping back DCPs as soon as I have access to UPS account Print/video Inspection: none Distro Doc updated/checked?: none Maintenance/cleaning: none Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Cue sheets are updated through Thursday. I just received schedule for next week and will update cue sheets accordingly Showtime boards & recording updated?: n/a Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : no Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: The Christie in Theater 6 failed again. I sent an e-mail out detailing the problem to everyone already. We had to cancel the last showing of Shoplifters tonight and have preemptively cancelled the first showing tomorrow. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Did some clean up of old content Trailer Updates: None Special Events/ AV set up: none Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Still waiting for the poster for On the Basis of Sex to arrive. Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): none Print/video Inspection: none Distro Doc updated/checked?: none Maintenance/cleaning: none Cue sheets updated (only if needed): none Showtime boards & recording updated?: none Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: The Christie for Screen 6 keeps shutting off unexpectedly. Happened twice during the second round of Shoplifters. Stayed on all night after that. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated (only if needed): Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : Yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: Not a "presentation" issue per se, but there was a big TMS hiccup earlier this afternoon where the SPLs seemed to be only registering locally (i.e. showing up as loaded to the individual servers but not showing up in the scheduler or anywhere else). Fortunately Dylan S. was here for a bit and he was able to get TMS on the phone and they made the issue go away. Not sure if it's fixed permanently or what the exact problem was, though, so, be on the lookout for this. ** received a radio call from the floor staff that the house lights in theater 3 were not lowering from cleaning to mid. They did seem pretty bright to me. Is this a known issue? Preshow Clips/Playlist: Scheduled all shows from Saturday through Thursday per Matthew's show schedule Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): received this week's updated keys for Shoplifters, loaded them to all ser...

Presentation Issues: Flat shows in Theater 2 should be moved until the new projector lens is installed Preshow Clips/Playlist: none Trailer Updates: none Special Events/ AV set up: none Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): none Ordering/Receiving (content): none Outgoing/Shipping (content): none Print/video Inspection: none Distro Doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: none Cue sheets updated (only if needed): none Showtime boards & recording updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night? : yes Lo-Res : Additional Notes: