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Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built and scheduled the new A1 playlists with the exception of Yesterday , which we're still waiting on the DCP for. Still waiting on Never Fear and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas  as well. Trailer Updates: Trailer packs have all been updated per Kris' assignments. Special Events/ AV set up: No events Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): None Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: None. Keys for  Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw activate tonight. West Side Story keys activate tomorrow night. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning: None Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. Cue sheets for the coming week are in progress and will be finished tomorrow. Marquee updated?: No updates. Posters updated?: No updates Cleaning lights on for the night?: N/a Projectors off for the night?: n/a Projecti...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Ingested  Hobbs & Shaw  preshow and  Blow Up  trailer and sent to all screens. Also grabbed the one minute preshow slide and the Woodstock trailer from Dropbox, ingested to TMS and to all screens. Sent  Blinded by the Light , Where'd You Go Bernadette , and Dirty Dancing trailers to all screens as well. Trailer Updates: Rachael walkied me that The Nightingale trailer was still playing in theater 5. Trailer pack had been updated but the replacement trailer ( The Kitchen ) hadn't been sent to most of the servers, so they just reverted to the old version of the playlist. I sent the Kitchen trailer to the remaining servers. I think all current trailers and preshow should be sent to all servers once we get them/know we're using them, TMS does not seem to auto-ingest missing pieces of playlist packs within a show playlist as they are updated. Special Events/ AV set up: Two more platter shows. Ordering/...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: No updates. However, I did ingest the preshow for Hobbs & Shaw . Trailer Updates: I switched the trailer for The Nightingale  with the trailer for The Kitchen in the adult trailer pack. Special Events/ AV set up: None Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ingested The Kitchen, Where'd You Go Bernadette? , and Blinded By The Light trailers from TrailMix. Posters arrived for Brittany Runs a Marathon  as well. Ordering/Receiving (content): We received our DCP of West Side Story  for this weekend. I ingested it to the TMS and sent it to TH 2. FYI the feature is in two parts (for some reason)! Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: None Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes. Updated with info for Woodstock  in August. Maintenance/cleaning: Swiffered the floor around Projector 1 in Booth 1. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. No issues today. Marquee update...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Both 35mm platter shows went very smoothly. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: I tried to swap out The Nightingale trailer with The Kitchen , as per Kris's request, but I couldn't find the trailer on the TrailMix drive when I went to ingest. This was my first time using Eclair, so I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious here. Hopefully this can be done before the first round tomorrow. Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Received and ingested new keys for Lion King and West Side Story . Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Checked. Maintenance/cleaning: Wiped down projector and platters after the last 35mm show. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked and confirmed through Wednesday. Marquee updated?: Up to date. Posters updated?: Up to date. Cleaning lights on for the night?...

Presentation Issues: Both 35mm shows went very well overall. I noticed early on that the audio for the 6:30 show was playing Dolby SR rather than Dolby Digital. It still sounded great in the theater, so I just lowered the volume slightly. But I'm not sure why that happened - the 9:30 show automatically played the Dolby Digital soundtrack as usual. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: At the end of the night, I wiped down the platters and the 35mm projector. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked cue sheets/scheduler. Confirmed for Monday and Tuesday. Marquee updated?: Put up West Side Story: August 3, 4 . Posters updated?: Took down Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and put up Downton Abbey . Cleaning lights on for the night?: Y...

Presentation Issues: None! Both platter shows went great. Preshow Clips/Playlist: No updates or changes. Trailer Updates: None Special Events/ AV set up: None Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): None Ordering/Receiving (content): I received and ingested The Nightingale  from EclairPlay. I also sent it to Theater 1 for QC later this week. Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: None Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes. Updated info for The Nightingale and created an entries for Downton Abbey and West Side Story . Maintenance/cleaning: I cleaned the projector when I came in this morning. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. No issues today. Tomorrow has been checked already. Marquee updated?: No updates. Posters updated?: Please take down Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark  and replace it with Downton Abbey tonight . Cleaning lights on for the night?: N/a Projectors off for the night?: N/a Projection c...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: For 35mm  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , ignore what I said in my blog yesterday about turning the projector #2 breaker on, it activates the LED on the sound head in the projector body which we shouldn't wear out if we don't have to. For the end of the show to make sure the tail isn't heard in the theater, just mute the Dolby CP750 when the "Rated R" tag cuts out. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): None Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Up to date Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): No updates tonight. Double checked for tomorrow and Monday. Marquee updated?: Up to date Posters updated?: Up to date Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Projection cart by TH5?: Yes Nest: ...

Presentation Issues: I noticed there was a frame alignment issue in Theater 4 - the image was slightly too small for the screen, and it looks a little awkward. No guests complained, but I couldn't fix it without causing a disruption to the movie. I told Alec, and he will adjust it after the last round tonight. *** Also, a few guests complained about the keystoning issue during Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in Th 1. Dan was with me in the Theater 1 booth and explained that it's not possible to fix this without re-orienting the entire projector, so unfortunately it will have to wait. (It is most noticeable in the 4x3 scenes.) Thank you Dylan P for the email explanation of this as well. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (35mm). Everything went smoothly apart from the keystoning issue (see above). The platters were great. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgo...

Presentation Issues: Nothing major, I did notice during the first  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 35mm show that the foil tape cues on the print cause the Dolby CP500 to switch to "Dolby SR" from "Dolby Digital" momentarily. For less than a second the sound is quite loud before it auto-switches back to Dolby Digital. This only has a noticeable effect during the cue in the credits, as there is no sound where the other two cues are placed. Don't know if this can be fixed at this point but worth noting. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I grabbed the new credits start time for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood . I left the lighting cue as is for tonight and made a new playlist (tagged "072719") which is identical except the lighting cue is a few minutes earlier. I scheduled it through Wednesday and input the new time on the cue sheets Sat-Wed as well. I also updated this cue for the 35mm shows since our automated lighting cue is at the same time as the one on the DCP...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Michael updated the adult trailer pack Special Events/ AV set up: staff screening of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD on 35mm. Ran plattered, pretty much perfectly — no issues to report. The print looked beautiful on screen, though, there is some pretty significant keystoning in theater 1 that makes the image 'bend' a bit on the right side (just in case a customer complains about that...). Print is waiting on the platter for our shows tonight. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): received a poster for Angel Has Fallen ** ordered posters for Angry Birds, Blinded By The Light, Where'd You Go Bernadette, and It Chapter 2 Ordering/Receiving (content): we received HOBBS & SHAW. Feature has been ingested to TMS. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Updated for Hobbs & Shaw Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (eve...

Presentation Issues: Our first 35mm show of  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood started 5 minutes late because of a platter issue. We ran the print reel-to-reel and the show went mostly fine. Cleaning lights came up towards the end because Dan turned the automation console on. This was not intentional and I was right there to turn them back off immediately. For regular shows this console will always be on so the cleaning lights will not be triggered at any point during the film. The focus was tricky with projector #2. I was trying to get it to focus throughout the whole show but there was always a part of the screen that remained soft. I find that the best way to get a good focus with the scope lens on this projector is to run test film before the screening, which there was absolutely no time to do today. This will not present an issue for future screenings since we are running the whole film on one projector (Projector #1) which does not have the focusing issue. Second show ran on the...

Presentation Issues: I'm sure you all heard about our issues with the platter. I'll be sending out a detailed email regarding this tomorrow. Just know that we ran the first 35mm showing of OUATIH reel-to-reel and rebuilt the platter as the reels came down. Everything should be good to run the platter for the second screening tonight and all future screenings. I will of course keep everyone posted. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Created and scheduled all of our new A1 playlists, as well as SE_PointBreak for brunch this weekend. Trailer Updates: Updated Adult and All Ages trailer packs per Kris King's assignments. Special Events/ AV set up: None except for the OUATIH premiere. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): I've been in Booth 1 since 11 am, but I don't think we received anything today. Ordering/Receiving (content): I ordered The Nightingale  from EclairPlay. Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: I got to check the DCP for Onc...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Sent Once Upon a Time in Hollywood preshow to theater 1 Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Sent the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood DCP to theater 1 just in case... Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection:  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has been built! It's on the lower platter ready to be tested at the staff screening tomorrow. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes, no updates needed tonight and tomorrow's sheet has been checked against the scheduler and Matthew's film schedule. Marquee updated?: Up to date Posters updated?: Up to date Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Projection cart by TH5?: Yes Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built A1_OnceUponATimeH_072519 and scheduled it for tomorrow, but the trailers still need to be updated. Please keep an eye on Dropbox for TLR_NPP_WetHot, HN_11a_Anime_Welcome, HN_11b_Anime_Feature, and TLR_NPP_CARD_August_A and ingest them as soon as possible. Trailer Updates: No updates until tomorrow AM. Special Events/ AV set up: No events tonight. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Received this week's TrailMix. Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: None. Keys for Once Upon a Time In Hollywood  activate at midnight tonight and the print has a combo lock that we can't crack until 10PM. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning: None Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. Cue sheets for next week are ready for review. Marquee updated?: No updates Posters updated?: No updates. Once Upon a Time In Hollywood ...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: feature file for Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has been sent out to all necessary projectors for Thursday & Friday (but maybe double-check projectors 3 and 6, whose transfers did not finish before I had to boot everything down at the end of the night). Trailer Updates: We are waiting on the following in-house trailers with which to do trailer pack/playlist updates: the new 'Anime' welcome and feature bumpers, the Wet Hot American Summer trailer (for adult packs), the Dirty Dancing trailer (for all ages packs), and the NPP August A card. Special Events/ AV set up: River's Edge ran great and had no problems as far as I can tell. Feature file has been deleted from projector 1. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): downloaded zip files for the Once Upon a Time preshow from the Dropbox browser. I was able to unzip the 10min and 20min, ingest them to TMS, and send them out to al...

Presentation Issues: The first round in Theater 3 failed to autostart. It got set to manual mode sometime between when I arrived this morning and opening. I was working on our platter system in the Theater 1 booth with Billy, so I did not realize until Ryan walkied me. The preshow started about 5 minutes late, but otherwise there were no issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Still waiting on preshow for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood . Please keep an eye on Dropbox for it and the rest of our incoming content. Trailer Updates: Got new trailer assignments from Kris, just waiting on content. Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): We received a poster for Downton Abbey . I don't know if we have any plans to book this, so just leave it in 3/7 for now. Ordering/Receiving (content): After a bit of a hassle from UPS, we received our Once Upon a Time in Hollywood  DCP. I ingested it to the TMS. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Didn't get a chance, but...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): still no sign of ONCE UPON A TIME. According to Dylan S. there was a missed delivery earlier, and they were supposed to return tonight with the drive — I asked lobby bar to keep an eye out for somebody, and apparently the delivery never came. No sign of a DCP box on the first floor as far as I could find. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Deleted Matrix: Reloaded from projector 2 ** packed up drives for Bill & Ted and The Matrix, put them on the outgoing shelf Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: we had a bit of a rain leak in theater 5. I sent an email about it — things seem dry in there now. Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked for tonight. Also created new cue sheets for next week, began filling them out (start times are entered through...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: I created and scheduled an All Ages version of the Sword of Trust  playlist for the matinee tomorrow. Trailer Updates: I updated the volume cues for our lights down trailers per Alec's notes from this weekend. Special Events/ AV set up: Only event is The Matrix: Reloaded  in Th 2. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): We received a trailer for Cats  on a thumb drive via FedEx. I ingested it just in case we end up showing it. Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): Our DCP of  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is supposed to be here by the end of the day. Please keep an eye out for it and ingest it as soon as it arrives! Print/video Inspection: I checked out The Matrix: Reloaded  in Th 2 and decided to lower the volume cue to 4.5 Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning: None Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. Waiting on film schedul...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: I deleted all of our outdated A1 and SE playlists from the past few weeks, as well as old trailer packs and preshows. Trailer Updates: No updates Special Events/ AV set up: No events during my shift Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): None Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: None Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning: None Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked for tomorrow. Everything looks good. Marquee updated?: No updates. Posters updated?: No updates. However, we should probably order more "Now Playing" and "Coming Soon" snipes sometime soon. The heat seems to be shrinking them/causing them to crinkle. Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Projection cart by TH5?: Yes Nest: Additional Notes: I noticed the storage on the TMS was getting a bit ...

Presentation Issues: None. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Sent Lion King to Theater 4 for Thursday Adjusted the volume for some of our house made trailers. Most were too loud but Never Fear  was far too quiet. 3.8 tends to be a good volume for these (however they should still be checked once we get them) but in case where the source material is of low quality (such as Never Fear ) is needs to be bumped up. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: 35mm show of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in Theater 1. Went great! One more thing about the 35mm projectors, though. I noticed both projectors are not aligned completely with the screen when projecting flat 1.85 films. There is some black on the right side of the screen with both machines. This isn't a plate problem, as I filed the plate using white light on screen before the show and there was still a bit of black when projecting the actual film. From what I can recall this is not an issue with scope films, so if it's at...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested a DCP of Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey , as a backup for tomorrow's 35mm show. I tested it in Theater 1, so it should be ready to go for tomorrow if necessary. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Keys for  River's Edge  have been received and ingested. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked, and confirmed for tomorrow so there will not be a repeat of this morning. Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes. Projectors off for the night?: Yes. Projection cart by TH5?: Yes. Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: Sword of Trust was not loaded on Theater 3's server before this morning. The playlist hadn't been scheduled for today or tomorrow, and since these are the only showtimes for this film in theater 3 TMS never triggered the ingest of the feature to this projector. I loaded the playlist to start it manually and didn't notice for a while into preshow that the feature was still loading onto the server. For some reason, the playlist for the second round in theater 3 was scheduled though this was supposed to be a manual start. Manual start shows should never be added to the scheduler. If you need to check the end time, just click on the playlist you need to check, hold, and drag it over to see when it should end and then drag it back, don't delete anything. To make sure all content is ready in a playlist that will be manually started, temporarily schedule it for a time when nothing is playing (early morning/late night). Once you know that all content is re...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Updated playlists for Lion King and Toy Story with new the new 20min Lil Hawks PS segment from Kris. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked. There was a typo in the cue sheets for Yesterday in Theater 4 - it said the Last Call and Start Credits were an hour later than they were. I checked the cue sheets for next week and they are all correct. Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes. Projectors off for the night?: Yes. Projection cart by TH5?: Yes. Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: The first round of Lion King started right into the feature instead of the preshow. I think this is because the feature file had been loaded into the server, but not ejected — so when the projector hit the scheduled start time, it just played whatever was loaded into the controller instead of the playlist which was actually scheduled. I apologize for not catching that earlier, and for also not knowing this was possible. Fortunately, the problem was discovered after about a minute and I was able to load the actual playlist and time it out correctly pretty quickly. ** TMS froze about thirty minutes before we opened doors. I went to reboot it and it timed out completely and would not restart — the Dell computer in the rack eventually auto-rebooted itself due to 'inactivity'. It was not back on-line until after the first round began. Preshow Clips/Playlist: built a playlist for THE MATRIX: RELOADED, scheduled it in theater 2. Playlist still needs its end ...

FYI I wasn't actually working the projection shift today but I had a fair bit of stuff to share, that's why I'm blogging... Trailer Updates: Can you guys give a listen to the recent trailers when you get a chance? I was in to see Midsommar the other night in Th3 and a few of the trailers seemed a little quiet. Hobbs and Shaw  in particular could have a little more underneath it. It's not the movie of the year, I know, but action-y trailers like that are a good opportunity to show off our shiny newly tuned sound systems.. We will go over how to make new audio cues in the meeting next week, so we can make incremental adjustments. Special Events/ AV set up: Blu ray player in Th1 is set up to play the backup for  Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey on Sunday morning . Still waiting on the disc to arrive so I may not have time to make a DCP. The analog audio channel on the CP750 that we previously had set up for bluray audio is now being taken up by the 35mm projectors/C...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Please keep an eye out for new Booksmart KDMs tomorrow! I emailed them yesterday and they replied saying new keys will be issued, but they haven't sent them yet. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Looking for Mr Goodbar 35mm screening with intro by Bruce LaBruce in theater 1. No issues with presentation and the mic is back in it's charging port in theater 1's booth. A few things about the 35s in there though: The last roller on projector #2 is loose which caused the countdown to get torn on two reels while threading, but I taped it together with paper tape and had no problems threading up after that. No damage to the print during actual projection. I also emailed John Woods about this to send to Paramount. After the screening I tried tightening this roller, but I think it just doesn't fit the arm well, or maybe the screw is partly stripped. I believe that if we are extra careful when threading this ...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built and scheduled playlists for SE_BillTedsExcAdv, SE_RiversEdge, and SE_LionKing_072519 (for the private event in TH6). The only ones left to be built are Matrix: Reloaded  and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , neither of which has arrived yet. Trailer Updates: All trailer packs are updated and go into effect tomorrow. Special Events/ AV set up: I tested the preshow playlist for Mr. Goodbar  tonight. It has all the cues for the intro built in. There's also a DCP cooking that we're going to have on hand as a backup. Also sent playlists for Bill and Ted , River's Edge , and the private The Lion King screening to their respective screens. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): None Ordering/Receiving (content): We received our DCP of River's Edge . I ingested it to the TMS and sent it to TH1 for this Tuesday. Outgoing/Shipping (content): There's a bunch of DCPs waiting on the outgoing shelf, if an...

Presentation Issues: Theater 1's lights cut out before seating for The Matrix . This was completely my fault, as I had accidentally and without noticing knocked the breaker for the theater lights to off when I flipped the breaker for 35mm projector #1. I tried several things before I noticed I had accidentally turned that breaker off, so it took me longer than it should've to get them back to normal. In the mean time I was able to get some emergency lights on in the theater so MODs could seat it on time, albeit with slightly awkward lighting. Then I noticed my mistake and they were back to normal a few minutes after the start of preshow. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I adjusted the lights cue for the start of credits for The Lion King , I put it 3 minutes earlier so lights come up at the very beginning of credits instead of when the crawl starts. Theater 4's server is very full, so I didn't send Sword of Trust to it just yet. It will need to be loaded tomorrow after we c...

Presentation Issues: No issues Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built A1_LionKing_071919, A1_SwordofTrust_071919, and updated the rest of our first-run playlists for the coming week. The only preshow we're waiting on is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , which premieres next Thursday. Trailer Updates: I updated the trailer packs for this coming week. Special Events/ AV set up: No events tonight Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): We received posters for Hobbs & Shaw (more) and a new TrailMix .  I also ingested all of the new in-house trailers from Kris (Charlie Brown, West Side Story, Never Fear, New Outdoors trailer, and new July card). Ordering/Receiving (content): Sword of Trust  arrived via EclairPlay. I received and ingested that, as well as the keys for it. Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: QC'd The Lion King  in Theater 2. No issues! Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Updated with info re: The Lion King and Sword of Tr...

Presentation Issues: The house lights briefly turned on during Toy Story 4  in TH 1. This happened as Daniel turned on the 35mm projectors for platter training. There's no logical reason this should have triggered the house lights (that I can think of), but we should make sure to turn them on either before we open, or between rounds. Preshow Clips/Playlist: I updated the playlists for Film Feast tonight and The Matrix tomorrow (added credit offsets and lowered the volume cue to 5.0). Trailer Updates: No updates Special Events/ AV set up: Set up two mics in TH3 for the film feast intro. Also set up the blu ray player and mic in Hi-Res for the trivia/afterparty. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordered posters for The Nightingale  and Blinded by the Light . Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested updated keys for Yesterday . Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: QC'd  The Matrix in TH1. Looked and sounded great! Asset trackin...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Helped with setup and breakdown for the Film Feast after party. Very simple setup. After it was done I took everything back to 4/6. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes. Projectors off for the night?: Yes. Projection cart by TH5?: Yes. Nest: Additional Notes: I came in early for training with the platters, and practiced running them several times throughout the night. I think I'm getting the hang of it - today was very helpful.

Presentation Issues: None. Pretty simple shift tonight. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Sent THE LION KING to server 2 for Thursday's opening. Still waiting on preshow files to build the playlist. (Double-check it went through properly when you can — I file had not finished sending out when I shut down the projectors tonight) Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): received and ingested keys for THE MATRIX, THE LION KING, YESTERDAY, and TOY STORY 4 Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: The Matrix keys open Tuesday morning — feel free to give it a QC Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Checked Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked, all good Marquee updated?: n/a Posters updated?: n/a Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Projection cart by TH5?: Yes Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: No changes or updates Trailer Updates: No changes until after Mr. Goodbar on Thursday Special Events/ AV set up: No events Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): None Ordering/Receiving (content): Our DCP of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure  arrived. I ingested it to the TMS. Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: None Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes, updated with info for Bill and Ted Maintenance/cleaning: none Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Cue sheets for today have no issues. I'll start the cue sheets for next week once the film schedule is sent out. Marquee updated?: No updates. Film Feast should come down tonight or tomorrow (especially since it's sold out) and replaced with Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Posters updated?: No updates until Thursday Cleaning lights on for the night?: n/a Projectors off for the night?: n/a Projection cart by TH5?: Ba...

Presentation Issues: none Preshow Clips/Playlist: Deleted SE_Big and its contents from the servers. Trailer Updates: no updates Special Events/ AV set up: No events Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): none Ordering/Receiving (content): none Outgoing/Shipping (content): none Print/video Inspection: none Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes. Maintenance/cleaning: none Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes Marquee updated?: No updates Posters updated?: no updates Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Projection cart by TH5?: Yes Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: We got a few complaints that  Toy Story  was too loud in Theaters 3 and 4, so I turned it down slightly in both theaters. *** Also, Dan and Billy were in 1 and 4/6 this morning figuring out lighting cues for platter shows. Unfortunately this accidentally trigged the lights in Theater 1 during  Spider-Man.  The lights were only on for a second, and they fixed the problem straight away. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked. As Alec pointed out, the cue sheets were 4 minutes off for Secret Life of Pets 2 . They are still correct for the rest of the week. Marquee updated?: Took down Big and added Point Break: Film Feast: July 16 . Posters updated?: Cleaning...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: None Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Up to date Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): The cue sheets for the weekend had the wrong runtime for  Secret Life of Pets , it said the film is 90 minutes when it is actually 86. These cue sheets also had only 4 minutes of credits listed though there are really 8 minutes of credits for this film. I corrected this for Sunday. Cues for this film were already correct for Monday - Thursday. The runtime was also wrong for Late Night , cue sheets had it at 100 minutes but it is 102. The movie runtime was incorrect for cue sheets all week but has been corrected. The runtime for Big on Sunday was also wrong even though it was correct on today's sheet. Sunday's sheet also...

Presentation Issues: No issues. Gave out one headset for Spider-Man in Theater 1. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Just  Big in Theater 1 - ran very smoothly. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked. I noticed Secret Life of Pets 2 was about 5 minutes shorter than on the cue sheet, so I started it slightly later to make up the difference. Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: n/a Projectors off for the night?: n/a Projection cart by TH5?: n/a Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: None Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Looking for Mr. Goodbar 35mm print. It's in excellent shape except it has a faint vinegar smell so I will clean the projectors after it is screened. It's on house reels ready to be built onto the platter if we get permission or projected reel-to-reel if we don't. Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Up to date Maintenance/cleaning: none Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): No updates needed tonight Marquee updated?: Up to date Posters updated?: Up to date Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Projection cart by TH5?: Yes Nest: Additional Notes:

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: built playlists for THE MATRIX and POINT BREAK Film Feast, scheduled them. note: The Matrix did not come with an ingest letter (and Deluxe One does not have credit offset times listed), so we'll have to find the lights-up cue once the key opens. Trailer Updates: None, should be up to date for the weekend Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): received THE LION KING and THE MATRIX. Both have been ingested to TMS. ** we also received the 35mm print of LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR. This has been carried up to booth 1 (thanks for the help, Michael!). ** grabbed the slide for Point Break film feast from Dropbox, ingested it to TMS Outgoing/Shipping (content): carried outgoing DCP drives to the UPS drop Print/video Inspection: QC'd POINT BREAK and BIG. Both ran without a problem. Made note of the Point Break end credits cue (playlist for Big has already bee...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Rachel radioed me during the second round that trailers were starting late for  Toy Story 4 , so I rearranged a few things so the lights dim to MID after preshow at showtime for the three and a half minutes of assigned PSAs, then dark for the six and a half minutes of assigned trailers. Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: The Cure: Live at Hyde Park in Theater 1, and an afterparty with the projector in Hi-Res. There ended up being no intro so the show ran itself with no issues. Setting up the projector in Hi-res was no problem, but we had some issues with the sound from the HDMI. It came through very muffled and tinny. I switched to an XLR - 1/8" for sound and the music came through properly this way. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: None tonight Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Up to date Maintenance/cleani...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: I built and scheduled SE_Big for the brunch screenings this weekend. I also added the "New Wave promo" to tonight's playlist for The Cure . Trailer Updates: No updates Special Events/ AV set up: Event tonight is The Cure  in TH 1 with an Afterparty to follow in Hi-res. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): I ingested in-house trailers for Heathers  and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas  from Dropbox. Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: I checked out the volume for The Cure  and decided to reduce it from 6.0 to 5.5 Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes. No updates. Maintenance/cleaning: None Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. No issues with today's sheet and the sheets for the coming week are finished and ready for review. Marquee updated?: No updates until after Big  on Sunday. Posters updated?: Please take ...

Presentation Issues: None. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Fantastic Planet with live score in Theater 1. Dylan and Michael set this up with the band this afternoon and they were both around to help out with the screening. Went great, and I learned a bit about how the mixer and live sound set up works. All our cables are back in their bins in 4/6, and the speakers and mixer are behind the screen in theater 1. Shoutout to Michael for all his help with the breakdown! Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): New TrailMix came, it's labelled and with the other current drives in 4/6. Ordering/Receiving (content): None Outgoing/Shipping (content): Printed and attached shipping labels for the Magnolia print. It's on the cart ready to be picked up by FedEx and shipped to BAM tomorrow. Print/video Inspection: None Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Added Goodbar tracking info, it's scheduled to be delivered on Friday Main...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Playlists are all finished and scheduled for this week with the exception of Big, Point Break , and The Matrix . Trailer Updates: Trailer pack updates are finished for this week. I took Brittany Runs a Marathon  out of the Adult pack because it was too long. I'll put it back once there's room. Special Events/ AV set up: Soundcheck for Fantastic Planet  went great! Everything is good to go for tonight. Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): We received a new TrailMix. Ordering/Receiving (content): Ingested new keys for Late Night . Outgoing/Shipping (content): None. However, Magnolia  is scheduled to be picked up by FedEx tomorrow morning. Alec, can you make sure to put it on the projection cart before you leave? Print/video Inspection: None Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning: None Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Yes. Cue sheets were good for today and are fin...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Built '071219' adult playlists for next week (the all ages-friendly playlists seem up to date for next week's trailers) ** scheduled all first run playlists for Friday 7/12 through Thursday 7/18 according to the current cue sheets (except for Lion King on Thursday) Trailer Updates: built adult '071219' trailer packs for next week (re: Matthew's trailer suggestions in his recent schedule e-mail) Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): received and ingested new KDMs for Dead Don't Die, Pets 2, Rocketman, Toy Story 4, Booksmart, Yesterday, and Late Night (though the Late Night KDM seems to have not gone through properly) Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleani...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Thanks, Michael for bringing over the Fantastic Planet  preshow for tomorrow. I ingested it and added it to the playlist. I also created "All Ages" playlists for the first weekday screenings of  Toy Story 4  and  The Secret Life of Pets 2 . I also marked them on the cue sheets for this week and next week so that everyone knows where to schedule them. Trailer Updates: No updates Special Events/ AV set up: No events Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): I ingested trailers for Hobbs and Shaw , Brittany Runs a Marathon , Artemis Fowl , and Angry Birds 2  in preparation for the coming week. Ordering/Receiving (content): Our DCP of Big  arrived for this weekend. I ingested it to the TMS and Screen 1. I also ingested Michael's DCP of Point Break and sent it to Screen 3 for QC. Outgoing/Shipping (content): I dropped our DCP of Jaws  off at UPS Print/video Inspection: None Asset trackin...

Presentation Issues: Secret Life of Pets lets out four minutes later than what was listed as its end time in the scheduler. I am not sure how or why that is possible — does somebody else know? Preshow Clips/Playlist: sent feature file for The Cure: Live to projector 1 for Thursday's show ** re: discussion in an e-mail thread, I lowered the pre-show volume in the 'DCP_Flat_PS' pack that starts all of our playlists to 3.5 (down from 3.8) Trailer Updates: no updated, but I deleted some old trailers and interstitials from our servers Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): carried our outgoing drives to the UPS drop Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Checked for today, all good Marquee updated?: updated the south side with a new marquee poem Posters updated?: Cleaning li...

Presentation Issues: No issues! Very straightforward night. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): I noticed the cue sheets indicated to start Midsommar 10 minutes early in Theater 2, so I ran the Plus10 version instead. Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes. Projectors off for the night?: Yes. Projection cart by TH5?: Yes. Nest: Additional Notes: The computer mouse in 4/6 stopped working for some reason, so I used the mouse from the rack in 4/6.

Presentation Issues: After checking over the playlists and cue sheets yesterday, I was surprised to get a call from the MODs that credit times were off again for some screenings. I realized then that the clock on the TMS is fast by two and a half minutes, which I believe is contributing to many of these cue sheet discrepancies. I've emailed Billy and asked him to check this out tomorrow and recalibrate the server's clock. Preshow Clips/Playlist: The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood  trailer was not removed from the Jaws  playlist when I got in today. For some reason, it was actually about 8 minutes longer than it was supposed to be. I corrected this as soon as I noticed and the rest of the showing went on without incident. I also built and scheduled the playlists for our two special events this week: Fantastic Planet  with Morricone Youth and The Cure: Live in Hyde Park. However, the Fantastic Planet  playlist is not finalized yet, as we're still waiting on Kris t...

Presentation Issues: Yesterday in Theater 4 was a little loud, so I turned it down slightly and monitored it throughout the night. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Took down  Jaws  and added  Big: July 13 + 14 . (I also added the apostrophe to the poem.) Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes. Projectors off for the night?: Yes. Projection cart by TH5?: Yes. Nest: Additional Notes: Alec gave me a rundown of the platters this afternoon, which was very helpful.

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Downloaded the Jaws pre-show and added it to the playlist. I wasn't able to get it in time for today's show, but it's set for tomorrow's. For future reference, sometimes when you can't download the whole folder from Dropbox you can just make a folder on the desktop with the same name and download all the DCP files individually to that. Trailer Updates: The Jaws playlist had the red band Once Upon a Time in Hollywood trailer on it, so I made a separate trailer pack for Jaws with the green band version. I think in general it's a good idea to have a separate trailer pack for events to avoid problems like this in the future. Special Events/ AV set up: Jaws in Theater 1, brunch screening. This ran itself, however there was a minute-long black clip at the end of the playlist with a cue to switch the projector back to the flat DCP macro, so at the end of the show house lights were at MID and nothing on the s...

Presentation Issues: The last round of Midsommar in theater 3 let out 8 minutes later than scheduled. The other screenings tonights seemed to start and end at the correct time, so I'm not quite sure why this round played out differently. Weird. Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): carried the BILL & TED print upstairs to booth 1 (with lots of help from Alexis, thank you!!) ** I tried to download the JAWS-specific preshow from Dropbox a few times, but kept receiving an error in the browser. Not exactly sure what the issue is — maybe we will have a chance to grab it tomorrow? Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Marquee updated?: Posters updated?: Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Project...

Presentation Issues: No issues Preshow Clips/Playlist: I deleted all of the old A1 playlists and trailer packs from the past few weeks. Trailer Updates: No updates Special Events/ AV set up: No events Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): We received another poster for The Farewell , which I do not believe we're planning on booking. I left it in 3/7 just in case. Ordering/Receiving (content): We also received our print of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey ! I left it on the cart in 3/7 in the hope that the elevator will be fixed soon and I won't have to lug all 100 pounds of it up the stairs to Booth 1. Outgoing/Shipping (content): None Print/video Inspection: None Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Yes Maintenance/cleaning: None Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): The  Midsommar  playlist for this week only had five minutes of lights down trailers, which is what we used last week to make up the time we lost because the film schedule was mad...

Presentation Issues: None tonight *Responding to Dylan's note from Tuesday (7/2) about Theater 2's server cueing up the playlist but getting stuck on pause; I've seen this happen a few times and only in theater 2. This started happening after Billy added a GPI to all the servers which I believe was to make it so the multiple automation cues at the start of shows fired in succession instead of all at once or too close together, and a part of this function (I believe) was pausing the playlist at the start before the cues fired. This doesn't prevent the playlist from starting properly (the vast majority of the time), so I'm not sure why the playlist sometimes doesn't start itself in 2. It seems to happen completely randomly and after long intervals. I mentioned this in a blog all the way back in January (1/17) and March (3/13). Preshow Clips/Playlist: Scheduled shows for Monday - Thursday. Trailer Updates: Up to date Special Events/ AV set up: None Order...

Presentation Issues: No issues, except with the special event (see below) Preshow Clips/Playlist: No updates. New playlists are already built and scheduled for the coming week. Trailer Updates: Switched PSA_Retro02 with PSA_HeyKids per Kris King's email. Special Events/ AV set up: So today in TH7 we had a private event booked. I had created a playlist for this last week and ingested Spider-Man: Far From Home via SPL ingest. When I loaded the playlist today, it triggered an ingest of  Spider-Man from the TMS to Screen 7. I almost didn't realize since the SPL seemed to ingest fine, but I noticed a red error next to the feature in the playlist. I immediately let Deanna know, took down the preshow so that the ingest would move faster, and put on Spotify through the CP750 so that the party would not be sitting in a dark and quiet theater. The feature ingested by the start time and everything remained on schedule. My suspicion is that someone was clearing off content from t...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: Trailer Updates: Special Events/ AV set up: Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): The  Point Break  DCP will not ingest, Dylan tried it multiple times today and it failed each time, and I tried rebooting TMS and ingesting it and it still failed halfway through. Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): No updates needed Marquee updated?: Added the weekend dates for  Jaws  to the north side and moved  Rocketman  and  Booksmart  to the top row on the front. Posters updated?: Up to date Cleaning lights on for the night?: Yes Projectors off for the night?: Yes Projection cart by TH5?: Yes Nest: Additional Notes: I cut together three trailers and loaded them on a platter, it's very short so it should be good for practice. ...

Presentation Issues: None Preshow Clips/Playlist: built updated '070519' playlists for all of our first runs ** scheduled shows for Friday through Sunday *** updated the end credits offset and feature volume on Midsommar Trailer Updates: made updated '070519' versions of our trailer packs (all ages, adult puppy and non-puppy). I left the Midsommar trailer pack as is Special Events/ AV set up: the specialty JAWS preshow does not seem to be on Dropbox yet — this will have be downloaded and added to the playlist before Thursday's show Ordering/Receiving (posters & trailers): Ordering/Receiving (content): downloaded the updated 'July A' card from Dropbox, ingested it to TMS ** received and ingested new keys for Toy Story 4, Dead Don't Die, Rocketman, Booksmart, and Pets 2 Outgoing/Shipping (content): Print/video Inspection: Asset tracking doc updated/checked?: Maintenance/cleaning: Cue sheets updated/checked (every shift): Che...