how do movie theatres get to play newly released movies? How is it sent to them?
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They send the canisters the same way you’d ship anything else. They have agreements with studios to screen movies, and the studios send them the movies. Then the theaters send them back.
It used to be that they would get mailed canisters of film. Then they got sent digital copies. Now they stream it from the studio. I think Imax is different, but I’m not sure
They’re given the private piratebay torrent link from the production company. The theatre then downloads it to their Sony Viao laptop (using VPN ofc) and projects it on screen.
Most new movies are downloaded by the theater over the internet as most of them are digital not on film (some are). There is a bunch of processes and security/password set ups to protect the film and whatnot
Basically all movies are shown digitally now. The cinemas either get them shipped on hard drives (called CRU drives) or download them.
Hi, actually know this and have worked with it
There are two main ways: fiber connection or physical drives.
Fiber connection: A movie theater has a fiber connection and downloads the movie. Thats it in a simple sense
Hard drive: A theater receives by mail (or carrier like UPS) a hard drive containing the movie.
These are then ingested, ewwww, into the movie theater’s software and prepared to be exhibited.
All of this is encrypted…heavily, to ensure there can’t be any shenanigans with copying the movie.
Today it’s all digital. Simple as sending a file.
Prior to that you’d get cans of 35mm film (or sometimes 70mm) that would be laid out in gigantic platters and fed through a projector. Trailers would have to get manually spliced in – which wasn’t terrible hard, just time consuming.
I still have a bunch of trailers I kept from my time working at a theatre back in the late 1990s. Star Wars, Blair Witch, Fight Club, and a bunch of others. They’re not really valuable, but man they’re kind of cool to hold on to.
They used to be received as film prints in multiple cannisters the day before, which would have to be spooled up and spliced in the correct order onto enormous platters which the projectors would play them back from. Also, if you were really good buddies with the projectionist you could get let into the theater after-hours on Thursday night to watch the “premiere” hours before the regular public while drinking beer and listening to your favorite tunes pumped into the house audio. Or at least so I’ve heard.
Don’t see many answers talking about the business aspect of this. Here’s a good answer covering that:
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