I can almost guarantee I'm working box office during this, and I never get to actually look cool at work. Give me your most niche costume ideas for movies from this year

Anyone else get The Devils 1971 screened at your theater? I worked podium and was warned that the movie is NC-17, is VERY graphic, and we had to be a lot more stricter with it since it's the only rating higher than R (No one under 18 is allowed in, period.) Anyone else surprised that that movie was allowed to be screened in theaters?

A lady and her husband bought tickets for Other Mommy today, but an hour later she comes out, wanting a refund because she didn't know it would be about a demonic entity. I refunded her, but then and I thought she meant to see Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother. I asked and she said that might have been the one she wanted to see. Unfortunately my location doesn't have showings yet and won't start until tomorrow, so she will have to come another time.

So just a warning to anyone selling tickets, if any customer want to watcher either Other Mommy or Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, make sure they know they are watching the correct movie. It doesn't help that customers may say a shortened title or something like "the mother" movie. I had a good feeling people would get mixed up because of how similar the movie titles are.

Imagine if it had better marketing .

Hey everyone I just applied for a part time position at a B&B theatre near me. I applied because my current part time job isn’t paying me enough, and I need more money, so I can move out of my parents place as quick as possible. I just wanted to know do you all have any advice or tips for a newcomer? And am I screwing myself especially since Dunesday is about to happen? Also sorry for shit formatting I’m on mobile

Coworker: Uh oh.

Me: don’t tell me, we’re about to get Dune part 3 and Avengers: Doomsday on December 18th?

Coworker: yup.

Me: and there’s gonna be a lot of dune and marvel fans out in the lobby?

Coworker: most likely.

Me: takes a sip of sprite from my water bottle bring it on.

Theater Workers:

I'm not an employee, but an avid moviegoer and frequent lurker of of the sub. I remember seeing posts a year or so ago of employees talking about how much unsold merch is clogging up their back of house. Now, the popcorn bucket craze was pretty ridiculous last year, but now it seems totally out of control with new unnecessary buckets releasing every week for movies and limited events that definitely don't need them. So I'm just curious if the backstock situation has gotten worse for yall. Because right now the lobby at my local theater is still sitting on a ton of Practical Magic 2, Super Troopers, D&D, Hello Kitty, Insidious, Forgotten Island, Jason Un1v3rse, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Digger buckets with that Whalefall bucket soon to join the pile.

Im an shift lead employee of amc theatres. I dont know about all but it seems the management as a whole is lazy. I deep cleaned both bathrooms, scrub the walls, dust, etc. Deep cleaned the sink and floor arra where all night time dishes are cleaned. Our opening usher didnt show so i took the initiative to do it till i leave. Manager comes and and calls my name and buly the tone i know what he wants me to do. Put away the teuck that came earlier in the morning. He asked if i wanted to switch, i do truck and he user, mind you he just got here and is the manager over stocking and inventory. I didnt wanna and i asked do i have a choice..... he said no.

Am i tripping? Are all managers in the mpvoe theatre business this lazy? All my management team does is sit in their office and HOURS will go by between "sightings".

End rant. Thank you

Last night I was the only usher for a 28 plex theater, I've only been working here for like 3 weeks???(only working weekends as well with most of them being concessions) I couldn't even do the trash or closing list, Literal hell on earth. Manager told me it was because corporate was cutting hours, this morning we got an email saying even MORE hours were cut.

I know it's the slow season but this still feels pretty crazy, is it just my theater or are other regals getting the same treatment??

Sorry if I sound like a fat baby I honestly just still feel awful for not being able to finish my duties yk. 😢😢😢😢

Hi all, first time poster in here but have been working in theaters for the better part of a decade now. I moved to a theater in New England as a manager that has a ScreenX theater earlier this year, and that screen has been an absolute nightmare to work with the entire time. In the last two days the start trigger hasn’t worked with some shows, and our time code readout on the screen oscillates between being steady and going haywire with random time codes, which then is followed with a de-sync of the four wing projectors. We’ve been told it’s a server uptime issue (the ScreenX server AND the primary projector servers have been rebooted four times in the last two days) or that we aren’t power-cycling the projectors properly (we’ve followed the ScreenX troubleshooting guide to a T every time). Our techs keep claiming issues are solved, only for them to reappear during the next show. I’m getting so sick of having to make excuses and deal with reasonably angry customers who just want to see their movies in the new format. Is anyone else encountering a mountain of issues with this tech or is it just us?

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they've been pretty dead for the most part

To anyone that works at a movie theater or used to… what popcorn kernels and ingredients are used to make the theater popcorn taste the way it does? Or is it the machine that gives it half the flavor?

So my last shift I had a guest ask my coworker “are we allowed to bring our dog child to a movie so he’s not home alone when we do movie marathons?” I stayed out of it but I heard my coworker say “yea I don’t see why not, other people have”. I asked my manager about this and basically we aren’t allowed to deny people bringing their pets to their movies or ask if it’s a service animal even if it doesn’t have on a vest. I understand there are laws where you can’t ask but I’m very frustrated with the fact that someone even asked that because I have a dog allergy and if people catch on then this will become a thing like how people always bring their dogs to Starbucks. Idk it’s annoying there isn’t a rule for this because it’s inconsiderate in my opinion.

How do you feel about a movie theater that denies entry to ticket holders who arrive late when the movie has already started even if their friends or family are already seated?

No exceptions even if they were stuck in traffic. And no refunds, just exchanges.

Had an event for Whalefall today and worked at the door all day. Apparently, r/movies had a screening, and some of the actors showed up (which I didn't see 😭). Honestly, it's a very cool event, almost as cool as the Marty Supreme event that I worked on last year. Crazy I saw Snoo.

Side note I work at one of the bussiest locations in NY.

Is it really that hard to throw your own drinks away? I knew I was gonna have a mess based on the behavior of the kids and parents but man.