Postman kicked out of cinema for buying his own sweets

[billyb8]

I went on a behind the scenes tour of a multiplex once (was very interesting). It just so happened I asked about the price of food/sweets/drinks and percentage of ticket sales (as you do). He said that a minimum of 80% of the ticket sales went to the film distributor... so no wonder you pay something silly like £3 for a bag of sweets

Before the post I worked in the cinema. Some movies, all the revenue from tickets, after tax, goes to the distributor. Especially biggies like harry Potter or LOTR. It may be as long as 8 or 12 weeks before the cinema gets any revenue from tickets. ET ran for 49 weeks. When it was taken off the cinema was still handing over 60% of ticket receipts.

[norbert]

I think cinemas have only recently started this policy, when I was a young girl I used to go with a Pizza Hut Pizza !! no prob !

When I started going to the cinema you could eat crisps and then they invented talkies.

I believe some of the Huddersfield Town films are black & white with sub titles , bloke playing the piano etc

[dvbuk55]

Having seen Cloverfield he was better off going home with his sweeties - it is cr*p - much on the same lines as Blairwitch.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I think cinemas have only recently started this policy, when I was a young girl I used to go with a Pizza Hut Pizza !! no prob !

When I started going to the cinema you could eat crisps and then they invented talkies.

I believe some of the Huddersfield Town films are black & white with sub titles , bloke playing the piano etc

Oy Blue and White please, but the piano player is a bit much, you cant hear yourself talking. Subtitles - no not quite that advanced more like this.

[norbert]

someone did this for the guy who runs Beaver Sports in your neck of the woods on another forum

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm? ... e=s6i21527 there's a few in that vein on that site , it's the old lady buying Leeds at the car boot sale one

you did actually win the old second division in 69-70 but went straight down I think ? , my dad saw them at Anfield , I think the Donkey Lashers went out of the 1st Division for good around that time .

There was some" scandal " when Blackpool put West Ham out of the cup , apparently Bobby Moore and co went to Brian London's club in Blackpool , Blackpool had a few good players like Tony Green , Wyn Davies etc who went on to Newcastle Utd .There's a pub in Poulton -Le -Flyde that though it's more a ra-ra ( rugby union ) pub , it has all these signed pictures of them on the wall.

Tony Green was my mates maths teacher .