No 'Chicken Little' - Kids see suicide
A Times Square movie theater laid an egg at a showing of "Chicken Little" last night.
Adults and kids expecting to watch Disney's G-rated animated flick at the AMC Empire 25 theater on 42nd St. were instead presented with a foreign film that opened with a young man committing suicide.
"It's pandemonium," Joshua Gallo, 30, told the Daily News as he rushed out of the theater with his 5-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter. "The kids are crying. The mothers are screaming for the managers to stop the film."
Terrified children didn't know what to do as they watched a young boy hang himself from a tree at the 8:45 p.m. screening.
After five minutes, "Andrea," a Spanish drama opening today, was turned off and "Chicken Little" was played.
Patrons got a coupon for a free movie.
My mothers reaction: "What are they doing taking them to an 8:45 showing?!?!"
That's crazy late for a 1-year old.
Ever been in a projection booth? Most multiplexes have to double up films into the same auditorium to fit in all the movies they have scheduled. So there will be two films sitting on two of the three platters the projector has. Alot of times the most contrasting film will easily share the same projector and theater. If a projectionist is crunched for time, isn't thinking and isn't careful he could easily thread up the wrong movie, press start and then walk away to go do something else without making sure everything is a-ok with the movie he just started.
...and yes, he most definitely lost his job over this. I guarentee it, mistake or not.
