[mewzilla]

This could get interesting. A check yer stub bump...

[Spruce]

Mortenson has less personality than a roll of sod.

[Mears]

I'll be damned. It would never occur to me to do what this lady did.

Thanks for the post.

[truthandlife]

'Passion' ping

[1rudeboy]

Mel, or Newmarket, or any affected party should lawyer-up. And not for the principle of the matter, either, but instead for the cash. This is no different from a hold-up.

[JeeperFreeper]

Good post. Never woulda looked at the ticket before. Now I will. No matter how cynical you get about the left, you just can't keep up.

[general_re]

Interesting. I wonder if they were trying to pump up their own bottom line by overselling sold-out showtimes. Rather than tell people it's sold out, and risk having them go home and not watch something else, sell them a ticket to something else and let them go sit in the aisles or whatever.

[Hildy]

If this did happen intentionally, I truly doubt it was politically motivated. Probably an effort to make it look like the movie theater was doing better business with all the movies instead of just one. Would be interesting if it was an "executive" decision, or just a local management one.

[conservativecorner]

I'm shocked I tell you, just shocked. LOL!

[Fiddlstix]

[ClearCase_guy]

To counteract this, perhaps people should buy tickets for The Passion and then see Starsky and Hutch. Then next weekend, they should buy tickets for The Passion and see Eternal Sunshine. Then the following weekend, they should buy tickets for the Passion, and see The Passion.

[netmilsmom]

My nephew manages the Tower City Theatres in Cleveland. When a movie is as top selling as The Passion, they will take another screen and show the biggie there. The ticket will show what was suppose to be playing on the screen. It truly sucks but is explainable. If Mel wanted to push the point, he has contracts with the distributors who, if they have The Passion but not the other movie, just lost a showing!!!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

This happens to every movie at some theater or another during a run. It never becomes an issue or even noticed unless one of the films have a political base that is touchy. This is likely not a conspiracy, it's an error in the ticketing system or an inept 16 year old running the ticket counter.

[Siobhan]

Simply unbelievable.

[Argh]

Viggo ping!

[JustPlainJoe]

This is being done by the SAME crowd (or near relations) who SCREAM that people sharing files via the internet are STEALING! Even if it is only ONE song, it's STEALING and they say these people should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Yet, when they fudge ticket sales in mass quantities like this, it's alright, because "Gibson's made enough"???

[theFIRMbss]

>A deeply religious woman, she and her family paid to see the movie but noticed their six tickets were marked "Hidalgo," not "The Passion of the Christ."
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"Show Me the tax money."

So they brought Him a denarius.

And He said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?"

They said to Him, "Caesar's."

And He said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

[Matthew 22:19-21]

[Aquinasfan]

Movie fans, check your ticket stubs, and raise hell if your money is incorrectly going to Viggo or the other pampered leftists of Tinseltown.

Will do.

The first time I went, the ticket read, "The Passion of Chris." They ran out of space for the "t." 8-)

[nutmeg]

Excellent post! Gotta ping my list to this one...

[yle1138]

I hate to say this guys, but this is a fairly common occurrence at movie theaters across the country. Basically, the theater is trying to offset their rental costs for films that may not be living up to expectations, or they simply do not want to pay the higher rental fee for bigger films so they transfer those funds to films with a lower rental cost.

There was massive evidence of this during the run of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Theaters did not want to pay out the very high costs for playing Star Wars on their screens (for the first three weeks of it’s run George Lucas and Fox kept some 80% of all box office receipts) so to offset this they would charge the tickets to another film. Quite often a patron of Star Wars would be surprised to find their tickets say “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” or “The Mummy”. This way the theater got to keep more of their profits.

It happens all the time during major releases, and I’m quite sure it has happened to everyone on this board at some time but they simply didn’t look at their ticket. To be honest I will no longer go to AMC Theaters due to this practice (they are probably the worst offenders in this regard), during the summer of 99 I went to Star Wars a few times, and every time I went to an AMC theater I was given a ticket to another film… so I only go to Harkins Theatres now (and frankly they give a much better audio/video presentation than AMC).

So if you run into this issue just go up to the ticket counter and demand you be given the proper ticket. Most of the time they will try to blow you off and tell you that it doesn’t matter, but be insistent.

Yancy