NY Hairspray Screening Disaster — Page 2

I left right away as the rumors were spreading about nobody getting let in...about 6:20.

I had better things to do with my night (Big Love!), even if the rumors weren't true.

Friday's only 4 days away.

I just returned tonight from the screening in Cincinnati. I had the evite print out and there was alot of back and forth about if they were going to accept it or not. The staff at the AMC at the Newport on the Levee were supurb and very upfront. They informed me that there were talks that the printed out copies were not valid and they would not be accepted. Then the manager made a few phone calls nad came back and told me to go ahead and get in line, that he thinks there would be no problem. So we waited about an hour and got in and saw a fun, exciting, fast-paced, wonderful movie :)

marketing mix-up perhaps, perfect example of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing, but enjoyable movie none the less.

I was in line for several hours at Dallas and didn't get in. No evite ticket holders were admitted. Pretty bad job by New Line.

Not sure if she died, but a woman right in front of us collapsed in line. They were doing full-out CPR and defibrillators and such.. 20 minutes later when they FINALLY got a stretcher they were still pumping her pretty hard, so I'm not thinking it looked too good.

Was everyone from the Boston area sent to Framingham? There was no trouble getting in, but it was so far away and in bumper to bumper traffic no less! Anyways, it appeared the whole screening was a promotion for employees of Proctor and Gamble, promoting the new hairspray. I also saw black "official" admit two tickets with an ad for Sephora on it. Hmm

Tonight must have been a marketing blitz. I have a friend who is in Philly for a conference, and they had a screening for them. New Line must really be looking to get the word-of-mouth out there!

I think what happened was that ANY passes printed from the internet were invalid. While it would be expected that some wouldn't get in, not everyone who had a pass.

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That is what I think all the passes said. Important to remember though -- free stuff brings out the crazy in everyone! Honestly, I might have lost my mind a little had I not been let in...and it was looking like that exit off the Crazytown highway was quickly approaching, but disaster was averted!

i was at the dc screening too and it was beyond disaster! as soon as they said "evite" passes would go last i was pissed! i was in line for 2 hours almost. people at one point just started to walk in off the street and they were being let in before us just because they had "paper tickets". i was so angry. finally the attendant let some of us in from our line, he gets to me and says "sorry thats it. all full" we were the next two in line!

i was ready to start a riot. i got so angry with him he let me go in to see if i could find 2 spare seats that were separated. luckily we found the last 2 seats in the first row. not the best way to see the movie, but we saw it.

all in all it was a huge mess... but the movie saved the night. A+! loved it.

I was also at the DC screening. I got there around 5:20 and was pretty far up at the front of the line. They announced very politely that those with black cards (Sebastian salon company) and black and white cards (CW tv network) would be let in first and all those with email printouts would be let in if there was space after the carded patrons were let in and seated. Chaos erupted when the first half of the 5 mile line were in fact email patrons. (including me) They made us make a line on the left wall while the others (including people who had just gotten there at 650) into the theatre. It was seriously mass chaos and they let about 15 of the email patrons inside, includin me thank god.

There was a curtain speech by Sebastianm, the owner of the company, and the movie was AMAZING. The audience loved it and the entire cast was stellar. I went in already against John Travolta, but was honestly blown away. He is definitely no Harvey, but his take on the role is honest and true and his accent was spot on. My grandmother is from Baltimore and had the exact same accent as Travolta. Great movie!!!!

Not all evites were invalid. I attended a screening with one tonight in Cleveland, but yes it was primarily for hair salons,and was not New Line run, but rather the company that made the hairspray for the movie had been "allowed" to have them.

chicago was a disaster as well. a small amount of people that had evites were let in after the hair stylists.

somehow passes to "chuck and larry" do not make up for waiting for two hours. lame.

How many hairdressers worked for the movie??