Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
This hasn’t been seen in years. There was an old Carmike theater in my area known as the “Maxi-Saver 12”, so named due to their enormously awesome $1 ticket prices, which has now been replaced by the Century Square Luxury Cinemas (not at all associated with Carmike/AMC). They would play this little snipe before every single show. Yes, that’s right, it was an entirely-35mm house, on all 12 of their screens. The final film I had the honor of seeing here before they kicked the bucket in late January of 2013 was the 2012 Red Dawn remake. Yeah. Maybe “honor” isn’t the best word. But I miss the Maxi-Saver.
So when this piece of multiplex history was made available on eBay, you know what I had to do.
“Buy It Now.”
What you’re seeing here has been presumed lost media up till now. When you compare it to Carmike’s more recent emergency exit policy (which has music to boot, unlike this one), the differences are pretty clear. I don’t know exactly when this particular snipe was produced, but the sides of the film indicate that it was printed on 2006-dated Kodak 2383 film stock, and it was made by Chicago-based Filmack Studios, a studio that is mostly known for providing pre-show content to chains like AMC.
Enjoy! And apologies for the brief shadow movement at the 7-second mark as I was attempting to bring the projector into sharper focus.
I do not own copyrights to this material. Period. End of sentence.
This hasn’t been seen in years. There was an old Carmike theater in my area known as the “Maxi-Saver 12”, so named due to their enormously awesome $1 ticket prices, which has now been replaced by the Century Square Luxury Cinemas (not at all associated with Carmike/AMC). They would play this little snipe before every single show. Yes, that’s right, it was an entirely-35mm house, on all 12 of their screens. The final film I had the honor of seeing here before they kicked the bucket in late January of 2013 was the 2012 Red Dawn remake. Yeah. Maybe “honor” isn’t the best word. But I miss the Maxi-Saver.
So when this piece of multiplex history was made available on eBay, you know what I had to do.
“Buy It Now.”
What you’re seeing here has been presumed lost media up till now. When you compare it to Carmike’s more recent emergency exit policy (which has music to boot, unlike this one), the differences are pretty clear. I don’t know exactly when this particular snipe was produced, but the sides of the film indicate that it was printed on 2006-dated Kodak 2383 film stock, and it was made by Chicago-based Filmack Studios, a studio that is mostly known for providing pre-show content to chains like AMC.
Enjoy! And apologies for the brief shadow movement at the 7-second mark as I was attempting to bring the projector into sharper focus.
I do not own copyrights to this material. Period. End of sentence.
