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tomorrowedblog · 5 months

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Friday Releases for December 15

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for December 15 include Finestkind, The Zone of Interest, Wonka, and more.

Finestkind

Finestkind, the new movie from Brian Helgeland, is out today.

Finestkind tells the story of two brothers (Ben Foster & Toby Wallace), raised in different worlds, who are reunited as adults over a fateful summer. Set against the backdrop of commercial fishing, the story takes on primal stakes when desperate circumstances force the brothers to strike a deal with a violent Boston crime gang. Along the way, a young woman (Jenna Ortega) finds herself caught perilously in the middle. Sacrifices must be made and bonds between brothers, friends, lovers, and a father (Tommy Lee Jones) and his son are put to the ultimate test.

The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest, the new movie from Jonathan Glazer, is out today.

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Wonka

Wonka, the new movie from Paul King, is out today.

Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book and one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, “Wonka” tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today.

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the new movie from Sam Fell, is out today.

For Ginger and the flock, all is at stake when the dangers of the human world come home to roost; they’ll stop at nothing even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk to save chicken-kind. This time, they’re breaking in!

The Family Plan

The Family Plan, the new movie from Simon Cellan Jones, is out today.

Dan Morgan (Mark Wahlberg) loves his quiet suburban life as a devoted husband, father of three and successful car salesman. But that’s only half the story. Decades earlier, he was an elite government assassin tasked with eliminating the world’s deadliest threats. When enemies from his past track him down, Dan packs his unsuspecting wife (Michelle Monaghan), angsty teen daughter, pro-gamer teen son and adorable 10-month-old baby into their minivan and takes off on an impromptu cross-country road trip to Las Vegas. Determined to protect his family — while treating them to the vacation of a lifetime — Dan must put his long-dormant skills into action, without revealing his true identity.

Familia

Familia, the new movie from Rodrigo García, is out today.

Leo owns an olive ranch in Guadalupe Valley in the Baja. He lives with his son Benny, a teen with Down’s syndrome, and he gathers his daughters Rebeca, Julia, and Mariana once a month to catch up on life. The latest gathering has brought some unexpected news: A food company has made a purchase offer for the family ranch. Now Leo and his daughters will only have a few days to decide whether or not to sell the place where they all grew up.

Angel Baby

Angel Baby, the new movie from Douglas Tait, is out today.

A loving wife and her husband move away to a remote cabin to heal from the devastating loss of their stillborn twins. Soon she senses an evil presence and is pushed to the edge when dark secrets begin to unravel.

Reacher S2

The second season of Reacher, the TV series from Nick Santora, is out today.

Reacher is pulled from his vagabond life by a coded message informing him that a member of the 110th - his elite group of Army Special Investigators - has been murdered. He and some of his former military cohorts reunite to investigate and soon realize the case is bigger than they ever could have imagined.

Such Brave Girls

Such Brave Girls, the new TV series from Kat Sadler, is out today.

A comedy series from the UK exploring life and love in all its ugly chaos. The story follows a single mother, Deb, and her two daughters, Josie and Billie, attempting to piece their lives back together after their narcissistic father and husband finally leaves them.

Carol & The End Of The World

Carol & The End Of The World, the new TV series from Dan Guterman, is out today.

With a mysterious planet hurtling towards Earth, extinction is imminent for the people of the world. While most feel liberated to pursue their wildest dreams, one quiet and always uncomfortable woman stands alone — lost among the hedonistic masses.

#Movies #TV #News

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crybabyddl · 4 years

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I may have made a thing

I hope u like it🥺

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willexx · 3 years

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Ways to say I love you

I would have still followed you

Because I care! About you, Alex!

*screams in a museum*

I wouldn’t really call it magic

There’s a lot to, um, like here

I told you 🥰 I’d do anything for you!

#wow imagine not shipping willex #couldn’t be me #I love them so much #julie and the phantoms #jatp #owen patrick joyner #sunset curve #kenny ortega #willex #booboo stewart #Willie jatp #wilie and alex #Alex and Willie

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ineffabletears · 4 years

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~ Post #20 ~

Julie and the Phantoms - Royal! - Alex Aesthetic - Requested by Fantoms

Please like and reblog if you save :)

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sunset-not-straight · 3 years

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I've been seeing "Kenny Ortega Cinematic Universe" and lemme tell you, if Descendants exists in the same universe with JATP, there will be chaos.

Just, imagine, both of Booboo's characters, right in front of Alex. Both Jay and Willie.

RIP Alex.

#i mean if i were him and there are two booboo stewarts in front of me i would die too #that man is literal perfection #in many different ways #there should be something like #booboo stewart sexuality #also it will cause so much confusion #lmao #julie and the phantoms #jatp #descendants #kenny ortega #booboo stewart #jay descendants #willie #willie jatp #alex mercer #owen patrick joyner

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innytoes · 2 years

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for the tropes - peterpatter 57 & 73?

Forgotten First Meeting + Stranded Due to Inclement Weather

So imagine, Luke and Reggie don't know each other. Luke's run away from home and is living in the garage where Sunset Curve rehearses.

Reggie isn't in the band, and is home a lot more often, which means he's around his parents' fighting way more, which means he starts to become their target more often than not. Or maybe he tries to get between them when he’s worried they’re escalating again, because he doesn’t want the cops to be called, again. Either way, he gets punched in the face for his trouble by his father, and his mother kicks him out of the house screaming to mind his own business.

So he scrams, and he walks around, and he stops at this street musician busking on the pier. He's very pretty and he has Impressive Arms and his voice is beautiful, and he's singing with so much passion that Reggie stops to listen to a song. And then another. And another. And the guy starts to notice, and gives him this cute, scrunchy-nosed smile, and he awkwardly grabs the few crumpled dollar bills he keeps in his flannel for emergencies and throws them in the guitar case, just so the guy doesn’t think he’s a useless creeper.

And maybe he stays too long, but every third or so song, the guy comes out with something Reggie’s never heard before. And he listens to a lot of music, okay, so he’s pretty sure it’s original. This guy is like, super talented. (And extremely hot, which is just unfair.)

So he stays, and then all of a sudden this guy sings what he is pretty sure is a song ripped straight from Reggie’s very soul, about broken homes. And he looks at him with those beautiful, sincere eyes, and croons at him that it’s okay to ask for help, and that he’s so strong and he can make it through anything. And Reggie suddenly realizes his cheeks are wet and before he can think about it, he makes a break for it, pushing through the crowd of people.

But he does ask for help. And things get better, even if it means he doesn’t live with his parents anymore. His new foster parents, the Ortegas, have this big and happy family that just accepts him as one of their own right off the bat. And while it can get loud, it’s never scary. He shares a room with Willie, who is just the coolest, nicest, most chill dude ever, and everything is pretty great.

Instead of trying to scrape by with shitty after-school jobs so he can pay for stuff like food and clothes and the power bill when his parents forget again, he gets to do stuff like study, and play music, and just hang out and be a teenager. And nobody ever hits him, or throws glassware at his head, or screams at him, or even tells him to shut the hell up because he’s annoying.

So when Willie says his boyfriend’s new band is looking for a bass player, he is all over that. Willie’s boyfriend is super cool. Even though he can be kind of snarky and sarcastic, he will make time to play Princess Tea Party with Willie’s younger sister, and it’s pretty hard to be intimidated by a dude when you’ve seen him in a hot pink feather boa and a plastic tiara.

So he follows Alex to the garage where they’re rehearsing now, and it’s super cool, and he shakes hands with the lead singer, Julie, and then in walks... the guy from the pier. And Reggie nearly drops his bass, because that’s the guy that changed his life, and he’s still super hot, and have his arms gotten even more toned in the year since Reggie saw him?

And he smiles and introduces himself as Luke, and they get right into the audition, and then they jam together a little and it’s pretty awesome. And Alex looks super smug when Luke and Julie tell him he’s got the job, and Willie gives him a high-five, and the Ortegas order pizza to celebrate him getting into the band.

So Reggie gets right to work learning all the new songs for Julie and the Phantoms (which is an awesome, awesome name). Sometimes Luke even asks him to stay late to see if they can improve the bass line for some of the songs, or work together to make one for the songs he and Julie are working on. Julie usually bounces after a while, saying she has homework, so he and Luke spend a lot of time alone together.

Reggie finds he really, really doesn’t mind. Sometimes he even calls the Ortegas and asks if it’s alright if he stays late. They usually don’t mind, because they’re cool like that, just making sure he let them know if he wants a ride home. Reggie learns that Luke doesn’t have to call anyone anymore, because he pretty much lives in the garage. He says he likes it that way, that Julie’s dad had offered to let him crash at theirs, but that he likes the freedom. Still, there’s a loneliness in his eyes when he says it, and Reggie starts to make it his mission in life to keep that look from ever crossing Luke’s face again.

So he starts inviting Luke over for dinner (again, the Ortegas are so freaking awesome), and sometimes they all go out to get pizza together after rehearsal, Willie tagging along as their unofficial fifth member. Sometimes they go out just the two of them, grabbing some street dogs and walking around or going to catch a movie and sharing a popcorn. It’s super cool, especially when they realize they both like holding hands so they don’t get separated when one of them is distracted by something cool. It takes a couple of months for Alex to get fed up and spell out that they’re dating each other, Willie and Julie muffling their laughter behind him. Then it’s even cooler, because Reggie and Luke get to hang out and kiss sometimes, too.

This time, it isn’t so much a planned hang-out, as it is a ‘no Mister Ortega, really, you don’t need to come get me, it’s pitch-black and storming outside. I’ll just stay over at Luke’s tonight if that’s okay’. He knows Mrs Ortega hates the idea of Mister Ortega driving in this weather, and to be perfectly honest, the idea of an impromptu sleepover with Luke seems pretty exciting.

So they make sure the garage door is safely shut, and when the power cuts out, they curl up on the pull-out together with only the light of the battery powered fairy lights hanging on the wall. Luke tells him about how he used to hide under the covers during storms like this, his face wistful and sad. Reggie tells him a bit about his own home-life, before the Ortegas, and Luke finds his hand, squeezing it tight.

“How come you never play that song?” he asks Luke. They play a lot of Julie-and-Luke songs, and a few just written by Julie (one of which was stolen directly from her dream box and almost earned Luke a concussion, apparently), and some written by Luke. Even the one they never perform in public, the one about Luke’s mom, Emily. But they never play the one he sang to Reggie that day on the pier.

“What song?” Luke asks, sitting up and leaning on his elbow. Reggie tries not to think of how pretty he looks, eyebrows knit together in confusion, lips parted slightly in the most beautiful pout.

“You know,” he says, sitting up as well and singing the chorus of the song from the pier, the one seared into his brain. The one that finally gave him the strength to go to the guidance counselor at school when a thrown glass came a little too close to taking his eye out, the bruises on his ribs still healing.

He isn’t expecting Luke to react the way he did. “Where did you get that?” Luke hisses, pushing away from him. “Have you been going through my songbook?” Luke’s songbook was sacred, he always carried it with him. He was super protective of it. Alex had told him once that something had happened with their old band, that a friend of theirs had stolen several of Luke’s songs and passed them off as his own, and he’d been very protective of his songbook ever since. Nobody was allowed to look in it except for Julie.

“What?” Reggie asks, terrified. His mind was racing, trying not to think of how Luke’s balled fists look like he’s about to throw a punch.

“Nobody knows that song, how did you get it?” Luke looks really angry, and Reggie flinches and tries to cover his face.

“You sang it to me,” he blurts out. “You sang it to me on the pier!”

And just as sudden as the anger appeared, it’s gone. Luke sits back, shocked, mouth hanging open. And Reggie realizes that Luke had no idea who he was, had no idea that he’d changed Reggie’s entire life. Reggie had just thought Luke was being a cool dude, never bringing up the time Reggie had been some weirdo staring at him busking before crying and running away. But he just hadn’t made the connection.

“Oh.” His hand comes up to Reggie’s eye, where the bruise had been. Reggie flinches, and Luke pulls his hand back, guiltily.

“That song changed my life,” he tells Luke, curling in on himself. “You changed my life. I thought... I thought you knew.”

“That’s the only time I ever performed that song,” Luke whispers. “I just... that guy, I mean, you... you looked like you needed it. Like you’d understand.”

And when Reggie inches his hand across the sheets to take hold of Luke’s hand, Luke gladly takes it, linking their fingers together. “I’m sorry I scared you,” he says, miserably. “I didn’t mean to yell. It’s just... Bobby...” He shakes his head. “It wasn’t cool of me. I’m really sorry.”

Reggie nods, before leaning in, his lips nearly brushing against Luke’s. “I know how you can make it up to me,” he says. Luke smiles against his lips.

“Yeah?”

“Yeah,” Reggie grins. “You have to add that song to our set list the next time we play.”

Luke blinks. “Are you sure?” he asks, eyebrows knitting together in a worried frown. “It’s kind of a downer.”

“It’s a good song,” Reggie says, stubbornly. “It can help people.”

Luke was quiet for a moment, but then smiled. “Okay. I guess it did bring me you, in the end.”

Send me two tropes from this list and a pairing and I’ll tell you the fic to go with it.

#julie and the phantoms #lukexreggie #fanfic #I wrote a thing #AUs are awesome #right in the feels #notice how I never actually wrote any lyrics because I am not a songwriter #this turned out way longer than I meant it to #thank you!#luke patterson #reggie peters #alex mercer #willie throckmorton #willex #julie molina

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plutohimself · 3 years

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okay this was a really long post about the AIDS crisis and queer history and erasure/things not left behind and I’m not going to reblog it AGAIN bc it’s very long but it really is the source of all these stupid things I think about when I think about Alex.

But specifically in the context of Alex Mercer, who grew up in LA, who came out to his friends and family before 1995, who would have seen this on the news.

Yes, I love a lot of things about JatP. But the thing that hooked me, probably above everything else, was the extremely time-and-space specific context of this fictional kid and what forces would have shaped him. Kenny Ortega lived through this. It is impossible for me to imagine that Alex’s characterization is not drawn from this time period, in some part.

So when I get choked up thinking about this ghost and his anxiety and yet also his self-assurance in his feelings and desires, it’s because of this history. It’s because of the real people who did not make it. And even as a ghost, to come back, to be able to see what has changed in 25 years, to meet and love and be loved by Willie, I get a little overemotional about it. So many people, real people with real loves and stories, did not have that chance.

(and it’s because I am only a decade younger than he would be. I am not so far removed from this history.)

I think about Alex walking down the street and seeing two men (or women or whatever), in broad daylight, holding hands. I think about him getting nervous for them, looking around, slowly realizing no one was paying them any mind.

I think about Alex dancing onstage with Dirty Candi, with the callouts to voguing in his dance. This is a kid who died before he would really have been able to go out to gay bars, who likely did not have queer spaces as a teenager to dance and express himself in. Who learns that there’s an entire problematic 14-season long drag competition on national television, that people make fun of because it’s bad and not because it’s gay.

I think about Alex hesitating in broad daylight to hug Willie. No one else can see them (Luke and Reggie notwithstanding) and he still hesitates, still holds back.

I think of Alex going to Pride, in LA. Not Pride like it was in 1995 (no small thing in LA as it was, thanks in part to WeHo), but Pride like it is in 2020 (okay, 2019): the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. People of all genders and interests coming together to celebrate their love and friendships and culture and found families with corporate sponsors (yick, I know, but the visible impact of that).

I think of Alex walking down the street and seeing rainbow stickers in windows, pride flags, car bumpers. Not just the few and the proud, but the everywhere and anywhere.

I know I’ve said this before on other reblogs but like, the past 25 years have been remarkable (just like the 25 years before that were, for all the good and bad in them).

And there’s, idk, a couple of things that I can’t quite get into because of that. For one, it’s why I don’t totally subscribe to fanon religious-upbringing Alex - his parents not being cool with him could simply be out of badly-expressed fear, the whole “You don’t want people to know because they might judge” thing. (Although I am in no way knocking that headcanon! it is 100% valid and possible and, unfortunately, not unlikely.)

Another is that his anxiety is unrelated to his queerness. I mean, I think his anxiety (and anxiety in general) exists on its own, but I can’t imagine the two things helped each other much.

I don’t know what the point of this is. I just think of all of my milestones and what Alex - and so many of our elders - never got and I’m filled with so much sorrow and loss, it’s overwhelming.

#and it's my blog #so I'll vomit feelings all I want #damn it #jatp #julie and the phantoms #alex mercer #julieandthephantoms

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mcustorm · 4 years

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JATP is like a 5-hour DCOM

As I’ve expressed previously, when I initially saw the gif-sets for this series I basically said “I’ll pass, thanks.” I don’t know what changed (probably the treachery that is the reality tv I’m currently watching), but I decided to go ahead and check it out, if only for some much needed levity.

And at first, I was not feeling this, like at all. The dialogue was cringey, the songs were *meh*, I couldn’t keep up with the show’s own internal logic.

By episode 5 however, the show was cooking with gas. We had stakes, drama (family drama! relationship drama! band drama!), villains, and yes, humor to round out the whole thing. And that’s when it hit me: this show is basically a 5-hour Disney Channel Original Movie. This shouldn’t have been so surprising, seeing as to how it’s the work of the legendary Kenny Ortega [among others].

Granted, I haven’t seen a new DCOM since 2013 apparently, so at the very least the show harkens back to the movies of yesteryear. Even so, I have to imagine movies [that I haven’t seen] like Descendants or Zombies have some of these tropes:

The Surreal, Fantasical Situation - The Thirteenth Year, The Luck of the Irish, The Other Me

The Grand Musical Numbers - High School Musical, Teen Beach Movie

The Popular Girl Who Hates Me - High School Musical, Read it and Weep, Cadet Kelly

The Band’s Interpersonal Drama - The Cheetah Girls, Lemonade Mouth

The Missing Mother - Jump In!, Smart House, Dadnapped!

The Affable Trio - Minutemen, Camp Rock

The Wacky Sidekick - Stuck In the Suburbs, Read it and Weep, KP: STD

The Forgettable Rock Songs - Camp Rock, Lemonade Mouth

The Villain Who We Don’t Know is Evil, But Has a Sympathetic Sidekick - Up, Up, and Away!, The Proud Family Movie, High School Musical (2), The Cheetah Girls (2)

The Insecure Protagonist Who’s Just Gotta Find The Strength Inside Of Them - Like every single DCOM ever

And let’s not forget Pixel Perfect, the 2004 movie that’s about a guy who has to create a holographically projected character to help his band succeed. Sound familiar?

--sn: I haven’t seen that movie in ~15 years, when I was kindergarten-aged. Still, I went to rewatch it last night and it’s amazing how you can hear a song from that long ago and go “Yea, I remember this!” Music is a wonderful thing.--

Ortega knows DCOM’s like the back of his hand. When The Cheetah Girls 2 (which Ortega choreographed and directed) premiered, it was the highest rated DCOM in history; High School Musical 2 topped that record a year later, and by the way, that record still hasn’t--nor will it ever be, I’d venture to say--topped.

He knows what makes us, the young, impressionable audience, tick and get invested with the worlds that he builds. He even understands that now, in 2020 and on Netflix, all of that gay subtext that we’ve been talking about in HSM for years can actually be a real thing. So yea, it’s no wonder that people took to this quickly.

We love tacky villains, we love good vs. evil, we love sappy love stories/love triangles, and we of course love an emotional attachment to our characters in a relatable way.

None of that is really revolutionary tv. You can get all that stuff from any of the aformentioned movies. Where the show does push the boundary is translating that to a streaming platform. It has diversity which is always a plus. It also allows Ortega to thankfully be just as gay as he wants to be. Not just with the style, because some of these dance scenes were exceptionally campy, but with the characters.

Is there a ship name for Alex and Willie? I haven’t checked the tag, I have no idea. What I do know is that the entirety of Alex’s character and storyline is for the most part lighthearted and carefree. These are the stories and character dynamics that I wish any DCOM of my childhood would have broached, the stories Ortega has gone on the record for having wanted to do previously.

The show is not trying to make a statement with that relationship -- it just is. It’s two guys who find each other and discover they have chemistry, as was done with Julie/Luke and the countless other het-ships that we’ve seen on Disney before. The drama that eventually comes between them isn’t derived from their sexuality, but the plot itself. It makes you think, “With the way HSM/DCOM’s were ingrained into our minds, how beneficial to a generation would it have been to have a couple like that in those movies?”

Well we’ll never know the answer to that question, because it never happened (thanks homophobia!). All we had was subtext, because Cadet Kelly totally had a thing for Stone. That is, until now. It took a couple of decades and a totally separate platform from Disney, but the kids of today finally [sorta] have a DCOM that dares to have openly gay characters. Ortega even in 2020 is revolutionizing the genre. And that gives me a smidgen of hope.

Random thoughts on the episodes:

Flynn is not a character. Now for all I’ve been nostalgic about above, we can do part with the 2-D sidekick. One day we’ll talk about how HSM 3 is a terrible movie and how Taylor got *0* character content for 3 movies while being billed as a main character, likely for diversity purposes. Today is not that day I suppose.

It was so weird that they were going there with Julie/Luke, because the actors are clearly a few years apart. Usually to play 16 year olds, a given tv show will hire 16 year olds or they’ll hire 20 year olds. This show did...both, so it’s weird to watch the grown man playing Reggie going after these girls.

The exact moment I was like, “Alright this show is okay”, is when Nick got on the stage and introduced Julie just seconds after comforting her. Mans was WYLIN.

Nick supposedly did everything right. Sucks to suck. And now he’s possessed by Kilgrave. Tuff.

Julie’s whole family dynamic was cute.

Most of the songs were catchy, but by nature of this show they all kind of had the same structure. They were nice, but I won’t be downloading a soundtrack.

So I liked it. Again, as I can’t fully keep up with the show’s logic: are the guys real humans now? That seems like one of the only plausible ways to keep the show going. But if so, should Caleb still be obsessed with them?

The million dollar question for this show as well: Where do we go from here?

#jatp #julie and the phantoms #thanks for reading

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thesportssoundoff · 5 years

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Curious to see what the UFC is able to put together for this San Antonio main event. Rockhold/Jan and Shevchenko/Carmouche aren’t options. Apparently Ortega turned down Zhabit. Justin Willis turned down a headline spot I believe? I’d imagine at this point you save Zhabit a bit for the UAE card, ya know?

Hmmmm.

Gonna laugh my ass off if they put two heavies together.

#MMA #UFC

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bluebookweb · 6 years

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Venue Fell Through? All Hope is Not Lost

While hospitality-related businesses can be unpredictable, there’s one thing that for sure: peak party season is in December.

Even within peak party season, the patterns are consistent. In early December, the number of events starts rising. Each weekend, there are more parties than the week before, and then you hit peak party night on the Friday before Christmas. In 2017, that’s December 22.

For the people throwing parties, the earlier the venue is secured the better. In fact, data from Tripleseat, a cloud-based sales and event management software company, shows that those peak party season bookings start right after Labor Day and hit critical mass in mid-November. For example, on November 14 this year, there were twice as many bookings then on the average day. Then, about the third week of November, it all slows way way down.

And most of the venues for most of the nights? They’re already booked.

Now, imagine you’re in charge of planning your company party. You totally had your act together this year and you got that hot spot for a prime night. Everything is going along great.

And then … disaster. Your venue falls through.

What can you do? That’s what we asked the event teams at venues all across the country. And while none would advise you to wait until the last minute, they didn’t say you should just give up. Here’s what a few had to say when it comes to an appeal for a last-minute peak party season reservation:

“We embrace it! We have a large regular restaurant dining room so we welcome last-minute parties there and have higher restaurant sales in the end.”

Trish Portanova, General Manager, Duffy’s Tavern & Grill, Maine

“We try to accommodate anyone and everyone we can last minute. The only concern for us is making sure we have enough product, but we are open with clients up front that selections may be limited based on the time frame given.”

Ali Saladin, Event Manager, Max’s Wine Dive / Lasco Enterprises, Texas and Colorado

“We suggest other ways that people can still get in their last-minute celebrations,such as catering, being flexible with their date/time, or visiting one of our other locations!”

Michelle Papandrea, Director of HR, Sugar Factory, Chicago

“We do tons of pick up business with less than one week’s notice. The most important things for me to be ready with are a list of ‘last-minute’ food options (stuff we always have in house and can execute on the fly easily) and to have enough staff that I can fairly easily call folks in on the fly.”

Caitlyn Hassett, Function Manager, River House/Atlantic Grill, Rye, N.H.

“No matter how stressed, be thankful for the business and be as accommodating as possible! I’m sure the client is stressed enough with it being last-minute, so there is no need to add to it. If we have the availability, let’s bring it on!”

Melanie Papandrea, Director of Events, Sugar Factory, Chicago and Rosemont, Ill.

“I love last-minute bookings! The excitement of seeing everyone on the team come together at the last second to make an event memorable is so much fun. However, once the event is over, I retreat home with a bath and a glass of wine.”

Shannon Willis, Manager, Palm Door, Austin, Texas

“As much as it drives you crazy, it will save some people’s jobs by booking last-minute events. I always give a short deadline, as it is so busy. I work to help them pick a menu, sign the contract and get it booked within one to two days. December is stressed to the max so I try to not let it get to me too much! People don’t have any idea how stressful this time of year is for event planners.”

Shawnta Fleming, Director of Events, Urge Gastropub, California

So it may be stressful now, but, as Nicole Ortega of national restaurant company TAO Group reminds us, “Breathe and be accommodating! Because it is almost over anyhow.”

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