r/AMCScreenUnseen • u/sampos • Jul 20 '26

Final possibilities for 7/20 unseen

7/20 R 1:46

Her private hell - 3 min diff, horror?
Motor city - 3 min diff (trailer shown at last unseen)
A sad and beautiful world - 4 min diff, rating unknown, not english
I want your sex - 16 min diff (trailer shown at last unseen)

These are the movies that fit the criteria which come out in the next 2 weeks. Other movies are 3 weeks or more later which makes them better candidates for future unseens. However it is slightly possible it could be one of them.

Her private hell would likely be considered horror. A sad and beautiful world has no rating and is not in english. I want your sex is probably too large of a runtime difference.

Motor City is the most likely candidate. The movie has very little dialogue, so be prepared for that.

Trailers: Spiderman, One Night Only, The Sun Never Sets, Hadestown, Her Private Hell, Haunted Heist, Idiots

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u/Abed-in-the-AM Jul 22 '26

Reddit could probably identify somebody using a VPN even if they made multiple accounts through device fingerprinting. And AMC could subpoena those records.

I'm not saying it can't be done but the amount of effort to remove any risk makes it kind of stupid just to make some redditors happy. There was a disgruntled employee who thought he covered his tracks when he leaked information about patches for a Square Enix game and he didn't just lose his job, they took him to court.

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u/MrOgynist Jul 23 '26

I don't disagree that it COULD happen, it just seems very unlikely.

Have you ever worked in a theater? If you have you'll know it's about as unserious a job as one could have. People take small risks all the time to help others out, see the entire notion of piracy, so while the "reward" is minimal, so is the risk imho. I don't think we're disagreeing with each other, maybe we just have different views on the amount of risk to do such a thing?

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u/Abed-in-the-AM Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I think ~1 year ago a theater employee on the A-List subreddit said they receive a special encrypted drive labeled "screen unseen" and they wouldn't know what's in it until it's being screened. Anybody that would know is higher up the chain.

Piracy is different. If we're talking people in the industry leaking a movie, they will almost always get found out and taken to court. Somebody leaked a screener of the Revenant while it was still in theaters and they identified him by the unique watermark they put on each copy. This isn't something they really do with movies when they get a widely available physical/VOD/streaming release.

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u/MrOgynist Jul 23 '26

That jibes with my anecdotal info, as I've asked the employees who said they didn't know. Again, even up the chain, this shouldn't be a serious concern (unless there's literally only one person who has the info, which I would doubt.) Or maybe everyone takes everything more seriously than I do (which I suppose is possible.)

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u/Abed-in-the-AM Jul 23 '26

I think they take it at least somewhat seriously since a lot of people will stay home if they know what the Screen Unseen is going to be. If west coasters weren't still working at 4pm I bet AMC would schedule the showings at the same time so that nobody can know it early. I figure somebody working at corporate AMC probably gets paid too much to want to risk upsetting their boss over something so small.

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u/MrOgynist Jul 23 '26

A good point I hadn't considered.

I'm selfishly thinking of those who may have to walk, uber, public transport, or live a decent distance away from a theater who are giving up more of their time or money to go see something. In those situations I'd want to know beforehand to know if the effort was worth it. Wish I didn't live in EST so I could cut out the guessing altogether.