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Posted by Frank R.A.J. Maloney on 06/01/06 16:15
Michael Urban wrote:
> In article <1149106233.785832.46210@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> <jeffy3@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was 13 when it came out and I remember that it played in a lot of
>> the same theaters for more than a year. In fact, a special birthday
>> cake poster was issued on the one year anniversary. Even TITANIC
>> only seemed to play for maybe four months. A different world
>> today, I suppose, with so many more screens.
>>
>
> The big difference is, of course, home video. When the movie
> is out on DVD within three months, the theatrical market
> has to be short-lived. Frankly, I am glad I am not a theatre
> owner in the present market.
Also, there were a lot less theaters then. In Seattle, _Star Wars_ played at
exactly one theater, the UA Cinema just north of the downtown business core.
Nowdays, of course, any big movie opens in one or two thousand screens
simultaneously.
--
Frank in Seattle
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Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
"Millennium hand and shrimp."
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