quote: | Originally posted by Schadenfreude
if it was such a limited release why did it play in all of the chain theaters here? |
I don't know about Canada, but distribution here was scant for most of its release time because the previous Iraq War movies all tanked bigtime, which made theater owners nervous. Doesn't matter though... it's one of the most critically acclaimed movies in a while.
Then you have this:
quote: | It held the highest per-screen-average of any movie playing theatrically in the United States for the first two weeks of its release, gradually moving into the top 20 chart with much wider-released, bigger budget studio films. |
and this:
quote: | According to an article in the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register, there is a shortage of film prints of The Hurt Locker. Distributors are telling theater owners that they will have to wait weeks or months past the initial U.S. release date, to get the few available prints that are already in distribution. “Sometimes the distributors goof up,” said a film buyer for one theater, “they misjudge how wide they should go." |
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