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R. Hunt (I think -- with so many forwards I got lost) said:
>Let me play Satan's Good Buddy on this one and suggest a possible and less
>harmful reason for the Next Friday/Toy Story2 switch...Any theatre playing
>"Toy Story 2" has been running it for about 7 weeks now, so their percentage
>of the gross has finally gotten bigger than it might be for a film that just
>opened this week...perhaps theatres who felt that they weren't getting their
>fair share of the gross from the Xmas movies are switching tickets purely for
>a few extra bucks.....
your explanation, which is quite plausible, attributes less malign INTENT,
but is no less HARMFUL, I think you'd agree.
I think a more likely explanation is that TOY STORY 2 is likely only
playing matinees, and NEXT FRIDAY is quite probably showing in the same
"house" in the evenings; the computer can only handle one movie title per
house.
(Feel free to forward my posting to the list that the query originated from.)
--PXF
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