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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peter X Feng, Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies English Department 212 Memorial Hall <[log in to unmask]> University of Delaware tel 302/831-4066 Newark DE 19716 fax 302/831-1586 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html