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Michael Rourke
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I had it for 43 weeks, it played in all seven screens during that run. It would share a small screen one week, then the next week it would be in our largest house, it was quite a thing.

The funny part is, I never saw it! If it had been out for 44 weeks I think I would have.

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Joe Redifer
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I know that this is probably not a record but we had it since May 2002 until just a few weeks ago. It played 5 shows a day every day in its own auditorium for the entire run. That print was run through the projector more than 1200 times and looked fantastic on that last run with little to no noticable degradation.

Moving to Ground Level Forum.

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Brad Miller
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Angelika in Dallas picked it up on it's first break last April and dropped it either 2 or 3 weeks ago.

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Jon Todd
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the last showing at my theatre was the day after the dvd was realeased. i've never seen a movie make it to that point.

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Scott Norwood
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We had it from opening day until mid-December at a 6-plex. I think it was the record for that location (just barely edging out Monsoon Wedding). I didn't see it until I ran it the next week for a local college.

I had mixed feelings about this film: On one hand, I didn't particularly like it. On the other hand, we need more titles which have plenty of "shelf life" and which succeed by word-of-mouth and fewer over-hyped turkeys which gross $30 million on opening weekend and then die three weeks later.

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John Pytlak
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quote:
That print was run through the projector more than 1200 times and looked fantastic on that last run with little to no noticable degradation.

Congratulations on "Film Done Right"! [thumbsup]

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David Stambaugh
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Although it's moved around among ALL the theatres in this area, it's been playing continuously in this market since it opened in, what, May 2002? It's still playing 5 shows a day, currently at Cinemark Movies 12 in Springfield.

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Mark J. Marshall
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We had four separate bookings for it. After it had been out for several months we got it, kept it for a few weeks, then lost it, got it back, lost it, got it back, lost it and got it back again. Of course each print we got was in progressively worse shape. It would have been wonderful if we could have kept the first print - which was virgin.

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Kathy Roberts
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We had the film from July till December..it went away to another theatre and came BACK to my theatre in January. We had it 2 days after the DVD was released. And people were still showing up for it!

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David Favel
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I've now had it for 2 days.

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Rachel Craven
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We took it at the break and had it until last week, a week and a half after the DVD came out! People were still showing up and it was still one of our highest attended films even after the DVD...we shouldn't have dropped it! [Smile] I'll check on the # of weeks tomorrow at work.

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Ian Price
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I feel like such a piker for only having it for 31 weeks! [Big Grin]

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David Stambaugh
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Hey Ian, congratulations to you and Ky on the big success of "The Quiet American" at the Rialto. [Cool]

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Evans A Criswell
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The Regal Madison Square 12 in my area carried My Big Fat Greek Wedding from June 7, 2002 until yesterday (February 27. 2003), which is I think is a 38-week run. That's the longest run I remember. I wonder how many movies have run longer. (Maybe Titanic).

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Jason Whyte
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Now how about a count of how many theaters the movie is STILL playing at? From what I've read in BC, it's still at the Willowbrook theater in Langley (which is a discount theater, but still). It just ended at a theater in Nanaimo last week, too.

Jason

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