September Slump

[Gordon McLeod]

You CAN actually get any movie that distributers will license for showing. I know of three customers that during slow times license Blue Rays and show older movies, one customer even shuts his single screen down and just runs his three screen site. Many older movies can bring in enough revenue to keep those theaters alive during slow times in which they would have other wise have folded.

Not always often BlueRay/DVD rights are licensed to other companies in foreign markets

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Not always often BlueRay/DVD rights are licensed to other companies in foreign markets

That's entirely possible with foreign movies. But when the theaters were doing it, they had no problem getting licensing popular stuff to run. If it's a foreign film thats distributed by a US Distributer then again... if the distributer is ok with it then they will license those too. I can't think of any foreign titles they ran though. One theater would have folded had it not been for Blew Rae's.

[Gordon McLeod]

Even within the Domestic USA some studio license the DVD rights to other companies and you have to get the playback rights from them

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Even within the Domestic USA some studio license the DVD rights to other companies and you have to get the playback rights from them

Gord, That split is all handled by Distribution. You are correct though if a foreign or independent film has no US distributer.