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...least, not when the movie's in 3-D. Only about 4,000 of the 39,000 screens in North American theaters are currently equipped to show movies in the suddenly megafashionable format, and though theater chains are scrambling to convert more screens, they and the studios still feel the shortage. This weekend there will be an unprecedented 3-D-theater traffic jam as Clash of the Titans joins last week's box-office champ How to Train Your Dragon and the Disney blockbuster Alice in Wonderland. That could make this the first weekend in movie history when...
...movie studios, it's simple math. For exhibitors - the owners of movie theaters - it's more complicated, because they have to pay to convert their projection systems from 2-D to 3-D. (Eighty years ago, when talking pictures became the standard, studios owned most of the theaters in the U.S.; they put up the conversion money, then got the revenue from the new films they produced and exhibited.) Exhibitors want in on the 3-D bonanza, so they're spending now to reap cash later. In early March, Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, a company owned by the two largest...
Overall, Harvard was only able to convert 19 of 26 clear opportunities and won a season-low 40 percent of its faceoffs. The Crimson outshot Brown, 39-32, but was dominated on the ground balls, 35-24. Krieger stepped up to record nine saves in goal and kept Harvard competitive throughout the game...
...fight of his life. Last year's party switch has left him exposed on both his left and his right in a 2010 political environment that has turned decidedly toxic for incumbents. This is despite the fact that the Democratic establishment has locked arms around its 80-year-old convert. After Specter became a Democrat, he spent the next few months wooing party officials in all 67 Pennsylvania counties and reminding them of all the federal dollars he had brought home over the years. It paid off. The state Democratic committee endorsed him in February with an overwhelming...
...free throws from Schroeder on Princeton’s next possession put the Tigers back on track, and Harvard’s inability to convert on its final three possessions doomed the visiting team...