Word: exhibitors
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...subjective term, of course, but in the case of The Preacher's Wife, many industry insiders believe Disney has demonstrated that faith. Yet even those who have seen it and liked it are concerned about the film's commercial prospects. "It's a beautiful picture," says John Krier of Exhibitor Relations, a firm that tracks box-office results. Nonetheless, he says, several theater operators are worried. "How can they convince white people to see this picture? If you had the answer, you'd be worth a lot to Disney...
...appear that way from the resounding success of such megahits as Independence Day and Twister, but Hollywood's economics are a mess. Last year the industry brought in $5.5 billion, and through the first half of this year ticket sales are up 14% compared with 1995, according to the Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Trouble is, the number of films in wide release has risen 13% over last year even as the cost of making and marketing films rose sharply. Not only did the competition for filmgoers' dollars get stiffer, some executives contend that the quality of the films declined...
...would not cite any specific ideas, but said that the Brattle is seeking to merge with another exhibitor or a nonprofit arts organization or to form its own nonprofit company...
...Fashion Cafe than at any other themed restaurant. Undeterred by this, otherwise respectable model CHRISTY TURLINGTON has joined NAOMI CAMPBELL, ELLE MACPHERSON and CLAUDIA SCHIFFER as a partner in Fashion Cafe. Her duties, while unclear, do not include waiting tables. Now comes the news that compulsive chest-hair exhibitor DAVID HASSELHOFF is interested in starting a chain of Baywatcher restaurants, with the first planned for already overpolluted New York City. Finally, in a key breakthrough in celebrity-Israeli relations, Kurt Waldheim's buddy ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER visited Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin before breaking ground for a Planet Hollywood in Tel Aviv...
...group's spokesman. Whatever the reason, animals with names such as Rainbow's Maggie Rose O'Koehl and Jrees Buddy Holly are brushed, hairsprayed, beribboned and otherwise tarted up before going in front of the judges. Says Buddy Holly's owner, Jan Smith of Wichita, Kansas, a longtime exhibitor of Great Danes (and herself the runner-up for Miss Congeniality in the 1965 Miss Arkansas pageant): "When the ears are too flat, we use cement to make them perky. We use chalk to color the legs, which is fine as long as you don't use copious amounts...