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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...latest news on the Avatar sequel? The boss hasn't called me up. When he calls, I'll jump...
...screen, so not having a conventional version of the highly anticipated DreamWorks family film to play on their other screens would severely affect ticket sales." Add to this the reported hints of an embargo that could deprive theater owners of hit films for months. According to the industry news blog the Wrap, "Executives at the [ShoWest] exhibition trade conference in Las Vegas said Paramount had suggested it might not be so forthcoming with Iron Man 2 and Shrek Forever After if exhibitors don't find 3-D screens for Dragon...
...dimensions, is perhaps 10% to 20% of the budget. A ticket for How to Train Your Dragon costs $12.50 in 2-D at a Manhattan movie house. For 3-D, it's $17.50 - a 40% surcharge. For the 3-D IMAX version, $19.50, or 56% higher. The better news for studios: many of the Friday and Saturday screenings are already sold out. (See the top 10 movies...
...best news, for studios and exhibitors: the prices keep rising. This weekend, according to a study by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield that was reported in the L.A. Times, U.S. ticket prices for 3-D films will be hiked an average 8%, IMAX prices will balloon 10% for adults and 12% for children, and 2-D tickets will cost 4% more for adults and 3% more for kids. A 3-D IMAX movie night for a family of four, with tickets ordered over an Internet site like Fandango that charges a booking fee, can run from $60 to $75 before...
...hardly news that Afghanistan's huge opium crops supply more than 90% of the world's heroin. But now U.N. officials say Afghanistan is also the world's biggest producer of another drug - hashish. In its first attempt to calculate how much cannabis is grown in the country, the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime says in a report released in Kabul on Wednesday that Afghan farmers earned up to $94 million last year from selling 1,500 to 3,500 tons of hash - the resin extracted from cannabis crops...