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...Paramount did manage to extract a promise from exhibitors that the number of 3-D screens would hold for two weeks. This put a serious crimp in the release of Clash of the Titans, whose opening was delayed a week, both to complete the film's reformatting in 3-D and to secure more venues that could show it in that format. Clash opens Friday on about 1,500 3-D screens and 2,000 2-Ds. Industry analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations says Clash might have been expected to earn about $100 million this weekend...
...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 theater chains, Cinemark...
...case in front of a judge and was sworn in as a U.S. citizen within a week. “It was so obvious,” Schumacher-Matos says. “Here’s a case where the judge saw that the country had put a tremendous investment in me all my life and that I was by all intents and purposes an American kid, and all I needed was this stupid piece of paper, and he gave...
...stuck in limbo. “It’s hard to think of any other group that can’t advocate for itself,” he says. “You don’t really have the option, and if you do, you put yourself in danger...
...mammoth opium crops are widely regarded by U.S. officials as having failed miserably. Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, told G-8 leaders in Italy last year that the antidrug efforts in Afghanistan "did not result in any damage to the Taliban, but they put farmers out of work." (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...