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- From: ray.rooney@satalink.com (Ray Rooney)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
- Subject: Re: Why no cartoons before movies???
- Message-ID: <3672.1008.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 13:35:00 GMT
- Reply-To: ray.rooney@satalink.com (Ray Rooney)
- Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
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- TO: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
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- MO>Yup. Remember, the money you pay for your ticket goes _straight_
- MO>like a bullet into the movie company's coffers. The theater gets
- MO>nothing out of it. All the profit has to come from the concession
- MO>counter.
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- Since when? It was 50-50 last I looked. (Which is why films have to
- gross twice their cost to break even.) No theatre I have ever been
- in/worked for could support the whole house nut from concessions alone.
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