XPost: rec.arts.movies.past-films, alt.fan.starwars, rec.arts.sf.movies   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au   
      
   On Sun, 20 May 2007 10:51:53 -0400, Sea Wasp   
    wrote:   
   >   
   >	The transformation in entertainment since has been almost impossible   
   >to grasp; one of the more subtle indications of the change, to me, is   
   >that nowadays -- with DVD releases and home theaters of high quality   
   >-- a movie doesn't stay in the theaters, even if it's very popular,   
   >for more than a couple months.   
   >   
   >	Star Wars, by contrast, stayed... and stayed... and stayed, with   
   >theaters having to order new prints because the old one would finally   
   >break. It stayed in Northway Mall for at least a year and a half.   
      
   iirc The Neverending Story was still showing in Adelaide 18 months or   
   so after it opened.   
   --   
   "Hope is replaced by fear and dreams by survival, most of us get by."   
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