Post by Kenny Powers on Jan 14, 2008 17:58:01 GMT -5
I live in the Fargo, ND area. The company that owns the theaters around here will not show Cloverfield claiming the movie studio wants too much money. The article is below if you are interested in reading it. Has this happened to anyone else? I've never even heard of this happening before!
The article from our newspaper:
Marcus Theatres, which owns the West Acres and Century theatres in Fargo, has announced that it will not show the Paramount film “Cloverfield” when it opens Friday.
Negotiations with Paramount “have not resulted in film terms that are acceptable to Marcus Theatres and this film studio,” Marcus Theatres President Bruce Olson stated in a press release Monday.
This is the second Paramount film in as many months that Marcus has elected not to carry on first run.
In a December, Olson said that his company would not show “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” which opened nationally Dec. 21, because “the price requested by Paramount to show the film in Marcus Theatres was too expensive in the opinion of our film buyers.”
Marcus did pick up the film this month. It is scheduled to begin playing at West Acres on Friday.
Olson said his company hopes to “be able to reach an agreement to show ‘Cloverfield’ at a later date, just as we are now playing ‘Sweeney Todd,’ at terms acceptable to Marcus Theatres.”
The article from our newspaper:
Marcus Theatres, which owns the West Acres and Century theatres in Fargo, has announced that it will not show the Paramount film “Cloverfield” when it opens Friday.
Negotiations with Paramount “have not resulted in film terms that are acceptable to Marcus Theatres and this film studio,” Marcus Theatres President Bruce Olson stated in a press release Monday.
This is the second Paramount film in as many months that Marcus has elected not to carry on first run.
In a December, Olson said that his company would not show “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” which opened nationally Dec. 21, because “the price requested by Paramount to show the film in Marcus Theatres was too expensive in the opinion of our film buyers.”
Marcus did pick up the film this month. It is scheduled to begin playing at West Acres on Friday.
Olson said his company hopes to “be able to reach an agreement to show ‘Cloverfield’ at a later date, just as we are now playing ‘Sweeney Todd,’ at terms acceptable to Marcus Theatres.”
