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III No. 7
A
publication of the National Association of Theatre Owners
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From
the Presidents Desk
NATO president John Fithian looks at the unusual new easyCinema
concept recently introduced in the United Kingdom.
Dateline:
Exhibition
Rave Motion Pictures nears the 200-screen mark; Regal launches
a specialty 6-plex and Kerasotes upgrades an Indiana 11-plex.
Digital Cinema
The European Digital Cinema Test-Bed debuts at London’s
National Film Theatre, and Melissa Etheridge is beamed to Berlin.
August
Preview
Late summer brings movies from directors
Martin Brest, James Ivory, Barry Levinson, Ridley Scott,
David Zucker and more. Also, Late
Additions to July.
International
Dateline
Loews & Kieft team to buy 173 screens from Germany’s
Ufa; France’s UGC fields bids; and Korea’s Primus
aims for 212 by 2005.
Next!
Comedies are burning up the 2003 box office.
What’s
ahead for the big screen’s top funnymen and funnywomen?
Washington
Report
Steven John Fellman reports on the difficulties one might
encounter while providing lifts for the disabled.
Final
Cut
Kerasotes Theatres CEO Tony Kerasotes touches on Richard Nixon,
Teddy Roosevelt and Ridley Scott.
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New NATO Members
Cinema owners who joined up.
Release
Calendar
Coming movies
ordered by date of bow. Updated
weekly.
Events
A calendar
of industry happenings.
How
They Rate
Why films
are classified as they are.
Cash
Drawer
Movies ranked
by gross. Updated
weekly.
Index to
Advertisers
A list of advertisers in this month's print edition of In
Focus.
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The
Determinator
Suspense vet Jonathan Mostow (“Breakdown”) remains
cagey about the particulars of “Terminator 3.”
Read the uncut
web-only version.
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