[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

I don't know how the contractual obligations with the movie distributors work, but I am guessing that when a movie first comes out, it is difficult to predict how popular it will be unless it's one of the "blockbusters" like Harry Potter or Batman. If they showed a movie in all the theaters, then it would be like we only had one movie theater instead of three. My wife and I have always enjoyed going to movies in "non-peak" time periods (i.e. 10am shows) and have never had any problems getting in, even in season.

At many of the multiplexes back home the same movie would often be shown in two or more theaters if it were very popular They would usually offset the screening times so it would be so crowded. I don't know why it couldn't be shown in two or more of our theaters.

It seems to me that it would defeat the purpose of having three theaters only if all the movies they were showing were the same. Having one or two very popular movies playing at two or more theaters would still leave plenty of room for other movies.

There are 28 separate theaters between the three complexes. Right now there are 22 different movies counting 3D version of the same movies. That seems like plenty of choices to me.