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What determines the number of theaters a movie opens in?
For example, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows opened in 4125 theaters. What determines that number? Does each theater decide if they wanna show a movie or do the distributors decide to which and how many theaters they want a movie to be shown in? Obviously it has something to do with popularity, but the highest-grossing movies haven't necessarily opened in the most number of theaters.
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- RazLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's sort of a combination, at least at the theater I work at. We negotiate with the distributers and the other movie theater in town and sort of alternate big name movies. Also, if a distributer wants us to open a movie on two of our screens instead of one and we say no, they can decide to give it to our competition. Theaters can also request smaller movies that don't get big openings or delcine movies they don't want. I'm at a locally owned theater though, I'm not sure how it's decided for chains.