This weekend, my niece was visiting in town and brought her 6 year old son to Sonic 2. After the show, I was asking the kid how he liked it and he said it was good, but he'd already seen it at school. I said, how's that? He said his teacher owns the movie theater in their town and they had a disk of the movie, so she showed it at school.
Now, since this story is coming from a 6-year-old I have to take it with a bit of a grain of salt. First of all it's not possible that his teacher owns the theater in that town (because I know the owner and he doesn't even live there), but she certainly could be a manager. I have a hard time believing she would play a current movie at school unless she had express permission from somewhere.
I suppose it's possible that the teacher has some sort of connection that sends her DVD screeners, but managing a theater, why would she take that kind of risk? Unless she's naive and doesn't see the major harm, although the potential damage to their ticket sales should be pretty obvious.
So my real question is, would the studios send disks of their brand-new movies out to schools? I can't imagine why they would, but if they do, WHY the hell would they do that? This whole story has me in WTF mode. The town in question is a smallish Montana town with a two-screen theater.
Now, since this story is coming from a 6-year-old I have to take it with a bit of a grain of salt. First of all it's not possible that his teacher owns the theater in that town (because I know the owner and he doesn't even live there), but she certainly could be a manager. I have a hard time believing she would play a current movie at school unless she had express permission from somewhere.
I suppose it's possible that the teacher has some sort of connection that sends her DVD screeners, but managing a theater, why would she take that kind of risk? Unless she's naive and doesn't see the major harm, although the potential damage to their ticket sales should be pretty obvious.
So my real question is, would the studios send disks of their brand-new movies out to schools? I can't imagine why they would, but if they do, WHY the hell would they do that? This whole story has me in WTF mode. The town in question is a smallish Montana town with a two-screen theater.
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