Re: this is a first...

[Katie Lucas <katie@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:18:23AM +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:55:42AM -0500, Donald Hosford wrote:
> >I often wonder why they don't just do away with the entire "region code 
> >system" entirely.
> 
> Because films are still distributed on celluloid, which is expensive
> enough that they generally can't afford enough prints for a simultaneous
> world-wide release. And no cinema chain wants to show a film that's
> already available to buy, even if you do have to order from overseas to
> get it.

Erm. That's not the case these days.

We get UK production prints. Mostly because by the time they've been
run 24x7 in a multiplex for a few weeks prints are **trashed**, so the
US prints are binned at the end of their run.