[HPFGU-Movie] Harry Potter and the Energizer Bunny.....

[GulPlum]

Nicholas wrote:
>CoS is still going....
>
>not in a dollar theatre or second-run cinema, but in the most popular
>multiplex in our town of about half a million people. Today, the movie
>begins the seventeenth week of its continuous run, and even if this is its
>final week, that means that I can see the movie on the large screen less
>than one month prior to its appearance on video.
>
>I'm curious; is this a record? Can anyone else tell of a similar continuous
>run, or do I happen to live in the centre of the Potter movieverse?

You certainly do. :-)

As it happens, it's nowhere close to a UK record. I know that when I was a 
kid, "The Sound of Music" ran for over two years in the largest cinema here 
in Birmingham (of course, the cinema no longer exists).

Fair enough, that was a long time ago and in a different cultural 
atmosphere (forget VCRs, less than half of households had a *TV* at that 
time - God, I feel old!). More recently, Titanic ran in several cinemas for 
well over a year, Jurassic Park (the first one) ran seemingly forever in 
one of the West End cinemas in London when it came out (at least 9 months), 
etc. etc.

More recently still, Donnie Darko finished its continuous run in one 
(standard price) Birmingham multiplex last week, which it started on 25th 
October... It made the local news a few times, as the cinemas were 
continually fairly full, for 3 performances a day... That makes 20 weeks, 
and it's hardly a mega-blockbuster!

(Further afield, when I lived in Paris as a student, there was a cinema 
which made a good living out of showing two Monty Python films as a double 
bill. I know for a fact that the cinema had run these films, and nothing 
else, for over 12 *years*; VCRs, and those films, had become common well 
before the end of that run! I saw the films there myself at least four 
times.). :-)

I've asked before, and I'm getting increasingly curious: for the record, 
Nicholas, just where is it you live that seems to be the centre of the 
Potter movieverse?

--
GulPlum AKA Richard, who saw LOTR:TTT yesterday and it's due to continue 3 
performances daily until at least the week after next. HP disappeared 3 
weeks ago. :-(