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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: "The Cotton Club"
Message-ID: <3029@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 00:31:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 00:31:12 1985
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Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

When you see as many films as I do, you can't afford to spend $4-$5 per film.
Over the past 5 years or so, I can't recall more than half a dozen occasions when
I spent more than $3.  Almost everywhere I've lived, you can see first run
movies in good theaters cheaply if you
go at the right times or if you buy discount tickets (sold by most universities
and large companies, as a fringe benefit).  I advise all movie lovers to do a
little research locally to find out how
to save money on movies.

As far as "The Cotton Club" making profits goes, Robert Evans and Coppola only
wish they just needed 10 million or so people to make a profit.  As I think I've
mentioned before, common wisdom says that a film must make 2-3 times its negative
cost to show a profit, due to the theater owners' cut, advertising and print costs, interest on borrowed money, and all
the other mysterious and dubious vagaries of Hollywood financing.  Things don't
look good for "The Cotton Club".
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        			Peter Reiher
        			reiher@ucla-cs.arpa
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