I was one of the few people that went to the limited showings across the country of all 3 LOTR movies in a row the day before the 3rd movie released.
The first two movies were the Extended versions, and to my knowledge this was the only time those versions were ever in a can and shown on a screen.
Though they could release those extended versions IN THEATER and make tons of money from LOTR fans all over, they might actually make more "profit" from a blu-ray release than to make another 3 thousand reels to send out to theaters.
Honestly though, after I got ahold of 6 of those tickets at the 31 dollar face value and couldn't find 2 people to go with me, I easily sold those 2 extra tickets for 200 dollars and they were going on Ebay for 300+ right after the ticket sales which were months before the showing.
These studios could re-release so many great films in theaters, just have the cost to put on reel again and PR a bit and they could make who knows how much.
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Mr_Fizzlepop @ Sep 3rd 2008 12:06AM
I was one of the few people that went to the limited showings across the country of all 3 LOTR movies in a row the day before the 3rd movie released.
The first two movies were the Extended versions, and to my knowledge this was the only time those versions were ever in a can and shown on a screen.
Though they could release those extended versions IN THEATER and make tons of money from LOTR fans all over, they might actually make more "profit" from a blu-ray release than to make another 3 thousand reels to send out to theaters.
Honestly though, after I got ahold of 6 of those tickets at the 31 dollar face value and couldn't find 2 people to go with me, I easily sold those 2 extra tickets for 200 dollars and they were going on Ebay for 300+ right after the ticket sales which were months before the showing.
These studios could re-release so many great films in theaters, just have the cost to put on reel again and PR a bit and they could make who knows how much.