You have to avoid the airports, the train stations, the malls, the stores, the media and the multiplexes.
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They were different, at least, from the multimillion-dollar manifestations of male adolescent fantasies that tend to fill multiplexes.
There were three major expansions from art house to the multiplexes, and they arguably cannibalized each other in the process.
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Small independent productions, foreign features and documentaries are being driven by market forces out of the multiplexes into new distribution modes online.
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To that it has added convention centers, multiplexes, food courts and clubhouses.
Nonetheless, if just a fraction of those 3 billion ticket sales can be diverted from cheap fleapits into pricier multiplexes, blockbuster returns await.
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People who just love Zac Efron as well as people who find Sofia Vergara hysterical on Modern Family will likely hit multiplexes this weekend.
Many of the movies currently filling the multiplexes give new meaning to the dog days of summer, but you can always find a good DVD.
There were theaters all over the nation and the world at which you only had a single film playing, whereas nowadays most theaters are multiplexes.
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So too is the lack of space in India's jam-packed city centres, which means shopping malls grow tall and thin, limiting scope for giant multiplexes.
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At least that's what I tell myself every year about this time -- that September, October and November will make the multiplexes, and the nation's dwindling stock of independent theaters, reasonably safe for sentient adults.
Around the country people skipped work to fill movie theaters at 37 multiplexes where Cinedigm digitally broadcast the same ad-free feed of the memorial that was being broadcast to press at the Nokia Theatre across the street from the Staples Center.
One cinema, the small Galaxy Globe Cinema in Roath in Cardiff, has been trying to buck the trend by becoming the first specialist Bollywood cinema in Wales, but with only one screen it does not have the pulling power of the large multiplexes when it comes to distribution.
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