他们认为，大型连锁影院采取所谓出空的手段来威胁影片发行商，地方影院才难以预订首轮放映。

Big theater chains, they say, prevent locally owned theaters from booking first-run movies by bullying movie distributors in a practice known as clearing.

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我很惊讶原来这么多人不明白这个…要在这行业里真正赚到钱，你不是要有自己的制片工作室，便是要成为影片发行商。

I'm surprised more people don't understand this... to make money in this business you either have to own your own production studio or you have to be a distributor of content.

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据影片发行商二十世纪福克斯的数据，美国之外约有30%的放映都是3D版本，在该片6.667亿美元的海外票房中，3D影片占了64%。

About 30% of the screens outside the U.S. are showing the picture in 3-D, according to distributor Twentieth Century Fox; those have generated 64% of the movie's $666.7 million international total.

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