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The push to 3-D may also be the impetus needed to spur movie exhibitors to switch from film projectors to digital ones, say industry executives.
Indeed, movie exhibitors, as they are called in the industry, are "going broke," he said.
In 1938 she appeared on a list of actors labeled "box-office poison" in a poll of movie exhibitors.
Last year he told an audience of movie exhibitors: "I am not particularly smart.
"The demand is there, and movie exhibitors are accommodating that demand."
In 1943, Grable was named by movie exhibitors as the most popular box office draw in the country.
When Mr. Blatstein was unable to attract an established movie exhibitor to run the theater, he decided to manage it himself.
The measures are the first concerted response by movie exhibitors, the sector of the movie industry hit hardest this year.
Few movie exhibitors or theater chains choose to provide Rear Window captioning.