This month producers canceled plans for a Broadway transfer, saying no available theaters were appropriate for the show.
The producers have said that it won't be coming to New York because of a lack of available theaters.
The film's sales total, which included exceptionally strong results at Imax theaters, came from 4,404 locations in North America, or about 80 percent of the available theaters.
They also said they had nailed down the Broadhurst Theater for the musical, no small feat given that producers of several shows must jockey for available theaters in an unusually tight real estate market on Broadway.
There is no shortage of available theaters, and with the weak competition so far this season -- and only two new plays, "Match" and "Sixteen Wounded," scheduled for the spring -- being nominated has hardly ever seemed easier.
No surprise, the market leader in the theme-park business, Disney, now holds a sizable chunk of Broadway real estate, with four of its shows — "Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King," "Tarzan" and "Mary Poppins" — installed on Broadway, representing 10percentt of the available theaters.
You can select a movie from Tugg's library (the company says it will announce its distribution partners before this year's South by Southwest, and it claims to have a "growing library of hundreds of studio and independent films"), choose from available theaters and timeslots, and set other event details like ticket price.
When the countdown finished, the site presented a map showing all available theaters that would be screening the film's prologue earlier than its release.
Shelly Lotenberg, spokeswoman for the hospital, said an additional 40 chairs are available for theater groups and other museums.
When French films are not available, the theater shows movies that seem French, including the Foreign Films Lite oeuvre of Merchant and Ivory.
