As a student in the 1970s, he fought to form a federation of student film societies strong enough to break the distributors' monopoly.
If a film costs $200 million to make and another $200 million to market, it needs to generate $800 million at the box office just to break even, because distributors and theater owners keep roughly half the revenue.
The administration argues the tax break favors foreign distributors, because they don't face the same flavor quotient restrictions as domestic ones.
Consider, for example, the familiar motto of the McDonald's restaurants: 'You deserve a break today.' No distributor is explicitly mentioned in the motto.
The country has held the dubious distinction of being a leader in music piracy, and that has held off many a digital music distributor from breaking ground there.
As a result, you keep getting seemingly random offline pitches with promotions and price breaks from these distributors.
A fatigue crack initiated in a gusset plate attachment set up the fatigue crack that propagated and allowed the air distributor pipe to break completely.
Mr. Einhorn emerged on the call and asked a handful of questions, including one about the percentage of the company's sales to consumers who are not distributors, and another asking why Herbalife was no longer disclosing sales broken down by types of distributor.
The biggest independent chain, Palace Cinemas — which, significantly, also owns influential indie distributor Palace Films — could break ranks and move to simultaneous release.
The distributor's rotor arm broke and a replacement had to be sourced from Madrid.
The film's lifetime domestic distributor share stands at, breaking Ek Tha Tigers previous record of.
