In China, the movie benefited from a release over the Dragon Boat Festival holiday and a near-simultaneous dating with its U.S. debut, not to mention strong pre-awareness because the video game is very popular in China.
But there is a three-month delay built into the second raise because the latest contract is 35 months instead of 40 to insure the simultaneous expiration date.
The simultaneous broadcast date is a boon to American audiences, who have typically waited months or even years for British series to be shown in the United States.
But for many people, the history of the Shroud appeared to be settled in 1988 when laboratories in Zurich, Oxford and Tucson, Arizona did a simultaneous carbon-dating test on a strip of the linen which had been cut into three.
With more simultaneous global release dates than ever and with blockbusters carefully broadening out references and locations to appeal to an international audience, there's almost something reassuring about studios predicting cultural differentiation.
To date, simultaneous collection of such information has not been achievable.
However, imagine my own disgust when several years ago, one of my simultaneous first-and-last dates started describing one of his particular sexual predilections -- in extremely explicit detail and about ten minutes into the date.
To date, the simultaneous interaction between IGF-1, cervical stage, gender, and skeletal classification has not been longitudinally studied, and no method has been proposed to predict the timing and intensity of facial growth using IGF-1 controlling for these factors.
To date, the simultaneous removal of lactic acid in the fermentation has not been carried out as an industrial application.
To date, previous simultaneous fMRI-EEG work has focused on the relationship between higher EEG frequency bands (e.g. alpha and theta) and default-mode structures [39], [40], [41].
The real issue that the entertainment industry needs to address, is that by truly addressing consumer demand, and making all content available simultaneously on all platforms for all devices (industry parlance for simultaneous release is "day and date"), the traditional scarcity-based distribution windows erode, and revenues along with them.
