Regal and AMC Halt ‘Iron Man 3′ Ticket Sales Due to Disney Dispute
4 views - published on April 23rd, 2013 in Disney News tagged Disney, disney news, disneyland, walt disney, walt disney world 
Posted on Monday, Apr 22nd, 2013 by Angie Han
Marvel fans’ skeleton to watch Iron Man 3 on opening weekend might be stymied by a brawl between Disney and a country’s dual biggest film museum chains, AMC and Regal. The exhibitors have halted allege sheet sales of a Marvel Studios supplement in response to an evidence over how box bureau income is split.
If a fortitude is not reached, Iron Man 3 might not play during all on AMC and Regal’s total 800+ theaters nationwide. And even if it is, blank so many days of pre-sales could take a large punch out of Iron Man 3‘s opening weekend box office. Hit a burst to keep reading.
The dispute, that initial flared adult several days ago, came about when Disney sought to renegotiate a terms with a cinema chains. The new understanding would give a studio a many incomparable suit of box bureau revenues for Iron Man 3 and presumably a other arriving releases as well. “It goes good over anything we have seen in my time in a industry,” pronounced AMC CEO Gerry Lopez. “It’s adequate for us to postponement and pull back.”
What this means for Marvel fans is that online ticketing is not now accessible for Iron Man 3 during Regal or AMC locations. The Wall Street Journal notes that Cinemark, a country’s third-biggest chain, isn’t offered Iron Man 3 tickets either, yet they aren’t certain either Cinemark is also concerned in a strife with Disney.
How badly a brawl will harm Iron Man 3‘s box bureau take depends on how prolonged a dual sides take to strech a solution. The film is one of a many rarely expected on a 2013 calendar and was projected to acquire upwards of $100 million in a initial weekend. Most attention insiders contend that there’s too many income during interest for a evidence to continue, and design that an agreement will be reached before Iron Man 3 opens.
But in a eventuality that it doesn’t, well, as Reddit user Bongo1138 points out, Regal has formerly refused to uncover Rush Hour 2 when a brawl with distributor New Line could not be resolved. If you’ve already purchased tickets during an AMC or Regal plcae for Iron Man 3, we might wish to double-check with your internal museum to see what happens if Iron Man 3 gets pulled from a lineup.
[Sources: The Wall Street Journal, Deadline]
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