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April 15

Movie terminology: "Advanced screening"

Is it fair to say that an advanced screening is usually by definition free of cost in the United States? Or do usual movie prices apply in most cases? Guroadrunner (talk) 10:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I might have answered my own question: I guess they usually are? See this: http://www.filmmetro.com/faqs/ . Does this sound right to you that advanced screenings are free? Guroadrunner (talk) 10:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

There is a vagueness to the term "advanced screening." A real advanced screening is free. It is for the movie reviewers and, possibly, people who won some contest to see the advanced screening or residents of the town it was filmed in. Rarely is an advanced screening used to edit the film - those screenings take place before the advanced screening.

The vagueness comes into play with marketing. They will often advertise an "advanced screening" of a movie. For example, the movie opens on April 11, but there is an advanced screening on April 5. What they are really doing is opening the movie on April 11, but carrying over the ticket sales from April 5 to the opening date to try and pad the opening weekend box office figures. These are not true advanced screenings since the movie is opened to the public at that time. Once it opens to the public, all screenings are public screenings, not advanced screenings. -- kainaw™ 12:18, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Golf

How is the cut decided on the Verizon Heritage? Is it the top (however many) players, or within a number of strokes of the leader, or something? --h2g2bob (talk) 10:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

According to this it is the top 70 professional players' scores. --Gwguffey (talk) 16:58, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

There is an additional clarification here regarding the total number. --Gwguffey (talk) 17:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for :) --h2g2bob (talk) 18:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Mortal Kombat Trilogy

Why in Mortal Kombat Trilogy, the stage Fatality in "The Pit II" doesn't work, and why the MK2 versions of Jax and Kung Lao could do only one of their two Fatalities? David Pro (talk) 19:14, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

It can be found here. David Pro (talk) 21:32, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Because they couldn't rerecord all of the animations for all the characters as they fell down the Pit. MK2 Jax and Kung Lao only have 1 fatality because one of their fatalities have special animations which can't be rerecorded. Except in Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy. --Randoman412 (talk) 13:09, 21 April 2008 (UTC)