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Friday, March 22nd, 2019 8:04 AM

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Films show Release Dates; How about final closing dates?

I noticed for example with a film I was sure was pretty far in the past, imdb is great at listing all the various Country Release Dates. e.g. Instant Family which came out in the US Nov 16, 2018, starring Mark "Marky-Mark" Wahlberg. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7401588/... .. So, why doesn't imdb list when a film basically fizzled and was stopped from being shown in say, the USA, or more specifically, in each of the various States?

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charles_paxton_martin

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6 years ago

Too much work, Peter, unless you volunteer to do the research yourself!

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Col_Needham

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6 years ago

This information is available on Box Office Mojo which is part of the IMDb family. 

For example here, see https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=instantfamily.htm 

Domestic Summary
Opening Weekend: $14,504,315
(#4 rank, 3,286 theaters, $4,414 average)
% of Total Gross: 21.5%
> View All 11 Weekends
Widest Release: 3,426 theaters
Close Date: January 31, 2019
In Release: 77 days / 11 weeks

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mathepa_a3hykm7n2dxp2

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6 years ago

It would be pretty good to see the final closing dates when exploring title-pages, but I'm afraid such option will raise more questions from unsatisfied users than a possible good experience.

The above mentioned Box Office Mojo (BOM) is the oldest if not the only one base for comprehensive information of such kind. If looking closer into BOM, we can hardly find a huge data for 20th century movies in there. The latter ones constitute the fundamental part of any movie database nowadays. It would be a titanic efforts to complete the BOM for the older releases (e.g. using information out of the old articles, posters and playbills), but now it's just impossible to gather such information for closing dates (no one was advertising such "events"; and you know why). Finally, we may have huge empty fields and widespread discontent as a result.

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Vincent_Fournols

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The initial question puzzled me: when can a movie be declared has having a closing date? In Paris, some movies lives for months, maybe with 1 or 2 or 3 shows a week, in cinema networks which have specialized in this kind of display (a small 3 screen cinema would present 40 to 50 different recent movies every week).

So if we are talking only of cinemas, only the distributor could state that there is no more copy in circulation. But I do not think this is the kind of information they publicize.

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mathepa_a3hykm7n2dxp2

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Yes, you are right: only the distributor could state that for sure. Since they provide a specific information about incomes, it would not be a big problem for them to inform also about closing date (or season end) for the same movie. When the same movie is distributed again, they used to call it "re-release". But for older movies it's nearly impossible to know, only by means of rare newspaper articles like "This movie is out of screens since last week".

I can not be sure how others could use this kind of information. But if the closing dates were in movie base, I could make some deeper statistics for myself when comparing incomes for movies of the same "league". You know, a shorter period on screens does not always mean a lack of popularity that time when movie released. So, different incomes could be weighted and virtually adjusted when measuring the financial success.

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Vincent_Fournols

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Take also into account that a movie can be re-released (still talking about cinemas, ignoring all other channels) by a different distributor...

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