— FADEIH... This year, we've devoted the special contents of our February issue to cinema sound. In these pages, you'll find both basic reference information and updates on new developments in the field. You might say that here we're sounding off about sound, but we should mention that BOXOFFICE will be bringing you sound come ShoWest. As we did at the 1996 and 1997 conventions, BOXOFFICE will be giving away sound equipment prizes at the 1998 ShoWest. Last year, Magda Moore, manager of the M-89 Cinema in Otsego. Mich., operated by Watervliet. Mich.- based C.A. Moore Theaters, stopped by our booth and put her corporate business card in our exhibitors-only prize bowl. Her reward for that simple act came on the show's Thursday close, when our drawing revealed that she was the winner of a complete DTS digital sound system. "We had needed another DTS system," Moore says, "and then I won it at the show." Moore, whose circuit put the unit in its Ready Theatre in Niles, Mich., reports that audiences really respond to digital sound. "You can hear a pin drop," she says of the technology's reproduction capabilities. "Customers always ask us whether a movie is playing in one of our digital houses. They know it^they want it." Also in 1997, Georgia Theatre president William J. Stembler took home a QSC MX 1500a amplifier, and Edwards Theatres district supervisor James Woodin won a Smart Citi-Tell digital message server. Those two executives joined the ranks of our previous BOXOFFICE ShoWest winners, which have also included SoCal Cinemas' Sean Warner (a QSC amp) and Landmark's Kevin O'Neill (a Smart Afterburner). We'll have more information about this year's prizes in our April edition, which is the issue you'll find awaiting you on day 1 of ShoWest, being held March 9-12 in Las Vegas. And exhibitors will find that getting in on our awards action will be just as easy in 1 998 as in prior years; simply stop by our ShoWest booth (again #406) and drop off your corporate business card. Please remember to write the name of the hotel at which you're staying on your card: as happened for Magda Moore and the other theatre folks mentioned above, you just migiit be receiving a call from us while you're in Vegas, saying there's a little more luggage to take home with you. Kim Williamson BOXOFFICE ONLINE WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://www.boxoffice.com E-MAIL ADDRESS: boxoffice@earthlink.net FEBRUARY, 1998 VOL. 134, NO. 2 CINEMA SOUND COVER QUOTE: DEPARTMENTS I'm very analytical in a very wet way.... I'm very analytically moist—OUSJm HOFFMAN 6 HOLLYWOOD REPORT Good golly, Shue's "Molly"— plus early word on 18 other productions 8 MARCH TRAILERS Blowing in from Hollywood: films of the windy month 44 EXHIBITION BRIEFINGS Silver's Landmark decision; Mr. Buyout Mann 46 NATIONAL NEWS/HOLLYWOOD UPDATES API's centennial celebration; Universal's foolish "Kissing" 47 NORTHERN EXPOSURE Red Sky at morning; Silver(City) screens; Cineplexing 48 EUROVIEWS Brussels sprouts mega-merger; Italy booted, fine Finnish 49 PACIFIC OVERTURES Roadshow travels with Warner; Hoyts' double vision 50 FILM REVIEWS Critical analyses of 35 current and coming releases: "Affliction" 51 "Afterglow" 53 "Alien Resurrection" 56 "Amistad" 56 "The Apostle" 55 "As Good As It Gets" 54 'The Boxer" 52 "Chinese Box" 52 "Dangerous Beauty" 52 "The Education of Little Tree" 53 "Flubber" 57 "For Richer or Poorer" 56 "The Gingerbread Man" 52 "Home Alone 3" 56 "Jackie Brown" 53 "John Grisham's The Rainmaker" 57 "Kundun" 54 "Lea" 51 "Les Miserables" (1935) "Love and Death on Long Island" "Men With Guns" "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" "Mortal Kombat Annihilation" "MouseHunt" "Mrs. Dalloway" 'The Nutcracker" "Oscar and Lucinda" "Perfect Circle" "Scream 2" 'Simoom: A Passion in the Desert" 'Tomorrow Never Dies" "Unmade Beds" "Wag the Dog" "Will It Snow for Christmas?" "Zero Effect" 58 STUDIO FILM RELEASE CHART Major releases through April and beyond 60 INDEPENDENT FILM RELEASE CHART Specialized fare into September and beyond 62 MOVIEGOER ACTIVITY CHART Ranking leaps by City Cinemas, Cineplex's Hyland 63 HOME RELEASE CHART "L.A. Confidential," "The Peacemaker" get shelved in March 64 CLASSIFIEDS Including our index to advertisers in this issue 64 "REVERSE ANGLE" Stars in stripes 53 51 51 57 57 54 52 56 53 51 56 51 55 51 52 55 50 CIRCULATION INQUIRIES BOXOFFICE DATA CENTER 725 S. Wells St., Fourth Floor Chicago. IL 60607 (312) 922-9326; fax: (312) 922-7209 i& Audit Bureau EDITORIAL AND ADVEmiSING 6640 Sunset Blvd., Suite 100 Hollywood, CA 90028-7159 (213)465-1186 Fax:(213)465-5049 OFFICES CORPORATE HEADQUAm-ERS SUBSCRIPTION/CIRCULATIQN Mailing address: 725 8. Wells St., Fourth Floor P.O. Box 25485 Chicago, IL 60607 Chicago, IL 60625 (312) 922-9326 (773)338-7007 Fax:(312)922-7209 4 BoxomcE
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