> > Sometimes, living in a small European country sucks. Pearl Harbor doesn't come here until early in July, while we'll have to wait until late in September for Moulin Rouge. Well, I'm not very keen on seeing PH anyway, but I'm just making the point that we get movies late here. Shrek comes in October! Aargh!
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> Wow! There is a country that gets movies later than we do in Australia?

Britain doesn't do too badly... We normally get films 2 - 3 months after the Americans do, except in two instances:

1) It's a British film. British cinema seems to have a better "hit rate" than Hollywood (to my mind), and we almost always get the films first. This rocks, especially with films like "Snatch".

2) The film dies in the US. Then it never gets a release over here. This leads to some real travesties - I only found out about Mystery Men when it came on TV, and that is a truely brilliant film.

I don't go to the cinema too often, although over the next year or so there are lots of films I want to see (Matrix 2, Lord of the Rings, AI, Star Wars Episode 2, X-Men 2, Spiderman...) so I should start finding out what sort of delay to expect.

One excuse I heard from the film industry for staggered release dates is that they only have a limited number of reels to go round, so they all move from country to country. Does that sound plausible to anyone?

winter"Mind you, I did see Black Dog in America a year or two ago, and I'm not suprised it never crossed the Atlantic"mute