Lacissal wrote:Total speculation but at this stage they might just want to maximise the number of screenings for Shin and then do back to back showings later like Revival.
Yeah. That's what I would expect. Movie theater real-estate -
there are only so many auditoriums exist to play so many movies a certain number of times a day - is a crazy business and with the final movie being so long it cuts down on the number of showings they could get of the film a day.
A few years ago in between film gigs I was a movie theater managers so I have some experience with this. In a normal 12 hour operating day one -
first show starting at 10am and last show starting at 10 or 11pm - as long as the theater doesn't go trailer crazy one auditorium could play the 90 minute
You Can (Not) Redo about six times a day. 30 minutes being scheduled between each showing to give staff time to clean up theater and get next group of customers in. With
Thrice Upon A Time being 155 minutes that same auditorium could only play the film around 4 times a day. That drastically cuts down on the number of tickets that one auditorium can sell in a day. Add in the 50% seat capacity and tickets sold has been cut down even more drastically.
Obviously I imagine Toho will work around this issue by having the film play on more auditoriums to equal things out. With the odd circumstances of Covid I imagine all focus will be on getting viewers to see the film first.
But yeah, I won't be surprised if a month from now, or two months, or even after the summer, Khara announces a small run of
Shin Evangelion Double Feature.
All 251 minutes of it.