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It's also because movie companies don't want all their profits and expenditure to occur at once. If they can spread things out, they will.
It also enables them to judge how well the film has gone down in the US, and then whether to make advertising changes, increases or decreases in promotion money and so forth for other countries. Doing a massive worldwide advertising campaign and having the film flop is a lot more costly than having a massive US advertising campaign, having it flop, and then quietly releasing it everywhere else.
And, has been pointed out, there are only a finite number of screens. Movie companies don't want to compete against too many other big films, as that steals potential ticket sales away from them.
And I'm still waiting for the Powerpuff Girls film to come out over here, so you shush now Andrew.
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Powerpuff Girls? Powerpuff?????????? Sounds like a breakfast cereal!
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hmm.. sounds like 24th century HBO late night fare... Shuttlecraft Confessions falls right between Sex and the Solar System and Red Shirt Diaries.
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