Hundreds of German cinemas refuse to show Avengers film
BERLIN – Several hundred movie theaters in Germany have refused to screen the new Avengers film in a dispute over rental fees with Disney.
BERLIN – Several hundred movie theaters in Germany have refused to screen the new Avengers film in a dispute over rental fees with Disney.
News agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported that 686 theaters in 193 mostly small towns refused to show Avengers: Age of Ultron, which opened on Thursday (April 23). It said the dispute was over a decision to raise the rental fee for the movie to 53 per cent of ticket sales rather than the 47.7 per cent usually charged to small-town theatres.
Karl-Heinz Meier of IG Nord, a group representing cinema operators in northern Germany, said they would have been prepared to go as far as a 50 per cent fee. He added: “Disney will have to do without 686 screens on which the film otherwise would have been shown.”
Meier says movie-goers have expressed understanding. AP