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    Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice in the Hollywood studio system from...
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    perhaps best known for its vertical integration of the film industry and block booking practices. On April 1, 1927, the company name was changed to Paramount...
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  • studios could no longer block-book short film subjects along with feature films (known as one-shot, or full force, block booking); The Big Five studios...
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  • Booking Holdings Inc. is an American travel technology company incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law and based in Norwalk, Connecticut,...
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    Booking.com is one of the largest online travel agencies. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, and is a subsidiary of Booking Holdings. Booking.com provides...
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    Eliminate the block-booking of short film subjects, in an arrangement known as "one shot", or "full force" block-booking. Eliminate the block-booking of any...
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  • guaranteeing additional sales of films through manipulative booking techniques such as block booking. During the Hollywood Golden Age, eight companies constituted...
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    Reid. With so many important players, Paramount was able to introduce "block booking", which meant that an exhibitor who wanted a particular star's films...
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    established B units to provide films for the expanding second-feature market. Block booking became standard practice: to get access to a studio's attractive A pictures...
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  • double feature arose partly because of a studio practice known as "block booking," a form of tying, in which major Hollywood studios required theaters...
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  • Roach could move Our Gang into features, as the double feature and block booking were slowly smothering his short subjects production. The film was a...
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  • operations, including bookings, e-Commerce, inventory, payroll, shift scheduling, banking, and obtaining business loans. Additionally, Block's portfolio includes...
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    Show systems of film distribution, Paramount introduced the concept of block-booking. This meant that exhibitors who wanted a particular movie had to buy...
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    term in a film context. One explanation pertains to the practice of "block booking" whereby a studio would sell a package of films to theaters, rather...
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  • Antitrust Laws, 72 Harv. L. Rev. 50 (1958); George J. Stigler, A Note On Block Booking, 1963 Supreme Court Review 152; Kenneth Dam, Fortner Enterprises v....
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  • antitrust case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that block booking of movies—the offer of only a combined assortment of movies to an exhibitor—violates...
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  • vendors, and a partnership with Jetaport, the discounted hotel room block booking service. In the same year, WeddingWire completed the acquisition of...
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    reputation of their institution was by pushing the passage of the Neely Anti-Block Booking Bill, which eventually led to the breakup of the studio-owned theater...
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    College in the summer of 1925, and released on December 15. Due to block booking, it was not shown in New York until July 21, 1926. Photoplay was displeased:...
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    (later Paramount). Zukor acquiesced to her refusal to participate in block-booking, the widespread practice of forcing an exhibitor to show a bad film...
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  • theaters known as "block booking" whereby a theater owner, if he wanted to show any Paramount pictures, would have to agree to take a block of Paramount product...
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  • 2021 to be bought out by Booking.com parent Booking Holdings for US$1.83 billion, though the European Commission ultimately blocked the merger. Sources conflict...
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  • Paramount case—which forced movie distributors to end the practice of block booking, or selling shorts and features to theaters in packages—affected Lantz...
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  • Circus on 10 December. They resumed sessions at IBC in January 1969, block booking Monday to Thursday, but had to do gigs every weekend to stop going further...
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    studios, like large Paramount and growing Warner Bros., depended on block booking and blind bidding practices, under which "independent ('unaffiliated')...
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    movement. – Peter Bogdanovich Following the Paramount Case (which ended block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios) and the advent of television...
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    Theaters United States v. Loew's Inc., a 1962 Supreme Court decision on block booking Cineplex Entertainment "Perenchio Seeks to Buy Loews' Theater Chain"...
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  • Embassy Pictures London Films The breakup of the studio system (and its block-booking practice, which left independent theaters eager for content from the...
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    appearance of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Congress passed the Neely Anti-Block Booking Act, which eventually broke the link between the studios and the theaters...
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    billing and no more than four films a year. Having learned about the block-booking studio system that virtually guaranteed the studios huge profits, Cagney...
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