The three-screen independent theater in the town where I went to college was going to show RotS until they found out how big of a cut GL wanted from the box office.

Even in their largest aud, which was pretty big and had a lot of seats, they would’ve needed to sell out every showing for a couple months just to turn a profit. They did show Crystal Skull there though, so maybe things broke down differently with Paramount.

There was a regal only six miles away where I ended up seeing it (my first midnight opening). It’s still there now. The independent theater, however, closed last year only a month or two before TFA was released.

I know they were one of the only two-hundred or so theaters in the U.S. showing Interstellar in 35mm, so at least they had a last hurrah.