Nightmare Before Christmas In 3D

Disney releases this every year around this time, but is it me or are they severely cutting back on the release this year? Usually the movie comes out what... 2 weeks before Halloween? Now it is going to be released this coming Friday, a week before Halloween. And here in the Chicago area, so far, Fandango is listing only 4 (FOUR, count 'em) theaters that will be showing it, and they are all out in the boonies, with none within the city limits. What gives?

Is it because of all the slate of Disney movies being released around this time that they are not going to have the same wide release this year? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this movie made a boatload of money every year that it is released. You still get reviews like this that still gave the movie a very good recommendation for people to see it, even if they already have.

And though it has a home in many a DVD library, Disney has seen to it that it has a higher status within the culture, transferring the original film to 3D and re-issuing it every Halloween as a new holiday tradition - a fright-night reminder that Christmas is coming, Jack Skellington's efforts be darned.
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But Disney was right about this much - "Nightmare" is good enough to deserve to become a holiday tradition. Head to the theater, or pick it up on DVD. If you have kids, there are worse things they could find under a tree than Jack Skellington.

I wish Disney would seriously consider making this a yearly release, and in just more than a handful of theaters around the Chicago area. After all, they KNOW already that there's a lot of Disney fans in this part of the country. Why else would they pick the Chicago area for its first DVC center outside of the theme parks? So get with the program!

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