Well, I don't have any idea on how many places are going to get the LOTR deal, because I think they ultimately opened it up to a bunch more than ten cities (I'll just say this--Oklahoma City got it. And if Oklahoma City got it, then pretty much every other city in the country should have gotten it, too). I'm pretty sure one of the LOTR fan-sites has got a list up of all the places that will have it, but I'm pretty sure everything's sold out by now.
However, a couple months ago, Universal did an extremely-limited re-release of
Scarface for the 20th anniversary and the DVD, and that was limited to ten cities, much like the LOTR thing was originally supposed to be.
So, just for comparison:
So, just for fun, here's my guess-timated list. We'll see if I was close at all when they announce the cities eventually:
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Philadelphia
- Dallas/Houston
- Phoenix
- San Francisco
- Atlanta/Jacksonville
- Baltimore/Washington D.C.
- Seattle
- Scott Pearson's house
The theatrical engagements of "Scarface" will take place in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Detroit, Dallas, Miami and San Francisco. Well, not bad. Can't really compare them that much, because they're two different movies, but overall, I guess if you could theoretically release a movie to the ten largest cities, I didn't do too poorly (and if I was trying to guess which cities for
Scarface, I definitely would have picked Miami--you'd have to be nuts not to re-release that movie there.)
(And as far as I know, Scott Pearson's house got neither the LOTR trilogy or
Scarface. . .)