Alice Is In Town Tonight! **Last night!**

Anyone in town tonight may be interested in popping along to Leicester Sq where the entire area has been turned into Wonderland. The World premier of Tim Burton's 'Alice In Wonderland 3D' is tonight at the Odeon Leicester Square with the entire cast expected to attend.

Its rather ironic that he Odeon is screening the all important premier tonight as they have refused to show the movie in its 800 plus cinemas when it opens to the public.
A long argument with Disney has seen them pull the movie just weeks prior to it opening.
ALL the UK's three largest cinema chains, Odeon, Vue and Cineworld are threatening not to show it.
They account for 65 per cent of the UK's cinemas, and 90 per cent of the 3-D screens, so the threat is a serious one.
With the premiere tonight and he movie opening on March 5th, it's a disaster.
The cause of the angst is that Disney wants to release the film on DVD and Blu-ray only three months after it opens at the cinema, rather than the standard 17 weeks.
It wants to get the DVD into the shops before the midsummer doldrums, and to capitalise on the marketing of the movie while it is still fresh in people's minds.
But the cinemas are afraid that people will just wait to buy the film on DVD rather than spend money on going to the pictures.
They aren't alone: four big cinema chains in Holland are boycotting the film and the Italians are rebelling, too.

May just wipe the smile off the faces of these two below....

Updated On: 2/25/10 at 01:07 PM

I see from the link posted above is that they have all agreed on a 13 week window instead of 17. I can see all major studios jumping on this bandwagon.

This is still good news for the customers and in fact all the studios, as the revenue they can make from DVD sales more than outweighs anything they can make from cinemas. The only long term losers in this will be the cinema chains, and i think they know it.