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cinema chains in the United States. It eventually controlled over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them first-run houses (as opposed to the less lucrative second-run or neighbourhood theatres to which films moved when their initial box office receipts dwindled).
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Warner Bros. product. 45 of the 86 Warner Bros. feature films released in 1929 were branded as First
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