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Megaplexes

NPR

Published April 11, 2001 at 9:00 PM PDT

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the crash landing of the movie theater industry, which was weighed-down by too many giant theater complexes. The industry overbuilt, and now some companies are going bankrupt.