– How do movie theaters get the digital copy of the movies they are showing?

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Do theaters get a Hard Drive with the digital copy? Do they stream? Consider the thousands of theaters getting a movie that opens at the same time across the country, I want to know the logistics of getting that data to the theater.

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I worked in cinemas over ten years ago. We could rent old movies for a small fee. I managed to get a 35mm copy of Jurassic Park in 2004/2005 and had a birthday party for my roommate in the cinema. Pretty awesome! We also moved over from 35mm to Sony Digital and had the most amazing guys come from Japan to help with set-up. They spoke no English at all. But yeah, as previously mentioned, the movies came on hard drives. Trailers came on USB sticks. Things may have changed since then though!

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