Example sentences for: first-run

How can you use “first-run” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Patrons of Waterworld , produced at a cost of $172 million, paid the same flat fee--say, $7 at a first-run theater (this was two years ago, remember)--as did fellow multiplexers interested in The Brothers McMullen , produced for a mere $25,000.

  • As Chatterbox pointed out in his earlier item, movie tickets are fundamentally inexpensive , so you aren't going to lure many more people into seeing, say, Eyes Wide Shut by slashing the already low price of first-run admission.

  • All 12,000 first-run copies were scooped up in three weeks.

  • Before 1948, studios owned 70 percent of first-run urban theaters, which meant that they were in charge of production, distribution, and exhibition.

  • Mann Theaters in Westwood Village operates nine state-of-the-art screens showing first-run films.


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