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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5012776" data-attributes="member: 80487">Winged Migration and In the Shadow of the Moon seemed to be pretty "fringe" in my neighborhood of the USA, showing only at the usual-suspect "art house" theaters.Of course, the same holds true for most Asian hits (before Hollywood remakes). Miyazaki, for instance, is IMO a long way from "fringe" in the bigger picture -- but that's no sure predictor (even in a bad way) of provincial attitudes."[So and so] is a pop music star where?!"Even the observation that the two films I mentioned above were both documentaries is not conclusive. Sez who, based on what?Look, anything that I see on the marquees of 2 out of 3 big chains of theater is not "fringe" in my book.Even bigger ones sometimes are exclusive to one chain. (And only the biggest was able to bring Spielberg to terms sensible enough to make it worthwhile to screen one of his flicks. Yeah, Steve, you really are too sexy for our market -- so good luck with that plan of taking 100% of NO ticket sales, dude!)People with connections get their pictures moved into lots of venues -- especially if they've got a big advertising budget to go with them. Predictions of popularity are to a little extent self-fulfilling, as even if the public does not eat up whatever is set before it, there's some difficulty for consumers in consuming what is hard to find.</blockquote>