Sony Exec Celebrates Midnight in Kerrville

Forget about Paris. The real sign that Sony Pictures Classics has a massive hit on its hands with Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris can be found closer to home.

Studio co-chairman Michael Barker tells LA Times columnist Patrick Goldstein that the $70 million plus worldwide indie blockbuster is the first time one of his movies has played in his hometown of Kerrville, Texas. In this small hamlet of 20,000 or so residents, Midnight in Paris screened at the Rio 10 Cinema for a solid month:

“That’s definitely a first for us,” Barker says.

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