“I'm going to book a test screening at the Magic Johnson Theater… the film played… people were falling out of their chairs laughing… we could show them the results… that would be their sort of downside protection.”

Planet Money · Anatomy of a movie market

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Ran a test screening of a film (Precious) at the Magic Johnson Theater with an all-Black audience and used the results to convince distributors

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