Tampa Theatre, as we know, went the better part of two months with its showing of the Oscar-worthy “Imitation Game.” Such long-term runs don’t happen often, but when they do, they tend to overlap the Christmas holidays. Same was true with “The King’s Speech,” “Anna Karenina” and “The Artist.”
“With a movie like ‘The Imitation Game’ and a distributor like The Weinstein Company, we had to agree to a longer-than-normal run if we wanted to get the movie at all,” explains Tampa Theatre spokeswoman Jill Witecki. “It was a calculated risk … but definitely worth it to have the incredibly strong Christmas and January weeks.”