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Old 12-04-2017, 10:59 PM
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In the US, the switch to digital distribution happened a few years back. A number of small theaters ran funding campaigns to cover the cost of the digital projectors in order to stay in business. Occasionally a director with enough clout will use film in production, and then there may be a variety of mixtures of digital and film in different stages of the post production, but the final output will be digital. But a theater has to have specifically retained its film projector for the odd case of showing real film.

EDIT: for a while, movies were issued in both digital and film prints, even if production or post production was digital. The studios obviously like not having to pay for prints, plus digital lets them do watermarking tricks to reduce the incidence of pirating by sneaking a camcorder into the theater.

I don't know what the situation is in the India and China domestic markets.
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