It is also the place where Maryland's big media franchises typically go to cover movie openings, and interview hardcore fans.

Woody Allen called the media response to his domestic crisis "bigger than anything" he had experienced in show business, movie openings and Oscars included.

It's like a movie opening.

Attendees occasionally dress in costume for popular science fiction and fantasy events, movie openings and book releases.

The movie gains the highest-grossing movie opening of all time.

But for many years afterward he endured a period of, as he describes it, "not a single movie opening," that is, making a commercial dent.

Verbal abuse, even spitting, followed the movie opening.

There were helicopters circling over the bay, shining searchlights down onto the crowd as if it were an episode of "Cops" or a movie opening.

Since the book is published 27 days earlier than the movie opening, it is possible that the "major details" are deliberately changed to keep the surprises intact.

But the most impressive recent movie opening involves sums of money that seem, on the Hollywood blockbuster scale, laughably small.

But overseas the movie has opened at No. 1 in some 20 countries.

With the happening of a crime the movie has opened.

That movie will open in at least 2,000 theaters across the country.

Which weekend a movie opens, while important, is not the only issue.

Houston was 29 when this movie, her first, opened in November 1992.

The movie opened with a young woman standing under a shower.

The movie has just opened, so it is too soon to know how the general public will react.

She will be in several movies opening this year and next.

The announcement did not say when the movie would open in other major cities.

The movie opens as an old women dies in her bed.