Sony Pictures Classics is nearing a real milestone with Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," and the company is pulling out all the stops to get there.
According to exhibitors, SPC co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard (left, with Allen in 2009) have been unusually assertive and aggressive in calling theaters — threatening to take exhibitors off service if they don't keep "Midnight" on as many screens as possible.
"I never hear from them," one exhibitor told TheWrap on condition of anonymity. "But I got a call from Michael, and his whole pitch was that this could become Woody's biggest movie ever."