If you’ve been having a hard time tracking down presale tickets for the most anticipated movie of the summer since they went up for sale last week, there’s a reason for that: your theater is probably not selling them in the hopes of hurting the movie’s bottom line.According to a report out from Deadline this morning, a number of theater chains including AMC, Regal and Carmike are refusing to pre-sell tickets to Iron Man 3 to protest the fact that Disney is purportedly using the film to get leverage from exhibitors, angling it for a better distribution deal on future releases.Part of the consternation appears to come from the fact that, while this kind of corporate in-fighting isn’t entirely uncommon, Disney hasn’t done it in quite a while, even as their Marvel and Pixar movies have reliably been some of the top-grossing films every year for exhibitors.
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