The Art of Watching Movies in the Front Row
Because they are consistently the least sold seats, theatres lose an estimated $30,000–$50,000 per screen per year in unrealized ticket revenue from front-row underuse or discounting
Stanley Kubrick was inspired by the Czechoslovakian sci-fi film IKARIE XB-1 (1963). The conceptual, visual and thematic similarities are striking when compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey.