THE five of them crowded around the table, eating and talking over each other. They reached for food without thinking, the conversation jumping from work to stupid stories as easily as hands moved between the food on the table.
"By the way, congrats you two on the movie's success," Lauren said, lifting his beer can toward Astrid and Snow. "It's doing really well in theaters. I heard it might even get an extended run."
In this era, most movies only stayed in theaters for about a week. After that, they'd eventually get a HoloDisc release—though not always right away. But if a film did well at the box office, it could earn an extra week in theaters. For massive hits like [The Sleeping God], the run might stretch past a month. So, [Serendipitous Summer] getting an extended run was a testament to its success.
"Yes, thankfully, fans of the original novel liked our adaptation, so there wasn't much backlash," Astrid said in response.
