31.   Occasionally, a movie opens a window to a world you just did not know existed.

32.   Now, as the movie opens, he is back from the hospital, his wrists covered with angry scars, trying to pretend that everything is normal again.

33.   Once the movie opened, the audience decided how steamy it was.

34.   Paramount bought the picture for distribution and a week before the movie opened, Murnau was killed in a car crash.

35.   Publicity, including a six-page layout in Time magazine the week before the movie opened, resulted in lines around the block at theaters.

36.   Rarely has a movie opened so certain of success.

37.   Studios have often resisted, for this and other reasons, releasing the actual number of screens on which a movie opens.

38.   Sure enough, his movie opened on a wave of buzz from the Toronto and New York film festivals.

39.   That was the story this summer when movies opened big and then disappeared after a couple of weekends.

40.   Ten days ago, the Disney movie opened to the syncopated sounds of critics hissing and cash registers ringing.