1.   At least three-fourths of his gags fell absolutely flat with the audience Universal recruited for the Seattle preview showing.

2.   Both figures included revenue from preview showings the night before their formal opening, Paramount said.

3.   Fans flocked to sold-out preview showings of the fantasy epic at midnight Tuesday.

4.   The children at a preview showing last weekend seemed a lot less enthusiastic leaving the theater than they were when entering.

5.   After seasons of minimalist fashion, the collections presented during the preview showings which ended Friday exalt the body with short hemlines and see-through fabrics.

6.   At it turned out, that was just a preview showing.

7.   Early Friday morning, the last day of the weeklong preview showings, Marni presented a fresh and all-purpose collection.

8.   Her Friday evening show, always a highlight of the semiannual preview showings, was quite out of character.

9.   Miuccia Prada epitomized this trend in her second line Miu Miu collection presented Friday night, the second day of the week-long Italian ready-to-wear preview showings.

10.   Suits are big at Italian preview showings.