association of theater owners, california, and nevada and also, in my role as regional manager for cinemark theaters that over cities the city of san francisco as well and my name is hal sawyer and i am here to speak about the bill of rights and specifically the notification of scheduling requirements and both the association and the theaters, support the ordinance. and the rest of the legislation, but we are unable to support the scheduling requirement. unlike other businesses, movie theaters are not controlled independently or even locally. their schedules are determined on a weekly basis, based on a complex analysis of box office returns, and arrangements with the various movie studios who provide us with their product. they have the final say as to when, and what theaters will be existing their films. we have the privilege to meet with many of you or your staff, describing how the motion picture business models works, i have a few hand outs for any of you who might still have not received one of those copies >> one shows the path that a movie takes from production to exhibition, and sho

the movie theater, hyphen cinemark 16. first, isolated. second proximal. third, large.let what better to case than that of an inconspicuous entertainment facility. >> let me bring in criminal and civil attorney. i want to just begin with part of what we heard. it's incredible. you have cameras in the courtroom. you're watching this play out in this case. let me just reiterate what was read aloud. you heard he thought about an airport for this mass murder decided on a theater. wrote, terrorism isn't the message, the message is there is no message. so bob, to you, how does the defense take all of these ramblings in this notebook and use them for the jury? >> it's going to cut both ways but they definitely have a lot to work with. the caption when you open the notebook is "inside the mind of a madman." he starts talking about the meaning of life with stick figures, then puts death and dead stick figures. he starts self-diagnosing schizophrenia. if he has a history that predates the shooting the defense is going to have a better chance of using the not responsible or insani