enate theatre patrons. The executives' responses were quoted in the September 29, September 30, and October 5, 1977 editions of Daily Variety. The MPAA Advertising-Publicity Committee met on October 27, 1977 and discussed the NITE Film Fund. Richard Kahn, chairman of the committee and vice president of Metro- Goldwyn Mayer, told a

ic market. The plaintiffs alleged that the statements by the defendants' executives concerning the NITE Film Fund and the subsequent meeting of the MPAA Advertising-Publicity Committee evidenced this conspiracy and that Warner Brothers' and Twentieth Century Fox's threatened boycott of any exhibitor [**1o] who participated in the