THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD: Scott Johnson of Power Line (whose grandfather immigrated to the US in 1916 from Russia and was drafted the following year and served in the Battle of Argonne Forest) attended the afternoon screening of Peter Jackson’s new WWI documentary and returns impressed — at the both the film and its crowd size: “Something is happening here. Each showing of the film at the Edina [MN] AMC yesterday was sold out. The film is to be shown again on December 27 in theaters playing Fathom Events. Highly recommended.”

Indeed. Read the whole thing.™

UPDATE: IMDB notes that something is happening indeed:

Jackson’s World War I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old” earned $2.3 million at 1,142 theaters in North America on Monday.

Warner Bros. released the movie five weeks after it aired on Armistice Day on the BBC. The studio partnered with Fathom Events in the U.S. for a one-day event, marking the largest single night for a Fathom documentary, a spokesman said.

That’s awesome; the good-sized theater we saw the movie yesterday in Fort Worth had quite a crowd for a Fathom-type show.