Here is my messy video of my talking about why movie theater chains like AMC and Regal are stupid for not showing universal movies that break the 90 day demand window post pandemic
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Seems like it would be a good time to start opening drive-in movie theaters again.
2020-05-10 19:14:41 +0000 UTC
I am one of those people who absolutely does not care about box office releases and usually wait for VOD or bluray release instead. I go to maybe 2 movies a year, max, if that and I have gone entire years without going to the cinema even if there was something I was interested in seeing. I have a compromised immune system and movie theaters have always been big risks for me, personally.
2020-05-05 23:12:53 +0000 UTC
I will risk it for Top Gun 2.
2020-05-05 04:11:27 +0000 UTC
This kind of thing happens more often than people realize. Typically (in the pre-pandemic world) studios take a high percentage of ticket sales in the first couple weeks, then the theater's cut will go up as the movie stays in their theater. In 2013, Disney said they were going to take a high percent for the entire run of Iron Man 3. In turn, AMC, Regal (where I worked at the time), and Cinemark all said they just weren't going to show it in their theaters. In the week before, Disney caved and all three chains showed the movie. A couple years later, I worked at a small theater chain that apparently built a theater too close to an AMC. A big feud broke out and our two theaters weren't allowed to have the same movies at the same time. Like, if we had a movie with any showtimes, they couldn't have that movie with any showtimes; not just we couldn't both show them at 7pm. This finally ended two years later when Disney gave us Star Wars and not them. Starting the next month, we were both allowed to show the same movies. AMC recently bought that theater so I'm not really sure who won that battle in the end.
2020-05-05 01:26:44 +0000 UTC
The price of a movie ticket... is too damn high!
2020-05-04 23:05:01 +0000 UTC
I think your right the theaters will definitely cave first, as far as supporting my local art house, it’s called Zotropolis in Lancaster pa it used to be amazing it was in a industrial park and had this super 60’s the village vibe, glass bottle Coke’s popcorn in the plain bag the seats where this mix of beanbag chairs old couches and actual stadium bleachers, then lady Gaga came in and dropped a ton of cash into it...they moved opened a brewpub as part of the theater and this super odd restroom that was one massive unisex place with no separated stalls or anything, it became very commercialized and started showing a lot less independent stuff..very sad.