Posted on 01/18/2018 6:43:18 AM PST by C19fan
The National Alliance of Theater Owners (NATO) announced Wednesday that the national ticket average for 2017 rose 3.7 percent year-over-year to $8.93, up from $8.65 last year.
At that average, the estimated number of movie tickets sold last year is 1.23 billion. While that is only a rough estimate that does not account for the higher ticket prices for premium formats and theaters in more expensive cities like New York and Los Angeles, NATO’s estimate is the lowest since 1993, when “Jurassic Park” was the top grossing film of the year and an estimated 1.24 billion tickets were sold.
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What’s a movie theatre?
It’s been almost 15 years since I went to a theater. I don’t miss it at all and I have no intentions of ever going again.
Lot’s of reasons for this, I think. Not the least of which is that Hollywood keeps rehashing the same things over and over again. Plus, many of us are tired of being lectured to by overpaid people who make a living in the world of make believe.
No plans to break that streak.
With better and better CGI, and all the technology available now, I would bet that we will start seeing more and more independent film makers competing in the marketplace.
aaaaaaaaand........online streaming.
I’ve been sick for a week with bronchitis. Watched 3 movies in the last 2 days from free sites.
Now that I have seen the trailer for Clint Eastwood’s new movie, I actually will go to a movie for the first time since American Sniper.
I would offer this observation...that the offerings are not comparable to twenty to thirty years ago. Looking at online streaming and the type of better quality shows on Netflix...why throw $10 for a ticket and $12 for popcorn and a Coke toward some marginal film? Looking over the past twelve months, I can only think of three films that I would have gone to (Dunkirk, Wonder Woman, and Darkest Hour).
The politicalization of Hollywood does play into this as well.
I wouldn’t go to 9 out of 10 movies if they were free.
Even if a large bucket of popcorn was a $1.
Here’s a hint: It ain’t the 4% increase in ticket prices...
Funny this should be posted today. Just last night I was scrolling through the Netflix catalogue and I was absolutely thunderstruck at the vast quantity of dreck out there. Hundreds, maybe thousands of movie titles, and it was all such a vast wasteland of garbage.
Today’s movies are filled with crude demeaning sexuality, overt leftist proselytizing, or both.
Yeah, kept your trash, “ya filthy animal”.
What a cool business plan: Produce terrible films, overpay loudmouth actors and raise prices. A certain economic success story in the making.
Yep. I haven't watched too many for free, but I have Netflix.
The last movie I remember seeing is The Ghost & the Darkness which was 1996, over 20 years ago. I was familiar with the story (actually happened) of the man-eating lions of Tsavo (Kenya-Uganda Railway from March through December 1898) & that’s the reason I went to see it, not because of the actors who were in it.
I watched movies that are in the theatres now.
The last time I was in a conventional movie theatre (December 2016), most of the coming attractions were for television and streaming programs. The movie industries problems may be mostly self inflicted
The movies are fine. The people are insufferable, so I watch at home.
I miss theaters when there were movies worth seeing in them and it didn’t cost a small fortune to get in. Those days are lonnnng gone. Today’s movies are loathesome.
Since Saving Private Ryan, I think I’ve been to one Independent Christian movie and a Dinesh’ D’Souza movie at a theatre.
I’m intrigued by 12 Hours. I have a friend who was there around that time.
Sounds like you're watching pirated films.
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