Posted on 09/09/2017 2:52:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All the Raisinets in the world aren’t enough to sugarcoat this fact: In recent months, the Hollywood box office has been a disaster. In terms of attendance, Tinseltown just wrapped up its worst summer at the box office in nearly a quarter-century.
That means theaters now have to fight harder than ever to get butts in seats. “For a very long time, movie theaters were not overly focused on pleasing the consumer,” says Eric Handler, a media analyst at MKM Partners.
But in recent years, he says, theater owners have wised up to a novel idea: making the theater experience enjoyable beyond the screen.
First it was comfier seats, and now it’s all about tossing aside the stale popcorn for mouthwatering gourmet options. “Movie theaters are really stepping up to distinguish themselves from each other,” says Daniel Loria, editorial director of BoxOffice Media. “Every theater is building its identity.”
New boutique-style venues are offering everything from dine-in table service to full bars. That competition’s a good thing, says Loria, and it hints at a sustainable future. “So many theaters wouldn’t be opening if there were heavy clouds in the forecast,” he says....
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The wildest thing I saw at the movies was an idiot trying to take photos of the movie. The camera would flash every time the fool took the photo, wiping out the movie image. I finally went down and talked to him, being a professional photographer. The words went through his vacant mind and the flash photos continued until I went out to get the theater staff to expel him out of the theater. Does this not tell you the IQ level of some of the movie patrons that Hollywood is targeting with their Leftist propaganda?
So where’s the “pause” button?
I think you're on to something.
News production has been democratized, so may movie production. It's already started on a smaller scale through tiny YouTube productions and even series. If tiny independents can attain (at least close to) professional production values, the sky's the limit.
And it’s always the same movie, muzzie lovin homo defeats the racist Christians.
They might be able to seduce me if they’d tell their lib whack-job actors to STFU. That would be a start.
Just let in undocumented crowds to fill the seats. Free, of course, and throw in a gourmet meal.
What could go wrong with that business plan?
“So where’s the “pause” button?”
With the urinal and hospital privacy curtain.
Act of Valor was shot on a Canon 5d Mark 2, a camera which at the time sold for maybe $2,000 —a little more.
That’s the way it’s going to keep going.
More importantly the movies’ underlying value set is not going to seem as if it came from another planet.
I loathe ISIS and the rest but when they THINK they hate America and all “our” disgusting values..?
There is a part of my which really does understand WHY.
I’d rather the theaters not sell booze. It’s just against their rules if you bring it in and they don’t serve it but if they’ve got a permit for alcohol you’d be breaking the law. If you bring something you’d still need a mixer and the markup is much better on a nickel’s worth of soda syrup than on a bottle of booze.
2-3 hours at a theater (including seating time before the movie, previews, etc) can get to be expensive sitting in those seats if you are buying beers or something higher on the shelf.
Booze, great. As if moviegoers aren’t obnoxious enough already.
Our local theater, before it closed years ago, had a “cry room” for infants.
Interesting thing. Some woman’s child started crying, so she took it to the “Cry Room” where some other women, already there, threw a tantrum because the crying child woke up their kids sleeping in the Cry Room.
Sounds like noisy movie going to me.
>Not much the theater owners can do about that.
Book other films. If that means independent films, foreign films, revival films
When a filmmaker or filmstar dies there are people who love their work and some may own it on home video (but don't have as large a screen or sound system and don't get that full audience shared experience) and then there are those who never saw their work (or their big work) - either 'put it off'/'got passed by' or were too young the first time around.
There are other reasons for doing revival showings. The films remain popular (and are cheaper to book).
Before home video, numerous films (beyond just the disney cartoons) would get periodically rereleased (and not just for their 50th anniversary).
If you are willing to sit through a hollyweird movie without booze you are a better man than me. I get 3/4th through and call an uber. That is for dates. When it is just me and the wife we watch the preview and laugh. That isnt going to make book. (I don’t date)
I used to go to that place in the eighties. Didn’t know it was still around.
Only one thing seduces me...and it isn’t a movie, gourmet food or drink.
They should include free wi-fi and charging ports for laptops or phones, so folks can keep amused during the movie.
Haven’t been able to smoke anything in theaters in decades. Fire code.
I had the same experience. Went with a group, saw the last star Wars movie in that venue.
An interesting experience but way too expensive. Would not do it again.
get rid of the obnoxiously opinionated grievance-industry-promoting actors and movie receipts might, just might, increase.
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