A movie theater would go out of business these days booking the same movie for a solid year.
You’d have to tear down the megaplexes and reverse back to having a handful of screens in a town.
And they’d have to be movies that you are willing to pay to go back to again and again.
Then there is the whole digital download theft issue.
People have vast purchased movie libraries at home as well as netflix, youtube, hulu, et al to rent by mail or stream content. 300 cable channels. Internet sites to read. Kindles and hardcopy books to read. Videogames to play.
Too diluted a marketplace.
It is a diluted market.
I for one miss the big screen and when movies were a social event.
The big multiplex’s will have the hardest time of it. The survivors will be a) the big IMAX 3D big spectaculars not co-located with megaplexes and b)the very small operators using cheaper movies to supplement a bar and restaurant.