All right, I've waited long enough. I'm going to share something I've observed while attending multiplex movie theaters (as if they still have the single screen versions anymore):
From what I can assume, the studios (and the actors) get their royalties and profits based on the sale of tickets. So, the multiplex theater has to have a different ticket for each movie they're showing.
BUT (at least from what I've seen) the usher who takes the ticket doesn't seem to care if you go into a DIFFERENT sub-theater after you give him/her your ticket. So, for example, I bought a ticket for "The Two Towers" but found it to be awful (please no flames) so I left and went to the sub-theater that was showing Star Trek Nemesis
In other words, I saw Star Trek but the studio never benefited from my attendance. Is this a big problem for studios, I wonder??
Some will pay for a smaller Fox film while seeing a new Star Wars film so as to help it's box office take instead of the Star Wars take. Some will even cross studio lines.
For me, I can't stand to watch anything with beady eyed Alec Balwdin anymore so buying his movies "used", watching them on cable, etc. doesn't help. I liked The Shadow and Miami Blues but have zero interest in ever seeing these movies again. Watch Miami Blues knowing what we know of Alec and his creepy persona will cross the line; he is slimy.
I have a very low threshold for Tim Robbins. I can still watch Tapeheads but I don't enjoy it like I once did. I caught part of Arlington Road on cable but it was more like watching a car wreck; uber leftist Tim (Susan Saradon's adopted sonspouse) plays a right wing wacko terrorist in that one.