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A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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Movie theatres make almost nothing from ticket sales. They have to pay a huge lump sum (upwards of $100,000) up front just to be able to get the movie and show it for a month. Often they simply lose money on it! So the crazy price of snacks is an attempt to recoup their investment faster and hope to get some profit.
The other model is for the theatre to simply pay 95% of ticket sales to the movie studio for the first week (and a bit less as the weeks go on). This essentially guarantees the theatre loses money on the film (due to all the other overhead that easily eat up that 5%) but it’s less risky if the film is a failure. Either way, they only make money on food!
So they need another revenue stream. If i am forced to pay high tickey proces and high snack prices, im going to wait for the film to come out on a streaming platform and watch it then.
Lots of people do the same. Its the reason most films ive been tonsee recently are in empty cinemas where i basivally get a private screening.
The industry at large is failing and has been for a while.
Personally I like going to see movies in a theater. I even run a little movie group. We go out and talk over food , then hit up a movie. It's a nice night out. I don't want to see them go away entirely. The theater I go to is independent and the people who run it are cool. They gave my group a free tour of the projection area where they not only have new projectors but some old equipment they preserved. Fun fact: the bulbs got so hot that they could be dangerous and a special leather vest was worn whenever they worked on the projector in case it exploded.
The group only goes on Tuesday nights because the movie is $5.00. so yeah, in a time when everything is so expensive it feels like you can't do anything, I understand to complaints. Tipping is like that too. It's gotten out of hand.
But honestly, this is nothing new. I'm pretty old and it's been this way for as long as I can remember. But calling the cops? Come on! The stupid thing is, movie theaters survive mostly on regulars like me and that woman. She'll probably never go back there again. So they're just shooting themselves in the foot.
$5 movies? Where is this, I'll be there right away. (most of the cinemas in my country start at like $10 USD per ticket...)
Yeah, it's only on Tuesdays. Must be their slowest night or something. Wednesday also has $5.00 classic movies, stuff like Jaws and The Shining and that even comes with a free small popcorn. Pretty cool. I really like that place.
It's in central Florida. I know ...Florida. who da' thought?