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Movie Theaters Dread Any Warner Bros. Merger, Fear “Tipping Point” Where Whole System “Crumbles”
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Raising a big eyebrow at the prospect of mega-corporate consolidation of movie theater venues collapsing in the face of mega-corporate consolidation of movie production companies.
I think it should say something that you can stream a thousand different movies at home for $20/mo, but you can't license a movie for public viewing at less than $300/day. The real big blockbusters can demand north of $2000/day, then demand 50% of the ticket price on top of the licensing fee. If you're wondering why you can't get into a theater for less than $20/ticket or why the old 3-5 screen cinemas all died out a decade ago, this is why.
It almost makes me wonder at the prospect of fully off-book unlicensed movie houses. How gangster to set up shop in an abandoned mall and host one-night screenings of pirated films on high end portable projectors? Maybe this already exists and I just don't know about it.
Students at my high school were doing that (with the science classrooms rather than in an abandoned mall) like ~20 years ago. They were watching fansubbed anime though, not Hollywood movies.
We were doing it in the late 80s at university. Showing a bunch of SF/F movies in a lecture hall on the weekend for five bucks. We made an absolute killing on the drinks and snacks, which we used to buy books for the SF/F club library.
The Keanu Reeves film club at NYU in the 90s was on the side of a building so people could throw garbage.