JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL
| Regal and AMC will fight to their last breath.
Movie theatres make the vast majority of their money off food not movies. How do I know? I worked for Amc theatres as manager for 7 plus years. Food profit is constant but movie profit depends on how long a movie runs and the percentage you negotiated to keep with movie companies. Movies start of usually 90-10. 90% of gross going to movie company and 10 going to movie theatre. If it is a huge blockbuster it might even start off 95-5 and as the week pass it goes down 85-15,80-20 and so on. So it take a while before movie theatre get the majority that comes thru the gate. Every week movie plays it gets better for movie theatres, problem is that movies don't last that long in theatres anymore unless they are blockbusters.
I can tell you that movie theatres will fight this to their last breath since if people stay home to watch the next Batman or Spiderman they will get hit twice, oce when less people go to movies and again with less money off concessions. Movie companies on the other hand would still make their money since they would most likely take 90-95% of fund made from showing on cable or dish.
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Movie theatres make the vast majority of their money off food not movies.
This is not our problem. The movie industry is not hurting, period. If they're paying too much for the films themselves, they need to negotiate better rates.
Ticket and concession prices are absurd. The quality of service you get for that top dollar is lacking. That's why I no longer go to the threater. I say bring on the competition from Comcast. Then maybe prices will come down to earth and I'll actually be able to enjoy the theater again.
-- Rob
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