sayers
join:2003-01-11
Dexter, MO
| reply to averagedude
Re: Scare Tactics
Because the movie theaters make 95% of their money of popcorn, soda, and candy sales. They make VERY little of showing a movie, that's why the price for refreshments is stupidly high. Allowing people to buy a movie the day it was released would be nice, but would put theaters out of business. |
|
Cyron
join:2002-09-24
Charlotte, NC
| If the movie theater doesn't offer an experience that will keep the seats filled, they should be closed down. My Home Theater system is better than my local theater's.
The reason they're not releasing movie's for sale at the same time, is they lose the ability to charge people multiple times for the same movie. Now, they get $8-$12 (per person) for the movie ticket, $3-$6 for people to watch it on pay-per-view before it comes out on DVD, and either $2-$5 bucks for a rental, or $15-$20 to sell, then an additional $15-$25 for the special, extendid, unrated, director's cut (with the 3 minutes of additional footage).
As long as Movie Theaters are making so much money, they will never change their model. Let's not forget, Box Office records have once again been broken this year. It will be interesting to see if they start to drop after filing lawsuits. |
|
Derek_Wildstar
Why the fck is Shane walking in there?
join:2001-02-24
Iscandar
| reply to sayers
said by sayers  :Because the movie theaters make 95% of their money of popcorn, soda, and candy sales. They make VERY little of showing a movie, that's why the price for refreshments is stupidly high. Allowing people to buy a movie the day it was released would be nice, but would put theaters out of business. Furthermore, the studio's profit margin is WAY higher on theatrical releases than on home video sales, and always will be. Studios only release a movie to home video once the revenue stream from the theaters dries up.
--
I use conjecture and hearsay. Those are kinds of evidence. - Lionel Hutz
All hail the Hypnotoad! |
|
