$15 for a movie now????

[Ns1]

Oh, I know. K1052 (family) owns a chain of theaters. I think these two look at different books.

I remember asking him if he hated me for theater hopping. He was like, "Nah, we don't make anything on ticket sales, anyway. As long as you buy a coke, it's cool."

EDIT: it could be that what NS21 is seeing is 50% return from the theater. I'm pretty sure that if that's true, then maybe 80-90% of the theater's take goes into the cost of running these flicks. I'm not sure if the studio's take includes the delivery and showing fee that they charge to the theater--those big-ass film canisters are expensive as hell to ship and show for weeks at a time--or if that is pure profit. Otherwise, that would go into the theater take as well.

I think the main point is that the theater actually profits maybe $0.25 from a $10.00 ticket, as so much goes into cost. This is why they are constantly pushing concessions.

from the studio standpoint, out of every $1 in box office revenues the studios see .50c in revenue.

also: we're out of the stone age now. films to modern theaters are transported via internet.

 

[zinfamous]

from the studio standpoint, out of every $1 in box office revenues the studios see .50c in revenue.

also: we're out of the stone age now. films to modern theaters are transported via internet.

I was under the impression that digital transfer was still some time off?

...though I guess that would explain why these are so prevalent over torrents and other thievery sites these days...

 

[K1052]

from the studio standpoint, out of every $1 in box office revenues the studios see .50c in revenue.

also: we're out of the stone age now. films to modern theaters are transported via internet.

Of course variable on the film/run/deal that a particular studio has with a particular exhibitor. 50-65% rental cost to the chain is a fairly consistent range for the most part. As far a zinfamous doing a little theater hopping I'm sure he compensates the circuit in question with quite a bit of extra spend at the concession stand.

Is anyone actually doing internet file delivery on a large scale? As long as it's been talked about studios have seemed extremely hesitant to embrace it.

 

[GoPackGo]

If the MPAA had their way the only way you would be able to see a movie is in the theaters.

 

[K1052]

If the MPAA had their way the only way you would be able to see a movie is in the theaters.

If you knew about the vast sums of money they made from DVD sales you'd know that wasn't true. All kinds of marginal films were green lit under the assumption that even if it didn't make money theatrically they would end up well into the black from DVD sales.

But times changed more quickly than the studios are able to cope with which has hamstrung digital distribution and the profits are of course much less generous. A mature industry got a huge shot in the arm for a number of years and they've been fiending like heroin addicts to get it back somehow (reducing theatrical windows, early PPV, wars with Netflix, etc...) though I don't think any of it will actually work to any large degree.