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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #60 on: May 28, 2012, 06:14:48 PM »
If theatres all close, big buget movie production will cease as well.

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Considering the product we're getting versus the expenditure, that seems like a bonus.
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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #61 on: May 28, 2012, 07:04:46 PM »
I personally think they should go back to the lower budget studio format of making movies anyway.  They can re-use sets, costumes, and props over and over again.  Use contract players for the actors, and contract directors, writers and every other crew positions.  They should work hard to find every way to shave dollars off the production cost.  And, or, give more opportunities to the low budget independants.  As I predicted, that would mean those super mega high paid actors would be dinosaurs and extinct.
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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #62 on: June 04, 2012, 12:21:42 PM »
This article recently came across the Internet about the dying Drive In Theaters.  It is very interesting and has some good nostalgic videos.  Check it out. 

Click here: Vanishing America: The Drive-In Theater | Gadling.com
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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #63 on: June 04, 2012, 02:46:19 PM »
Here's one Theatre thats not going to die. check out the filmography.

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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #64 on: June 06, 2012, 03:17:08 AM »
This article recently came across the Internet about the dying Drive In Theaters.  It is very interesting and has some good nostalgic videos.  Check it out. 

Click here: Vanishing America: The Drive-In Theater | Gadling.com



Drive In Theater have been hurting for a long time now sadly. There is a real nice one in Ennis Texas outside of Dallas, I saw horror movie fest there 4 years ago it was great! Food is well priced reasonable.

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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #65 on: June 06, 2012, 10:37:34 AM »
A recent development that I find grating in theatres is the "People" magazine type movie star promo loop that is now shown before the starting time of the scheduled movie. I'm not referring to the trailers for Coming Attractions but the loop shown beforehand. Pleeeaseeee! I don't give a damn about movie stars and I don't want to sit through an exposition about Hollywood films and the actors!

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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #66 on: June 06, 2012, 02:53:09 PM »
A recent development that I find grating in theatres is the "People" magazine type movie star promo loop that is now shown before the starting time of the scheduled movie. I'm not referring to the trailers for Coming Attractions but the loop shown beforehand. Pleeeaseeee! I don't give a damn about movie stars and I don't want to sit through an exposition about Hollywood films and the actors!

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Actually, I perfer them to a blank screen, or what ever pop song is randomly chosen.
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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #67 on: June 06, 2012, 03:19:20 PM »
I'd prefer newsreels but that's as likely as a cold day in hell. The Hollywood Studios of course prefer to promote their own.

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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #68 on: June 06, 2012, 03:26:25 PM »
I'd prefer newsreels but that's as likely as a cold day in hell. The Hollywood Studios of course prefer to promote their own.

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Newsreels?? Nah. I go to the movies to get away from that stuff. In the 30s and 40s they didn't have the information overload we deal with, and newsreels made sense. But classic CARTOONS?? I'm IN!!
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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #69 on: June 06, 2012, 04:25:29 PM »
Classic cartoons shown half an hour before the feature's starting time would be a smart idea for theater owners. If people arrived early to watch the cartoons, they'd have more time, and inclination, to hit the concession stand!

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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #70 on: June 06, 2012, 04:53:53 PM »
Newsreels?? Nah. I go to the movies to get away from that stuff. In the 30s and 40s they didn't have the information overload we deal with, and newsreels made sense. But classic CARTOONS?? I'm IN!!
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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #71 on: June 06, 2012, 05:01:13 PM »
You know it brother!!

 
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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #72 on: June 06, 2012, 06:45:17 PM »
You know it brother!!

 

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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #73 on: December 04, 2013, 11:48:53 AM »
I just found this picture of the Victoria Theatre of London, Ontario circa 1956 or so:



It was a classic grindhouse! It was the theatre where I saw Horror of Party Beach among other flicks.

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Re: Are Movie Theaters Dying?
« Reply #74 on: December 04, 2013, 12:22:29 PM »
Does anyone remember field of dreams? We need to be the ones to keep the theatres alive. If we use digital screens, they need to learn to make the movies look more like the old films, to keep alive the nostalgia.
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