Are Movie Theaters Dying?

[Scatter]

If theatres all close, big buget movie production will cease as well.

Considering the product we're getting versus the expenditure, that seems like a bonus.

[Wolf Man]

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.

[Wolf Man]

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

[sixshooter]

Here's one Theatre thats not going to die. check out the filmography.

   http://loewsjersey.org/alt/

 
Lee

[MoreGore]

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.

[Hepcat]

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!

[Haunted hearse]

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!

Actually, I perfer them to a blank screen, or what ever pop song is randomly chosen.

[Hepcat]

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.

[Scatter]

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.

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!!

[Hepcat]

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!

[horrorhunter]

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!!

I'm with ya, brother! Gimme some Bugs Bunny jerking those two hillbillies around by squaredancing them to death over those hills! Now that's entertainment.

[Scatter]

You know it brother!!

[horrorhunter]

You know it brother!!

Yeah buddy. That's what I'm talkin' about! LMAO

[Hepcat]

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.

[Dr. Madd]

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.