>Of the 240 executives polled, 55 percent believe that the “traditional movie-going” experience will no longer be a viable business model sometime within the next two decades. Interestingly, it was the executives working in sales, distribution and production who held the most pessimistic views on cinema’s future. Those working in theatrical exhibition, such as cinema operators, were generally more optimistic. Worryingly, though, executives who work solely in theatrical exhibition were the largest proportion of voters to state that their side of the business would last ‘under five years.’

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/traditional-cinema-experience-will-no-longer-viable-by-2045-says-industry/

I saw an 85in tv for under $600 the other day (they’ll only get cheaper). A movie I saw opening weekend was on VOD two weeks later. I have a huge backlog of movies and shows (and books and games) to keep me entertained for ages.

But it’s all about the magic da big squreen

>>211989908
That's nice, but there's nothing like proper audience reactions. It improves films.

>>211989854 (OP)
It’s about sitting in a dark room with people with no at home no distractions and having a shared experience. Watching movies at home will never be the same. Someone knocks on the door, someone texts, the laundry machine is going, the dog starts barking at something, other people walk by, there’s a million distractions at home and your little 60 inch Tv with shitty “surround sound” will never be better than a 30 foot screen with bass that makes the seats rumble.

>>211990627
What if i'm not a faggot?

>>211990641
This. It's too bad they outlawed smoking in theaters, it really added something. I saw Ghostbusters in 1984 and one thing I recall from the showing was all the smoke. That enhanced the atmosphere of the entire thing. Spooky scenes welcome fog. New York City back in the early 80s (and now) was a smokey shithole, so it works.

>>211990641
I feel like shit every time I stop watching a movie to check my phone for some bullshit. In the theaters there’s no distractions.

>>211990641
Based

>>211990627
You could feel the collective arousal in the room when cheelai stretched out her armour.

>>211990641
Put your phone in another room if it’s that addicting lmao

>>211990627
Ive never felt a movie was improved with an audience. they only serve to annoy if theyre doing anything other than zipping their lips and watching the movie, or sleeping
>>211990911
youre one lucky duck if youve never had distractions in a theater

>>211989854 (OP)
In 2000s:
- Release kino in cheap cinema.
- After 6 months, blockbuster (DVD).
- After 12 months, cable tv.
- After 24 months, open tv.
- After 48 months, fucking collector's edition.
- No internet to compete.

IN 2010:
- Release flick in cinema, with lame 3D for cashgrab.
- After 6 months, release it in Netflix for cheap.
- Piracy goes to lowest levels ever (but you can still buy that Bluray for cheap).

IN 2025:
- Release ESG-DEI slop in expensive cinema after covid.
- After 3-4 weeks, release it in one of multiple streaming services.
- BDs are dying, some shows will never see a physical copy.
- Internet is the new tv.
- Normies got mad, non-retards pirate again.

2045? REALLY?
SHIT IS ALREADY DEAD IN 2025.

>>211990641
Basically this. Its the THEATER experience (big screen, 7.1 sound, good chair, no distraction).
However, zoomers dont see it and gen alpha is lost. 300.000.000 budget movies will cease in the future: it will be 25-50 million slops made by netflix commite and animated by pajeets.

Future is grim.

>>211989854 (OP)
not like they're producing anything worth going to the cinema for anyways

>>211989854 (OP)
If they banned brown people sales would triple instantly.

>Dan Cooper

>>211990627
>trust me bro the Venezuelan guy loudly talking to his baby momma during the climax really improves the movie experience
Shut your goofy ass up.

>>211989854 (OP)
>Of the 240 executives polled
Well there's your problem. If studios made films people wanted to see and made them for less than 100 million then maybe they could actually turn a profit. Even with the Jew accounting.

>>211991207
>Ive never felt a movie was improved with an audience.
Sounds like your movie-luck sucks.

>>211992033
-t. sees movies in the ghetto

>>211989854 (OP)
i really think they fucked up pushing that minecraft movie shit so hard with crazed zoomers going nuts and trashing the place
as usual hollywood studios pushing short term gains over the health of the industry
maybe it sold more tickets for minecraft by making it a zoomer cultural event but it also made boomers and normies see the cinema as somewhere they might get hassled full of screaming teenagers throwing food and filming tiktoks
fucking morons

>>211992111
>Jew accounting.
Can you believe that Lucasfilm (or is it 20th Century Fox?) claims Return of the Jedi never went into profits, so that's why David Prowse got no royalties for it?

>>211989854 (OP)
It can be a viable model if they let the theaters to show classic movies. Not the modern slop.

>Thing
>Good
>+People
>Bad
Theaters were always shit

>>211992175
>but it also made boomers and normies see the cinema as somewhere they might get hassled full of screaming teenagers throwing food and filming tiktoks

That is true. I seriously did avoid the cinema for that specific reason. Fuck if I won't avoid becoming a pawn for a soulless zoomer on video for Internet clout/$$$$(that I would never see).

>>211989854 (OP)
Theaters are fucking dead the very second MicroLED walls hit commodity prices.

>>211989854 (OP)
>play classical music in the lobby and outside the theater
There, I just vastly improved your theater-going experience for pennies. Lunchtime rowdies *hate* classical music, it's like kryptonite to them
>>211992146
The world is a ghetto
https://youtu.be/F65OR2md78E

>>211990641
This
/thread

>>211989854 (OP)
might help if they started making good movies again

>>211991384
I've been pirating all this time. I think the last time I went to the movies must have been before 2010.

>>211989854 (OP)
AI will decimate the whore movie industry. We'll be able to generate whole KINOs. Fuck Actors. Fuck Filmmakers. Fuck Hollywood.

Gentlemen, we have no choice but to bring back ... BANK NIGHT!

>>211992218
They do though, this year alone I've seen:

>Zodiac
>Se7en
>Gone Girl
>The Social Network
>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
>Pretty Woman
>Casablanca
>The Big Lebowski
>Erin Brockovich
>John Wick
>Terminator 2: Judgment Day
>Bad Boys
>Inception
>Babe
>Final Destination
>The Grand Budapest Hotel
>28 Days Later
>28 Weeks Later

And tickets for all of them were only £5, though I paid nothing because Cineworld do a membership for £16.99 a month which allows you to see as many films as you want for free. I've seen 100 films so far this year and paid £101.94, so just over a quid per film. Every chain is doing something like this and it's absurd that more people aren't taking advantage of it while you still can.

>>211990627
unless it's rocky horror, troll 2 or the room, every other movie is better without a fellow audience

>>211993422
STAR WARS (1977) is way better with an audience.
Tremors is practically saved by it.

>demand for theaters goes down
>"should we offer better prices Mr Shekelbergestein?"
>NO, MAKE EVERYTHING MORE EXPENSIVE
Why are theaters dying? It's a real mystery

>>211992175
this

>>211989854 (OP)
>will no longer viable

>>211989854 (OP)
maybe if you didnt sell tickets to the spic family with 2 crying babies that magically shows up to every single midnight movie

Which decade do you think retro-theaters will mimic when the business only exists as a tourist novelty? Personally I bet they'll go for the neon megaplex look from the 90s

>>211989854 (OP)
And the reson will be the lack of quality movies worth watching.
Of course they will blame streaming though.

>>211989854 (OP)
Look at how it is now

>wait until a specific time for the film you want to see to show
>pay exorbitant ticket price
>might even have to pay for parking
>exorbitant snack prices
>10 minutes of ads before the flick even starts
>crying baby, people on their phones, yammering nogs

Or you can wait like 2 weeks to a month and watch it in the comfort of your own home on a plethora of different streaming services. At some point every movie is going to have a simultaneous online and in theater release. Only the diehard fans of the theater experience will go. Everyone else will chill at home and enjoy it how they want with no distractions. You cannot compete with the ability to pause the film and go take a piss, get food, make a call or anything else you need to do. Convenience is king, and theaters are no longer convenient. They'll go the way of the drive-in

>>211989854 (OP)
Going to the theaters to watch a new movie is no longer a must see event, you are no longer excluded from the conversation, given how much competition for entertainment exists, the lifespan of movies in the audience is super short now, remember the chicken jockey shit? That was only 2 months ago but it feels like an eternity, given all the shit that keeps coming out.

>>211989854 (OP)
I feel bad for the theater chains. It's not their fault Hollywood went insane with DEI, commie union strikes from activist hacks, IP/sequel obsession and then they bowed down to the corpo/techbro streaming takeover.
Hollywood is relentlessly retarded and did this to themselves. They should've just kept buying spec scripts from white guys like the 90s.

>come up with new technology to disrupt an industry
>make it cheap as shit so people actually use it
>successfully disrupt industry
>try to increase prices
>no one wants to put up with it anymore
>both industries die
lmao @ hollywood
hope those short term streamingslop bux were worth it

>>211989854 (OP)
maybe people are finally wising up that they shouldn't go pay money for a movie that will turn out to be corporate committee trash.
also TVs are big now, we aint on a 27" shitbox anymore.

>>211990627
i imagine in the future you can go watch a movie with people in VR. who knows maybe people will be sober enough to watch a whole movie without disrupting it.

>>211989854 (OP)
>the “traditional movie-going” experience will no longer be a viable business model sometime within the next two decades.

I haven't been to a theater since 2003. Why would I, when home viewing is better in every regard except screen size and that is only a benefit if you're right in the middle of the theater.

>>211990627
Like most things, this is no longer the case in truly multicultural nations.

>>211989854 (OP)
Good, I was tired of all the normie Hollywood shit with Marxist propaganda and fag tolerance in it. Let Hollywood die, it was infested with commies and jews anyway. No more indoctrination on the gentile Christians of America.

>>211996301
Streaming isn't dying you fucking mongrel

Theaters are doing fine in the rest of the world, especially in China/Japan/Korea/etc.. Even during the Iran-Israel war there were videos of Tel Aviv theaters being more packed than you'd see in a downtown LA theater for Mission Impossible Final Reckoning (Tom Cruise is a popular draw over there).

US theaters are in the shitter because:

1.) Lack of audience interest in movies being released

2.) The massive cost of going to the theater, getting snacks, etc.. If you're a family of 4 it will cost you over $100, for a mediocre to shitty movie no less. This really isn't the case in the rest of the world where things are more affordable.

3.) Social disorder and crime. US theaters are full of nigs and muslims and mehecan migrants causing a mess, attacking people, screaming, getting into fights, etc..

4.) American millennials/zoomies are just conditioned to sit inside their prefabricated chinese plywood houses all day and browse tiktok/youtube shorts on their phones and not go outside anymore. They simply don't care about anything else. Americans of this demographic don't work, play sports, have relationships, anything. It's just tiktok and youtube shorts while living off their parents or government benefits.

>>211989854 (OP)
>100" MiniLED
>7.1 surround sound
>24TB HDD
>Leather theater recliners
My kids are never impressed by a theater unless it's IMAX

>>211997044
It absolutely is. They're speedrunning the same shit that killed cable.

>>211989854 (OP)
>dude, in le twenty years, everything will look different
Yes?

>>211996999
Trips confirm.
I genuinely enjoy going to the movies but the lack of good movies and the fact that loud shitskins show up with their children makes it an unbearable experience.

>comfy chair instead of shitty bucket seat someone probably pissed on
>make good food instead of 12 dollar popcorn
>no shitheads on their phones
>no niggers who never shut the fuck up
>no shared germs from everywhere
>no 35 trailers for garbage I don’t care about
theaters should die

It would already gone in many countries if it wasn't for subsidization. I don't know why boomers are so obsessed with saving it when they never go to see a movie themselves

>>211996251
This is the crux of the problem, Hollywood blasted their own foot off pumping out garbage.
Theaters nickel and diming is a reaction to try to stay alive but like chemo the solution is killing the patient

>>211996251
they drove all the funny jews out. the only ones who stay are the ones who want to free palestine. those are some of the least funny and talented people on the planet.
reminder hollywood was fucking based when JEWS ran hollywood, not the shareholders and activists.

>>211989908
Television might be the only thing who get cheaper year after year
Yeah I know it's because they make more by selling your data (fuck smart tv, I hate those piece of shit) but still

>>211999026
>comfy chair instead of shitty bucket seat someone probably pissed on
Pay 25 dollars for a real theater, not the Ghetto Silver 8
>make good food instead of 12 dollar popcorn
Go to the basement of the Alamo
>no shitheads on their phones
See above
>no niggers who never shut the fuck up
See above x2
>no shared germs from everywhere
lmao. Masked germ neurotic. Bring your hand sanitizer and N95
>no 35 trailers for garbage I don’t care about
Just show up on time

>>211990806
>You will never watch taxi driver in theater while smoking cig after cig

>>211989854 (OP)
Nowadays I only go when they're showing old movies. I saw the LOTR trilogy in theaters awhile back. Some other movies I recently saw in theaters include the Mummy with Brandon Frasier, Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust, the 90s Batman movies, the Christian Bale Batman movies, etc etc.

>>212000095
See?

>>211989854 (OP)
sad but inevitable, hopefully movies are still made despite the theatrical exhibition being more of a niche thing. i just think cinema is too important to disappear

>>211990641
i can watch without checking my phone if it's a really good movie. the problem i have is i'll often need a wank break
>>211990806
god i miss smoking inside. fucking heatwave in NYC right now and it's been disgusting dragging my ass outside to smoke. here's the kicker my parents are both cancer doctors i know whats awaiting me i think i just have a death wish

>>212000611
Boomers and Gen X will keep specialty theatres [sic] going for quite some time, but I can see most theaters closing up shop in 20 years or less.

>>212000667
>god i miss smoking inside.
Yeah same. Banning it made all the coolest people revert back to their lairs. Seriously, once the ban was enacted, everyone said the same thing:
>Where'd all the cool people go?
Home! To their own bars. That's what a lot of Boomers are doing, not sure about Gen X or Millies.

>here's the kicker my parents are both cancer doctors i know whats awaiting me i think i just have a death wish
Just quit. I quit easy. I still smoke pot, but cigs? Quitting those was piss easy.

>>211996251
fucking sad always thought i'd finally make it a a director. have no idea what i'm going to do now
>>212000095
fuck that sounds awesome
>>212000676
yeah i agree with that sentiment
>>212000717
can't smoke in my place it's a rental. pretty sure you can't smoke in most buildings here anymore. i know quitting is easy but i like how thin they keep me and the way it feels

>>212000790
>can't smoke in my place it's a rental. pretty sure you can't smoke in most buildings here anymore

This is why I'm building my own theater and not some small room with a screen and some speakers, I'm talking about dedicating an entire basement space for a theater. I'm gonna help keep the theatre flame alive. After every film, I will make a note of what played.
There will always be my theatre (in the near future) that will allow smoking and drinking (withing reason). I'm serious. Even got arcade games to that part will be easy.

>>211989854 (OP)
>non-scalping concessions with commensurate quality
>classic film rotation (membership fee to filter apes)
>no assigned ticket seating bullshit
>with membership, no charge after entering-- make your own double feature.
>only non-trash contemporary films
>physically remove disruptive patrons without refunds AND BAN

Stop catering to the masses' capeshit slop. Have 'night-matinees' for people getting off work dodging traffic. Price out the riffraff 'youths'.

>>212000939
best of luck mate, invite me over when it's done. i'm currently eyeing property in manhattan so will never have a basement man cave

>>211989854 (OP)
>movie tickets cost like 3x more than they did 15 years ago
>"Why is no one going to the movies?"

>>212001259
Once it's done, so long as you're clean and not a psycho, you're invited.
Here's the kind of music that would play before showtime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7F3FoCgFvU&ab_channel=OfficialYngwieMalmsteen

This will happen because I don't update my car or shoes;etc, I don't care about that stuff. Thanks for the luck!

>>212001403
i'm clean and normal aside from the occasional line of cocaine on a night out. very kino man, good talking going to go to bed

>>211990911
Just put your phone on silent and leave it in another room
First world problems

>seating all "reserved"
>need to buy tickets online to get decent seats
>choose seats with worlds shittiest UI
>matinee for two people $25+ after bullshit "fees" and taxes
>nobody at the ticket booth/checker line
>they're trying to help some geriatric couple use the digital self-ticketing kiosk (only option available)
>get in
>see popcorn prices
>lol no
>get drink
>have to fill it myself at a "customizable" drink station kids have been slapping their hands all over
>grab lid and straw from dispensers
>closest counter 20ft away
>walk to counter to put lid on the flimsiest cup $9 could buy
>get in theater
>some jackass sitting in one of our seats like it hasn't been assigned seats for 15 years
>always one lonely guy, always
>sit in pleather monstrosity
>not cloth anymore
>needs to be something that can be hosed down
>as it's now rude to expect people to practice basic hygiene in public spaces
>start time hits
>10+ minutes of pure ads
>15 minutes of trailers i saw on youtube a month ago
>wait for lights to finally go down
>that dumb bitch up front needs to put the phone down
>two rows of ceiling lights slightly dim
>literally brighter than next to the soda machines
>movie STARTS starts
>perfect sound quality for everything
>except the dialogue
>like that shit is coming from an 8-track in a van down the street
>room randomly brightens for next 20 minutes
>as 10+ late people trickle in
>try to ignore their stupid faces
>nearly impossible
>because for some fucking reason every theater has the entrance aisle a quarter of the room away from the screen
>movie finally ends
>wasn't even that good
>but seemed oddly familiar
>look it up
>it's a remake (or "heavily inspired by") of a foreign movie i saw five years ago
That's about HALF of the shitty events that is the average modern theater experience. I go maybe once a year and every time, for over a decade, it just serves as a reminder that it's gone to shit.

>>211999026
i miss the movie trailers on dvds.......

>>212000611
All theatrical screenings will probably become like they are for art/foreign/experimental films now: A smallish room in a museum with stacking chairs set out. (but no one talks/plays with their phone)
>>212000667
>>212000717
>god i miss smoking inside
It SUCKS. God I miss lighting up in the smoking section of IHOP/Dennys after a night of bars/clubs and just shooting the shit over coffee and eggs. IDK, but there's a *lot* of great artists that smoked and drank like crazy, and very few who were teetotalers.

>>211996999
>diversity is great because you'll disagree with people you don't like more often!
How did they sell this to entire countries?

>>211989854 (OP)
>2045
That sounds extremely optimistic

>>211992146
Unfortunately niggers love going to public events outside of the ghetto

>>212001653
>IDK, but there's a *lot* of great artists that smoked and drank like crazy, and very few who were teetotalers.
i frankly don't know how to get through the day with all the shit running thru my head. being a drunk has ironically probably saved my life as it stops me from wanting to an hero. smoking is just amazing. both also get me laid. i think all artists have a death wish tbqh

>>211995928
>>211999026
>>212001614
The movie going experience would be immensely improved if they had bouncers who you could call with a button on the back of the seats to manhandle teenagers on their phones. Or a button to call ICE

>>212001833
>Or a button to call ICE
I don't see a lot of field hands, destitute single mothers, or terminally ill children at the theater, so I don't think ICE would show up.

imagine taking advice on anything today from someone in 2005... kek

>>212002027
Why would you think ICE cares about those people?

>>212001591
Sleep well. Dream of being the star of your own cinematic adventure.

>>212002194
>Why would you think ICE cares about those people?
Is there another category they pursue*?

*not saying "arrest" because that could imply some icky legal issues, like due process

>>211989854 (OP)
20 more years of this oh my god

>>211989854 (OP)
Shoulda just let us throw the popcorn janjan now into the gutter with you

>>211989854 (OP)
Literally reduce the price for tickets and popcorn (I know wild concept but charging less means you make more) and enforce strict rules about quiet and noise. Kick the uhh common suspects out when they make noise

>>212002341
Just enforce those strict rules (AND NO FUCKING GLOWING SCREENS MOTHERFUCKKKKERS) and I'd be happy to pay the same monumental refreshment prices.

>>212002259
A very specific one, anon.
Are you sure you're happy to be on this website? The door's right there.

>>212001653
>It SUCKS. God I miss lighting up in the smoking section of IHOP/Dennys after a night of bars/clubs and just shooting the shit over coffee and eggs. IDK, but there's a *lot* of great artists that smoked and drank like crazy, and very few who were teetotalers.
I don't advise anyone to smoke cigs, but nicotine is known to boost IQ by a few points, so with that in mind,....

>>212002507
>The door's right there.
websites don't have doors

>>212002651
The X on your tab is right there.

>>211989854 (OP)
Maybe people would show up in theaters if every fucking movie wasn't a three hour snoozefest

>>212001614
Enjoy the magic of teh movies :D

>>212001653
>why don't they let me stink up the room for everyone else

>>212001614
Sales taxes are such bullshit

>>212002713
>The X on your tab
tabs usually have two circles, Xs wouldn't be structurally sound enough to consistently open the cans

>>211990627
>>211992116
>>211992146
>>211990641
>>212002915
hi reddo

>>212003116
>

>>211993357
Really shit marketing. At my cinema, rereleases were always packed.

>>211989854 (OP)
My small town of ~30,000 lost both their theaters; the first one closed around 2011 and the last one shut its doors a few months ago. Haven't seen a movie there in over a decade since I saw Toy Story 3 and The Hobbit with some friends but it bums me the fuck out.

>>212003462
You're not missing much
You should have BBQ with your friends instead

>>211989854 (OP)
>within the next two decades

lol try five years