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RedPixel posted...

I smuggle in delicious $2 Taco Bell burritos and laugh at everyone who spent $10 on candy

We only buy food from movie theaters as support for the theater, and we don't always. Spouse has been getting popcorn and a drink a bit more, but we don't go see movies a whole lot. A decent amount I guess, depends how much is coming out we really want to see?

Technically there's a reason food is so high priced though.

'When we pay our $10-$15 for our ticket and sit down in a packed theater with about 400 other people, its easy to imagine that the theater is making a killing. But the theater doesnt keep all of that money. Movie theaters, distributors, and studios make a variety of deals with each other, so there isnt one single set of numbers to use. On average, for the first few weeks that a movie is playing in a theater, 70% of the revenue will go to the distributor/studio and 30% will be kept by the movie theater. After those few weeks are over, the numbers will change, possibly switching to the reverse, where the theater keeps 70% and the distributor/studio keeps 30%. The problem, for the theaters, is that by the time they can actually start keeping most of the money, the audience has dramatically shrunken in size.'

We've actually been in showings that were just us less than a week after a film has come out. Sure, some of that has to do with timing, but it's so much different than when I was younger and no matter when you went there'd at least be some people for the entire run of a movie. Felt... weird.