Do Movies Make Less Money Now?

[*michaelsean*]

(11-15-2018, 11:18 AM)Au165 Wrote: Right, because nostalgia as I said (and Star Wars). As I also said it's the reason why drive in theaters have died off for the most part. They are cool occasionally but not practical regularly. This is where sit down theaters will end up eventually, not over night but eventually.

I'm not pretending I speak for everyone anymore than you are, I'm simply taking what I know through my marketing background and the coming generation and applying it to movies. There have been many articles written on the subject that all come to the same conclusion, that it is a matter of when not if. The screen size and sound you keep harping on is lost on kids and teens who spend most their time viewing their media on phones and tablets. They want their media now, the whole size dynamic doesn't really matter to them. They do their ordering online for clothes and items and have it brought to the, they view their media online immediately through youtube and streaming services, they order their food online and have it delivered to them. 

Why would the new movie releases somehow not fit what this generation wants? Heck, me even saying TV was probably too dated in truth. The real get is movies immediately available to be downloaded to a phone or tablet to be honest, but I think it gets proved out through an on demand model first.

It is kind of funny that this has a lot of similarities to the whole Block Buster argument. Block Buster believed people wanted to go to the movie store and walk around to see all the selection, pick them up, etc. It was a weekly event that ended with grabbing a pizza and was a family activity. Then Netflix came along and proved people don't really want to leave their house if they don't have to.

Can't really compare drive-ins to theaters.  They were a worse experience as far as the quality of the product.  Either some POS speaker or a radio station you could barely pick up and the visual was worse than that.