How much do cinemas lose screening a movie to an empty theater?
>>220443326when they buy it there must be a contract where they have to have X amount of showingsso its probably necessary
>>220443326However much kilowatt hours it costs to run the projector and the speakersThey make the bulk of their income from snacks anyway
>>220443326three fiddy
half the time that i go to the movies i'm the only one there, i've often wondered this
>>220443855You don’t bring your falcon?
>>220443326This is Fire Punch right? Pure trash.
>>22044332615 minutes after it starts if nobody has purchased tickets don't they shut off the projector and speakers? Also I swear they are running these projectors on max eco saving to save on electric bills because it always looks too dark.
>>220443553they have to pay for rights to screen the film
Depends on how you do the accounting.The variable costs are low. A venue gives a certain percentage of ticket price to the studio but keeps the rest. Even a few viewers is enough to cover running the projector.However the movie theater complex is mostly fixed costs associated with real estate. It costs the same no matter if there are 1 or 10 showings a day so getting that little change is still a good idea.
>>220443906bro, a movie projector uses like 10 kwh of electricity for a film. Thats literally a dollar per showing.
>>220443909they pay the studio a flat rent fee, and then the studio takes a percentage of all ticket sales too. that anon was right that the concessions are their main profit center. its just like a restaurant. food gets you in the door, alcohol is where they make $$$
>>220443901Filtered
>>220444089Also, there is a scale where the studios get nearly all of the ticket sales in the first week or two, but as time goes on the venues share goes up and the studio's goes down. Thats why studios put so much stock into getting big numbers in the first few weeks and the cinemas get pissed off when a film is released to the home market only a few weeks in (and often are half arsed when it comes to Netflix films as they'll only be worth bothering with for a week at best before they shove it on to the streaming service, so they'll never have the extra bank, only the popcorn money).
