Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers
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Yanno though... Giving it a second glance, we've already had this stupid conversation before when you told me that James Cameron said something very similar.
Now... Truth be told, I wasn't able to actually dig up any pictures of what David Croninberg's home theater looks like, but you know full well it's pretty fucking decent, even if it ain't on the level of James Cameron's.
99% of the people don't have that at home. Hell... I bet a good number of them don't have any more square footage in their apartments than either man's home theater room.
This is just a complete non point you tried to made here, and I would have to imagine that it would only make sense inside the head of a rich white kid who still has no clue how anything in the real world actually works.
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Quote:You don't have to be rich to watch movies on Netflix. Factually, the less money you have, the more likely you will see the latest movies on TV, NOT IN THE THEATER. NETFLIX KNOWS THEY ARE DESTROYING HOLLYWOOD'S BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yanno though... Giving it a second glance, we've already had this stupid conversation before when you told me that James Cameron said something very similar.
Now... Truth be told, I wasn't able to actually dig up any pictures of what David Croninberg's home theater looks like, but you know full well it's pretty fucking decent, even if it ain't on the level of James Cameron's.
99% of the people don't have that at home. Hell... I bet a good number of them don't have any more square footage in their apartments than either man's home theater room.
This is just a complete non point you tried to made here, and I would have to imagine that it would only make sense inside the head of a rich white kid who still has no clue how anything in the real world actually works.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos Says Movie Theater Model Is ‘Outdated’: ‘Most of the Country’ Cannot ‘Walk to a Multiplex’
By Ethan Shenfeld | Apr 24, 2025 8:50am PT
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/netflix-ceo-ted-sarandos-movie-thea
ters-outdated-1236376565/
Ted Sarandos‘ latest interview started with a softball question: “Have you destroyed Hollywood?”
“No, we’re saving Hollywood,” the Netflix co-CEO replied with a smile. FOR 6IX: The Netflix CEO knows that is a lie.
On Wednesday in New York, Sarandos engaged in a brief discussion with Time magazine editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs at the Time100 Summit. The two jumped right into the problems plaguing Hollywood and why Netflix is succeeding amidst production decreases, dwindling box office numbers and an industry in contraction.
“Netflix is a very consumer-focused company,” Sarandos said. “We really do care that we deliver the program to you in a way you want to watch it.”
Using the struggling global box office as an example, Sarandos added, “What does that say? What is the consumer trying to tell us? That they’d like to watch movies at home, thank you. The studios and the theaters are duking it out over trying to preserve this 45-day window that is completely out of step with the consumer experience of just loving a movie.”
I've been scanning for an article that says the obvious:
Quote:Netflix's annual revenue for 2024 was $39.001B, a 15.65% increase from 2023. Netflix's annual revenue for 2023 was $33.723B, a 6.67% increase from 2022. Netflix's annual revenue for 2022 was $31.616B, a 6.46% increase from 2021.
“Folks grew up thinking, ‘I want to make movies on a gigantic screen and have strangers watch them [and to have them] play in the theater for two months and people cry and sold-out shows … It’s an outdated concept.”
Asked specifically if the desire of filmmakers wanting to make movies “for movie theaters, for the communal experience” is “an outmoded idea,” Sarandos said, “I think it is — for most people, not for everybody. If you’re fortunate to live enough in Manhattan, and you can walk to a multiplex and see a movie, that’s fantastic. Most of the country cannot.”
What are Hollywood's revenues? In 2024, the domestic box office revenue in the United States and Canada reached $8.75 billion, a decrease of 3% compared to the $8.91 billion in 2023. This domestic revenue was also lower than the $9 billion in 2023. The global box office revenue for 2024 was about $32.3 billion, a 3% decrease compared to 2023's $33.9 billion.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You don't have to be rich to watch movies on Netflix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yanno though... Giving it a second glance, we've already had this stupid conversation before when you told me that James Cameron said something very similar.
Now... Truth be told, I wasn't able to actually dig up any pictures of what David Croninberg's home theater looks like, but you know full well it's pretty fucking decent, even if it ain't on the level of James Cameron's.
99% of the people don't have that at home. Hell... I bet a good number of them don't have any more square footage in their apartments than either man's home theater room.
This is just a complete non point you tried to made here, and I would have to imagine that it would only make sense inside the head of a rich white kid who still has no clue how anything in the real world actually works.
Completely besides the point.
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Quote:In a few words: your point is that Hollywood movie ticket sales are poor because movies are too woke. My point is that sales are poor because tickets are expensive, while the same film is on TV for free.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Completely besides the point.
The prediction from 2005 is coming true: Hollywood’s Death Spiral, Part 2
Are movie theaters facing extinction?
By Edward Jay Epstein | Aug 01, 2005 9:13 AM
https://slate.com/culture/2005/08/hollywood-s-death-spiral-part-2.html
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Back in the 1940s, when studios owned the movie houses and television was not yet available, more than 60 percent of the population went to the movies every week. Today, about 9 percent of the population goes. Just as the movie houses replaced vaudeville houses, home theaters with high-definition television could replace the multiplexes if the death spiral continues.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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AMC works really hard to make going to the movies terrible
By Colette Bennett | July 1, 2025
https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/amc-works-really-hard-to-make-
going-to-the-movies-terrible
As streaming media has exploded in popularity over the past few decades, fewer and fewer people have seen the point of getting into the car and going to the movie theater.
Despite being a beloved activity that people have adored for well over a hundred years, going to the movies really isn't what it used to be.
Add up the price of a ticket or two, overpriced concessions, the cost of driving to and from the theater — not to mention the high possibility of loud groups of kids who don't mind talking over the entire movie — and it's just not appealing.
The pandemic hit movie theaters hard, and although America has recovered, the movie theater industry hasn't.
Typically it made between 10 and 11 billion a year before 2020, but since then, it hasn't exceeded more than 8 billion, per data from Box Office Mojo.
One way theaters coped with getting people back in theater seats was to entice them with limited-edition merchandise like themed popcorn buckets, which actually did wonders for their bottom line. AMC alone raked in $65 million from sales of this merchandise.
Now AMC has a new idea to change the theater experience. But unlike its innovative collectible popcorn buckets, this will actually add yet another reason to justify staying home on the couch with Netflix.
Your movie date just got longer
We all go to the movies expecting to see trailers before the show starts, and some people even like it that way, knowing if they're running a bit late, they won't miss the main event.
AMC has decided this is a good thing, and as of July 1, will now show more pre-movie ads than ever, including "as much as" a whopping five minutes of commercials, as well as a new ad called a "Platinum Spot" that will play before the last few movie trailers you see.
Trailers and other promotions can mean the movie doesn't start for 25-30 minutes, according to the AMC website.
The advertising decision comes as the result of an agreement AMC made with the National CineMedia ad network, which is the largest of its kind in the U.S.
Back in 2019, AMC declined using these ads, despite the fact other chains such as Regal adopted them, saying it believed that moviegoers would react "quite negatively" to them.
But it has since pivoted, saying in a June Bloomberg interview, “While AMC was initially reluctant to bring this to our theaters, our competitors have fully participated for more than five years without any direct impact to their attendance."
Why AMC is making this move
AMC has had its share of struggles over the past few years. While it's been slowly recovering since the pandemic, 2024 didn't pan out so well, with AMC reporting a decline in revenue in 2024's Q3 and an attendance decline.
AMC also announced on July 1 that it had entered into a new agreement with its creditors, which will provide $223 million of new money financing that will be used to refinance its debt.
The agreement will also allow AMC to equitize at least $143 million of its current debt, and has the potential to allow the company to equitize as much at $337 million.
Commenters on social media did not take well to the news of the new ads.
"I would like to warn AMC to expect 25-30 years of me never coming back to their theaters," said X user TexasPharmD.
"Just another reason to avoid the movies," X user Laz252 said.
"Stop. I like how they want more people to watch movies, but they're also still making the experience worse," X user 360 No One said.
By Colette Bennett
Colette Bennett is a multi-faceted writer that covers retail, tech, entertainment, and more. Before joining TheStreet, Colette was a Senior Producer for Yahoo! Finance, and prior to that, a reporter for CNN. Also a novelist, her debut "Enter the
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The $50 movie ticket has arrived
Story by Ben Fritz | April 27, 2026
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-50-movie-ticket-has-arri
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One of the best selling points of a night out at the movies has long been how cheap it was for two hours-plus of entertainment. Not so much when it costs $50 per ticket.
That’s how much Regal Cinemas recently charged for opening night seats in the best theaters to see December’s “Dune: Part Three.”
Eye-popping prices for the most in-demand movies on the best screens are becoming increasingly common as the cinema industry copies the audience-segmentation playbooks of airlines and hotels. Theaters are getting people who love movies and have discretionary income to pay substantially more.
Some 17% of film tickets sold last year were for premium format theaters with bigger screens and better sound, compared with 13% in 2021. They cost an average of $18 nationally, according to research firm EntTelligence, and as much as $30 in big cities such as New York and Los Angeles.
Welcome to the new box office reality. Die-hards are paying top dollar while the rest of the country rarely goes to the theater and gets most of their entertainment from Netflix, YouTube and TikTok. Despite recent hits such as “Michael,” “Project Hail Mary” and “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the annual number of tickets sold is down more than one-third from before the pandemic.
“The good news is we’re making more money per patron than we made prior to Covid,” said Adam Aron, chief executive of AMC Theatres. But “it’s not a good thing that patronage is down as much as it’s been.”
Regal sold its inventory of $50 “Dune” tickets projected in 70 millimeter IMAX film in a matter of minutes. Since premium auditoriums regularly sell out fastest, exhibitors are racing to build more of them. AMC, the biggest chain in the U.S., had 517 at the end of last year, 30% more than in 2021.
In addition, AMC adds a surcharge of up to $2 per ticket for popular films on their opening weekends.
Adults seeing a movie on a regular screen are paying an average of $12.75 per ticket according to EntTelligence, a figure that has long risen roughly in line with inflation. Discount screenings abound on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
But spending on popcorn, drinks and merchandise has grown 220% over the past 20 years, far above inflation, said Greg Marcus, chief executive of Midwest chain Marcus Theatres.
The average AMC customer now spends $9 on concessions per visit compared with $5 prepandemic—a figure that includes the 20% to 30% of people who buy nothing but a ticket.
Some Hollywood executives worry the growing cost of a night at the cinema and increased reliance on premium screens are turning moviegoing into a pricey special occasion rather than an inexpensive regular habit.
“Going to the movies must be more affordable again,” Tom Rothman, chairman of Sony Pictures’ motion picture group, told a crowd of exhibitors at the recent CinemaCon industry convention in Las Vegas.
Studios and theaters have long operated in an uneasy symbiosis. Both need each other to prosper and resent self-interested decisions their counterparts make that impact them. Studios have long complained that exhibitors don’t keep their multiplexes in good enough condition. Their newest complaint is rising prices along with expanding preshow advertising that, combined with as many as nine trailers, means movies frequently start close to half an hour after their official showtime.
Exhibitors at CinemaCon said the industry’s biggest problem is that studios are releasing about 25% fewer films annually than before the pandemic. Since they can’t increase the product supply on their own, theater operators said they are forced to find profits where they can.
“Give us enough films,” Marcus asserted. “If you’re not going to let us earn a decent return, don’t ask me to invest more or cut my prices.”
Paramount CEO David Ellison promised theater operators at CinemaCon that if his company’s
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In a few words: your point is that Hollywood movie ticket sales are poor because movies are too woke. My point is that sales are poor because tickets are expensive, while the same film is on TV for free.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Completely besides the point.
And that has been a losing argument for you every time you've made it, and I refuse to explain it to somebody as fucking stupid as you are for the dozenth time.
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