Movie theaters are considering discount pricing and investing in Imax and 4DX to attract audiences, but the 2025 box office is in a slump.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27420780

Movie theaters are considering discount pricing and investing in Imax and 4DX to attract audiences, but the 2025 box office is in a slump.

  • hydrashokEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    When even the rural theaters are $10+ per ticket, it’s much easier and cheaper to make movie theater popcorn at home at wait for it to hit streaming. A movie outing for my family is like $120 each time with tickets and concessions and such. They should diversify, or they’re going to follow arcades into the dustbin of entertainment history. Ironically maybe this will be a thing that brings arcades back too.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Even in the cities it gets expensive. If we’re talking Imax or something like that you can easily get close to $25 a ticket and that’s before popcorn.

      • hydrashokEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Holy crap. My theater is $15 per ticket for the giant screen and I still think it’s a rip-off. It used to be — and not like 20 years ago, two years ago — that same ticket was $8-10, depending on the film. They’ve also added surcharges for evening showings, so that $15 ticket after 6pm is now an $18 ticket. My pricing has gone up 30-120% depending on when the showtime is. And this is a rural theater. I don’t even want to know what the establishments closer into the city are charging.

        I’m never spending $100 just on tickets; that money could go a much longer distance at home with AppleTV+ or Max or whatever.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Also secret to perfect movie theater popcorn at home. Buy a big metel mixing bowl and use a jar of popcorn to fill the bottom of flat part of the bowl with kernels as a single layer then add enough canola oil to also fill just the flat part of the bowl then. Cover the bowl with aluminum foil and heat on the stove moving in a clockwise motion. Wait till you don’t hear popping or kernels moving around.