Literally everyone else would love to just have the option to pay to stream new movies at home.
I hear this all the time, but I respectfully disagree:
There are very few obnoxious people affecting my movie-going experience (YMMV, of course)
I, as many other people, don't have the space to set up a proper home theater (so some movies are fine at home and some are not). Also, there is neighbors to consider with respect to setting up sound systems.
I also don't have the internet to stream movies at serious quality. Youtube at full HD is a hit-or-miss, depending on time of day.
I'm going to push back a little. I'm not a film buff, nor a stockholder, nor a producer, and sometimes I just like to actually go to a movie with a group of friends. We'll often pair it with dinner. There's a theater near here that does both - serves pretty good pub-ish food during the movie. It might only be 5-10 movies a year, but it is in the rotation of our regular group-of-people activities.
That's a lot of real estate. Events off the top of my head, let's say rights get worked out, and they take up the entire week to keep the arithmetic simple:
Film (10): 2 Star Wars 2 MCU maybe 4-6 other major releases/yr, let's be generous, call it 6.
TV (7): GoT or similar, maybe, but there's no zeitgeist any more to drive enough volume. Reality Shows: Bachelor, and the like. Let's say 6 (Kardashians? Project Runway? NBA Wives? RPDR? Out of my element here...)
Sports (7): March Madness Super Bowl College FB Cham
Once this lasts long enough - the culture shifts.
The very idea of movies doesn't really have to be going into a dark room with lots of people to watch a piece of fabric with light shining on it.
The home experience has a LOT of advantages to it.
Movie theaters have been shifting into less and less of a cultural touchstone, a real shared experience for a long time.
Of course, it started largely as a way to get air conditioning (first places to use it in most places) - and even before the pandemic, it was largel
Four - people who like greasy over-priced popcorn.
Literally everyone else would love to just have the option to pay to stream new movies at home.
I hear this all the time, but I respectfully disagree:
That's a lot of real estate. Events off the top of my head, let's say rights get worked out, and they take up the entire week to keep the arithmetic simple:
Film (10):
2 Star Wars
2 MCU
maybe 4-6 other major releases/yr, let's be generous, call it 6.
TV (7):
GoT or similar, maybe, but there's no zeitgeist any more to drive enough volume.
Reality Shows: Bachelor, and the like. Let's say 6 (Kardashians? Project Runway? NBA Wives? RPDR? Out of my element here...)
Sports (7):
March Madness
Super Bowl
College FB Cham