Where were you when studios realized movie theaters aren't actually important anymore?
AMC and movie theaters on suicide watch
1999
>not do so at our expense
So they'll get $0 by refusing to show their movies, and people go to theaters that aren't retarded
Based Warner Bros. working AMCetty into a seethe
Movie theaters suck anyway and they should all go bankrupt
Watching at home is way better
To be fair I don't understand how ATT can make any money from this. I would be calling foul if I owned a theater. It seems like a play to simply undermine theaters.
ATT/Universal/WB will undoubtedly lose money in the short term 3 year outlook.
Early 2010s when AMC implemented interactive commercials for the audience.
Movie theaters
>$20 a ticket
>You literately pay $20 to be forced to sit through commercials without being asked if it's okay
>COVID
>Popcorn is $10+, drinks overpriced, candy marked up etc
>Can't bring your own food in (and some theaters refused to open when they got told not to sell concessions during a pandemic)
>Have to deal with theater staff when buying tickets
>If you buy tickets online, you need to pay a "booking" fee
>Forced to be there at a certain time instead of when you want
>Reserved seating is STILL a thing somehow
>Other people watching the movie can be loud, use their phone or bring kids along
Streaming
>Don't have to leave the house
>Can watch whenever you want
>Can pause to take a shit or can turn it off and watch it later
>Access to hundreds of other movies for a price cheaper than a movie ticket
>Can watch a kino in bed
>Can't smoke a joint without being arrested
>Can watch your kino naked
How can theaters compete?
the fact that a studio can't own a theatre is retarded lol
>Early 2010s when AMC implemented interactive commercials for the audience.
wtf is this?
we will do all in our power
The fuck are they going to do? Force them to play movies in their cinemas?
Worked at Regal for years as a manager and I hope they they get sunk at this point. Garbage company
there is nothing they can do lol
also building your business model off another business is never good lol
AMC needs WB a lot more than WB needs AMC. AMC is already circling the drain. Refusing to show WB movies will lead to the self-destruction even faster.
>>Can watch your kino naked
You can do this in theaters too but only if you're brave enough.
hahaha cry more AMC .. nobody wants you and your 8 dollar popcorn and 6 dollar soda
the final solution has come for the cinema jew
Pirating content 15 years ago.
>Army Veteran working at Regal while getting degree
>Supposed to have Veteran's day off with 4 hours or something pay
>Check new work schedule emailed
>New manager has me and only 1 other person opening
>Too late to call and ask why I'm working
>Show up early
>Shift manager says shouldn't have been scheduled but begs me to stay because big crowd
>End up working 8 hours because not enough employees come in for their shifts
>Should get overtime for that day and week
>General Manager later tells me she entered my hours to last Thursday when I had to call out for emergency
>Didn't want to explain to corporate why Veteran was working and got overtime
Yeah, shit company
i love this image
clearly there was some thought and effort put into this autism fed endeavor
cinema companies have been stiffing customers for decades. almost nothing they offer is of value it just was the only gate for most of time. & now they want you to feel sorry for them.
How is selling popcorn via Uber Eats going?
Fucking kill yourselves faggots.
What is wrong with you retards? Are you just socially inept freaks with no friends? Even at that, are you just insecure pussies who are scared of going to the cinema alone?
Nothing ever beats watching a movie in the theater. Expecially with IMAX. And now they're making more progress to introduce 4-D experiences to further advanced the viewing experience.
Cheering for a century old form of entertainment and culture dying and thousands losing their job just because you're a faggot emotionally stunted child who gets anxiety attacks thinking about cinema's. Fucking queers.
While I want to call you an absolute faggot, I haven't had to debase myself so far as to working with the public after I got out. So yea that might have sent me over the edge too.
movie theaters are a dying business. AMC and other large chains like Regal will go the way of Blockbuster in a matter of years. There's simply not a large enough market for movie theaters anymore with streaming being such a dominant force now.
They need to do what any intelligent business would do in a time like this and downsize, change their formula. They've already been increasing ticket prices for years, decreasing turnout, and making money almost entirely off of concession stands. It's an unsustainable business model that needs serious reform and change.
>insecure pussies
You realize the cinemas could stay open if they wanted to, right? They're the ones who pussied out and shut down because some elderly Democrat politicians told them to. I feel bad for small businesses who can't fight the bureaucracy, but these large chains like AMC and Regal could afford lawyers to sue the shit out of these Governors and make sure this unprecedented closure of businesses never happens again. But no, they pussied out because a John Oliver might make fun of them or something.
As someone who smuggles in a big ass bag of pistachios and loudly shucks them through the entire movie to piss off people, I'm mad as hell.
if corona is a thing why are people all across the world protesting like sikh farmers in India. Wouldn't that be dangerous?
thank you for your service user, I can’t believe they forced a heckin veteraneeno to work on a tuesday
eat a dick faggot
And that's a good thing.
amc is owned by chinks. fuck 'em
>Even at that, are you just insecure pussies who are scared of going to the cinema alone?
I always go alone and enjoy that.
>Nothing ever beats watching a movie in the theater.
Streaming is better because it's more consumer friendly. Sure, a huge screen and great sound is great, but theaters are just anti-consumer and uncomfortable.
>Expecially with IMAX
My state doesn't have IMAX and I've never experienced it.
>Cheering for a century old form of entertainment and culture dying
Movies will still exist. We're not taking your films away from you.
>thousands losing their job
Those people should protest the government instead of blaming Warner. Demand that the government implements UBI and take care of the unemployed.
tbf, they never would have done this if theaters were still open.
>worrying about le meme virus
fucking dumb weeb
AMC will be bankrupt in a month or 2. AT&T will swoop in to save them. In another couple of months Regal will be bought by Disney. Both chains will be converted into mini theme parks similar to Disney Springs.
I don't want to be right but so far everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
>What is wrong with you retards? Are you just socially inept freaks with no friends? Even at that, are you just insecure pussies who are scared of going to the cinema alone?
One of the most underrated aspects of the pandemic is normies being forced to live life on OUR terms.
How does it feel living life in a way you hate? :)
I'm almost 30 and I've never been to a cinema in my life
America isn't the whole world and it has a culture problem where they think they're all special.
Same shit is happening in theaters that happened to the music, games, and publishing, industries. Physical media is dead. Theaters are just places that play physical media. They are a holdover from a time when it was impossible to play a film at home. After the invention of home video they switched to marketing the "expearience" but even that is now most replicable from home. When any dude can buy a 70in LCD screen and an 8 point surround sound system and stream literally anything they want and eat whatever they want, smoke what they want, watch with who theu want, etc; theaters just cant compete.
Theaters days have been numbered since the 1970s and anyone could see it.
>go to movies by myself because I can
>ask ticket bitch for my ticket "ticket for one for Captain Capeshit!"
>ticket bitch says "for ONE? what's it like going to the movies alone?"
>I say "Yes, for one. what's it like earning 9 dollars an hour?" laugh in ticket bitch's face and walk away
>walk up to stub ripper...say "IS THIS YOUR WHOLE JOB? YOUR PARENTS MUST BE SO PROUD LOL" rip my own stub because I'm not an idiot
>enter eatery, walk up to servant "what will you have?" she asks, "it's okay! I brought my own!" I say while showing her the contents of my backpack with cola and homemade popcorn inside
>turn to those behind me and say "ENJOY PAYING THREE BUCKS FOR COLA, MORONS"
>make my way to cinema doors...notice lots of couples
>"WHAT IS THIS? MAKE OUT HOUR? THIS IS A MOVIE MORONS, NOT A FUCKING LOVE IN, GTFO"
>laugh at them as they leave in embarrassment
>cinema all to myself, put my feet up and throw popcorn at my face because that's how I eat it
>movie theaters
>streaming
>pirating
Streaming will get "blockbuster-d" by piracy in the long run.
I saw the slate of 17 movies and I doubt anyone is clamoring to get HBO max because of them.
Studios not using the "protectionism" that theatrical releases provide is a mistake, even when the theaters take a 40-50% cut.
Streamers will start trying lock you into 1 year agreements and that's when they will lose.
sympathizers get the rope first