As original films like “Novocaine” and “Mickey 17” struggle and “Captain America” and “Paddington” sequels fall short, when will the box office rebound?
As original films like “Novocaine” and “Mickey 17” struggle and “Captain America” and “Paddington” sequels fall short, when will the box office rebound?
The movie going price is competing with a frequently equivalent or better experience at home with the proliferation of large and fairly inexpensive tvs. Being annoyed by other movie goers, extremely overpriced popcorn and other snacks, and needing to go at specific times is just not enough to justify a larger screen and louder speakers except in a rare few movies each year.
I go about once a year and the rest of the time I’ll just wait for streaming or watch the massive backlog of movies and shows available on streaming. Going to the theater was fun in the 90s when I had a small tv and we still had dollar theaters and other reasonably priced options.
Some of us have also largely stopped going because a crowded theater is a petri dish of communicable disease, especially at this time of year. I only see movies after they have been in the theater for at least a couple of weeks, and I have to really want to see it to even do that.