Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
The consumer is deciding what they want to see and when and how, and filmmakers are more aware and accepting of the fact that success is not predicated on your movie showing in a traditional theater for a certain amount of time.
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people.
It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
It seems that we're heading toward the day that films will be released in all platforms simultaneously, albeit with a cost premium to see it at home. But I hope that theater-going doesn't end - I think that watching movies on the big screen with an audience is still the best format and also an important one for society.
Audiences don't come to theatres going by reviews. Even if a film is rated low, the collections won't get affected.