Hollywood Cinerama Dome no more?

[LSLGuy]

Here’s a very interesting well-informed post from earlier today on the likely evolution of the cinema industry.

Industries Ripe for Disruption

A couple of relevant facts on this topic: First, concessions is always the theater’s money maker. The physical cinema (known in the business as the exhibitor) makes little or no money from ticket sales. Decades ago, they would take a small percentage of opening-weekend sales, sending the majority of ticket revenue back to the company that licensed the movie for exhibition (the distributor). Then, over the subsequent weeks, the proportion of the exhibitor’s take would rise, and the distributo…