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CMV: Movie ticket and concession prices are reasonable.

Many people complain about how fast ticket prices have risen and how expensive the concessions are at movie theaters, but I think they are fairly priced. Movie theaters are often getting less than 25% of the ticket sales, as most of it is going back to the movie studios. For the first month or so they aren't making much, if any, money from a film. It is not until it has been out for a while and is still popular that the profits begin to show. 

The only other way to recoup their expenses is their concession sales. The movie studios also don't make much money on a movie unless it's a blockbuster hit. Many movies make less than it cost to produce them, and the listed movie budget is often far less than the true cost due to a lot of advertising films purchase.
gpt
I agree that companies are doing what they need to do in order to survive.

I don't agree that it is reasonable.

I believe that movie theaters are the victims of changing technology. Like Vaudeville Theaters, Threepenny Operas, and the Greco-Roman Theaters before them they are soon going to be cosigned to the dustbins of history because consumer tastes/technology has changed and will continue to change in ways to make them unprofitable.

Movies are too expensive and are financed using... unique (some would say *fraudulent*) accounting practices designed to allow the studios to write of "losses" no matter what. Any sunlight on that process and the existing industry collapses. It's only a matter of time before the wink-nod arrangement falls apart when someone scams little old ladies to finance "Fast and the Furious 100: The Centennial".

Theaters themselves tend to be massively unprofitable when they pay employees according to prevailing labor laws. The buildings and equipment are simply too big and too expensive for things to continue. It's only a matter of time before people expect movies to upgrade to VR 4K Smellovision and that would break the regional chains once and for all.

Movie theaters made sense once. They made tons of money in the 1930's-1990's. Now? They don't make as much sense, but they can still turn a small profit so they persist. In the future? Something's going to snap and exactly how unreasonable modern movie prices are is going to be laid bare to all.