Where does it get the realtime data for this?
Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
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#72I’ve been to a few showings by myself back in the moviepass days. It was really nice, I’d wait until a movie was basically at the very end of its run and watch whatever was playing. I can’t stand others making noise, too distracting.
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#73May be I am in minority but I would hate to be alone in entire theater. I enjoy some vibe and people around
In a previous life, I would go to a lot of art movies, often matinees or monday or etc. Sometimes there was one guy who was working the box-office, the snackbar, and the projection. I was glad he had a job.
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#74I used to frequent the brisbane regent cinema precisely because it was reliably empty. The franchise kept it running because having a really nice prestige theatre was good for their brand, but compared to their other sites it was revenue neutral at best.
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#75When I lived in Germany, I had an apartment in the vicinity of three tiny arthouse theaters. I used to go there all the time by myself because you could basically walk to all three of them. Saw a lot of movies I would have never seen otherwise, most of which I don't remember at all.
The theaters were never full. So it was basically just like watching a movie in your own living room. Yeah, except maybe for the handful of strangers that were there to watch with you.
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#76I’ve been to a few showings by myself back in the moviepass days. It was really nice, I’d wait until a movie was basically at the very end of its run and watch whatever was playing. I can’t stand others making noise, too distracting.
you can also go on your phone if you'd like and yawn loudly and flatulate
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not the ads, but they're not helping. I still like to go to theaters, but am thinking if not going anymore because I can't really take it. I don't go to AMC since not in the US, but where I go you can't even skip them because you never know how long it will be. I sat once for literally 40 minutes. It's also crazy expensive. So they need to do these things to stay afloat, but they're driving away the last people…
I don't disagree with you at all. Ads suck. But that ship sailed a long time ago. Just to provide some more context to AMC. They are a US national chain and they don't run "commercials" just lots of trailers. They have recently announced that they have extended the trailer runtime from 20-25 mins to 35-40 mins. While this is frustrating they always indicate in the app which movies have the trailers (most do) and the…
It really seems like a great use case for dynamic pricing.
For $27.99 I can usually get MLB tickets people are dumping last minute (face value starts a few dollars higher) and can always get AAA baseball tickets for less than that.
That dynamism to the pricing helps a lot of people get into the door to those events and I'm sure it helps them milk additional profit out of very interesting games.
I know you say it's the studios setting the price. Why do they seem indifferent to the impending bankruptcy of theaters?
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#78On flip side had switch gyms to be among strangers becomes turning on gym socialization really tanked my training.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regional where...? Never seen this in the Northeast.
Outside North America just about every country I’ve ever lived in or visited had assigned movie ticket seats.
And in some places there are so few movie theaters that, at least on weekends, you have to buy days in advance or you might as well stay home.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait... I don't think I've ever experienced assigned seats in a movie theatre. Is that a thing?
Yes, it's been a thing for at least a decade, I imagine it helps with pre-sales online, though it may just be offered as a convenience. It really does help keep the movie from unexpectedly being a lousy experience; if you're stuck in a crappy seat, or your family can't sit together, it's because you picked those seats. As someone else mentioned, it also allows them to bring you dinner and provide that upsell as well.…
> it's been a thing for at least a decade
Maybe in fancy theaters, but in most places it started during covid (and just never stopped)