Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US and UK next week

Re:Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US... by robjan on Sunday October 04, 2020 @09:35AM (#24678924)

The sad thing is that Cineworld (in the UK anyway) pretty much forced the consolidation of the market by rapidly expanding in the 90's and 00's followed by selling tickets at a loss. This resulted in lots of cinemas going bust after which they increased prices.

So now many towns and cities will have no nearby cinema.

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Re:Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US... by kasperni on Sunday October 04, 2020 @09:42AM (#24678982)

Consolidation or not. I think local independent cinemas have been a dying breed for many years.

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Re:Regal and Cineworld reportedly closing all theaters in US... by TheOtherHobbes on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:11AM (#24679179)

They're a very niche interest - only really viable in student towns and areas with a proportion of comfortably off arts-loving middle classes.

But TBH cinema has become a bit of an ordeal. It's such a weird experience - simultaneously sterile and massively overhyped in almost every possible way.

I'd started enjoying theatre more because that has a real magic - possibly because clever physical stage effects and real people acting in front of you engage the imagination in a way a projection can't.

But that's not any more likely to survive this than cinemas are. Although low budget theatre productions are more likely to restart more quickly because they only really need a large empty room, some lighting, and some props.

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