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PODCAST: Does Anyone Even Go to The Movies Anymore?

In this episode Ian White and Chris Boylan discuss the current state of the movie industry and why box office revenues may never surpass pre-pandemic peaks.

There’s no denying that movie theater attendance and revenues still haven’t recovered from the pandemic. In fact, 2024 looks like it may end significantly weaker than 2023 for box office revenue. With inexpensive 98-inch TVs, great sounding home theater systems and soundbars, is there even a future for the movie theater? And if so, what does that look like?

Join the conversation with eCoustics Editor-in-Chief Ian White and Editor-at-Large Chris Boylan as they discuss the current and possible future state of movies in theaters and in the home.

Sponsors: Thank you to our sponsors Q Acoustics, SVS and Chord Electronics.

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  1. ORT

    October 5, 2024 at 4:58 pm

    Like so many other landmarks of my childhood, if it isn’t the JustUs Worriers tearing down statues and burning cities, police cars and more, Fauxvid destroyed the joy of film in a theater with other like minded individuals.

    Drive-Ins are barely hanging and the only time I’ll hear the “Let’s all go to the Lobby” song is if I can find it on BoobToob and just play it when I am about to watch something olde and rarely gnu.

    About a month or so ago my son-in-law took me to see (and hear!) the Star Trek – Episode 4 accompanied by the San Diego Symphony. earlier in the year we went to the same theater to watch “Dune: Pt 2.

    In my childhood I watched the film “Patton” 6 times in a row in the same theater at one of the first “multiplex” theaters! I would go to view such influential films as “Ulysess” or “The Three Stooges meet Hercules” and even listen (but never dance) to local bands do their very best to be “The BeatAlls” or “The Rolling Stoners” etc.

    Thank goodness they didn’t try to be “Donovan”.

    I stood in a line (for several hours!) for “Star Wars”

    I shall miss them all when they close the last theater here in Amurica. I guess I just wasn’t made for these times.

    ORT

    • Ian White

      October 7, 2024 at 1:54 pm

      ORT,

      The response to the Joker 2 (the real name is too stupid to type) from both critics and the audience speaks volumes. People don’t need to go to the movies anymore when they can watch new releases at home. Even really bad ones.

      COVID and really bad movies — killed the movies. 900 releases per year prior to COVID? How many were worth watching? 30?

      I stood in line for 3 days in the rain to see “Return of the Jedi” when I was 13 in 1983. 3 days!! And that was just to guarantee any seat.

      I took a date in my 20s to see the remastered “Gone with the Wind” release in 70mm (it was glorious) and she fell asleep before the intermission. There was no second date.

      Doomed. Society is doomed.

      IW

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