Theater owners should be suing using the Paramount precedent to prevent studios from owning tv channels and movie theaters. Then maybe they’d have content to show that doesn’t leave theaters after five days or less.
Of course with the current court system it would probably just be an ignored precedent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.
Unfortunately, that law was overturned.
As part of a 2019 review of its ongoing decrees, the Department of Justice issued a two-year sunsetting notice for the Paramount Decree in August 2020, believing the antitrust restriction was no longer necessary as the old model could never be recreated in contemporary settings.
What a farce.
ELLISON/paramount would be a far worst choice, given how he wants to get CCN to become A fox-lite, clone. and tainting TREK franchise because its associated with fascists.
When movies were first created, people would all gather together in one place to watch them because that’s how movies were and were able to be presented. Over the many decades, movies were made specifically for “the big screen”. But we don’t need a big screen now. It’s just an option.
I could envision a future wherein smaller movie theaters filled the niche for people who want to watch movies as a social outgoing and for movies which are better on a big screen with surround sound. But that vision looks very little like these big chain theaters do. It looks much more like a projection of small, local theaters.
Dinner theaters are the new niche. Comfy chair with a decent meal while you watch a film. The main sticking point is that the only way to make it work is for the theater side of the business be a loss leader, and the food business isn’t known for being kind.
