Every thread I read someone mentions that the theatre doesn't make money on ticket sales. As someone who worked in the industry for a long time, this is incorrect.Depending on who you're dealing with, we would negotiate a percentage. Normally for week 1 and 2, the studio would get 60% and the theatre would get 40%. As the weeks go on, the studio would lower this percentage as an incentive for us to keep playing their movie. This is why you may see kids films in cinemas for a very long time. The percentage the theatre makes would be very high at this stage so quite an incentive to keep it playing months after its release.Now depending on the movie and the studio, negotiations tend to be straight forward. The bigger blockbuster movies maybe 70/30 for week 1 and 2. But if week ones numbers are poor, it's back to the table to change that percentage.Disney are/were (I havnt worked in the industry in a few years) the worst to deal with. They would want 80/20 for 4 weeks for their main flagship movies, think Marvel, Star Wars, their remake of Disney classics. In fact they normally started off threatening "If you don't accept 80/20, you won't be getting Star Wars until week 2 of its release" they are quite frankly modern day gangsters looking to shake you down.But like any bully, if you stand up to them, you can get them to back off.The last year I worked in the cinema, we had Just under 2 million bums in seats for the calender year over two sites. One site did 1.1 million attendance, the other did 750 thousand.We made close to €5.5 million in ticket sales alone.Concession brings in the big bucks, but ticket sales pay a lot peoples salary and a lot a bills. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2UrjWBE
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