It probably depends on the theater chain then because I have also worked in management for the chain I work for and we definately do not set our own prices.
You are wrong. Individual theaters do not set the prices for anything. The corporate people set the candy and soda prices and the distributor sets the ticket prices.
Ticket prices are set based on an average wealth by geographical region sort of formula.
The theater typically gets less then 10% of the ticket cost for a movie. Almost all of the money that the theater uses to run comes from concessions sales.
and there has definately been a trend of declining attendance over that time period but the worst part has been the last 4 years. After 9/11 we had no customers for about 2 months. It took about six months for us to start having crowds again and even today we typically only sell out one or two shows on a friday or saturday night. In the mid 90's we would typically sell out 5 or 6 of our 10 houses every fri and sat night.
You can't blame it on our ads or the length of our previews either. We show 3 previews and one ad (always for a DVD or movie related product or film festival). Our average preview time has increased from 10 minutes in the mid 90's to about 12 minutes today.
The bottom line is that we rarely show a movie for longer than two weeks now. It used to be that a three or four week run was normal and we would always have a few movies that were three or more months old.
When I first started working here they had been showing "Raise the Red Lantern" for 13 months and it was still selling out shows both on the weekends and on random weekday evenings!
On the bright side, 40 year old virgin is hysterically funny. But it and batman are the only movies doing any business for us now.
Ignoring the fact that IQ is a seriously compromised idea to begin with and that measuring of this created value is as tricky as determining whether colorless green ideas do indeed sleep furiously, a few hundred years are NOT enough time to produce the kinds of outcomes he is talking about regardless of the strength of the selection pressure.
I haven't had any problems either. I play with my girlfriend, brother and his girlfriend pretty regularly, none of us have any real problems. We play on a RP server though. Maybe that's it.
Are they, really? or are people just pretending to be innocent? Valve says that there were only a few people who tried to activate legit copies with fake cd keys. I'm inclined to believe them because it is in their best interest not to piss off people who are actually paying customers.
I think that 99% of the pissing and moaning is coming from the 12 yeard olds (chronologic or emotional) who got caught.
Go valve. Please deny acces to everyone who hasn't paid for the game. And then go on to deny access to everyone who cheats. I couldn't care less about people who stole a product being denied the ability to use what they stole.
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It probably depends on the theater chain then because I have also worked in management for the chain I work for and we definately do not set our own prices.
You are wrong. Individual theaters do not set the prices for anything. The corporate people set the candy and soda prices and the distributor sets the ticket prices.
Ticket prices are set based on an average wealth by geographical region sort of formula.
The theater typically gets less then 10% of the ticket cost for a movie. Almost all of the money that the theater uses to run comes from concessions sales.
and there has definately been a trend of declining attendance over that time period but the worst part has been the last 4 years. After 9/11 we had no customers for about 2 months. It took about six months for us to start having crowds again and even today we typically only sell out one or two shows on a friday or saturday night. In the mid 90's we would typically sell out 5 or 6 of our 10 houses every fri and sat night.
You can't blame it on our ads or the length of our previews either. We show 3 previews and one ad (always for a DVD or movie related product or film festival). Our average preview time has increased from 10 minutes in the mid 90's to about 12 minutes today.
The bottom line is that we rarely show a movie for longer than two weeks now. It used to be that a three or four week run was normal and we would always have a few movies that were three or more months old.
When I first started working here they had been showing "Raise the Red Lantern" for 13 months and it was still selling out shows both on the weekends and on random weekday evenings!
On the bright side, 40 year old virgin is hysterically funny. But it and batman are the only movies doing any business for us now.
Ignoring the fact that IQ is a seriously compromised idea to begin with and that measuring of this created value is as tricky as determining whether colorless green ideas do indeed sleep furiously, a few hundred years are NOT enough time to produce the kinds of outcomes he is talking about regardless of the strength of the selection pressure.
I haven't had any problems either. I play with my girlfriend, brother and his girlfriend pretty regularly, none of us have any real problems. We play on a RP server though. Maybe that's it.
Are they, really? or are people just pretending to be innocent? Valve says that there were only a few people who tried to activate legit copies with fake cd keys. I'm inclined to believe them because it is in their best interest not to piss off people who are actually paying customers.
I think that 99% of the pissing and moaning is coming from the 12 yeard olds (chronologic or emotional) who got caught.
Go valve. Please deny acces to everyone who hasn't paid for the game. And then go on to deny access to everyone who cheats. I couldn't care less about people who stole a product being denied the ability to use what they stole.