Thought this is a different idea:

Cinemark Theaters

(12-20-2021 11:37 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  Thought this is a different idea:

Cinemark Theaters

If you got into a way-back machine and went back to 1964, you would find the T.A.M.I show (Teenage Awards Music International). A rock and roll show shown in theaters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.A.M.I._Show

It featured:
The Barbarians
The Beach Boys
Chuck Berry
James Brown and the Famous Flames
Marvin Gaye (with backing vocals by the Blossoms)
Gerry & the Pacemakers
Lesley Gore
Jan and Dean
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
The Miracles
The Rolling Stones
The Supremes
The house band, known collectively as the Wrecking Crew, was under the musical direction of Jack Nitzsche and included drummer Hal Blaine, electric bass player Jimmy Bond, guitarists Tommy Tedesco and Glen Campbell, upright bassist Lyle Ritz, pianist Leon Russell, saxophonist Plas Johnson and others.
T.A.M.I. Show's executive producer was Bill Sargent. Sargent held patents in cable television and is considered the father of modern pay-per-view. He was the developer of Electronovision and its associated videotape technologies.

BTW the entire show or individual performances can be seen on Youtube


Essentially it was pay-per-view rock and roll, which didn't see long term success. Pay-per-view college football playoffs in theaters will meet with the same fate.

(12-21-2021 05:30 AM)XLance Wrote:  

(12-20-2021 11:37 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  Thought this is a different idea:

Cinemark Theaters

If you got into a way-back machine and went back to 1964, you would find the T.A.M.I show (Teenage Awards Music International). A rock and roll show shown in theaters...

Essentially it was pay-per-view rock and roll, which didn't see long term success. Pay-per-view college football playoffs in theaters will meet with the same fate.

Yeah, I tend to think this is only a pandemic thing - not long term.

I can see the appeal now.

Instead of watching the games at home, on my own TV, with refreshments of my choice purchased at supermarket prices, or at a sports bar with 20 of my closest friends with refreshments that cost a bit more, I could go to a local theater where the refreshments probably don't include the beverages of my choice or meats like Buffalo wings and cost twice as much as they would at a bar and four times what they would cost at home.

And for this I will pay an exorbitant price for my theater seat. But the picture will be larger, so there's that.

What's not to like?

(12-21-2021 09:20 AM)ken d Wrote:  I can see the appeal now.

Instead of watching the games at home, on my own TV, with refreshments of my choice purchased at supermarket prices, or at a sports bar with 20 of my closest friends with refreshments that cost a bit more, I could go to a local theater where the refreshments probably don't include the beverages of my choice or meats like Buffalo wings and cost twice as much as they would at a bar and four times what they would cost at home.

And for this I will pay an exorbitant price for my theater seat. But the picture will be larger, so there's that.

What's not to like?

I saw Ghostbusters Afterlife at a Regal RPX ... think IMAX-ish. The theater was a ghost town despite being a 20 theater plex on the busiest strip of commercial real estate for 100s of miles in any direction. Only 5 people in my entire theater on debut night for the night showing. The food and drink was ludicrously overpriced and mediocre. There was nearly 30 minutes of commercials. But the actual movie in an IMAX-ish setting was quite nice. 11.1 sound. Giant screen. Dead quiet since it was so empty. I checked the other smaller non-RPX theaters ... I don't think I'd ever watch a movie in there again. The experience at my home is actually better until you get to something IMAX-ish.

Theaters have to retrench...it is so easy to watch movies at home. A lot of folks only go to movies once or twice a year now or not at all.

(12-21-2021 10:21 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I saw Ghostbusters Afterlife at a Regal RPX ... think IMAX-ish. The theater was a ghost town despite being a 20 theater plex on the busiest strip of commercial real estate for 100s of miles in any direction. Only 5 people in my entire theater on debut night for the night showing. The food and drink was ludicrously overpriced and mediocre. There was nearly 30 minutes of commercials. But the actual movie in an IMAX-ish setting was quite nice. 11.1 sound. Giant screen. Dead quiet since it was so empty. I checked the other smaller non-RPX theaters ... I don't think I'd ever watch a movie in there again. The experience at my home is actually better until you get to something IMAX-ish.

I recently took two of my granddaughters, 7 & 8, to see Ghostbusters Afterlife. Much the same experience as you. I hadn’t been to the movie theater since 2013. I had to look it up because the last film I had seen was White House Down.

As the movie was ending I told my granddaughter “sit back down we’ll wait for everyone else to get out”. My 7 year old granddaughter said, “Pops, we’re the only ones in here”

It was $27.03 for one adult and two kids to see a matinee on a Tuesday afternoon.