There was a dollar theater in Reisterstown, back shortly before the rocks cooled, when we lived in the area.
You get a dollar theater when you have a population-dense area rich in long-standing independently held theaters which is suddenly invaded by a multiplex or three and/or brought face-to-face with the realities of a strong recession. The indie, in its scramble for life, starts showing movies for a buck during the day (and in the case of the Reisterstown theater at least), three bucks in the evening. It may be that they can rent a popular/new movie on unscheduled days before it moves on to the next region, and thereby Get It Cheap. I don't know enough about how film distribution work(s) to say for sure.
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Date: 2006-10-22 10:39 am (UTC)There was a dollar theater in Reisterstown, back shortly before the rocks cooled, when we lived in the area.
You get a dollar theater when you have a population-dense area rich in long-standing independently held theaters which is suddenly invaded by a multiplex or three and/or brought face-to-face with the realities of a strong recession. The indie, in its scramble for life, starts showing movies for a buck during the day (and in the case of the Reisterstown theater at least), three bucks in the evening. It may be that they can rent a popular/new movie on unscheduled days before it moves on to the next region, and thereby Get It Cheap. I don't know enough about how film distribution work(s) to say for sure.