It is instead a result of the cost of going to the movies PERIOD.
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When we start going to the movies, stars are leading surrogate lives for us.
And what could be a more pleasant way to do both than going to the movies?
That just helps to turn people off to the already high-priced experience of going to the movies.
What are your plans for the Memorial Day weekend driving, flying, shopping, going to the movies?
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Every holiday, wedding or even just going to the movies, we would all share sunflower seeds with one another.
He has always been low key, passing the time at weekend carne asadas with friends or going to the movies.
"The fear for exhibitors early on was that home entertainment would become a substitute for going to the movies, " says Marsh.
For those that make the cut, count on HBO to promote the value of gathering a half-dozen fight fans at one house, where the cost per head is about the same as going to the movies.
After years of when going to the movies meant sitting in a drafty hall watching a film chosen by a local government committee, the Chinese have embraced the idea of taking in a movie as a desirable leisure activity.
Roughly half of those jobs would be "induced" jobs, those "generated when highway construction workers respend their income on consumer goods and services -- like lunch at McDonald's or going to the movies or buying new clothes, " said Wells.
Thirty-eight percent of residents aged 15 to 35 reported going to the movies at least once a month in 2010, and the year prior saw a total of 28.8 million visits to the movies, impressive for a population of just 4.5 million.
"Those same girls who were going to see Leonardo DiCaprio, were also going to the movies again and again to hear that song, to wallow in that song, to sort of wash over them, " said Leah Rozen, an associate editor at People magazine.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart, a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
We've got more shopping malls than churches, we spend more time staring at Internet coupon sites than reading Shakespeare, we stomp on each other at 5 A.M. on Christmas Eve to snag that discounted laptop at Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), a store that now sells buckets of popcorn, suggesting that shopping for Glade plug-in air fresheners is the entertainment equivalent of going to the movies.
So yeah, you're going to watch movies on the thing, we know.
You never say no to going to a Sunday matinee at the movies and always share your last piece of gum.
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Getting it to work could change the way audiences think about going to go see 3D movies.
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It would please them to think of me doing the things that normal children in the sixth grade did, like going to movies.
This will also likely to be the case for movies and TV shows going forward, as they continue to be made more widely available.
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And here they are now distancing Peter and MJ in the movies by going back to Gwen.
The Hollywood studios don't much like it at all, but Congress is finally going to bat for the right of consumers to enjoy movies they way they want to.
Lest there be any lingering doubt, however, that politicians need the sort of pointed reminder the Minutemen are currently offering that, as they say in the movies, the American people are "mad as hell and not going to take it any more, " consider the likely scenario on the floor of the United States Senate this week.
The film is going to have to live up to The Dark Knight which was one of the best superhero movies of all time.
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Unless Disney is somehow going to get away with doing Star Wars movies on the cheap, each official Episode will likely cost whatever the upper-realms blockbusters happen to cost at the given time.
All of those movies are likely going to be left in the dust when the final Harry Potter movie opens this Friday.
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With Netflix and Redbox striking deals with film studios to release titles when they are available on video, either through web streams or physical rentals, the availability of movies on demand is not going to help Starz grow from its movie-based strategy roots.
He also notes that Toshiba has sold 200, 000 HD DVD players in the US, in comparison to the 30, 000 standalone Blu-ray players sold, and that it's not clear yet how many Blu-ray movies the two million PS3 owners are going to be watching.
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That means smaller summer movies, like the upcoming MacGruber, are going to have to prove themselves quickly if they want to stay in theaters.
But Fithian says operators aren't going to install digital systems unless it greatly improves the viewing experience for all types of movies.
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