I found this through cinematical.com one of my favorite websites. Lots of movie news concentrating mostly on comics/action/sci-fi.
Mark Cuban is the owner of a Football Team, a chain called Landmark Theatres and a cable channel. He put a post on his blog asking readers to make suggestions how to improve the moviegoing experience. He got over 900 responses! I've only read part but a lot are completely impractical as far as the movie business such as charging $1.00 on opening weekend to get word of mouth going. Some are contradictory, one guy suggested the theatre keeping track of what movies he goes to with who etc and letting him know when a movie he might like is going to play. For everyone who likes that idea there would be others who would find it an invasion of privacy.
Some ideas have already been done such as using mall parking lots as drive-ins at night after the stores have closed. There's a Drive-In in Toronto that doubles as a golf range during the day.
Here's the original post
And his response.
1 comment:
For all his faults, Cuban is often a shrewd businessman .. the one thing that would vastly improve the moviegoing experience would be to bring back ushers ... crowd noise is just out of control
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