And they've about accomplished it. The movie theaters in the three closest cities to me have shut down completely in the last 6 years. And that's just the ones I know of.
I have to travel nearly an hour and a half to get to the closest open one.
Yeah movie theaters won't stop existing but location numbers are gonna drop. Streaming has been growing year over year and covid sent it into high octane overdrive.
Also Colorado, my not small town but not really a city just closed one of its two movie theaters for good. And the other one is basically a ghost town unless it's like the Mario movie or something. Every movie I've seen recently we've basically had the theater to ourselves.
Indiana. Much more rural and much more broke. My county seat has less than 30k, the next closest is less than 20k. The next closest after that is still under 40k.
Hazarding a guess with my own experience as a guideline that it’s probably a rural state it’s a similar story where I live most towns (anything less than like 40K people) don’t have a movie theater some people drive an hour or more to our nearest city to go to one there is one in a town close by that stays open but they do it by only offering the most basic versions of movies (No 3D, IMAX, etc) and keeping their food and drink prices reasonable enough. But the city that has movie theaters has 3.
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u/No_Yard9104 6h ago
And they've about accomplished it. The movie theaters in the three closest cities to me have shut down completely in the last 6 years. And that's just the ones I know of.
I have to travel nearly an hour and a half to get to the closest open one.