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Sony’s Tom Rothman Tells Theaters To Enforce Longer Windows, Scrap Ads, Offer Cheaper Tickets For Long Term Health Of Industry – CinemaCon (deadline.com)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you really want a healthier theater industry:

  • break up the large movie studios
  • prohibit owning both the content (studios) and the distribution channel (tv and streaming channels, movie theaters)
[–] detren@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

It’s already prohibited for them to own the movie theaters! And for good reason! It’s just that the US politicians have been too busy enacting fascism to update the law for streaming and TV.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Any other actions are attempts to distract from these two problems.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also make it 2005 again so people can't get a 50" widescreen TV for two hundred bucks.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Do people still call them widescreens? Aren't basically all tvs these days widescreen? Do they still make ones that are square shaped?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Probably? Maybe? Just thought it was worth rolling out the adjective since it was comparing to the before-times. :-)