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>Attendance is down, year after year. I believe revenue (taking into account higher ticket prices) was down last year as well. The industry went through a streak of 15 weeks or so in a row where both numbers were down compared to the same week a year before.
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>Enough negativity. Let's change the subject to good movies we have seen lately.

Ah, there's the rub. I think the full cinemas are due to a quick turn-over of big-budget and/or blockbusting, SFX movies (there's a whole glut of them advertised on TV here at the moment, many I've never heard of before), new titles as soon as the public become bored. Why, I took my kids to see the latest Harry Potter only a week or so after the opening; you could pick and choose your seat in a half-empty auditorium. Of course, a week or two later, Narnia's competing.

Time was the epic or blockbuster was on practically for a season. Take away the high turn-over and I think you'd see a definite decline