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But surely some amount of money from each ticket has to go to the distributor of the movie? I don't think charging 'nothing' for the ticket is just a huge loop

• noneeeed 7y ago
  Good point, I'd forgotten about the distributor fees. A quick Google suggest an average of about 50% depending on the film, location and time in the release. Once you factor in profits from concessions (very high) and the adverts, the maths clearly works out well for the cinema chains. Certainly here in th UK a number of them are really pushing these sorts of schemes. This is all in comparison to MP, who have to pay the full retail price of the ticket and get nothing from the concessions. The chains can probably absorb two to three times as many visits in a month compared with MP.