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Consolidation or not. I think local independent cinemas have been a dying breed for many years.

• TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
  They're a very niche interest - only really viable in student towns and areas with a proportion of comfortably off arts-loving middle classes. But TBH cinema has become a bit of an ordeal. It's such a weird experience - simultaneously sterile and massively overhyped in almost every possible way. I'd started enjoying theatre more because that has a real magic - possibly because clever physical stage effects and real people acting in front of you engage the imagination in a way a projection can't. But that's not any more likely to survive this than cinemas are. Although low budget theatre productions are more likely to restart more quickly because they only really need a large empty room, some lighting, and some props.