I could imagine Disney owning their own theaters could be quite profitable for them. I can't find an online source for this, but a decade ago I heard that the

I could imagine Disney owning their own theaters could be quite profitable for them. I can't find an online source for this, but a decade ago I heard that the IFC Center in NYC was the most profitable (per-screen) cinema in the US, due to IFC Films already being the distributor of the films they show -- so no added distribution costs. Then again, they've also controversially used non-union projectionists, so this might have just been a talking point on one side of that debate.