Studios get 100% of that ticket price for the first 3 weeks that the movie is being shown. The way the contracts are written, a movie would have to be playing f

Studios get 100% of that ticket price for the first 3 weeks that the movie is being shown. The way the contracts are written, a movie would have to be playing for months before theatres get to keep all of the ticket sales. The last movie where that happened was The Full Monty (in 1997).