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Answers: Cinemarks and movie producers are wondering why revenue is down and movies aren't making much as expected. What use to be a pastime for families, is now an outrageously priced outing. I remember going to the movies and spending about $25 for 4 including a drink and popcorn. It seems like just the coke and popcorn cost about $25 alone. Movie prices are ridiculous and especially the food concessions. $4 for water, $6 for popcorn, $4 for coke. Gotta be kidding me. Now with movies coming to DVD's at an alarming rate and bootlegging, movies are starting to feel the consequences. Cinemarks should quit robbing people and maybe society will start robbing them. How much do you pay in your area for a movie ticket?

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I agree with you 100%. Prices here are about the same as you describe. It is crazy to go to the movies and spend that much when the pay per view will be out in a few months. We only go to movies that are very important to one of the family, and then it is a matenee with snacks tucked in my purse!!!

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it's 10.25 per tix. We wait and do net flix and then if not we go to the 4$ movie theatre but they usually only have 1 or 2 movies at a time.

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$8.50....yes...highway robbery.....gotta love limewire

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$6.50. I never go to the movies anymore. I rent movies.

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I pay about $8 for one ticket

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Cinemark isn't the only theatre company with over priced tickets. AMC does it too. I pay $9 here.

We don't even have the dollar cinema anymore. Those used to be popular and I'm sure the giants like Cinemark and AMC did their best to run them out of business.

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i pay between 8-10.

yea they're expensive, but how are you going to compare it to back in the day when u could get all that for 25$. its called inflation, do u really expect everythng to be the same price. its expensive, but not as bad as you're making it seem

i know a few yrs ago there were 2 theaters by me that were $5 but they both shut down, which goes to show they need to hike up the prices. imonly 19 so i dont remember them ever being cheaper

i do agree w/ the concessions prices though, those are l little unreasonable.

i think the reason teh revenue is going down is due to bootlets, and netflix, and renting, and all that.
and now its so much cheaper to just buy the dvd. ppl just figure they'll but the dvd when it comes out or rent it.

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It's the same everywhere, when I was living in Arizona, it was $8.50 per ticket at Harkins, which had stadium seating and was well maintained. Now that I'm living in New Jersey, it's $9.50 - $10.50 (depending on the theater) for a ticket, at Clearview Cinemas. I never bother buying stuff from the vendors because they charge way too much, I usually stop somewhere along the way and pick up a package of skittles and a bottle of soda and just put them in my pocket. Better to spend $3 somewhere else than spend $30 for the same thing at the theater.

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It was $10.00 a ticket the last time I went to the movies, that's why I just buy them when they come out. My husband and I just buy the movies as soon as they come out when they are like $15 or $16. That's less than just the admission for us both, nevermind drinks and snacks.

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I don't pay because of all the reasons you brought up. It is much less expensive to have a family movie night and make popcorn have a sixpack of soda and rent a movie. I work to hard to waste my money by going to the cinema. Used to cost 50cents when I was a kid now it runs between $6 and $9 bucks just for the movie here in Springfield,OR.

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Tickets are about 8 dollars here. The reason the concessions are so expensive is because that is how theaters make money. When a movie is released, the tickets sales go to the distributor. The distributor gets 100% for the first ten days. This is the same reason you cannot use passes for those showings. After that period the theater begins to get some of the proceeds from the ticket sales, starting at 10% and increasing for each week the movie continues to be shown. Most of the business that a movie does is within the first two weeks. Most movies do not last more than 3-4 weeks. If movie theaters did not mark up the concessions, they would go out of business.

You may bring in your own concessions at many theater chains (AMC, for example). They do not publicize this, for obvious reasons. Because I really enjoy seeing movies on a big screen, I willingly pay for the popcorn and simply include it in the budget for going to the movies. I go less than I did before dvds came out and choose which movies I think will be more enjoyable on the big screen.

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Seriously it has gotten so crazy now. I still like to go but if I had kids there's no way I would take them to the movies all the time it would cost 30 or 40 dollars for an hour and a half movie. and with popcorn and drink prices I just bring in my own drinks because it just makes me so mad that they charge that much and can get away with it because there's nothing else to buy once you enter in there....you could buy the movie on pay per view for like 5 dollars and have your own drinks and food....It cost about 10.75 for a movie after 5 before 5 it's 8.75

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I live in SE MIchigan and it varies but usually averages between $3-5 for a matinee or $5-25 for any other time. This area has a dollar theater or I should say the few dollar theater as they are now $3 but they get first run movies right before they come out on DVD. Then there is the high end of $25 which includes dinner at a local restaurant.

It is too much and like the ballpark is not something most families can afford to splurge on

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People say its inflation in the works.

Sure inflation is a natural progression. But when inflation out weighs what people make at jobs, then it becomes outrageous!

More and more things have a price tag on them nowadays, ie, water, high school sports, and don't forget that cute new jingle for your cell phone that you have to shell out money for so you can remain cool amongst your friends.

This is the land of excess. The more we want the more we pay so in turn more things get pricier. Because there's always those out there looking to make money off the little guy.

But what some so called "experts" don't realize is, you don't always have to raise prices to make a profit. Sometimes lowering prices can make you money since it allows more people to enjoy that product.

Much of society is stuck in the mind frame of "more, more, more".

What we should ask ourselves is, what am I really gaining by trying to have all this stuff?

Set some priorties. Make a budget. And if you still are unable to have some entertainment pleasures like a night at the movies. Then RIOT!!! Trip and fall in the theater and sue for millions. Marry a jewish person, odds are they have connections to the movie biz.

Whatever it is you got to do, find a way to enjoy the magic of movies.

Hey, if you can't beat em, join em. Work in the movie industry, I think Blockbuster is hiring.

Have a good day.

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$14.00 at the Arclight at Sunset/Vine.

I'm picky about what movies I go see - if its not a "big screen" must, I wait for the DVD.

Or I see what's playing at the $3.00 Fairfax in West Hollywood.

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