{"id":59623,"date":"2022-08-29T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/national-cinema-day-movies-in-most-us-theaters-will-cost-3-sept-3\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:16:17","slug":"national-cinema-day-movies-in-most-us-theaters-will-cost-3-sept-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/national-cinema-day-movies-in-most-us-theaters-will-cost-3-sept-3\/","title":{"rendered":"National Cinema Day: Movies in most US theaters will cost $3 Sept.  3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\"><button class=\"wpds-c-gNHrZC wpds-c-gNHrZC-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-gNHrZC-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-gNHrZC-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-gNHrZC-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-gNHrZC-futxca-cv wpds-c-gNHrZC-ihhnWqF-css\"><button class=\"PJLV PJLV-igcOMTV-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-coakfw wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\" iconstyle=\"[object Object]\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Moviegoers across the country will have the chance to see a movie for $3 at their local theater next weekend in an inaugural event dubbed \u201cNational Cinema Day\u201d as the industry attempts to climb back to its pre-pandemic success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">No matter the time of day or the film format, on Sept.  3 people will pay just $3 (not including taxes or fees) to see a movie on the silver screen.  That&#8217;s according to an announcement Sunday from the Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit arm of the National Association of Theater Owners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">More than 3,000 theaters with over 30,000 screens are expected to participate in the event, including major chains such as AMC and Regal.  (There were about 41,000 screens at about 5,800 sites in 2020, according to the most recent data available from the National Association of Theater Owners.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Jackie Brenneman, the Cinema Foundation&#8217;s president, said in a news release that the event is a \u201cthank you\u201d to moviegoers who helped make this summer a relative success, and motivation<b> <\/b>for those who haven&#8217;t returned to theaters.  The news release did not specify how or whether studios and movie theaters would be compensated for the discount.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">As of this weekend, 2022&#8217;s estimated domestic box office total is $5.3 billion, according to data from ComScore, a media measurement and analytics company.  That&#8217;s up 161 percent from this time last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The National Cinema Day offering comes after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered many theaters while officials tried to slow the spread of covid-19.  Even the once-reliable family-film genre saw dips at the box office last summer, when the delta variant swept through the nation.  Financial woes have continued to plague the industry even after vaccines and boosters became available.  The Associated Press reported last week that the British company Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, announced that it&#8217;s considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States to content with debt and empty seats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Yet there have been glimmers of hope for movie attendees and industry professionals recently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The subscription service MoviePass announced that it has been resurrected after it declared bankruptcy in 2020, and movie watchers had more options to visit their local theater compared with the past two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">The rise and decline of MoviePass, the subscription service that flew too close to the sun<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Ticket sales have increased since 2021, though they have yet to return to 2019 numbers, Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for ComScore, told The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">National Cinema Day is a fitting celebration for \u201can incredible summer movie season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a great way to bring an industry together,\u201d he said, noting that 2021 was below traditional box office levels.  \u201cThis summer, with &#8216;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8217; &#8216;Doctor Strange&#8217; and &#8216;Jurassic World Dominion,&#8217; the film industry is able to prove to the world that movie experience is here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Amid theater closures and low turnout, Paramount Pictures bumped the release date for \u201cMaverick\u201d from November 2021 to this May, and Disney&#8217;s Marvel Studios delayed the debut of \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d from last fall to March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\">Amid delta concerns, &#8216;Top Gun: Maverick&#8217; release is moved from November to May 2022<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cWe still are, the movie theater industry, making that big comeback.  It&#8217;s taken many, many months,\u201d Dergarabedian said.  \u201cWe&#8217;ll probably get back to a more normalized marketplace next summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">This summer had about 30 percent fewer major blockbuster movies on the schedule compared with pre-pandemic times, according to David A. Gross, who runs Franchise Entertainment Research, a box office analyst and film marketing consultancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Gross noted that \u201cMaverick,\u201d \u201cElvis\u201d and \u201cThor: Love and Thunder\u201d provided some of the strongest stretches of bankable movies since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">He estimated that total domestic box office numbers in August and September will finish 45 percent<b> <\/b>lower than the same stretch in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The National Cinema Day deal comes at a time when there&#8217;s a lull in movie attendance along with a weak movie schedule, according to Gross, whose LinkedIn profile lists a stint as a Twentieth Century Fox marketing executive in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">\u201cDoing<b> <\/b>some kind of special offer to bring people in is not going to revolutionize the business or change the bigger picture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">But the $3 deal is a good way to get more people in movie seats and buying concession stand items, Gross said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">The rebound of moviegoing and box office success will depend on movie schedules, which promising look for the months ahead, and time will need to be counted in years, not months, according to Gross.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\"><i>Steven Zeitchik contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"b bt bc-offblack dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment Moviegoers across the country will have the chance to see a movie for $3 at their local theater next weekend in an inaugural event dubbed \u201cNational Cinema Day\u201d as the industry attempts to climb back to its pre-pandemic success. 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