And what does he kill every time someone gets ripped off by a large agency that is hungry for money?

I think a class action lawsuit should be filed on behalf of God and all His creations because this is ad is libel.

Every time someone buys popcorn and soda at the cinema, the devil has an orgasm.

Good thing im an atheist so i can torrent all i want.

kind of a confusing message, how about:

EVERY TIME YOU TORRENT
WE LAY OFF AN EMPLOYEE

And what if your atheist? Nothing is watching @_@?

almost 9.5$ to watch a movie .
large popcorn with 2 medium soda's for about 12.9$...
and they cry!
we,the audience should be crying! but instead we are torrenting...
god is HELPING us...
these are the prices in Israel some places take even more on the popcorn+soda

people dont torrent indi films, what were they thinking.

I don't think Independant Cinema's have to worry. There aren't enough seeds for independant movies.

Thats awful blaming it on God.
God doesn't kill cinemas, pirates and the greedy megacorps represented by the MPAA do.

people dont torrent indi films, they suck to bad.

I agree that torrent does affect the movie sale in one degree. However, I believe most of the down of ticket sale on the cinemas are due to that more and more people now prefer to wtach the movies at home with their HDTV, dirt cheap home popped popcorns, and $1/1L soda. With increase of popularity of streaming, BD, and DVD upscaling... and the bigger and higher resolution HDTVs... it is not a surprise that cinemas are not doing good business..

Without invesment on better quality of movie experience, cheaper food/drink, and better service... the nature selection of cinemas is going to be tougher and tougher by time...

The current trent of 3D movies(just too expensive) and Digital projection are a nice way to go.

While all the media playform are improving so fast these days... the old cenimas really need find a way to catch on the bus.. or they will just be left behind.

I think its weird Public Enemies is still playing in Britain. I know things don't always hop across the pond very quickly, but that seems a bit old.

And besides, is the story of John Dillinger even known in Europe, or are they simply banking on Johnny Depp to sell it to an international audience.

I'm sorry I think I got off track, what was this story about again?

what about:
Every time you give a 10-er to the cinema capitalists god kills a child in Kenya!

I always find it disappointing when people show a clear lack of knowledge in a subject they argue. Torrenting isn't a bad thing in and of itself (from their perspective anyways), its people who distribute a movie without paying that would be arguably a negative thing. It would be like saying, "Every time you travel, another baby dies of pollution", travelling isn't bad in and of it self, its how you travel (ie. did you walk, drive a gas-guzzler, take a bus, etc)

So I guess FTP servers are ok then?

Everytime a big corporation sues a single mother over a million dollars worth of damages, a lawyer is spawned from hell.

God's not killing anything, people do, and if you'd really believe in a God, then it would perhaps be the devil who's doing the killing!

I'm tired of God getting blamed for everything we do ourselves!
steal, and God brings you to jail too? (Unless you adore cops, I don't think there's much of God in killing anything, neither is there much of God in cinema's playing ungodly stuff, so I think God wouldn't even waste 1 second of his time killing a cinema...)
He probably has much more important things to do than that!

Sure if you can find the good quality movies prelaunch, but how often are they available? Most of the time it's just not the quality you get in the cinema. People only watch those close to launch releases to know what everyone is talking about and wait until the dvd is out or the movies shows up on television to look at it with decent quality.

The problem isn't that people are torrenting the movies, it's that the cinema is too expansive and not adding enough value anymore. And I don't disagree with them. There are so many advantages for not going to the cinema. Can pause when I want, I can grab my cheap popcorn and soda, I can watch more relax don't have to worry about anyone else talking, don't have to worry about anyone sitting in front of me blocking the view.

The problem isn't torrenting, it's the cinema. As soon as they find ways to get us back in, torrenting will go down. And we can also say that DVD, blueray and streaming kills cinema, all legal but that doesn't sound that great now does it?

I don't pirate movies... I try to go at least every other weekend but that rarely happens.

One suggestion... maybe if people weren't cornered into paying rape prices for concessions... more people would goto a movie. Paying up to $10 per person is bad enough... but then if you want anything to eat or drink, you get to pay at least 500% markup from what you'd get the same thing for at the store.

The closest theater to me does $4.75 5pm-6pm showings, so I usually try to make those.

Most of the money from ticket sales goes back to the movie studio. A film booker leases a movie to a particular theater for a set period of weeks. The percentage of ticket sales that the studio takes decreases on each week that a movie is in the theater. If the screening was arranged by an independent middleman, he also takes a slice. So the movie has to pull in sizeable audiences for several weeks in order for theater owners to make any serious profits.
graphic Where movie theaters make their money

• Movie tickets: From 20 to 55 percent of ticket price, increasing the longer the movie is shown there.
• Snack sales: For theater owners, this is where the real money is made. Concession companies may pay up front to run this part of the business.
• Trailers: Movie studios pay theaters to show trailers based on how many people saw them.
• Adverstising: Theaters split the $50 to $100 fee for ad slides before movies with local advertising agents.


During the film's opening week, the studio might take 70 to 80 percent of gross box office sales. By the fifth or sixth week, the percentage the studio takes will likely shrink to about 35 percent.

If you've got a blockbuster like Titanic or The Lord of the Rings, with audiences that keep streaming in for weeks, everybody's happy -- especially theater owners.

The munchies

That's why the extras -- especially the concession stand -- are so important. Without pricey snacks, most theaters couldn't stay in business.

Studios also pay theaters to show trailers. But they pay for them after the fact, based on the number of people who saw them. graphic

"Studios send a couple of new trailers every week and they send new commercials. We have to call in our numbers every night to the film companies, and they give you 'x-amount' per person.

Finally, tidbits like local advertising can generate revenue for the theater as well. Most theaters have slide projectors with ads that play before the movie begins. An advertising agency charges local businesses about $50 to $100 a month to show their ad, and the movie theater takes half, Edelman.

Costs

The costs of running a theater include the price of building the theater (or leasing it), utilities, equipment and maintenance, the cost of leasing the actual films, and the cost of paying their employees.

And theater owners have to weigh the benefits of certain cost-reduction strategies. Concession companies, for example, may give $25,000 to $50,000 to the building of a new screen, if the theater will contract with them for several years and split profits made on snacks.

Hope this dispels all the negativity against theater owners. In the end it's the movie studio squeezing out every last penny they can get. And as times goes on the studio are nipping ever so more.

In the end everyone wants a piece of the pie!

i dont mind paying to see a movie its the damn 40 dollors for snacks that i hate!

Most of the money from ticket sales goes back to the movie studio. A film booker leases a movie to a particular theater for a set period of weeks. The percentage of ticket sales that the studio takes decreases on each week that a movie is in the theater. If the screening was arranged by an independent middleman, he also takes a slice. So the movie has to pull in sizeable audiences for several weeks in order for theater owners to make any serious profits.

• Movie tickets: From 20 to 55 percent of ticket price, increasing the longer the movie is shown there.
• Snack sales: For theater owners, this is where the real money is made. Concession companies may pay up front to run this part of the business.
• Trailers: Movie studios pay theaters to show trailers based on how many people saw them.
• Adverstising: Theaters split the $50 to $100 fee for ad slides before movies with local advertising agents.


During the film's opening week, the studio might take 70 to 80 percent of gross box office sales. By the fifth or sixth week, the percentage the studio takes will likely shrink to about 35 percent.

If you've got a blockbuster like Titanic or The Lord of the Rings, with audiences that keep streaming in for weeks, everybody's happy -- especially theater owners.

The munchies

That's why the extras -- especially the concession stand -- are so important. Without pricey snacks, most theaters couldn't stay in business.

Studios also pay theaters to show trailers. But they pay for them after the fact, based on the number of people who saw them.

"Studios send a couple of new trailers every week and they send new commercials. We have to call in our numbers every night to the film companies, and they give you 'x-amount' per person.

Finally, tidbits like local advertising can generate revenue for the theater as well. Most theaters have slide projectors with ads that play before the movie begins. An advertising agency charges local businesses about $50 to $100 a month to show their ad, and the movie theater takes half.

Costs

The costs of running a theater include the price of building the theater (or leasing it), utilities, equipment and maintenance, the cost of leasing the actual films, and the cost of paying their employees.

And theater owners have to weigh the benefits of certain cost-reduction strategies. Concession companies, for example, may give $25,000 to $50,000 to the building of a new screen, if the theater will contract with them for several years and split profits made on snacks.

I hope this helps to dispel the negative views of theater owners. It's really the studio's that are forcing the ever higher prices.

Theater owners are just trying to survive like everyone else.

*yawn*, sorry my eyes glazed over after the "Most of the money..." part. Anywho, most people that go to the theatre go for the movie experience shared with friends, like "hey you want to do something this weekend.., yea lets go see whats at the movies.." EVEN if they have ALREADY seen it before, especially of the torrents, cause the quality generally sucks.

So quit crying folks, if you don't get the dough, you weren't going to get it anyway and may God strike you down for blaspheming.

I pay a monthly fee at the cinema's to go unlimited anyway
guess some people are just too lazy to go, its not even expensive
like 18 bucks

Hold on, let me finish my downloaded copy of Zombieland I got this weekend before I comment on this...LOL

you cant find indie films on torrents

LOL - soldier37, (I hear a theatre dying), its all your fault!!

I would quote the above about how the profit is broke down, but its too long. Believe me we know where all the money goes, and it isnt the buisness owner. We know its the movie studios, and as far as im concerned, I am not paying 30bucks to watch a movie. Most blockbusters today suck and dont even warrent a 5 dollar mattenee charge. As far as concessions, I understand it, but its just another reason I dont go to the movies anymore. If I was 17 or 18 again I sure would, but that is because its a safe place to try to get some lovin