THR: The number of people going to the movies in 2014 in North America slipped to its lowest level in two decades.
According to preliminary estimates, roughly 1.26 billion consumers purchased cinema tickets between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31. That's the lowest number since 1.21 billion in 1995 and not that far ahead of 1994 (1.24 billion). The last time admissions fell below the 1.3 billion mark was in 2011, when only 1.28 billion people when to the movies.
Inside Out 2 has got to be the animation movie of the year for me so far. It had everything I wanted from the original and so much more I never could have anticipated. From the very first opening scene with that nostalgic, wholesome piano keys of the theme sound from the first movie, it was like my soul was transported back into the feelings the first movie brought about while bringing me wholly into the world of the sequel.
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Yet the industry is more profitable than ever due to all the inflated ticket prices. It's becoming almost impossible to find a non-3D showing of a film these days.
That's the VOD one-two punch, for you. Digital's the new pasture that the masses are grazing from. It's superheroes that've basically saved the theater in the same way that sci-fi blockbusters saved them in the '50s when television sets kept everyone at home.
Blockbusters are only getting bigger; trouble is, they're getting fewer. There's gotta be huge reasons to drive to and pay for huge screenings, but I'm happy to pay it if it's Age of Ultrons and Guardians of the Galaxies I'm seeing. There's just no need to see 90% of movies in IMAXes anymore. Gravity was one of the only movies that embarrassed my phone's screen.