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Author Topic: Admission price Jeff Lacey Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Jun 2005 posted 11-23-2006 02:51 AM                     What's the lowest first run ticket prices you've ever seen recently? A local theater company has gone nuts with the competition near them. They play the same movies and are about 2.5 miles from each other. Their ticket prices are: Adults after 6 $5.00 Adults before 6 $4.00 Children/Senior $3.00 Twillight $3.00 Students $4.00 The place is not even a dump, just losing out to the competition big time. With prices this low, don't you think patrons are going to think they are getting a lot less for their money? I just don't see how prices this low is a good thing... Maybe I'm wrong, but why would the film companies even bother booking this theater when they know they will get a larger share down the road and send the "cheap theater's" print to someone else who is charging normal prices?  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 11-30-2006 09:22 PM                        quote: you should sponsor (as a promotion) a "New York Weekend." Admission price will be $10.50, Bill Gable posted that the Ziegfeld is $11.00 for Bond. The AMC Empire 25 is now also $11 and that was for The Prestige (although I think it's $11 across the board.) Next time someone claims that $5 is expensive to see a movie, ask them what other entertainment only costs $2.50 an hour.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-04-2006 08:47 PM                     This is all relative. Of course the metro NY-NJ-CT area is high, because the cost of living is also high. So are the taxes. I'm not just talking about sales tax (here in NJ we are the governor's tax collector to the tune of 7%, which is included in the ticket prices. Then, speaking of taxes, we have the property tax here in NJ, highest in the country. I'm not even going to begin to tell you what we pay as a business each year, because you would wonder how we stay in business. Of course, we wouldn't if we charged $5-6 for adults. It's best to compare prices in your area and keep in line with what others charge. It's sort of like the airlines- when one raises or lowers prices, others follow suit. One interesting thing. I believe it's like the old saying "all politics is local", but applied to the movie business. If you increase your price by 25 cents in order to keep up with costs, you probably will not lose customers to the guy 5 miles down the road, because it costs more to drive there anyway. Here's another thought, and I don't know the answer to this: What is the threshold price, that once reached, where people will say "screw it- I'm finished with going to the movies"?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-04-2006 08:58 PM                     An example in Colorado Springs has me scratching my head in wonder. The evening price of the Carmike 10 (a first run theater with stadium seating and now all digital projection) is only $5.25. Their prices before 6:00pm are $4.25. By comparison, Carmike's Chapel Hills Mall 15 has an evening price of $8.00. That theater has also has digital projection, but it's inside a mall, has really small auditoriums and no room to grow for anything like a conversion to stadium seating. I guess the Carmike 10's "best prices in town" policy is meant to draw customers from the two Cinemark locations in the area.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2006 09:25 PM                        Maybe they're operating under the "If we charge a low price, that'll justify our crappy presentation, understaffed concessions and worn-out seats" theory.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-05-2006 09:15 AM                     But that's the thing I don't understand. Presentation quality isn't the issue. This location did a complete stadium seating retrofit a couple years ago. And digital projection was just added on all screens in October. The theater building is around 10 years old. It's not like the place is a dump needing to be downgraded to 2nd run or just close. The main gripe I have with ALL theaters in the Colorado Springs area, with perhaps the sole exception of the IMAX theater at the Cinemark Carefree Circle location, is they run their sound at very wimpy, low levels. Presentation quality at the two Cinemark locations in the 'Springs has definitely slipped a good bit from an already somewhat mediocre level. See my review of Snakes on a Plane for some specifics about that. Cinemark at Carefree Circle has one regular theater screen equipped with digital projection, and have been charging a $2 premium to watch movies in that format. I don't know if they're still doing that with all of Carmike's screens doing the DLP thing.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-05-2006 09:20 AM                        Are they charging that for ALL DLP movies or just Real-D?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-05-2006 10:02 AM                     I'm not sure. That one screen has played Real D movies, such as Monster House and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I just checked and the theater is currently playing Casino Royale in regular 2D video at an evening admission price of $7.50.  |  IP: Logged Andrew Peter Chobaniuk Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Registered: Jul 2006 posted 12-06-2006 09:06 AM                     $9.85 CAD - Adults $8.85 CAD - Seniors/Children  |  IP: Logged Dave Ritchie Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Thames, New Zealand Registered: Oct 2006 posted 12-06-2006 11:19 PM                     I run the Thames multiplex (NZ)and we are Adult - Day $11 / Night $13 Child - Day $7 / Night $8 We have a lot of Americans though on holiday that say this is very expensive but seeing that $1 of ours is worth about 65 cents of yours it seems alright to me,  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 12-06-2006 11:57 PM                        We just changed our matinee times a few days ago, now it's only the first set. Being that we can have a 2nd set starting shortly after 2 if it's a short movie, this will make lots of people quite angry, considering it was a flat 6pm cutoff time prior. We've already gotten an earfull. "It's only 4:00 and I have to pay evening prices? I'm going down the street!" And 95% of the do. I don't think the combined gain on each ticket during the second, and sometimes 3rd, sets justifys the number of customers run off by the change, and only gets our floor employee's frustrated from hearing about it numerous times a day. I think REG may have just done Carmike, and the new cinema, a HUGE favor.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-30-2010 02:08 PM                 It has been 1270 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 05-30-2010 02:08 PM                        AMC is switching to $5 all shows except weekends & holidays, starting June 18, 2010. Five Buck Club quote: AMC Starting June 18, our normal price for all movies, all day, any time Monday through Thursday* will be $5 - no club or cards necessary. You will be able to see the latest movies for $5 and we're happy to make this pricing available to all our guests. On weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday and some holidays) before noon, you will also be able to see $5 movies at most theatres. The asterisk simply leads to "excludes holidays".  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 05-30-2010 05:11 PM                     There has been an admission price war between Cinemark and Premiere Cinemas in the Bryan/College Station area. Premiere has the most expensive adult ticket at $6.50. Cinemark's most expensive adult ticket there is $5.50. These complexes have their own zones but, according to one of my co-workers who visits the area as he used to live out there, are "down the road" from each other.  |  IP: Logged Elise Brandt Expert Film Handler Posts: 160 From: Kuusankoski, FIN/ Kouvola, Finland Registered: Dec 2009 posted 06-01-2010 03:41 AM                     Oh, boy. I just have to chirp in with our pricing. The average ticket price today is 9-10 euros. That's -what- $13, about? 8€ for kids' movies, and usually 12 for 3D. Sometimes, rarely, there's a rerun for €5... Our medium popcorn and two sodas are €6,50. And we're a small theater. Bigger theaters might have concessions almost twice the price, and tickets anywhere from 6,80 to 13.50 euros depending on the time of the show. But then again we fill our cars tanks for 1,40 a liter, about €5,20 a gallon. Again, what, $6,40. Ouch.  |  IP: Logged

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