{"id":395,"date":"2011-07-03T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2011-07-03T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T13:00:09","slug":"the-economics-of-the-movie-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-economics-of-the-movie-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of the Movie Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/062611_1348_theeconomic11.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/old\/content\/2006\/01\/5905.ars\">Arstechnica<\/a> looked at the economics behind the movie theater industry. Some of their findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Popcorn can have up to a 900% mark up.<\/li>\n<li>Soda can have a 3000% mark up.<\/li>\n<li>Advertisers pay up to $50,000 per screen per year to theater owners. Sometimes they ask the cinema management to turn up the volume of their ads in the hopes of better capturing the audience&#8217;s attention.<\/li>\n<li>Theaters get to keep about 50% of the total value of ticket sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/old\/content\/2006\/01\/5905.ars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/old\/content\/2006\/01\/5905.ars\">Arstechnica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago Arstechnica looked at the economics behind the movie theater industry. Some of their findings include: Popcorn can have up to a 900% mark up. Soda can have a 3000% mark up. Advertisers pay up to $50,000 per screen per year to theater owners. Sometimes they ask the cinema management to turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}