{"id":2087,"date":"2012-01-05T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2012-01-05T09:06:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:06:42","slug":"why-do-theaters-charge-the-same-prices-for-different-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-do-theaters-charge-the-same-prices-for-different-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Theaters Charge the Same Prices for Different Films?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/010512_1404_WhyDoTheate1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why does a movie ticket for the summer&#8217;s biggest blockbusters and the smallest independent flick cost the same at the theater? Derek Thompson at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/01\/why-do-all-movie-tickets-cost-the-same\/250762\/\"><em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>offers four theories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If movie theaters were known to cut prices a few weeks after the film hit the screens then customers would have an incentive to hold off on watching a movie for a few weeks. Therefore theaters avoid cutting the price of movie tickets for any one film over time.<\/li>\n<li>Price is also a signal of quality. If you saw that one movie cost less than another, you might wonder about the cheaper film&#8217;s quality and avoid watching it.<\/li>\n<li>If different movies had different prices then movie-goers may sneak into a more expensive screening after purchasing a ticket for a cheaper film.<\/li>\n<li>Theaters don&#8217;t want to get into a price war with one another<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about how the economics of the movie theater have changed since 1929 as well as other interesting facts and opinions click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/01\/why-do-all-movie-tickets-cost-the-same\/250762\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/01\/why-do-all-movie-tickets-cost-the-same\/250762\/\"><em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/01\/why-is-there-uniform-pricing-for-movie-tickets.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does a movie ticket for the summer&#8217;s biggest blockbusters and the smallest independent flick cost the same at the theater? Derek Thompson at The Atlantic offers four theories: If movie theaters were known to cut prices a few weeks after the film hit the screens then customers would have an incentive to hold off [&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-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}