Cineworld considers bankruptcy as cinema struggles continue

In other words, people are not rushing to the cinemas due to the very limited release of QUALITY films. “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” and ”Jurassic Park: Dominion" were, however, successful.

Mostly only sequels and poor remakes have been in the offering.

Hervé L'Eisa :I think you're contradicting yourself. They are all sequels, and only one of them is actually any good. Mind you, if the other two (guess which two) did well, then that speaks volumes as to why Hollywood continue to churn out this s**t.

Maybe, the business model has nowadays become a bit outdated. Movie companies and cinema operators make the choice which movies to produce or getting a sequel, which ones to promote and really to show. But more and more people of course grow up, develop other interests, want to see something else, something of their own choice, or simply one of the many movies that are already produced but weren’t or aren’t shown at cheaters or shown only one time at a strange time, while the blockbusters run multiple times every day and night. So you have no chance to watch it and can only go for the unwanted or less liked blockbuster. You also wouldn’t go to an expensive restaurant and eat and pay what they think that has to be cooked and sold, no, you want to eat there what you like , what corresponds to your tastes and what you order yourself from a rich filled printed menu. They should just cooperate a bit more with the viewers, the potential movie theater goers, making surveys and rankings and then bring all of the lists related to the rank, not only the upper two, plus sometimes a few of more interesting outlier movies or famous old classics for the more cinematic art interested people and so on.

Their competition from not only increasingly good equipment in homes (increasingly cheap 4k TVs and sound bars for people who don’t have space for surround systems) comes from Streaming services, recently adding Disney to the mix. With Disney, all kinds of spectacles are available from the sofa in a way Netflix didn’t really provide.

Frankly, I’m surprised they’re doing so well with all that considered. What they need to build on is the whole experience of going out to see a movie, as that’s what makes it special. 3D was an attempt at that, as usual let down by the technology not quite being ready. Presumably they’ll try with VR some day.

Maybe have some form of audience participation involved? I feel that’s been neglected over the years, in comparison to, say, pantomimes. Maybe they could vote on outcomes?