What: "Star Wars is like a Happy Meal. You can mass-produce both the meal and the movie so cheaply and sell them in such quantity that you can almost give them away. Art is different. You just can't make great works of art that cheaply and count on selling billions and billions of them. In line with the example of an independent restaurant in comparison with a McDonald's, the independent theater should stop trying to compete with the mainstream theater on ticket price." The link is a discussion and analysis of the economics of Art House Movie theaters.

Writer: Ray Carney

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Date: Dec 3 2011 11:15 AM