Not Even “the Last Jedi” Will Reverse Americans’ Retreat From Cinemas

The Economist: Business, The Economist
Thu, 12/14/2017 - 8:50am

THE new “Star Wars” film opens this week. “The Last Jedi” arrives in cinemas in time to boost expected ticket sales for the year to about $11bn in America, only slightly down from last year’s record. But the American film industry is in trouble. Tickets sold per person have declined to their lowest point since the early 1970s, before the introduction of the multiplex.

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