The Biggest Problems Facing Movie Theaters, Studios, and Moviegoers in 2025

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

On a special episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the biggest problems facing the world of movie theaters and exhibition right now.

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Problems for theaters
Problems for studios
Problems for moviegoers
Potential solutions

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slashfilm Daily. Today is a very special episode of the show.
0:04.2	We're going to be talking about the biggest problems facing the world of movie theaters and exhibition right now.
0:10.1	My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott.
0:18.1	Hey, hey, everyone. How's it going?
0:20.3	All right, Ryan.
0:21.0	We are recording this in early April.
0:22.9	I'm not sure exactly when this episode is going to be published, but as we record,
0:26.5	Cinemicon just wrapped up.
0:28.5	And we've been planning for a little while to use that as a springboard to talk about
0:32.6	some of the biggest problems the industry is facing right now.
0:35.2	From what I gathered from afar, there weren't many
0:37.9	concrete answers provided for the things that we're about to go over. So I guess that's kind of a
0:42.7	failure of Cinemicon. But anyway, we'll touch more on that as we go along. So you prepared a whole
0:47.8	document that we're going to go through. But I wanted to say two things before we get into that.
0:51.9	So the first thing is, if you've been listening
0:54.2	to this podcast for a while, these issues are going to be familiar to you. I'm looking at this
0:58.6	episode as a way for us to kind of do a like a clear-eyed look at all of these problems in the
1:04.0	exhibition space, et cetera, and put them in one place. So if you're a long-time listener who is
1:08.4	bored with this stuff, I'm sorry. But if you're a newer listener or somebody who cares about these problems, I'm hoping this will be valuable to you.
1:15.8	And the second thing is I wanted to read an email from Jerry from Omaha who wrote in.
1:21.2	And I think a lot of the points that Jerry raises are going to be good for us to sort of have at the beginning of this episode,
1:27.6	because as we go through some of these issues, I think we'll be touching on a lot of the
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