Disney finally lost the top studio position this year! 
For years Disney was the top earner among Hollywood, enjoying a dangerous amount of success to the point where there were rumours that the studio is trying to swallow up it's competitors and enforce a monopoly on the filmmaking business. Their dominance started in 2016 
and there's a reason why The Mouse pushed the DEI stuff so hard, it has proven to be a really good strategy... until it wasn't 
Covid was the first blow to Disney, causing them to lose the domestic crown to Sony in 2020, and they never managed to recover from it. It was during the lockdowns that the audience moved from eating up any shitty nostalgia bait movie to seeking out different types of movies, and it was after everyone recovered from covid that Disney's second favorite gimmick, put a minority in the movie to avoid criticism, started to grate on the public.
So now Universal moved in and pushed Disney off the pedestal 
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COVID fricked up their assembly-line slop production pipeline, and they pivoted to Disney+ to divert eyeballs there, which basically trained people to just wait a couple of months to watch their movies. The shitty scripts, middling reviews and inflation pretty much guaranteed their box office woes.
I think the pandemic did permanent damage to the box office business model. We'll be seeing declining # of tickets sold over the decade. Event movies will make money, but the rest will have to get their budgets in tight control to turn a profit.
There are just way too many alternate avenues for entertainment now. It'll be a struggle for theaters to survive.
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With tvs improving so much, theaters being pricey and shitty experiences, and it not being a long wait to see things at home I don't get why anyone even goes to theaters anymore. You can save so much money, especially as a family, by just waiting a month or two and watching it at home. All while having a better experience
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Yep, audiences have turned into rude and inconsiderate animals. The social aspect of movie-going, which used to be a pro, is now working against it.
The price just doesn't justify the subpar experience, even if a movie is worth watching in a theater.
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No kidding. The last few times I've been to the theaters for a movie (Oppenheimer and Barbie, then Napoleon), audiences have forgotten that they're in public and not at home watching a movie on their TVs. Constant talking, phones out with the bright screens on, and worse. I wouldn't put it past some people to expect that someone will pause the movie while they go to the bathroom. The only saving grace has been some of the ads pre-movie that now, instead of just reminding people to be quiet, remind people that they aren't at home. I think the Amazon Prime ad does this now.
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Yeah, obnoxious phone usage caught on as soon as smartphones became ubiquitous. Now it's non-stop.
People are making tiktoks and insta reels in the middle of the movie and getting mad when told to STFU.
I used to go once or twice a week, but now it's almost down to once a year. No one in my family is interested in watching stuff at the theater.
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I had none of that this year. A couple of phones went off and were quickly silenced, a couple of irritants who were temporary. The most common problem was that people kept on getting up to go to the bathroom, which did happen many times. Like they forgot that you can't pause at the cinema.
But other than that, none of those problems.
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They haven't yet realized they are competing with piracy, past movies and shows, foreign movies and shows, video games, streamers and other type of newfangled internet entertainment, cat videos, tik toks, memes and shitposts.
You don't even need to touch a single movie nowadays to be constantly entertained, let alone pay for one.
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It's expensive too, why pay exuberant prices for movie tickets to the latest slop and popcorn when I can just watch it on one of the custom goy streaming services? Or better yet, pirate it in 4k a few months later? It's a shame that most people are r-slurs and have no idea how to download torrents.
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