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I have been looking for movie theater information for weeks. So you'll understand how stoked I am to find this website.

I have spent the last couple hours looking through posts on the cost of renting a new movie. I am afraid to go off of information six or seven years ago, but I know you guys are tired of answering this question.

If there is a link to a post about the costs of renting a movie, I would be forever grateful.

And btw, thanks for keeping up the buildings that built so much of my life thus far. And yes, while true, I am trying to butter you up.

Hi
the costs vary from film to film and distributor to distributor..theres not one answer..

In several posts of various topics it seam the consensus here is you can use 50% for an average in an average first run theatre. That could be considered the average across a year. Just getting started may cost you deposit money up front until you have credit established. But some pictures will start at 70% and then go down as you play them each week. Others if you do really well can cost 90/10 vs. house allowance. Search on house allowance and there is a great post that explains this and film rent.

the cost of renting a new movie is called---TERMS

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look for that word on old posts.

older films that are still in release are in the 35% of your gross/ the newer and the bigger the picture the higher the weekly (best week) terms. Newer films require longer holdover: big pictures in bigger markets can run as long as 8 weeks and more depending on gross. Smaller towns can run as short as 2 weeks. We play mostly first run with lots of catch up and indies thrown in and average +/- 51% film costs for the year on the gross tik sale.

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Michael Hurley
Impresario

Amazing. I'm going to be researching that now. So it sounds like its a percentage. Thanks for the amazingly quick reply!