Put simply, we’d rather stay home, and movies are made for people who’d rather go out.
The Day the Movies Died - a gripping read about the sad state of film production in the US everywhere. It’s easy to blame greedy philistine producers, but the truth is most grown-up audiences rather stay home watching Mad Men - quality audio-visual time indeed, but part of a vicious circle that’s turning movie theatres into branches of Toys'R'Us…