> I see the same pattern for movie theaters. They used to be independent mostly with affordable prices.
Movie theaters used to be extremely integrated with the movie studios. You had to go to a Paramount movie theater to see a Paramount movie. Antitrust laws broke that up until just recently Sony bought Alamo Drafthouse.
But that said, there's still a lot of different brands of movie theaters around me. On top of the normal Cinemark and AMC there's also Alamo Drafthouse, Studio Movie Grill, B&B, Angelika, and several other single-location theaters.
Movie theaters used to be extremely integrated with the movie studios. You had to go to a Paramount movie theater to see a Paramount movie. Antitrust laws broke that up until just recently Sony bought Alamo Drafthouse.
But that said, there's still a lot of different brands of movie theaters around me. On top of the normal Cinemark and AMC there's also Alamo Drafthouse, Studio Movie Grill, B&B, Angelika, and several other single-location theaters.