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Article: Theaters bring back frills to counteract VCR threat
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 3, 1986
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LOS ANGELES Box office receipts are down, and the home video market
is thriving. So movie theaters are doomed.
Right?
Wrong, if the amount of building, buying and renovating is any
measure.
Robert Selig, president of the Theater Association of California
- a trade group representing the 2,000 motion picture theaters in the
state, said, "There are no less than 1,000 new screens this year in
the country (which has a total of about 20,000 screens), and some
1,500 are planned for next year in new and expanded locations."
An estimated 10 percent to 12 percent of these are planned in
California, which last year had the highest number of movie screens
of any state. Texas was second and
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