Jeffrey Dubow

It's shot in a certain specific type of way.

And the tickets sold out in minutes.

The $50 tickets?

The $50 ones, yeah.

It's because it's like a pre-screening, like you get to see it before everybody else?

It's got to be something hardcore.

It's just cooler.

Oh.

It's just a flex.

If you're wondering, it's not that Regal's bumping up prices in premium format theaters only.

Nationwide, the average ticket cost is $18, and it's as high as $30 in major cities.

And the reason theaters are jacking up prices is because attendance continues to stay down.

I know, I was going to say, but theaters are doing so well.

They're just making so much money.

That's a joke.

They're still not seeing pre-pandemic numbers come back.

Still, some experts are concerned normal people are being totally priced out of the entire movie-going experience.

I feel like you have to do this like $50 or $100 to go buy the cool popcorn bucket, go get into the fancy recliners.

What happened to just sneaking your friends in through the exit door?

Yeah, dude, you can't do that anymore.