Cinemas are a business though so they need to make a profit to carry on. They obviously make huge profits on the snacks and drinks side of the business but honestly they are optional. Probably they don't make profit much on ticket sales when you consider the overheads on a huge multiplex : heating, lighting , rent, rates, staff costs.
In fact in the UK cinema isn't dying. It obviously isn't going to match the heyday of the 40s and 50s when there was no tv and also cinema was the only way to see the newsreels, but it's picked up tremendously since the lows of the early 80s. Since the year 2000 attendances every year have been twice what they were in the early and mid 80s. Take a look
http://www.cinemauk.org.uk/facts-and...ons-1935-2013/
In fact in the UK cinema isn't dying. It obviously isn't going to match the heyday of the 40s and 50s when there was no tv and also cinema was the only way to see the newsreels, but it's picked up tremendously since the lows of the early 80s. Since the year 2000 attendances every year have been twice what they were in the early and mid 80s. Take a look
http://www.cinemauk.org.uk/facts-and...ons-1935-2013/