• pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It does seem stupid to open both movies at the same time. Moviegoers are a shrinking population and the audience for seemingly different movies really does overlap a lot. So why the hell would two of the most hyped movies open at the same time? Both would benefit from spacing their release dates out.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, if anything they’re benefiting from the joint marketing. Lots of people who’d never be interested in Oppenheimer are booking double-features of it and Barbie just to get in on the Barbenheimer meme (and vice versa!).

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      1 year ago

      I think this is the innovation nurturing free market that capitalism is always promising us at work? But something seems off, yes lol