{"id":665,"date":"2005-04-01T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T08:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/04\/we_are_not_alone\/"},"modified":"2005-04-01T00:14:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T08:14:04","slug":"we_are_not_alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/we_are_not_alone.php","title":{"rendered":"We are not alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short piece in the <i>Christian Science Monitor<\/i> shows that it&#8217;s not just cultural managers who are under stress from all sides&#8230;<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2005\/0325\/p12s01-almo.html\">movie theater owners are feeling the pinch<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n<p>With razor-thin profit sharing deals with the major studios, mounting pressures to push blockbusters through their doors, and increasing competition for audience time, money, and attention, movie managers are also longing for days gone by:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8221;In the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s, everybody went to the movies,&#8221; says [Michigan movie-chain owner Joseph] Chabot, adding that with all the competition from other entertainment sources, including ever more sophisticated home theaters, people are getting out of the moviegoing habit. &#8221;We need to do more to develop the habitual moviegoer,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps a renewed emphasis on movie education in our public schools, a few economic impact studies, and a national tour of <i>Citizen Kane<\/i> would solve the problem. Perhaps not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short piece in the Christian Science Monitor shows that it&#8217;s not just cultural managers who are under stress from all sides&#8230;movie theater owners are feeling the pinch, as well. With razor-thin profit sharing deals with the major studios, mounting pressures to push blockbusters through their doors, and increasing competition for audience time, money, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}