Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have predicted a Hollywood "implosion" that could change the shape of the film industry forever and lead to dramatically hiked ticket prices for blockbuster films.
Spielberg's suggestion that a succession of box-office failures could radically change the shape of the film industry, and lead to dramatically hiked ticket prices for blockbuster films, made headlines around the world in June 2013.
If they were, they would have stockpiled all the available aces, offered them contracts twice what anyone else offered, immediately hiked ticket prices and found a cute celebrity girlfriend for one of its reputationally challenged players.
I wait to see if the others in my situation manage to get BA to do the right thing". A spokeswoman for BA insisted that the policy of hiking ticket prices was successfully discouraging new customers.
Bruce Springsteen has long expressed his concern with scalpers hiking ticket prices on the secondary market over the years.
The Packers hiked ticket prices $9 on average for this season to help offset rising player costs.
Manchester United fans have claimed that they are being ripped off after first Yeovil and then Cambridge United hiked ticket prices for their FA Cup clashes with the Reds.
As Hollywood hikes ticket prices, and fewer and fewer people attend theaters every year, eventually they'll hit a point at which the cultural cachet and social buzz of going to see a movie seems less and less worthwhile to more and more people.
Besides adding physical improvements to ease crowding, Disney officials have conceded that they have also hiked ticket and annual pass prices and cut back the days some annual pass holders could visit the park.
Indeed, some Cubs fans have taken to calling the premium presale a stealth hike in ticket prices.
