The cinema remains the most popular form of art and culture: 44% of the population visit cinemas regularly.
In the week before release, pre-release tracking showed that up to 25 percent of North American audiences were reluctant to visit cinemas following the mass murder in a Colorado cinema the previous week.
Other tracking showed that up to 17% of North American audiences were reluctant to visit cinemas following the mass shootings in a Colorado cinema in late July 2012, which might affect ticket sales.
(Anonymous Vienna resident) As an older person I value the ease of visiting cinemas, theatres, shops and the library without driving or organising a taxi.
"The theory goes that, apart from a small segment of the market, moviegoers are unlikely to consecutively watch Australian films when they visit the cinema," says Kristian Connelly, the general manager of Melbourne's Cinema Nova, which has a strong focus on local content.
Did you visit the cinema this weekend?
So even those most heavily invested may have failed to visit the cinema.
** It would be tricky to visit a cinema after this and not suffer a crackle of disquiet.
This audience is also more apt to visit a cinema midweek, and is generally slower to see films.
Today, for a fee, tourists can wander among the old sets — many built by Mr. Leone and renovated by a hotel chain — or visit the cinema and wagon museums.
ANY visitor to India seeking the flavour of the country could do worse than to visit a cinema in one of the big cities.
