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that s right. i remembered seeing steven spielberg as we were coming out of the covid pandemic talking about tom cruise and top gun and saying that he basically saved hollywood s ass. i guess i can say that on a friday night. some of this is about the movie industry, too. you mentioned social media. but there s also streaming. people s habits are changing. yeah, they are changing. but what we ve seen over the past year in our numbers and throughout the pandemic is that people want to go to the movie theater. we re up some 30% box office year to date over last year. we ll have 32, 33 more wide release films in 2023 than we did in 2022. so the movie theater has its place. either replaceable. if you go see john wick chapter 4 with keanu reeves or no time to die, ana dematerial miss
but many are ensemble casts like the marvel movies. it s not that we can t have them, but different time and place. i m glad you gave a shout out at acting. that gets overlooked and focus on the action part of it. that s right. i remembered seeing steven spielberg as we were coming out of the covid pandemic talking about tom cruz and top gun and saying he basically saved hollywood s ass. i guess i can say that on friday night. but some is the movie industry. people s habits are changing. yeah, they are changing, but what we have seen over the past year in our square numbers and throughout the pandemic is people want to go to the movie theater and we are up some 30% box office year to date over last year. we are going to have 32 or 33 more wide release films in 2023