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I work for AMC and I may be aware of facts that not everyone realizes. We make no money off of tickets at all. All of our profits come in from concessions and selling refreshments. The prices rise only because we need to break even there or else we could no longer be a business. The ads are just a way of keeping those ticket prices lower. Without the ads prices would rise as theatres would be forced to compensate. The reason prices are high is because of the high costs for producing movies including actor salaries as previously mentioned. Don't blame the theaters, most of the time the source of similar problems originates far from where the consumer ever goes, but they are the last in the chain.
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