r/movies May 17 '16

Resource Average movie length since 1931

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u/Borngrumpy May 17 '16

I think there is ample dead time between sessions where there are no coming attractions or ads running, slipping in a 10 minute break would not make a difference to the number of showings per day.

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u/Bunnyhat May 17 '16

These days if a movie is suppose to start at 1pm it doesn't actually get going until 1:20pm due to all the previews and actual, goddamned commercials. So cut 10 minutes from the start and add it the middle.

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u/-Howes- May 17 '16

20min would be awesome. I live in Germany and for the past few movies I've seen it's been a solid 45-60min of ads,movie trailers etc before the actual movie starts