&gt; The market decides these things<p>Right, and I think the market is unfairly inflated at the moment, and has been for a long time. Movie ticket prices have more than doubled in the last ~ 10 years. The presence of streaming new blockbuster movies is likely to disrupt the traditional cinema <i></i>if it is allowed to get off the ground<i></i>.<p>And that&#x27;s basically the point I&#x27;m trying to make. If movies were to transition into the Steam model where the cost is brought down but has higher reach, the gross is going to go down, and so should the marketing and actor budgets of such films.<p>&gt; If I&#x27;m not being forced to pay it, I don&#x27;t care what someone else makes.<p>Yes, going to the cinema is optional, no one is forcing you to go. But if you want to see a movie within 3-6 months of release you have to pay the cinema ticket price. There is no other option. I don&#x27;t care how much the actors make, I care how much I pay at the ticket box, which appears to be viciously increasing cycle of actor demands more -&gt; prices go up -&gt; more gross is made -&gt; actor demands more. To account for this, studios are spending more and more on advertising to get people to actually go to the cinema, further driving ticket prices up.<p>And it&#x27;s the non blockbuster movies that are going to fail. Ticket price is $x regardless of the quality of the movie. The blockbuster budgets are going to price the smaller movies out. No one is going to pay $25 to see something they might enjoy but doesn&#x27;t have the kind of budget to warrant a cinema viewing. Streaming services that offer these kinds of movies at release date I think will bring the whole scam crashing down.