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> don't want to sit through the credits for extras.

Then have an intermission whilst the credits roll. Serve ice cream and refreshments. Make it part of the experience. It'll be fun.

Or sell tickets separaly for the pre-feature and the main feature (or just publish times when each will start and have an intermission in between so if you want to just see the main feature you can without disrupting anyone who arrived early for the pre-featured).

You have no idea who has seen these films and who hasn't. Yes, sometimes I want to go and see an old film at the cinema because I never got a chance to see it there the first time around (Star Wars was a case in point back in 1997). But sometimes I just haven't seen it so I want to see it for the first time, unmolested by spoilers.

There are better and more creative ways that aren't a great deal of effort to implement to handle this than showing a bunch of spoilers before the film you're there to see.

I like the idea of publishing the actual start times. People who dont want to watch the pre-feature can step out for an ice-cream.

Won't happen. Pre-features, like pre-movie ads, are not there for the benefit of the viewer.

I dont understand. for who's benefit is an interview with director about the film you are about to watch screened.

I think the interview is filmed primarily for the ability to say it exists on marketing copy, thus hopefully sell more tickets. It offer something "new" that differentiates the cinema screening of an old movie from any of the alternative (legal or otherwise) ways of viewing it.

The interview itself? Probably doesn't matter. But for the people involved, it would suck to see no one viewing it.

I'd expect there would be plenty of people who would choose to view it. For "Alien" I'd expect a big chunk of the audience would be people who have only seen it on home media but became huge fans and have watched it many times. They would know every scene, so nothing in the pre-movie extras would be a spoiler for them.

That doesn't make sense. If that interview sold a single ticket more then you already have people who obviously wanted to see it

And if nobody goes to see the interview, that’s an important signal to not waste time on doing them.

Not necessarily. People often make purchase decisions based on overall feeling, versus specific, discrete benefits - they'll choose a "fuller experience" because it feels more complete, and then end up not bothering to go beyond the "basic package".

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