My local old fashioned cinema closed about a year ago ending an unbroken single family ownership dating back to the first world war. It had been dying on its feet for a long time. Last film i watched there i almost froze to death. The town's population is only about 7000 and there are modern cinemas about a half hour drive away. This story suggests that the local population would need to pledge a half million euro a year to re-open it and that's not going to happen