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Speaker 2: Great discussion about cinema. On the line is the director

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Speaker 2: of the Riviera Cinema and Bealcluther. Chris Rottenbury, Chris, good

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Speaker 2: afternoon to you.

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Speaker 3: Hire.

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Speaker 2: You're going very well, Thank you very much. So we've

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Speaker 2: been having a great discussion about cinema, Chris.

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Speaker 4: Chris, how is the theatrical business going at the moment?

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Speaker 3: At the moment, I think it's on the bounce back,

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Speaker 3: which is nice since COVID all firm operators, I think

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Speaker 3: have been hanging out to twenty twenty five. That was

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Speaker 3: always the target, make it to twenty twenty five and

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Speaker 3: breathe some sort of side relief. And I think we

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Speaker 3: are seeing that bounce back now since the delays from

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Speaker 3: the pandemic and from the delays for the strikes as

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Speaker 3: well that happened in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 4: How depended on you on the quality and popularity of

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Speaker 4: the movies that are coming out.

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Speaker 3: Somewhat dependents. We personally like to try and push this

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Speaker 3: all the budget films where we can, the bigger films,

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Speaker 3: they get their own marketing from your disneys and things

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Speaker 3: like that, and we don't need to push them so much,

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Speaker 3: so we push the smaller independence and that's where we

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Speaker 3: sort of get our extra patronage just making people aware

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Speaker 3: of those films.

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Speaker 4: What do you do have to do as a cinema

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Speaker 4: to get people to come along? Like, what is the

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Speaker 4: most important thing you can do to get people to

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Speaker 4: keep coming.

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Speaker 3: Back from us? Personally? There's a few things. One is,

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Speaker 3: don't take yourself too seriously. People out of the cinema,

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Speaker 3: I think they get a bit scared to do anything.

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Speaker 3: You know they're going to get told off. We're pretty

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Speaker 3: silly on social media, just doing very silly things. We

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Speaker 3: just like to have a laugh. I think that helps.

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Speaker 3: And advantizing is a big thing, you know, Ladies Nights

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Speaker 3: and things like that, and really pushing those that gets

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Speaker 3: people in that don't come often, and then they see

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Speaker 3: a loyalty programs and things and that brings them back.

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Speaker 3: It's just getting people back since the pandemic. And I

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Speaker 3: think once you get them back once, if you give

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Speaker 3: them a stellar experience, they will come back again.

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Speaker 4: And Chris, how do you feel about the future sure

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Speaker 4: of cinemas.

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Speaker 3: Future of cinemas I think are in a good place.

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Speaker 3: There will still be some to close, I think, and

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Speaker 3: it's not going to be for everyone. But what we

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Speaker 3: need to do is to continue to adapt, and I

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Speaker 3: think alongside streaming, I think we can coexist.

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Speaker 4: And this is a personal question because I'm not sure

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Speaker 4: the answer this. Are you supposed to pick up your

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Speaker 4: popcorn and all your mess on the seats or are

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Speaker 4: you supposed to leave it there for the person that

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Speaker 4: comes and cleans it up.

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Speaker 3: I assume you leave it there first. I want to

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Speaker 3: come clean it up with that question.

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Speaker 4: Well, just I always have been doing that and then

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Speaker 4: someone said to me, you're supposed to clean it up?

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Speaker 1: Like am I?

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Speaker 4: Jeez? Have I've just been being a terrible person for years.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: I think common cares is to just put your rubbish

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Speaker 3: in the bins. But when it comes to popcorn and

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Speaker 3: things that.

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Speaker 4: You can't pick up, you can't pick up every one

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Speaker 4: of them that you've dropped and.

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Speaker 3: We are back in It takes two minutes to clean

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Speaker 3: up some popcornm not that at all?

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Speaker 1: Love it?

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Speaker 2: And what's your pick for movies? At the moment, I'm

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Speaker 2: looking at Mickey seventeen, which looks fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that comes out today. That looks absolutely fantastic. I

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Speaker 3: tried to watch Out last night, but our power went out,

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Speaker 3: so I'm going to try again tonight and we'll see

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Speaker 3: how it goes. The other one will probably be Tina,

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Speaker 3: which is doing great business and it's an exceptional film

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Speaker 3: for us, most as teenage and up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, love it, Chris, Thank you very much mate. All

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Speaker 2: the very best. That is Chris Rottenbury from the Riviera

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Speaker 2: riv Era Cinema and Bell Kluther. All the best mate,

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Speaker 2: great discussion.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, get out to the movies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, judging by the tech some phone calls,

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Speaker 2: people getting to the cinema is very much alive and well,

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Speaker 2: and that's a good thing because we need to be

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Speaker 2: supporting the movies and the cinemas.

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