Eli5: movies are created to be seen on a big screen in a theatre. Why aren’t classic movies more often released into theaters?

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Eli5: movies are created to be seen on a big screen in a theatre. Why aren’t classic movies more often released into theaters?

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The number of screens and hours to show something on the screens are both finite. Theaters aren’t interested in paying to license a classic movie which will take up potentially valuable screen time that could otherwise be used for current popular movies, which they were going to license anyway.

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