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"I think between the various teams and the fact we're now block booking for Sundays, we're going to be hitting almost £10,000 this year," said Mr Hedges.

And when a major venue announces its next block booking, what do we call it?

The resulting consent decree barred studios from also owning theaters and imposed other restrictions like an end to “block booking,” which forced theaters to book slates of films in advance.

But this block booking has cost about £400 million a month, whether or not the facilities were used.

While more general antitrust laws would still apply, theaters stand to lose legal protection on issues regarding block booking and price setting — issues that can have an outsized effect on smaller movie houses.