"The project, which has a starting cost of $70 million dollars, will have 'clusters' with sound stages and mill spaces, hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, and retail."
Enormous screens and cushy seats miss out on their purpose when ticket buyers stay home, so East Texas theaters are about to pivot and use their space differently. They're finding new ways for us to watch things, and it's not just movies.
Bon Jovi fans at drive-in theaters may not have made this one huge mistake at the Encore Drive-In Nights show on Saturday night, but I bet some indoor theater fans did. Oops.