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$35-Per-Seat Movie Theater Chain Offers Luxury, Sushi

by Tim Stevens on March 28, 2008 at 12:36 PM

$35-Per-Seat Theater Chain Offers Luxury, Sushi

Picture for yourself a typical movie theater experience and what comes to mind? Chances are, you're thinking sticky floors, stained seats, the smell of popcorn, and overpriced tickets. Imagine a higher-classed establishment, one with plush carpeting, leather recliners with footrests, smells of sushi and fine wines -- all for the price of an even more outrageously overpriced ticket. That's what the new Village Roadshow Gold Class Cinemas chain hopes to deliver, and one of its theaters may be coming soon to a building near you.

The Australian-based company is opening 50 high-end establishments across the U.S. Attend one and, after you've valet-parked your Benz, you can kill some time in the cocktail lounge before entering the theater, where it'll cost you $35 to reserve one of only 40 seats per screening.

Once seated, you'll have a button to call for a waiter who can bring you drinks and eats, all for an extra charge of course. The target audience is the (very) wealthy who have lately shied away from the traditional theater scene, investing instead in lavish home theater digs, but who still want to go out and enjoy a good show from time to time.

Still, $35 a pop is a lot less than the price of a $4,000 high-end plasma TV, so maybe even the rest of us can venture out to a Gold Class movie theater one of these days.

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