As someone who is going to have to get a job in 2-3 years, I’m dreading the day. Going to the same place 5 days a week coming home with no time and energy left for anything you actually like and doing this for FOURTY years or even more if you were unlucky, sounds HORRIBLE!! How could anyone actually like working?
You could own a theatre. You could also create a local film festival, even if that means just booking the community room at the library and screening public domain silent films to start with. Or if you want to make a job out of it, maybe you can snag the screening rights to some indie/deep backlog films and do a traveling film festival, maybe setting up in small towns where there isn’t already a ton going on where you could also get the venue for cheap.
There’s also companies popping up that have bought the rights to reprint deep back catalogue films. Like I recently heard about one that buys the rights to reprint B movies from the 70s and 80s on VHS, so apparently there is a market for that kind of thing too!
Yeah man owning a theater at a time when they’re struggling sounds like a great idea, especially in my area where Regal had to shut down their only location (closest one now is 1.5 hours away) and the actual like best theater that didn’t just play massive blockbusters had to shut down once corporate decided to just never fix their concession area. So all we have is AMC and Marcus. Sounds like a great place to take out loans, go into debt to open a new one.
As for the film festival thing, I don’t got the business savvy or communication skills to even begin to know how to attempt that. Like social situations tend to give me panic attacks.