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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jRMQeuynqQ&feature=g-all This video got me thinking. What would it take to start a major chain of film-only movie theaters if you are a filmmaker yourself or owner of a small film company? Are there anti-trust issues involved? Why were all the studio-owned theaters broken up originally and how could this be averted? What if these theaters became very popular with the public for other reasons (they also showed sports games through digital projection, there is food served in the theater, very attractive waitresses...whatever the draw might be) and in order to have their movies in your theaters, they had to be on film? What if these film theaters also had a new analog surround sound audio technology that only you had the patent to? (other studios could not simply put their movies into your theaters by doing a traditional film print). If you were the only studio who produced in this format and the movie theater chain was the only one that played in that format, would that not produce legal challenges? What if they were technically owned by two separate entities? Also, what would it take to start producing many varieties of 35mm on a large scale again? To me, film and digital each have merits, but they are completely different mediums, just like oil paintings and watercolors are different mediums. Watercolors are nice in their own way (nothing against digital), but I want to protect the art of oil painting if I ever reach the means to do so. Thank you.