Piracy and DVD sales are putting the theaters out of business… or so we’ve been told. I managed to take this picture while driving around downtown¹ a few days ago²:

It turns out that a new movie theater is going into a plaza around Sheppard and Don Mills. This isn’t your average run-of-the mill theater either; this is one of Cineplex’s giant “Silver City” theater complexes. This isn’t an isolated incident either; theaters are still being constructed amidst giant box store malls all over Ontario. While this isn’t necessarily proof that the theater companies aren’t in trouble, it makes me wonder if they’re doing as bad as most people seem to think.