{"id":142766,"date":"2015-10-18T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T16:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=142766"},"modified":"2015-10-18T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T16:56:38","slug":"movie-prices-in-south-africa-ster-kinekor-vs-nu-metro-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/142766-movie-prices-in-south-africa-ster-kinekor-vs-nu-metro-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie prices in South Africa: Ster-Kinekor vs Nu Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nu Metro and Ster-Kinekor recently\u00a0adjusted the ticket prices at their cinema complexes around South Africa.<\/p>\n

For the most part, these adjustments were all increases – though Nu Metro did manage to keep its prices the same at Mountain Mill, and its Scene Xtreme cinemas.<\/p>\n

Ster Kinekor\u2019s price increases varied between 5% and 16% depending on location, while Nu Metro\u2019s increases were between 0% and 10.5%.<\/p>\n

To see whether one chain charges more than the other, we compared ticket prices across the various pricing tiers they offer.<\/p>\n

Nu Metro has 4 different pricing tiers (5 if you count The Pantheon separately), while Ster-Kinekor\u2019s cinemas are segmented into 10 different tiers.<\/p>\n

Each of these tiers then have different prices for 2D and 3D movies.<\/p>\n

To construct a meaningful comparison, we grouped these pricing categories into 3 tiers, and compared the prices of Ster-Kinekor\u2019s Cine Prestige and Nu Metro\u2019s Scene VIP lounge cinemas.<\/p>\n

This is summarised in the table below.<\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Movie ticket prices<\/td>\n2D<\/td>\n3D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ster-Kinekor<\/td>\nNu Metro<\/td>\nSter-Kinekor<\/td>\nNu Metro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Lounge<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nR120<\/td>\nR105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tier 1<\/strong><\/td>\nR66<\/td>\nR65 – R70<\/td>\nR85<\/td>\nR80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tier<\/strong> 2<\/strong><\/td>\nR40 – R62<\/td>\nR55<\/td>\nR67 – R77<\/td>\nR70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tier<\/strong> 3<\/strong><\/td>\nR21 – R35<\/td>\nR44 – R50<\/td>\nR37 – R58<\/td>\nR53 – R65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Discounts<\/h3>\n

Nu Metro and Ster-Kinekor have stated\u00a0that much of their ticket sales are at lower prices, thanks to various discount programmes on offer.<\/p>\n

Ster-Kinekor offers half-price tickets on Tuesdays for members of its club, and discounts for Discovery Vitality and Edgars Club members.<\/p>\n

Nu Metro has discounted tickets every Wednesday, and has partnered with Clicks and Momentum to offer their members cheaper movie tickets.<\/p>\n

The table below compares the discounted prices the various membership programmes at the two cinema chains offer.<\/p>\n

Cine Prestige, Scene Xtreme, IMAX, Opera, and NT Live prices are not compared.<\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Discount<\/td>\nCinema<\/td>\n2D<\/td>\n3D<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Tuesday<\/strong> – Club<\/strong><\/td>\nSter-Kinekor<\/td>\nR12 – R33<\/td>\nR18.50 – R42.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Discovery Vitality<\/strong><\/td>\nSter-Kinekor<\/td>\nR21 – R35<\/td>\nR21 – R45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edgars<\/strong><\/td>\nSter-Kinekor<\/td>\nR22 – R38<\/td>\nR24 – R73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
–<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Momentum Multiply<\/strong><\/td>\nNu Metro<\/td>\nR20 – R40<\/td>\nR33 – R60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wowza Wednesday<\/strong><\/td>\nNu Metro<\/td>\nR35 – R40<\/td>\nR45 – R50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clicks ClubCard<\/strong><\/td>\nNu Metro<\/td>\nR38<\/td>\nR55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More on movies and cinemas in South Africa<\/h3>\n

Movie prices in South Africa: 2005 to 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Movie prices hiked in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBorderline porn\u201d Afrikaans movie makers call for FPB review<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

How a movie gets from Hollywood to a South African cinema<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is how the normal and discounted ticket prices of South Africa\u2019s biggest cinema chains compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":121512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29296,35,15139,12863,30060],"class_list":["post-142766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-cinema","tag-headline","tag-movies","tag-nu-metro","tag-ster-kinekor-theatres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142826,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142766\/revisions\/142826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}