Movie listings leaving newspapers nationwide

Ever since Edison decided to sell the Vitascope Projector, which jump-started the movie industry in 1896, newspapers like the Buffalo Express have been used to advertise feature attractions such as "Trotting Race at Charter Oak Park" and "The Bathers" to the public.

The past 100 years have seen incredible changes in both the film and news industries, leading to change in how movie theaters tell the public about their current shows. But now, instead of printing movie showtimes in the local paper every day, major theaters like AMC, Regal and Carmikeare cutting back to weekend-only listings, or dropping the print versions all together.

The trend to list movies online is just the latest thorn in the newspaper industry's mortally-wounded side. On top of losing the ad revenue from printed movie listings, newspapers will find it difficult to compete with online movie listing sites such as Fandango, which provide listings for free, making money through ticket sales and advertising.