In Washington County, attendance at the movies is just large enough for the cinema operators to make modest profits  The size of the county's population is stable and is not expected to increase much
Yet there are investors ready to double the number of movie screens in the county within five years, and they are predicting solid profits both for themselves and for the established cinema operators
Over the next ten years, people in their teenage years, the prime moviegoing age, will be a rapidly growing proportion of the county's population.