Sony buys Alama Draft House Cinemas

[MechaJutaro]

Sony Pictures acquires Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the dine-in movie theater chain

Sony Pictures Entertainment is getting into the exhibition business. The studio behind recent films like “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” and “The Garfield Movie” has acquired the distinctive theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

apnews.com

Expect picket lines outside of every ADC now, and justifiably so. Allowing an industrial titan like Sony to acquire that chain ignores the monumental power differential which exists between the folks who produced the multi-billion dollar franchise that is The Spider-Man flicks, and aficionados of cult and genre films which have made only millions/Sometimes much less, and are nowhere near as world renowned as Spidey is


Both Sony and Alamo are woefully obtuse to the horrendous psychic trauma that's likely to be inflicted upon their patrons, each time they sit down to a screening of Deathstalker 2 or Coontown, only to recognize: "The forces of Mainstream Capitalistic CIS Heteronormative Hollywood have infringed upon our Indie Safe Space!!!"


Hell, as someone who's tastes in cinema lean avant garde myself, I'M developing PTSD just thinking about this shit!!!

 

[hmt5000]

Movie theaters are going broke. I'd say this has to do with locations and numbers. THey want to be able to get box office money for their large movies after the dust settles.

 

[MechaJutaro]

Movie theaters are going broke. I'd say this has to do with locations and numbers. THey want to be able to get box office money for their large movies after the dust settles.

A shrewd move on Sony's part then, it would seem