Best I can do is Sony Alamo Drafthouse™.
Audiences Want More Independent Cinemas, According to Art House Convergence Study
Submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to movies@lemm.ee
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reddig33@lemmy.world 9 months ago
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not economically viable.
Deebster@programming.dev 9 months ago
People say they want that, but do those independent cinemas get enough people through the doors to stay open?
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
It depends.
I’m in Seattle, which you would expect to be a pretty popular spot for independently run cinemas, but my local (a 4-auditorium theater) is teetering on the edge of closing due to high rent and low attendance. I saw Inside Out 2 there on a weekend evening and the entire house only had only about a dozen people in it.
Meanwhile, a few blocks down the street, a tiny independent cinema with one auditorium that seats ~70 and generally only runs older and niche films seems to be doing kinda-ok.
The cinema marketplace is changing really fast compared to even 10 years ago and there are sadly going to be some casualties.
Ultimately i think we’re going to get back to movie houses with one to three auditoriums, and with a wide range of uses: movies, streamed live performances, television premieres and finales, away-game playoff sports, as well as a healthy usage as rental space for public meetings for reasonable rates.