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Sony sat out CinemaCon in April this year, but was the first major studio to present at CineEurope in Barcelona today, culminating in a screening of Apple Original Films’ Scarlett Johansson/Channing Tatum-starrer Fly Me to the Moon which Sony is releasing theatrically. Before the screening, Sony…

All due respect to Godzilla, but the first quarter of this year was a bust for Hollywood. There's no getting around it. The news read like an April Fool's joke without a punchline. Disney gave up its fight with Florida, better to face its battle with inv…

EXCLUSIVE: Several sources tell Deadline that the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema circuit is up for sale. The news comes about a week and a half before CinemaCon, the major studios and exhibitors’ annual love-in in Las Vegas. I’m told that some studios have heard the sales pitch for the cinephile circuit…

MoviePass CEO Stacey Spikes said the service may give users buying tickets on the app the option of watching a bucket of commercials in exchange for credits they can cash in for movie tickets. Spikes – who relaunched the company out of bankruptcy in 2022 – wants to start a beta trial this coming…

We remember the Alamo. Now, the Alamo Drafthouse is going to remember for you. The movie chain is undertaking a year-long “Time Capsules” program, featuring curated films from 1974 to 1999. Alamo Time Capsules is "a yearlong trek back through time that revisits both beloved blockbusters and…

UPDATED: We are hearing that AMC is closing its New York City metro-area theaters early Friday including biggies Lincoln Square, 84th Street and the Empire 25. There goes the market’s box office. The number of theaters closed now are around 20, we hear. PREVIOUSLY, 11:58 AM: Despite high waters in…

There's more movement on the labor front as employees of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown Brooklyn location have filed with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize. They're seeking affiliation with the United Autoworkers. UAW Local 2179 is the petitioner on behalf of all full-time and…

There were cheers. There were tears. And lots and lots of pink. That’s what greeted director Greta Gerwig when she made a surprise appearance at a Barbie screening in New York City at the Alamo Drafthouse. The film is off to a solid start at the box office, including the sold-out show that…

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema said CEO Shelli Taylor is retiring in August and named president Michael Kustermann as its new chief executive. The fast-growing dine-in chain, that's been hugely successful luring post-pandemic moviegoers back to theaters, said its board of directors, including Taylor and…

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has promoted its Chief Experience Officer Michael Kustermann to the newly created post of president, taking on a larger role in supporting and accelerating the growing chain's organization and strategic vision. The exec's key initiatives have included Alamo Season Pass…

The Alamo Drafthouse movie chain looks set to hit $350,000 in ticket sales this November and December from Jon Favreau's Will Ferrell-starring holiday favorite Elf. The 2003 comedy, about a human baby raised in Santa's North Pole workshop who returns to New York and saves Christmas, is the chain's top…

Alamo Drafthouse Crystal City, the chain's newest location and its fourth in the Washington, DC metro area, will open October 24 as the exhibitor continues to roll out sites. This latest entrant is a 49,000-square-foot, 915-seat, aviation-themed theater at 1660 Crystal Drive in Arlington, Va.…