movie theaters
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US Movie Theatres Are Screwed
A long-standing debate about movies at home versus in the theatre is reaching a tipping point. At the heart of the debate now is a public pissing match between AMC, one of the U.S.’s largest movie theatre chain, and Universal Pictures, one of it largest production studios, over premium video on demand and theatres’ rights…
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Netflix Apparently Wants To Buy Its Own Theatres, And That’s Honestly a Good Idea
Netflix wants to get into the movie theatre business, according to a new report from The Los Angeles Times. Anonymous sources told the paper that the Los Gatos-based entertainment giant pursued a deal to buy the Mark Cuban-owned Landmark Theatres but ultimately backed out due to a high sale price. While it might sound wild…
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America’s Largest Theatre Chain Hates The Plan To Speed Up Home Releases
Earlier this month Paramount announced that it would release two upcoming films on home video and streaming just 17 days after they have been in theatres. But Regal, the US’s largest movie chain, isn’t interested in being part of its piracy-fighting experiment.
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This Was The 3D TV Theatre Of The Future Before TV Even Existed
Futurist-minded weirdos were dreaming up 3D movies as early as the 1910s, back when feature-length films were still in their infancy. But in 1928 the hot new techno-hype was all about television: specifically, 3D TV that people could watch in a theatre. Complete with that newfangled sync-sound!