CitizenVectron Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Sony Pictures Acquires Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Landmark Deal That Puts Studios Back in Theater Game WWW.HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM For more than seven decades, studios weren't allowed to own an exhibition company under the Paramount Consent Decrees, which were rescinded in 2020. We begin to re-enter the age of vertical studio-theatre integration. This was illegal until the law was repealed under the Trump administration. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 @sblfilms swimming in that Sony money next 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 I hope a waiter with a flashlight came to talk to them about the bill right in the middle of the climax of their merger negotiations so they got the full Alamo experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Add free tickets to my PS+ sub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 3 minutes ago, Brian said: Add free tickets to my PS+ sub Done, but they’re only for the new Venom movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 i’d be interested in this if they stop with the full on dinner nonsense 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblfilms Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 In the short term, this doesn't move me much. The long term for this is troubling in some ways. Most of the Paramount consent decree stuff is irrelevant to modern practices and is terribly unlikely to come back, but there is good reason to believe that if more studios buy into the market that we will see things like short exclusive windows for films by the studio only in their theaters. The main issue with that isn't freezing out competitors from access, it is the way it confuses consumers. Confused consumers is a bad scenario for everybody. One of the problems we have currently is that literally nobody has any idea when any movie is going to go from theaters to streaming. People can't make informed decisions about what to see, where to see it, and when, if you don't give them clear indications. The studios hurt their own revenue by creating this atmosphere of confusion, and I can see them only adding to it in time. 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted June 12 Share Posted June 12 Sony will ruin it too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 You will be forced to watch all the movies on a playstation portal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 On 6/12/2024 at 3:16 PM, johnny said: i’d be interested in this if they stop with the full on dinner nonsense then it would just be like a regular theater. What would be the point in that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 3 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said: then it would just be like a regular theater. What would be the point in that? exactly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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