Cinema owners oppose a megadeal that would see one of the last Hollywood legacy studios snapped up only five years after the demise of 20th Century Fox.
It almost makes me wonder at the prospect of fully off-book unlicensed movie houses. How gangster to set up shop in an abandoned mall and host one-night screenings of pirated films on high end portable projectors? Maybe this already exists and I just don’t know about it.
Students at my high school were doing that (with the science classrooms rather than in an abandoned mall) like ~20 years ago. They were watching fansubbed anime though, not Hollywood movies.
We were doing it in the late 80s at university. Showing a bunch of SF/F movies in a lecture hall on the weekend for five bucks. We made an absolute killing on the drinks and snacks, which we used to buy books for the SF/F club library.
Students at my high school were doing that (with the science classrooms rather than in an abandoned mall) like ~20 years ago. They were watching fansubbed anime though, not Hollywood movies.
We were doing it in the late 80s at university. Showing a bunch of SF/F movies in a lecture hall on the weekend for five bucks. We made an absolute killing on the drinks and snacks, which we used to buy books for the SF/F club library.
The Keanu Reeves film club at NYU in the 90s was on the side of a building so people could throw garbage.