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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 07:18:04 JST Warner Crocker

   The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Circuit Is Up For Sale https://deadline.com/2024/03/alamo-drafthouse-cinema-up-for-sale-1235871003/

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     Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 07:43:08 JST Brian Dear

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     Damn. Cinema businesses have always been dumb as fenceposts. This is the inevitable result for any business with slow learning ability and sluggish willingness to try new things. Bookstores, same fate awaits you.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 07:47:55 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Brian Dear

     @brianstorms I’m not so sure (and I may be wrong) about Alamo. When I lived in Va and patronized the one there I thought they were pretty creative with some out-of-the box programming. I say I may be wrong because it’’s been 10 years since I’ve been there.

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     Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 09:35:11 JST Brian Dear

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     @WarnerCrocker

     No disagreement there. I’ve always been a big fan. Alamo has always been far more forward-thinking than most exhibitors. I had business dealings w/ ‘em a while back and they’re very nice but stuck in a business model that makes it near-impossible to succeed long-term. Partly due to streaming, plus resistance to utterly rethinking the moviegoing experience leveraging the power of web/mobile. Long story, but I have yet to find a cinema that’s not doomed in 2020s.