Cinerama was purchased by SIFF (now dreadfully renamed “SIFF Cinema Downtown”), which is basically a local chain now (along with SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Cinema Egyptian and the SIFF Film Center).

As for true independents around here, you’ve got the Grand Illusion, the Beacon, the Ark Lodge, Northwest Film Forum and, of course, the Majestic Bay up in Ballard.

It depends.

I’m in Seattle, which you would expect to be a pretty popular spot for independently run cinemas, but my local (a 4-auditorium theater) is teetering on the edge of closing due to high rent and low attendance. I saw Inside Out 2 there on a weekend evening and the entire house only had only about a dozen people in it.

Meanwhile, a few blocks down the street, a tiny independent cinema with one auditorium that seats ~70 and generally only runs older and niche films seems to be doing kinda-ok.

The cinema marketplace is changing really fast compared to even 10 years ago and there are sadly going to be some casualties.

Ultimately i think we’re going to get back to movie houses with one to three auditoriums, and with a wide range of uses: movies, streamed live performances, television premieres and finales, away-game playoff sports, as well as a healthy usage as rental space for public meetings for reasonable rates.

Excuse me, that’s Vice President Trump.

"On Wednesday, Inside Out 2 passed up Incredibles 2 ($1.242 billion) to become the top-grossing Pixar title of all time at the worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation. "

Not news.

For your hypothetical scenario to make more sense, the US would have had to annex Baja California just a decade prior, then straight up have gone to forward invasion war with Mexico to annex more, bombing the shit out of the country including children’s hospitals.

In that scenario, fuck yes Mexico would be justified in finding allies to help them maintain sovereignty and protect themselves.

That’s what happens when nations invade one another.

The time for telling swaggering tales of white people Manifest Destiny-ing their way across the American west may have passed. It’s not cool anymore to ignore the utter ruin that process left in its wake. That really limits the market for what’s being sold here.

There was a time when IMDB didn’t look and function like absolute garbage. TMDB works like IMDB used to, which is fantastic.

But still, I want to know more about the people and organization behind TMDB. There’s no detail about the funding sources or who’s in charge on the About page.

Hang on one second babe…

(clap-clap)

I checked the article to see if this was the NULLBULGE folks again, but no, this was reportedly executed by SiegedSec. A different queer furry hacker group.

“Skydance executives, assisted by consulting firm Bain & Co., have identified $2 billion in potential cost cuts at Paramount.”

“Details remain scarce in terms of how exactly Skydance will operate Paramount, but those familiar with the conversations about the takeover have told Deadline that job losses and cost reductions will still be priorities.”

Can there be a community rule that any list-icle must include the complete ordered list in the post description?

• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Skinamarink (2022)
• Fight Club (1999)
• The Shining (1980)
• Barbie (2023)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• American Psycho (2000)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Child’s Play 3 (1991)
• Land of the Dead (2005)
• A Serbian Film (2010)
• Jennifer’s Body (2009)
• (500) Days of Summer (2009)
• Inception (2010)
• Juno (2007)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Into the Wild (2007)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
• Spencer (2021)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Nobody ever put mushroom duxelles in my corndogs. I feel cheated.

Last year, WNYC had an episode of their More Perfect podcast all about Thomas and, more or less, how he got that way.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/episodes/clarence-x

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Here’s the list:

Including his sexual assault victims?

My head canon for the kids anime film Penguin Highway is that the plot is about a visitation by >3 dimensional beings. Adventures in flatland, but we’re living in flatland.

I haven’t yet seen an in-depth interview with Villeneuve where he addresses whether or not he wants to continue making (admittedly thoughtful and overall excellent) adaptations vs original works.

Going back over his filmography, every film since Maelström (2000) (or perhaps Polytechnique in 2009) has been an adaptation of a previous work. I really love the work he does, and I would not want him to be tied down to existing properties. Then again, he may believe that adaptations are where he does his best work.

Whichever it is, let the man work the way he wants to work. I’m here for it.

Gonna need you to take about 20% off the top there Dashie.

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