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 secret is to undercook the industrial regulations. Everyone will get to know each other on k street.
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…
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It's a soap opera with super heroes. Just imagine all the reveals getting the cheesy 1950s organ stings in the background and everything will click into place.
Some select quotes:
All of these quotes are in reference to general ideas so far as I can tell -- the overall concepts of respectability and "cancel culture", not specific instances. And I think the interview missed a huge opportunity to dig deeper on these ideas by citing specific examples to start picking at those broad takes.
Cancel culture applies to people who make choices that hurt others and are unrepentant about it. It's not about the choices; we all fuck up from time to time. It's about the lack of remorse. That's what speaks to a person's true nature. And if a person's true nature leads them to unapologetically hurt people, then they're a piece of shit person and I'm justified in wanting nothing to do with them.