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Movie Theaters Dread Any Warner Bros. Merger, Fear “Tipping Point” Where Whole System “Crumbles” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] skribe@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

The Keanu Reeves film club at NYU in the 90s was on the side of a building so people could throw garbage.