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NEWS: Sony Pictures Buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Chain With Plans for Crunchyroll

Wait was nobody worried about this when AMC bought Hidive? I can only recall people being happy about that thinking it'll be good for Hidive.

Let's see: Sony owns more than one company that licenses anime, owns a streaming service where people watch it, owns an online retailer where people buy it, and now will own physical locations where they watch it.

There seems to be a trend here. I guess what remains to be seen is if will also follow suit where the people running it before stayed on for around a year, and then after they depart, Sony decides that the Alamo chain's audience "aligns" so well that it should be renamed the Crunchyroll threaters

Let's see: Sony owns more than one company that licenses anime, owns a streaming service where people watch it, owns an online retailer where people buy it, and now will own physical locations where they watch it.

Alamo Drafthouse was only available to buy because they were not doing well financially. That'll be the first thing Sony will try to fix, which will mean significant changes. If that doesn't work to make it profitable either it'll be sold again or, like Right Stuf, shutdown.

Thulebox wrote:

Wait was nobody worried about this when AMC bought Hidive? I can only recall people being happy about that thinking it'll be good for Hidive.

AMC channel and AMC Theaters are completely different companies. Hidive was bought by the channel and has nothing to do with theaters so I don't think this is similar.

I will also say I think most people happy about that were mostly just happy that they were still apart from Sony and not all falling under one umbrella.

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VirgilTB4 wrote:

Alamo Drafthouse was only available to buy because they were not doing well financially. That'll be the first thing Sony will try to fix, which will mean significant changes. If that doesn't work to make it profitable either it'll be sold again or, like Right Stuf, shutdown.

Right Stuf was rebranded, not shutdown. The CR store still ships from Iowa.