Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is an American cinema chain founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, which is famous for serving dinner and drinks during the movie, as well as its strict policy of requiring its audiences to maintain proper cinema-going etiquette.
Original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Downtown Austin | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Entertainment (movie theaters) |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Tim League |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Number of locations | 39 |
Key people | Tim League (Chairman) Shelli Taylor (CEO) |
| Owner | Tim League |
| Divisions | Birth.Movies.Death. |
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| Website | drafthouse |
The cinema chain has multiple locations across the United States, including eighteen in Texas. There are five locations in Virginia (Winchester, Charlottesville, Woodbridge, Crystal City, and Ashburn), three locations in Colorado (Denver, Westminster, and Littleton), and four in New York (Yonkers, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Lower Manhattan), two locations in Missouri (St. Louis and Springfield) and California (San Francisco and Los Angeles). There are five additional locations: Chicago, Washington, D.C., Woodbury, Minnesota, La Vista, Nebraska, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Others are planned to be built in Birmingham, Alabama; Glendale, Colorado; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Naples, Florida; Indianapolis; and Boston. In March 2021, Alamo Drafthouse filed for bankruptcy but emerged from the situation three months later.