![]() Original Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Downtown Austin | |
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Entertainment (movie theaters) |
Founded | 1997 |
Founder | Tim League Karrie League |
Headquarters | Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Number of locations | 41 |
Key people | Tim League (Chairman) Shelli Taylor (CEO) |
Owner | Independent (1997–2018) Altamont Capital Partners (2018–2024) Fortress Investment Group (2021–2024) Sony Pictures Experiences (2024–present) |
Website | drafthouse |
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. Sony Pictures Experiences acquired the chain in June 2024.[1]
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),[2] three locations in Colorado (Denver, Westminster, and Littleton), and four in New York (Yonkers, Brooklyn, Staten Island,[3] and Lower Manhattan), two locations in Missouri (St. Louis and Springfield) and California (San Francisco and Los Angeles). There are seven additional locations: Chicago, Washington, D.C., La Vista, Nebraska, Raleigh, North Carolina, Boston, Naples, Florida, and Woodbury, Minnesota.[4][5][6][7]
Others are planned to be built in Glendale, Colorado;[8] Fayetteville, Arkansas;[9] and Indianapolis.[10]
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