Canada's indie movie theatres say industry is in crisis

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Gem Theatre in Grand Forks, B.C. is one of many independent movie theatres struggling to stay open across Canada.

Canada's independent cinema owners say their industry is "in crisis" as theatres face mounting challenges from streaming services and restrictive rules from Hollywood studios.The Gem Theatre in Grand Forks, B.C., is one of many independent movie theatres struggling to stay open across Canada. Canada's independent cinema industry is in crisis, its owners say, as they face mounting challenges from streaming services and restrictive Hollywood studio rules.

The organization is pushing for an end to "clean runs," when studios require an independent theatre to dedicate a screen to just one film for up to four weeks, even if the film stops drawing crowds after the first week. Aquiline said he even had to cancel a live comedy event last month because a major studio threatened to pull his licence from future films if he held any event outside of the clean run."What else could you do? We had no choice but to cancel, so that's what we did."

A Cineplex spokesperson said in an email that the company has to license its movies from distributors, and it "is up to the distributors to decide where they play their films." Sometimes, a popular film will run for eight weeks at Cineplex, and will already be on Amazon Prime or another platform by the time it gets to Huot's theatre.'It's not just a theatre'

 

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