Alamo Drafthouse Opening New Location in Texas

Allen Media Group’s This TV has inked a distribution deal with eight major-market ABC-owned TV station subchannels. The company’s newest broadcast network is currently in 86 million U.S. households.

Alamo Drafthouse was riding high.The Austin, Texas-based theater chain had managed the difficult feat of expanding its footprint nationally, popping up in major metropolises such as New York and Los Angeles without losing its indie spirit. Its unabashed love of all things cinema, menus crammed with craft beer and locally sourced snacks, and themed events with A-list talent like Wes Anderson and Rian Johnson made Alamo the envy of the exhibition industry.

Governor Andrew Cuomo Monday announced that New Yorkers 30 years-old and over are eligible for Covid-19 vaccines starting tomorrow and that eligibility expands to age 16 and older on April 6.

Woody Allen in which he again denies Dylan Farrow's claims he molested her when she was a child. The director also addresses Hollywood's public response to the allegations, deeming actors who have expressed regrets about working with him "well-meaning, but foolish."Though it was just released Sunday, March 28 (via Paramount Plus), the sit-down shows Allen, 85, speaking to Lee Cowan for "CBS Sunday Morning" last July.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Alright, alright, alright.”Thanks to the magic of Zoom, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, and director Richard Linklater will discuss the making of “Dazed and Confused” as part of an effort to get moviegoers to return to theaters. The cast reunion is being produced by Alamo Drafthouse as part of its “Support Local Cinemas” events.

Sharon Stone has said that she “never had an untoward” experience with Woody Allen, who has reiterated denials of child sex abuse. In February, Allen condemned a new documentary series, Allen v Farrow, which explored his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow’s allegations that he sexually abused her as a child.

The Michelle Collins Show” to promote her book “The Beauty of Living Twice,” which is due on bookshelves March 30, and elaborated about her past working with the Oscar-winning director.HBO’s four-part docuseries “Allen v. Farrow,” which wrapped up last week, chronicles the sexual abuse allegations from Dylan Farrow, now 35, against Allen, 85, when she was 7 and he was partners with Dylan’s adoptive mother, Mia Farrow.

Ron Livingston has been tapped to play Henry Allen, father of the Flash aka Barry Allen, in Warner Bros. and DC Films The Flash. Crudup fell off the project due to scheduling conflicts. Ezra Miller is on board to play the title character with Kiersey Clemons set to play Iris West. Sasha Calle is also on board to play Super Girl in the film and Maribel Verdu will play Barry’s mom.

Woody Allen has never been charged with sexually abusing his adopted daughter, Dylan. That is a fact worth mentioning, because you won’t find many references to it in Allen v Farrow (Sky Documentaries).

EXCLUSIVE: Verve has acquired veteran TV lit agent Paul Alan Smith’s New Deal Mfg. Co., a boutique lit agency representing a bevy of television and film directors.

In a move that feels very much at home but Barry Allen, “The Flash” movie lost one parent but gained another. While Billy Crudup will not be reprising his role as Henry Allen in the upcoming film, “Y Tu Mamá También” actress Maribel Verdu has joined the cast as Barry’s mother, Nora, instead.

Spanish actress Maribel Verdú, best known for roles in Alfonso Cuaron’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth,” is set play Nora Allen, the mother of Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen in “The Flash” solo movie, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.Additionally, Billy Crudup will no longer play Henry Allen, Barry’s father, in film due to scheduling conflicts.More to come…

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAlamo Drafthouse Cinema is collaborating with Harlem Film House, the organizers of the Hip Hop Film Festival, to present a curated series of culturally significant Black films.Labeled the Vanguard Collection, the crafted slate will include important films about the Black experience and feature perspectives from voices of hip-hop culture.

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Alec Baldwin went on a lengthy social media rant in which he seemingly defended Woody Allen and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo while bashing "cancel culture."  The actor initially released a 14-minute video on his Instagram in which he covered the topic more at length before deleting it and replacing it with a significantly shorter video that takes on cancel culture in less-specific terms.  "I think my last message went on too long.

Dylan Farrow’s allegations of child sexual abuse Dylan Farrow by father Woody Allen are back in the news thanks to the HBO docuseries “Allen v. Farrow”.