Moviegoers encouraged to support local cinemas on January 18th (Dallas, Texas – January 9th, 2020) The Independent Cinema Alliance (ICA) is excited to announce the inaugural “Independent Cinema Day” on Saturday, January 18, 2020. This exciting new social holiday is an opportunity for moviegoers nationwide to support their local independent cinema. The ICA is a

ICA Comments Public Comments The Department of Justice recently opened a review of the Paramount Consent Decrees that for over seventy years have regulated how certain movie studios distribute films to movie theatres. In 1938, the Department filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that eight major motion picture companies had conspired to control the motion picture

As the exhibition industry becomes ever more global—as evidenced in this month’s CinemaCon 2018 coverage—we must not forget that all business is local. And that there is probably no other segment of this industry that knows their respective moviegoing markets better than the independent theatre owner and operator. Read More