Alamo Drafthouse Head Says Cinema Owners Need To "Build A Young Cinephile Audience" & Preserve 35mm Projection

The past few years have seen the movie industry caught up in a tidal wave towards digital, but filmmakers who prefer analog are fighting back. Quentin Tarantino is already making plans for his western "The Hateful Eight" to have the widest 70mm release in twenty years, while next month, Christopher Nolan is dropping "Interstellar" into theaters with 35mm and 70mm projection two days early. That latter bit of news hasn't made theater owners, who have invested heavily in switching to digital projection at the behest of studios, very happy. But according to Alamo Drafthouse head Tim League, theater owners are in business to serve the needs of filmmakers.

"I share that pain," League wrote in an op-ed for Deadline about the financial strain of converting to digital, but he makes it clear what his stance is. "I ask all cinema owners, what is our relationship to filmmakers? I consider myself a venue in service of the...