Paramount Consent Decrees
Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020
A federal judge on Friday (8/7) ruled in favor of efforts by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to eliminate antitrust decrees which had prevented studios from owning movie theaters. The Paramount Consent Decrees had been in effect for more than 70 years.
The decrees were put in place...
Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019
The Callicoon Theater is a single-screen cinema along the banks of the Delaware River in the Catskills, in rural upstate New York. It has an art-deco facade and 380 seats. "We never sell out," its box-office phone line promises. There's not another theater for 30 miles.
Kristina Smith...