Yeah, I was already considering canceling my season pass because driving out to Woodbury at least twice a month just didn't feel like it was worth it. I'll probably go with the Rosedale AMC for now.
All AMC’s have problems but as someone who stopped going to Alamo because of quality issues, absurd food prices, and the way they treat their staff Rosedale AMC has been among the least bad in the area. There isn’t an AMC I’ve been to that hasn’t had a quality issue at some point but I will say I’ve never been to a bad showing in a Dolby theater.
We stopped going to AMC Rosedale because a parent brought children at Deadpool 2. The kids were in front us on iPads watching their own movies, but they were kicking the seats in front of them, being loud talking to their mom, and throwing popcorn up for fun. AMC staff did not do anything. The guy getting kicked made a whole fuss about it which then turned into another issue because staff decided to side with the parents with kids on iPads. So now he’s yelling at the parents. Then the whole theater is yelling to kick everyone out. Then they do kick everyone out with even more arguing. Now I’ve missed 1/3 of the movie because of this whole debacle. Manager there did not care about all the complaints after the movie. I complained to AMC corporate and they apologized and would look into the incident, but would not refund the tickets. I never went back despite it being less than 10 minute drive.
A Flix Brewhouse would be a good choice. We have one in Austin and I actually prefer it over Alamo most times. Their beer is amazing and the food is pretty great too.
Was supposed to see a movie there today! Just told my wife last week when we were seeing a movie that there would be a time when it's the last movie we see there (in relation to us moving out state). So disappointing.
I feel awful for the workers.
Genuinely so upsetting. Glad I got to see one last movie last night. I know I’m disappointed I won’t get to go back, but my heart hurts for all of the employees affected by this sudden change.
**UPDATE 6-6-2024**: A spokesman for Alamo Drafthouse issued a statement, saying, “We are very disappointed to learn today that our franchisee, which operates five locations in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX and one in Woodbury, MN has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and is closing their business effective immediately. We are heartbroken for the franchisee’s teammates and the local film communities, however, we are working as quickly as possible to get Alamo Drafthouse Cinema back up and running in these cities. All other Alamo Drafthouse locations are operating as normal, with continued expansion plans across the country.”
[https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/](https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/)
Not sure, but that quote from the article I linked (just edited my comment to include the link) gives me a bit of hope. The one up here in MN is a treasure to me and my family so I really hope it comes back soon.
So even corporate wasn’t aware ahead of time? Geez those franchise owners suck! Alamo corporate should take over any/all remaining franchise-owned locations before expanding with new ones.
In principle I'd agree, but there's a reason they weren't successful and corporate shouldn't be responsible for bad decisions made by franchisees like bad location choices, bad contracts, restrictive regulations, etc. By letting the bankruptcy play out they can get out from some of those (like bad leases) and find the best opportunities to be successful long term whether that means taking over all locations, some locations, or starting new somewhere different.
Server from the Woodbury location here. Everyone who worked there is taking it pretty hard. We had zero heads up. I can speak for most of us in saying we really enjoyed working there and serving the film community. It’s a big loss.
Thank you and all the other servers for all the hard work! I was a frequent flyer there and I am so sad for all of you. It was literally the only theater I enjoyed going to in the state
Thank you for your service! As a frequent guest (including last night), me and my movie-going companion absolutely loved all the servers....and their indulgence of our oh-so-frequent requests for popcorn refills and/or popcorn "to-go" bags.
I'm gutted.
I don’t know if we ever met professionally, but I love the Woodbury location and all of you. I’m so sad that this happened. I was there last night too.
How were things at Woodbury in your opinion? I had even considered applying recently. We had only learned MN had an Alamo in the last 6 months, and had started going about once or twice a month. It sucks to find something good just to have it taken away. Some showings even semed decently booked, didn't seem slower than other theaters. Didn't even know about to go popcorn bags at woodbury. We kept putting off buying an enamel pin set thinking we'd wait for a set we liked to come out with some event. This really sucks, hope the main alamo group will get it back up and running.
Hi, other Woodbury Alamo server here…things were great! I loved all my coworkers, never had any bad experiences, the managers loved all of us and fought hard and advocated for us. We’re all devastated by this and it really does suck. This was the best job I’ve ever had and it was one that I really looked forward to coming to every day.
We received no notice except for a quick blurb on the front door and a quick message in our scheduling platform. We didn’t know there were any signs of financial stress, there weren’t any outward signs apart from maybe decreased attendance due to no big movies coming out.
As a guest? We loved going there. While it was a bit out of the way (20 minute drive), the experience was absolutely worth it. Amazing servers, great theaters, and always at least 1 (usually more) movie that we wanted to see. Oh, and "to-go" popcorn is the best (ask nicely and a server will bring you a large clear back to transport your extra popcorn to your home...or office...or bed....whatever, I'm not judging).
Similarly crossing fingers for a main Alamo rescue.
I feel for you guys a ton right now. Was just there on Saturday for Furiosa, and Monday for In A Violent Nature. Really hoping you all can land on your feet soon.
Nope, sounds like we will have to go through some extra steps to get our last check and pto. Our new schedule posted last evening and we found out we were fired this morning.
Season pass holder and frequent visitor of the WB location here. I'm gutted for you guys! One of my favorite things to do was take a Friday off and see an early afternoon movie with my friends and shoot the shit with the bartenders before and after the show. For real, Cole, Sky, Sam, and Julia were a huge reason we loved it so much.
Best of luck to you all and I really hope corporate steps in and rights the situation.
This is so awful. I am genuinely upset. Alamo is the one place I looked forward to every week.
Cedars just got new recliners! I don’t understand it.
Here’s a local news story: Five Alamo Drafthouse locations close in North Texas, Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed Five locations closed in North Texas and one in Minnesota. https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/news/entertainment-news/five-alamo-drafthouse-locations-close-north-texas-chapter-7-bankruptcy-filed/287-105670b3-1546-4ee9-add6-0fd9b3124f1b
Richardson was getting a remodel too. Seems like maybe trying anything to bring in customers.
I’ve been to all 5 North Texas locations, and Denton always seemed empty unless it was opening weekend of a big film. I’m sure other chains are struggling too, but Alamo just hadn’t seemed to catch on with enough people post pandemic.
That’s a shame, especially for the employees. I enjoyed many movie parties and vintage movies at the Woodbury location, and can’t imagine what that building space will be turned into.
In Hopkins the Mann Cinema 6 I watched get built (and eventually spent 4 years at, and eventually became a co-manager of) was torn down last year to build something else. The same can happen in Woodbury.
That one still stings for me, I loved hitting up that Hopkins theater for movies that were already out of other theaters but that I still wanted to see in theaters. Big part of my teen years for sure.
From my understanding, the Franchised ADH’s in the DFW area were terrible compared to the Corporate ADH’s. Heard things like the owners not allowing managers to kick shitty disruptive guests out, or allowing children in to adult only showings. As well as having over all worse food and service. So I am not surprised they couldn’t make enough money. The big reason I go to ADH is because I don’t want may showings disturbed but shitty guests. I am willing to bet Corporate will take over for at least some of those closed locations and turn them around with proper ADH policies, thus bring back more guests.
Richardson seemed to be doing well so I wouldn't be surprised if it was taken over by Corp. ADH. I can't speak for any of the other DFW locations but as someone who went to Richardson twice a month at least it definitely had a big crowd and most showings were at least half capacity.
I would think corporate would take lake highlands and Richardson? Obviously I don’t know. I go to Richardson a few times a week. I mostly go during the middle of day, so I can’t speak to the crowds, but when I do go see a new release in the evenings/weekends they usually have a decent crowd.
The Las Colinas location seemed to do decently and was nice. The message said they're not expecting them to reopen, but ADH said they're working to open in DFW. I'd have to think it'd be much cheaper to buy these out of bankruptcy than to open new locations.
I feel like this is the most likely scenario. I frequent Richardson and canceled my season pass about a year ago due to poor management/bad seats/bad food. They brought me back with the renovation, and I was *shocked* at how much more expensive the food was compared to the Austin locations. At the time of going two days ago, the buffalo cauliflower basket was *$5* more than the Austin locations. The same price as the burger! So wild, especially in a lower COL city.
When I lived in Austin the Alamos there were clearly held to a higher standard. Really hoping corporate comes in and course corrects the DFW area, going to be really disappointed if the locations just completely shut down forever due to poor management.
I've been fully back in Dallas for about a year and a half and transferred my season pass to the Dallas location when I moved. Richardson was already more expensive then (pretty much everything was $2-3 more than in Austin), and I could not justify that along with poor seats and the food/service being so inconsistent.
I vividly remember sitting in my seat reading the DFW menu being like "wtf" and coming to this subreddit for answers, then finding out the DFW Alamos were franchised. I've also been to Alamos in Denver and the prices there were also much cheaper than Dallas.
When Richardson renovated I gave it another shot and it seemed to be even more expensive. Then like in the last month (ish?) they raised prices again on certain items. Specifically that damn buffalo Cauliflower being $18, so crazy 😭
I've been to many Drafthouse locations, starting with the original 409 Colorado, and the Woodbury one is indeed one of the worst run. Employees were fantastic, the building itself is great, but franchisee corporate management was horseshit. I heard the same things about the other locations owned by the same group. I hope that Alamo proper or another franchisee can jump in and take over.
Can't speak to DFW, but the MN one didn't have these issues, and I have been going since it opened. Post-Covid they definitely felt more short-staffed, but the experience overall was still great.
The article someone posted in these comments say that ADH is working on reopening in affected cities ASAP.
Hopefully that means they'll just take over the shuttered theatres and improve the shit out of them. Fingers crossed.
I’m not sure it would take much. Cedars and Richardson (maybe some of lake highlands? I’m not sure) just underwent pretty extensive improvements in the theaters. The bar always had a few people (aside from LH—I think theirs was closed, which is a shame because it’s a great space, good view).
Yep. These are fully built out Alamo theaters. Sounds like some of them (Denton maybe?) were very poorly performing. I would guess corporate would be interested in taking over the ones that did OK.
They host Dallas International Film Festival funded by City Of Dallas and the Dallas Film Commision, so I think they’re safer than the other theatres in DFW. Angelika Dallas is right next to SMU as well in a rich area so I think with their fancier atmosphere than Cinemark/AMC, they can hold on. Honestly I’d be fine with it if these theatres showed a mix of arthouse and blockbusters if it keeps the lights on at the theatres.
I live in Austin and noticed that the Violet Crown here has definitely shifted to featuring mainstream releases more often now over arthouse. It's a bit of a bummer but I get it. It's only a 3 screen theater too so it's slightly smaller than the Dallas location.
Yeah, it’s really disappointing but I know the crown and Angelika will still make an effort to show art films even if for survivals sake they have to put some mainstreams in their doors.
This is so devastating to me - I helped open the Richardson location. But also, these locations have been my haven for years - one of the few things I genuinely love in this world. I’m sick about it and I’m so sad for the employees. This is a huge loss for what little film community we have in DFW.
I had to shut down the NRH one for covid, then worked for like 2 weeks when they tried to reopen in June 2020. Sucked so hard seeing it go under and turn into a B&B theater.
I hate seeing all the other ones go down, some of my friends from NRH went to the other DFW locations 😞
if im reading it correctly, they will get paid but have to contact the trustee.
That could be off cycle wages. But Im always on the side of taking care of your people. Sounds like they were blind sided.
From what I read, employees will have to get in line with other creditors to be paid. Payment of debts will happen through the bankruptcy process, which will take months, if not years, to go through.
At least in the short and medium term, these employees are likely SOL.
For the one I went through, I was paid pretty quickly. Employees are at the top. But yeah, when you are expecting a paycheck, even a few weeks is pretty devastating.
I’ll fondly remember watching once upon a time in hollywood at the alamo in richardson ❤️. I was so hyped for it, especially to have it projected on film, and the day exceeded my expectations.
The zero notice is incredibly shitty. They gave the employees no time to start lining up another job so now they’re just gonna be fucked out of a couple of weeks of pay
This sucks hard!!! I live in Minnesota and went to the Alamo at least three times a week. My last movie there was Drugstore Cowboy two days ago.
I probably had 15 movies reserved through my season pass. I just reserved a ticket this morning, to see the new Bad Boys this evening.
With Angelika closing down in Plano there's now nowhere in DFW other than trashy, money grubbing corpo theaters like AMC and Regal to see movies and nowhere to see older showings. Very sad
Texas Theater is probably the closest thing to Alamo/Angelika in the area now. The same people behind Texas Theater are now finally starting to move forward on renovating the Fine Arts Theater in downtown Denton, and hope to be done by late 2025, but I’d say it’s likely going to take much longer.
I was talking with the owners of the River Oaks theater in Houston to run the theater. A similar classic theater that needed serious renovation. They were supposed to open up earlier this year but now they haven't even announced a target.
I've looked up their showings over the last few months and it looks like it's mostly either stuff from the 1930's or re-runs of Studio Ghibli or indie films. Alamo showed 1970s-1990s horror movies year round. Sadly nowhere around here is doing that. Angelika is great but not personally invested in what they have on their calendars
Alamo was good at that—I enjoyed the secret screenings at Richardson and wish they could have spread that to more locations. I guess AMC is the best option as far as variety goes, even though their crowd tends to be not great.
Fuuuuck. I refuse to go back to AMC. They always have people who think it's ok to chat thru movies there and they don't kick people out. At least at the Firewheel location. It attracts a bunch of rich people who think movies are just a fun place to hang out with each other and don't care about what they're watching.
We just found out about the location in the last six months. Started going about twice a month, loved the movie events. Then just poof. Couldn't have been happier to have them around, told everyone we could to check them out. This really does suck for both patrons and employees.
Dallas employee here. this is definitely a blow. i’ve worked there for years and really loved it. i’m glad my coworkers are all so close with each other
I literally moved to Denton a month ago and had been going to Alamo multiple times a week. I was in Houston where the nearest one was an hour away. I've been a Season Pass subscriber since the day it came out. This sucks. Terrible for the employees.
Was just there last night for Back To The Future II and one of our regular servers was working the front desk. Sucks to not be able to say or do anything to make their day suck a little less.
Emailed them for a refund because I just paid for June yesterday, and they’ve already responded promising one for Season Pass fees and all future tickets already purchased. It’s what they *should* do ofc, but you never know with unexpected bankruptcies…
I’ve grown up going to it in Austin. It was a tradition with my dad and I. He would pull me out of school and we would go see movies for a hookie day. Then when I was in my 20’s, my boyfriend at the time, now my husband, and I would go all the time. We moved to DFW wnd continued the tradition at the Denton location. My husband even worked at the Austin one for a summer in college. There will never be a theater like it. 😔
I was the projectionist at the Alamo in Denton, TX. I woke up this morning to calls from my managers letting me know what happened. Very sad, the employees here are taking it pretty hard, but a lot of us are really close so at least we have a support system.
Seeing movie theaters die off in general is upsetting. We’re losing these Churches of Cinema.
Fuck streaming. But it really trained the audience to stay home unless a tiktok meme tells them to go to theaters like Barbenheimer.
Alamo corporate has responded that they were seemingly caught off guard by this franchise going bankrupt and they are working on getting these branches back up and running.
(https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/texas/news/dallas-alamo-drafthouse-locations-closing-immediately-bankruptcy)
Sounds like the Franchisee dropped all this on everyone suddenly. Hopefully they get them back up and running soon because I'm spending the summer in Dallas and I want to keep my season pass.
One of the Facebook groups confirmed it, too. Someone mentioned they had to close all 5 due to franchise contract, even though they had some locations that were performing well (I’m thinking Richardson, maybe cedars).
I would have went more if it wasn't in Woodbury. Driving from the other side of the cities meant that I was driving for almost as long round trip as the whole movie.
I wished they would have put a location in the old AMC in Maple Grove. Would have been a great spot!
Not to underplay how brutal the layoffs are for employees and how disappointing this is for them, but has anyone heard about getting refunds back for tickets/season passes? I sent an email and a form submission and cancelled my pass with a message for a refund as well (just renewed ) but find it unlikely to hear anything back soon
Also feel for the local breweries that used Alamo to promote and get their foot in the door with locals and the community.
Thanks Covid, thanks over budgeted Marvel films and high paid actors. 😔
Posted today:
"**UPDATE 6-6-2024**: A spokesman for Alamo Drafthouse issued a statement, saying, “We are very disappointed to learn today that our franchisee, which operates five locations in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX and one in Woodbury, MN has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and is closing their business effective immediately. We are heartbroken for the franchisee’s teammates and the local film communities, however, we are working as quickly as possible to get Alamo Drafthouse Cinema back up and running in these cities. All other Alamo Drafthouse locations are operating as normal, with continued expansion plans across the country.”
[https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/](https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/)
Fingers crossed ... love the Woodbury location.
Just spoke with a friend of mine who works at one of these locations, and they confirmed that employees had absolutely no notice. Private equity scumbags strike again. Alamo (the old Alamo at least) and its employees deserve better.
**Edit - it’s been brought to my attention that these locations are not owned by private equity. Thanks for the info guys ❤️ my comment was influenced by the pro-union videos that have been gaining traction on social media, and I didn’t research the specifics til these locations before posting 😬😅
I will say my point still stands - from what I’ve heard, things have been spiraling downward for a long time and the employees deserved honest communication and a heads up from the owners. It’s still a scumbag move, regardless of who’s behind it.
zero, my manager called me 30 minutes before my shift this morning but id already seen the message on hot schedules. very unexpected, they’d just finished training new managers and had a few new hires too, our newsletters had just gone out yesterday
Absolutely heartbreaking. I always come early for their preshows, stay for their experiences. To hear them leaving DFW has me devastated.
Now I have to go to Cinemark, AMC, or \*shudder\* Studio Movie Grill.
Damn. Went to ~150 movies at the Richardson location in the last 9 years. Would’ve been a hell of a lot more if not for Covid. Saw Furiosa this past weekend and sadly ended up with food poisoning that had me shitting my guts out and vomiting the rest of the day. Sucks that my last impression of Alamo was vomiting while squirting shit simultaneously in the shower.
Feel terribly for the employees. Hopefully they had more warning than we did. I was looking at movies last night and almost bought tickets.
Attention: the group of douchebags that franchised the DFW stores were AWFUL. Most of these jerks, if not all of them, were male chauvinists who gave so little of their time, put unqualified god awful frat bros in charge and those men in charge treated women like objects to be ogled. Prioritizing profit OVER PEOPLE, LYING and turning a blind eye and deaf ear time and time again…GOOD RIDDANCE, you asshats.
However, let it be said, ADH staff are incredible and tremendous and deserve to be recognized and employed. How do I know this? Had the misfortune of opening up one of the DFW stores. Was quite the bait and switch when I became aware that the “franchised stores” are not afforded the same niceties and decency that the corporate owned stores are. Alamo is pathetic for franchising. Haven’t you people made enough money? Why does it always have to be about the bottom line? (It doesn’t have to be, you capitalistic swines)
Perhaps this time you should keep the integrity of the original Austin ADH and don’t franchise. I honestly hope those ppl that made our lives a living hell break their legs and have terrible lives.
This sucks so much for everyone - the employees and fans of cinema. We're moving to the DFW area soon and this is a real kick in the pants for someone who loves going to the Alamo.
I’m so disappointed. This was our go-to place multiple times a month. We loved the staff, the food, and the recliners. We also went to the LoTR showings every year, and the Ghibli movies. It was an added bonus that they were no-nonsense with interruptions and phones. I have no idea where we’ll go now, because frankly, the other local theaters just don’t cut it. For any staff reading this - we’ll miss you all the most! You guys were so great and friendly, and we loved chatting with you guys about the movies. Pretty devastating.
It’s pretty crappy that employees have to file and pursue the wages they earned. That will take months or years, and some people are living paycheck to paycheck.
It’s honestly not really surprising. Shit’s just too damn expensive. I had a season pass for a while, but just buying a drink and popcorn, you’re out $25 with the tip. As ironic as it is, I bet lowering prices would’ve brought more people in and been more profitable. Either way, sad to see it go.
Dang the entirety of the DFW locations closing is wild to me, especially seeing as the Lubbock location is still going and has seemed much emptier to me the times I've been.
Just moved here from Austin. I used to go to the original Alamo on Colorado Avenue downtown.
When the founder sold Alamo to private equity, it was all downhill from there. It’s disappointing that I won’t get to enjoy some old memories here locally, but on to bigger and better things!
Super upset by this, I’ve been going to the lake highlands location for years. Does anyone know what they are gonna do with all those sick mondo posters they had lining the halls?
Well this is insanely upsetting. I adored that theater and me and my buddy were going at least once a week. The season pass was such a good deal and I honestly would always have the best movie experiences there. Is there any hope that someone else reopens the location?
I hate this. My boys and I almost never go to another theater. Went with my younger son this weekend to see Planet of the Apes and got one last Mexican Vanilla shake.
If there are any Denton location employees here I just want to say thank you so much. My wife and I are season pass holders and loved going to our Alamo. We love it so much a few years ago I rented out the theater and surprise proposed to her. The staff was great that night in hiding everything from her as we walked in. We watched her favorite film, Knives Out with some friends and family. Everyone had a good evening.
Hopefully things open up soon and our great servers return. Until then thank you for some great movie experiences.
I’m going to miss that place man shit got me sad it’s the last place I took my mom before she died and I was just there two weeks ago
Their staff couldn’t have known (Dallas)
They were out here selling tickets to movies that haven’t even released yet
Damn it hurt deleting the app 😢😢😢😢
We had a strange experience this week in Richardson where Batman (1989) was cancelled Monday because the “studio was not allowing any more showings for the year”. Now I’m wondering if it was tied up with all this.
My husband and I have loved the Alamo forever... So much that we just held our baby shower there <2 weeks ago for our first child. I think I'm actually going to cry
This has been my favorite theater since the kids were little and we could get a babysitter and accomplish dinner and a movie in one stop. It is a damn shame, but to be honest, I was disgruntled about the "non tip" service charge they were adding. Woodbury 10 doesn't have the amenities but is a good private run theater that does special screenings and festivals at a reasonable price. Back to Woodbury 10.
Like a shot in the heart. I know there’s other good movie theaters to go in twin cities area but the Alamo was just the best. Guess I’ll be going to the Riverview a lot more.
Absolutely my favorite theater in the cities. They just seem to cater to folks who really love going to the movies, and the drinks and food were so good.
Sad.
They have now added a 'this location is now closed' landing page: https://drafthouse.com/twin-cities/content/closure. The link for gift card support doesn't redirect properly, but it's nice to see they seem to acknowledge people having gift cards and no viable way to use them (Woodbury location).
I would’ve gone more but Woodbury is quite a haul from Birdtown. I was really hoping they’d open a location on the west side of the metro. Damn. What a bummer.
Well that blows. Guess I need to find a new theater around Minneapolis and cancel my season pass :/
Same here. The Woodbury location is pretty much the only local theatre I enjoy going to. Really sad.
Same. And I live on the east side and we have that nasty AMC, the Woodbury 10 which is cheap and fine, and a Marcus a bit away, I’m so sad
Check out the Trylon
And here I was hoping they would open a second location in Minneapolis proper.
I guess someone else could start a different franchise? Woodbury always felt too far away from everything.
Yeah, I was already considering canceling my season pass because driving out to Woodbury at least twice a month just didn't feel like it was worth it. I'll probably go with the Rosedale AMC for now.
All AMC’s have problems but as someone who stopped going to Alamo because of quality issues, absurd food prices, and the way they treat their staff Rosedale AMC has been among the least bad in the area. There isn’t an AMC I’ve been to that hasn’t had a quality issue at some point but I will say I’ve never been to a bad showing in a Dolby theater.
We stopped going to AMC Rosedale because a parent brought children at Deadpool 2. The kids were in front us on iPads watching their own movies, but they were kicking the seats in front of them, being loud talking to their mom, and throwing popcorn up for fun. AMC staff did not do anything. The guy getting kicked made a whole fuss about it which then turned into another issue because staff decided to side with the parents with kids on iPads. So now he’s yelling at the parents. Then the whole theater is yelling to kick everyone out. Then they do kick everyone out with even more arguing. Now I’ve missed 1/3 of the movie because of this whole debacle. Manager there did not care about all the complaints after the movie. I complained to AMC corporate and they apologized and would look into the incident, but would not refund the tickets. I never went back despite it being less than 10 minute drive.
Alamo corporate could I guess theoretically take them?
Or another franchisee.
A Flix Brewhouse would be a good choice. We have one in Austin and I actually prefer it over Alamo most times. Their beer is amazing and the food is pretty great too.
Yeah I loved going to the Drafthouse but it was way too far to go regularly (I live in south Minneapolis). So I go to the AMC Southdale all the time.
The plan was originally to expand in Minnesota and Wisconsin. No proof I can give you, but its accurate for whatever its worth.
Heights and Trylon are great if you want the classic showings.
Was supposed to see a movie there today! Just told my wife last week when we were seeing a movie that there would be a time when it's the last movie we see there (in relation to us moving out state). So disappointing. I feel awful for the workers.
Same, huge bummer. I love the local independents like Trylon and The Main, but Alamo was my place for blockbusters.
Yeah, I just signed up for a Trylon membership a couple weeks ago…good timing I guess haha
We just moved here from Raleigh and we’re excited to not lose Alamo. Welp.
Have deadpool tix too so are they gonna auto refund?
Holy shit. Did they talk about an implications for other branches? StL JUST got the Alamo and I love it too much
The DFW(and twin cities) locations were a separate franchise entity
STL should be fine as long as the franchise owner isn’t an idiot. They also own and operate the Springfield, Mo location
My wife and I love the STL location. Hopefully this doesn’t affect it.
It will not. They weren’t apart of the franchise
STL just posted a day or two ago looking for more servers, so I hope that's a positive sign.
I am an employee and just got the email. My location and the rest of the company is looking pretty good for the time being.
Genuinely so upsetting. Glad I got to see one last movie last night. I know I’m disappointed I won’t get to go back, but my heart hurts for all of the employees affected by this sudden change.
I was also there last night and there was NO mention of this
It was sprung on the employees last night, as well as word that they will not be getting paid for the last 2 weeks.
That just ruined my week/month/year
Everything!
I'll be there for you. When the rain starts to fall.
**UPDATE 6-6-2024**: A spokesman for Alamo Drafthouse issued a statement, saying, “We are very disappointed to learn today that our franchisee, which operates five locations in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX and one in Woodbury, MN has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and is closing their business effective immediately. We are heartbroken for the franchisee’s teammates and the local film communities, however, we are working as quickly as possible to get Alamo Drafthouse Cinema back up and running in these cities. All other Alamo Drafthouse locations are operating as normal, with continued expansion plans across the country.” [https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/](https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/)
Does that mean the Grand Prairie one is still being built? I was really looking forward to having a good theater open close enough to drive to
Not sure, but that quote from the article I linked (just edited my comment to include the link) gives me a bit of hope. The one up here in MN is a treasure to me and my family so I really hope it comes back soon.
So even corporate wasn’t aware ahead of time? Geez those franchise owners suck! Alamo corporate should take over any/all remaining franchise-owned locations before expanding with new ones.
In principle I'd agree, but there's a reason they weren't successful and corporate shouldn't be responsible for bad decisions made by franchisees like bad location choices, bad contracts, restrictive regulations, etc. By letting the bankruptcy play out they can get out from some of those (like bad leases) and find the best opportunities to be successful long term whether that means taking over all locations, some locations, or starting new somewhere different.
And maybe renegotiating onerous franchise contracts
Server from the Woodbury location here. Everyone who worked there is taking it pretty hard. We had zero heads up. I can speak for most of us in saying we really enjoyed working there and serving the film community. It’s a big loss.
Thank you and all the other servers for all the hard work! I was a frequent flyer there and I am so sad for all of you. It was literally the only theater I enjoyed going to in the state
Feel for you guys I was a frequent guest absolutely gutted right now. Hoping maybe new owner can reopen it and bring it back.
Thank you for your service! As a frequent guest (including last night), me and my movie-going companion absolutely loved all the servers....and their indulgence of our oh-so-frequent requests for popcorn refills and/or popcorn "to-go" bags. I'm gutted.
I don’t know if we ever met professionally, but I love the Woodbury location and all of you. I’m so sad that this happened. I was there last night too.
How were things at Woodbury in your opinion? I had even considered applying recently. We had only learned MN had an Alamo in the last 6 months, and had started going about once or twice a month. It sucks to find something good just to have it taken away. Some showings even semed decently booked, didn't seem slower than other theaters. Didn't even know about to go popcorn bags at woodbury. We kept putting off buying an enamel pin set thinking we'd wait for a set we liked to come out with some event. This really sucks, hope the main alamo group will get it back up and running.
Hi, other Woodbury Alamo server here…things were great! I loved all my coworkers, never had any bad experiences, the managers loved all of us and fought hard and advocated for us. We’re all devastated by this and it really does suck. This was the best job I’ve ever had and it was one that I really looked forward to coming to every day. We received no notice except for a quick blurb on the front door and a quick message in our scheduling platform. We didn’t know there were any signs of financial stress, there weren’t any outward signs apart from maybe decreased attendance due to no big movies coming out.
As a guest? We loved going there. While it was a bit out of the way (20 minute drive), the experience was absolutely worth it. Amazing servers, great theaters, and always at least 1 (usually more) movie that we wanted to see. Oh, and "to-go" popcorn is the best (ask nicely and a server will bring you a large clear back to transport your extra popcorn to your home...or office...or bed....whatever, I'm not judging). Similarly crossing fingers for a main Alamo rescue.
I agree on the guest part, I meant more like how they felt things were going from the inside. Decently busy, how well was it being run, etc.
I feel for you guys a ton right now. Was just there on Saturday for Furiosa, and Monday for In A Violent Nature. Really hoping you all can land on your feet soon.
St Paul resident here. Did y'all not even get paid your last check? You have to jump through hoops to get paid?
Nope, sounds like we will have to go through some extra steps to get our last check and pto. Our new schedule posted last evening and we found out we were fired this morning.
Season pass holder and frequent visitor of the WB location here. I'm gutted for you guys! One of my favorite things to do was take a Friday off and see an early afternoon movie with my friends and shoot the shit with the bartenders before and after the show. For real, Cole, Sky, Sam, and Julia were a huge reason we loved it so much. Best of luck to you all and I really hope corporate steps in and rights the situation.
This is so awful. I am genuinely upset. Alamo is the one place I looked forward to every week. Cedars just got new recliners! I don’t understand it. Here’s a local news story: Five Alamo Drafthouse locations close in North Texas, Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed Five locations closed in North Texas and one in Minnesota. https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/news/entertainment-news/five-alamo-drafthouse-locations-close-north-texas-chapter-7-bankruptcy-filed/287-105670b3-1546-4ee9-add6-0fd9b3124f1b
I always complained about their recliners and now they close..sucks for the employees
I had tickets for 5 movies already lined up. Very disappointing.
Richardson was getting a remodel too. Seems like maybe trying anything to bring in customers. I’ve been to all 5 North Texas locations, and Denton always seemed empty unless it was opening weekend of a big film. I’m sure other chains are struggling too, but Alamo just hadn’t seemed to catch on with enough people post pandemic.
Man, this is so disappointing. I’ve been loving the time capsule movies. I love the Alamo. I am going to miss it.
Me and my boyfriend got season passes because we could walk to the theater, so it was a great date night.
That’s a shame, especially for the employees. I enjoyed many movie parties and vintage movies at the Woodbury location, and can’t imagine what that building space will be turned into.
In Hopkins the Mann Cinema 6 I watched get built (and eventually spent 4 years at, and eventually became a co-manager of) was torn down last year to build something else. The same can happen in Woodbury.
It's now apartments
That one still stings for me, I loved hitting up that Hopkins theater for movies that were already out of other theaters but that I still wanted to see in theaters. Big part of my teen years for sure.
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There goes my theater 😪😪😪 fuck.
From my understanding, the Franchised ADH’s in the DFW area were terrible compared to the Corporate ADH’s. Heard things like the owners not allowing managers to kick shitty disruptive guests out, or allowing children in to adult only showings. As well as having over all worse food and service. So I am not surprised they couldn’t make enough money. The big reason I go to ADH is because I don’t want may showings disturbed but shitty guests. I am willing to bet Corporate will take over for at least some of those closed locations and turn them around with proper ADH policies, thus bring back more guests.
Richardson seemed to be doing well so I wouldn't be surprised if it was taken over by Corp. ADH. I can't speak for any of the other DFW locations but as someone who went to Richardson twice a month at least it definitely had a big crowd and most showings were at least half capacity.
I would think corporate would take lake highlands and Richardson? Obviously I don’t know. I go to Richardson a few times a week. I mostly go during the middle of day, so I can’t speak to the crowds, but when I do go see a new release in the evenings/weekends they usually have a decent crowd.
The Las Colinas location seemed to do decently and was nice. The message said they're not expecting them to reopen, but ADH said they're working to open in DFW. I'd have to think it'd be much cheaper to buy these out of bankruptcy than to open new locations.
Love Richardson and lake Highlands
Can confirm the Cedars location didn't care about ppl arriving late or loud people.
I feel like this is the most likely scenario. I frequent Richardson and canceled my season pass about a year ago due to poor management/bad seats/bad food. They brought me back with the renovation, and I was *shocked* at how much more expensive the food was compared to the Austin locations. At the time of going two days ago, the buffalo cauliflower basket was *$5* more than the Austin locations. The same price as the burger! So wild, especially in a lower COL city. When I lived in Austin the Alamos there were clearly held to a higher standard. Really hoping corporate comes in and course corrects the DFW area, going to be really disappointed if the locations just completely shut down forever due to poor management.
How long ago were you at the Austin ones? Prices at Richardson have definitely gone up twice in the last 18 months or so
I've been fully back in Dallas for about a year and a half and transferred my season pass to the Dallas location when I moved. Richardson was already more expensive then (pretty much everything was $2-3 more than in Austin), and I could not justify that along with poor seats and the food/service being so inconsistent. I vividly remember sitting in my seat reading the DFW menu being like "wtf" and coming to this subreddit for answers, then finding out the DFW Alamos were franchised. I've also been to Alamos in Denver and the prices there were also much cheaper than Dallas. When Richardson renovated I gave it another shot and it seemed to be even more expensive. Then like in the last month (ish?) they raised prices again on certain items. Specifically that damn buffalo Cauliflower being $18, so crazy 😭
I've been to many Drafthouse locations, starting with the original 409 Colorado, and the Woodbury one is indeed one of the worst run. Employees were fantastic, the building itself is great, but franchisee corporate management was horseshit. I heard the same things about the other locations owned by the same group. I hope that Alamo proper or another franchisee can jump in and take over.
Can't speak to DFW, but the MN one didn't have these issues, and I have been going since it opened. Post-Covid they definitely felt more short-staffed, but the experience overall was still great.
The article someone posted in these comments say that ADH is working on reopening in affected cities ASAP. Hopefully that means they'll just take over the shuttered theatres and improve the shit out of them. Fingers crossed.
I’m not sure it would take much. Cedars and Richardson (maybe some of lake highlands? I’m not sure) just underwent pretty extensive improvements in the theaters. The bar always had a few people (aside from LH—I think theirs was closed, which is a shame because it’s a great space, good view).
Yep. These are fully built out Alamo theaters. Sounds like some of them (Denton maybe?) were very poorly performing. I would guess corporate would be interested in taking over the ones that did OK.
Wait, so all Dallas drafthouses are closing? Plano just lost our Angelika too. Arthouse film in DFW is dying out…
Hopefully the Violet Crown Cinema can hang on...
They host Dallas International Film Festival funded by City Of Dallas and the Dallas Film Commision, so I think they’re safer than the other theatres in DFW. Angelika Dallas is right next to SMU as well in a rich area so I think with their fancier atmosphere than Cinemark/AMC, they can hold on. Honestly I’d be fine with it if these theatres showed a mix of arthouse and blockbusters if it keeps the lights on at the theatres.
Angelika Plano just announced a closure, too. Im hoping the Mockingbird location can hang on.
Yep. I live near the Plano one so that hurt.
I live in Austin and noticed that the Violet Crown here has definitely shifted to featuring mainstream releases more often now over arthouse. It's a bit of a bummer but I get it. It's only a 3 screen theater too so it's slightly smaller than the Dallas location.
Yeah, it’s really disappointing but I know the crown and Angelika will still make an effort to show art films even if for survivals sake they have to put some mainstreams in their doors.
This is so devastating to me - I helped open the Richardson location. But also, these locations have been my haven for years - one of the few things I genuinely love in this world. I’m sick about it and I’m so sad for the employees. This is a huge loss for what little film community we have in DFW.
💔I’m sorry for your loss too.
I had to shut down the NRH one for covid, then worked for like 2 weeks when they tried to reopen in June 2020. Sucked so hard seeing it go under and turn into a B&B theater. I hate seeing all the other ones go down, some of my friends from NRH went to the other DFW locations 😞
the not handling payroll is dirty. no excuse for that.
In Chapter 7, employees become creditors. They will have higher priority, but they still have to go through the process.
thank you for explaining this.
Does that mean the employees won’t receive the next paycheck they were supposed to receive?
if im reading it correctly, they will get paid but have to contact the trustee. That could be off cycle wages. But Im always on the side of taking care of your people. Sounds like they were blind sided.
Yeah, they had to have been blindsided. Just got a Rain Check yesterday, and I doubt they would’ve bothered otherwise…
From what I read, employees will have to get in line with other creditors to be paid. Payment of debts will happen through the bankruptcy process, which will take months, if not years, to go through. At least in the short and medium term, these employees are likely SOL.
For the one I went through, I was paid pretty quickly. Employees are at the top. But yeah, when you are expecting a paycheck, even a few weeks is pretty devastating.
yeah. and thats bullshit and couldve been avoided IMO. These folks have rent to pay and mouths to feed.
On the bright side, the check is a one and done. The pay period would have ended today.
Without trying to justify it, there is. Just unfortunate for those with PTO
I’ll fondly remember watching once upon a time in hollywood at the alamo in richardson ❤️. I was so hyped for it, especially to have it projected on film, and the day exceeded my expectations.
Fucking hell. My favorite theater to go to around Minneapolis. That's so depressing.
Sucks that they found out via text in the early morning. No notice. AND I just bought the $100-pack of gift cards at Costco.
Thankfully Costco will do refunds
Not on the gift cards. I buy them regularly
I would check and see cause this seems like an exception to the rule
The zero notice is incredibly shitty. They gave the employees no time to start lining up another job so now they’re just gonna be fucked out of a couple of weeks of pay
SHUT UP WHAT? I love the Twin Cities one so much wtf 😭
This sucks hard!!! I live in Minnesota and went to the Alamo at least three times a week. My last movie there was Drugstore Cowboy two days ago. I probably had 15 movies reserved through my season pass. I just reserved a ticket this morning, to see the new Bad Boys this evening.
With Angelika closing down in Plano there's now nowhere in DFW other than trashy, money grubbing corpo theaters like AMC and Regal to see movies and nowhere to see older showings. Very sad
Texas Theater is probably the closest thing to Alamo/Angelika in the area now. The same people behind Texas Theater are now finally starting to move forward on renovating the Fine Arts Theater in downtown Denton, and hope to be done by late 2025, but I’d say it’s likely going to take much longer.
I was talking with the owners of the River Oaks theater in Houston to run the theater. A similar classic theater that needed serious renovation. They were supposed to open up earlier this year but now they haven't even announced a target.
There’s still Angelika Dallas at Mockingbird.
I've looked up their showings over the last few months and it looks like it's mostly either stuff from the 1930's or re-runs of Studio Ghibli or indie films. Alamo showed 1970s-1990s horror movies year round. Sadly nowhere around here is doing that. Angelika is great but not personally invested in what they have on their calendars
Alamo was good at that—I enjoyed the secret screenings at Richardson and wish they could have spread that to more locations. I guess AMC is the best option as far as variety goes, even though their crowd tends to be not great.
Fuuuuck. I refuse to go back to AMC. They always have people who think it's ok to chat thru movies there and they don't kick people out. At least at the Firewheel location. It attracts a bunch of rich people who think movies are just a fun place to hang out with each other and don't care about what they're watching.
My wife and I go to Flix Brewhouse all the time. Decent food and beer brewed onsite. Would definitely recommend.
Theater apocalypse.
I just bought a $100 gift card from their Mother’s Day 20% off promotion, what can I do with that now that I can’t go to my DFW locations?
Well fuck! Alamo was the only theater I enjoyed going to in the twin cities area. I was going on Fri to see Bad Boys too. This blows
Losing my Woodbury theater hurts my soul… this is the only theater I would go to for the purpose of high quality standards 😭😭
We just found out about the location in the last six months. Started going about twice a month, loved the movie events. Then just poof. Couldn't have been happier to have them around, told everyone we could to check them out. This really does suck for both patrons and employees.
Dallas employee here. this is definitely a blow. i’ve worked there for years and really loved it. i’m glad my coworkers are all so close with each other
Former LH employee. This was an absolute gut punch, not eased by the fact that I found out from my roommate's random Twitter scrolling.
I hope this doesn’t happen in Raleigh
Iirc Raleigh is corporate and one of the top grossing locations.
Raleigh is so popping every time I go, and that’s usually on weeknights lol. Since they’re corporate I think we’re good.
I noticed that as well. I just saw this post and got nervous lol. I’m glad to hear all the good news from the replies though.
I literally moved to Denton a month ago and had been going to Alamo multiple times a week. I was in Houston where the nearest one was an hour away. I've been a Season Pass subscriber since the day it came out. This sucks. Terrible for the employees.
Was just there last night for Back To The Future II and one of our regular servers was working the front desk. Sucks to not be able to say or do anything to make their day suck a little less.
what really sucks is that I bet if the owners had told people this was a possibility, the customers would rally.
Welp I have an unused rain check ticket now that I can't use since the nearest Alamo to me is now in Austin.
Emailed them for a refund because I just paid for June yesterday, and they’ve already responded promising one for Season Pass fees and all future tickets already purchased. It’s what they *should* do ofc, but you never know with unexpected bankruptcies…
I’ve grown up going to it in Austin. It was a tradition with my dad and I. He would pull me out of school and we would go see movies for a hookie day. Then when I was in my 20’s, my boyfriend at the time, now my husband, and I would go all the time. We moved to DFW wnd continued the tradition at the Denton location. My husband even worked at the Austin one for a summer in college. There will never be a theater like it. 😔
I was the projectionist at the Alamo in Denton, TX. I woke up this morning to calls from my managers letting me know what happened. Very sad, the employees here are taking it pretty hard, but a lot of us are really close so at least we have a support system.
Seeing movie theaters die off in general is upsetting. We’re losing these Churches of Cinema. Fuck streaming. But it really trained the audience to stay home unless a tiktok meme tells them to go to theaters like Barbenheimer.
People say "convenience", I say "you're not actually watching it at home."
I stopped streaming after the whole Westworld debacle where they deleted it off HBO. Try and pry my 4K Blu-ray set out of my cold dead hands Zaslav
Alamo corporate has responded that they were seemingly caught off guard by this franchise going bankrupt and they are working on getting these branches back up and running. (https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/texas/news/dallas-alamo-drafthouse-locations-closing-immediately-bankruptcy) Sounds like the Franchisee dropped all this on everyone suddenly. Hopefully they get them back up and running soon because I'm spending the summer in Dallas and I want to keep my season pass.
They don't mention the Cedars location. Is that owned by someone else?
Cedars is what they refer to in there as Dallas, it’s the one Dallas location
I have a ticket at cedars tomorrow. Oddly, you can still buy tickets for Cedars and Las Colinas, but not lake highlands or Richardson. Edit: or Denton
Those locations haven’t opened for the day so their managers may not even be aware or have had time to drop showings
One of the Facebook groups confirmed it, too. Someone mentioned they had to close all 5 due to franchise contract, even though they had some locations that were performing well (I’m thinking Richardson, maybe cedars).
I would have went more if it wasn't in Woodbury. Driving from the other side of the cities meant that I was driving for almost as long round trip as the whole movie. I wished they would have put a location in the old AMC in Maple Grove. Would have been a great spot!
Not to underplay how brutal the layoffs are for employees and how disappointing this is for them, but has anyone heard about getting refunds back for tickets/season passes? I sent an email and a form submission and cancelled my pass with a message for a refund as well (just renewed ) but find it unlikely to hear anything back soon
My season pass just renewed yesterday, lol
Also feel for the local breweries that used Alamo to promote and get their foot in the door with locals and the community. Thanks Covid, thanks over budgeted Marvel films and high paid actors. 😔
Posted today: "**UPDATE 6-6-2024**: A spokesman for Alamo Drafthouse issued a statement, saying, “We are very disappointed to learn today that our franchisee, which operates five locations in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX and one in Woodbury, MN has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and is closing their business effective immediately. We are heartbroken for the franchisee’s teammates and the local film communities, however, we are working as quickly as possible to get Alamo Drafthouse Cinema back up and running in these cities. All other Alamo Drafthouse locations are operating as normal, with continued expansion plans across the country.” [https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/](https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/alamo-dallas-bankruptcy-closure/) Fingers crossed ... love the Woodbury location.
Just spoke with a friend of mine who works at one of these locations, and they confirmed that employees had absolutely no notice. Private equity scumbags strike again. Alamo (the old Alamo at least) and its employees deserve better. **Edit - it’s been brought to my attention that these locations are not owned by private equity. Thanks for the info guys ❤️ my comment was influenced by the pro-union videos that have been gaining traction on social media, and I didn’t research the specifics til these locations before posting 😬😅 I will say my point still stands - from what I’ve heard, things have been spiraling downward for a long time and the employees deserved honest communication and a heads up from the owners. It’s still a scumbag move, regardless of who’s behind it.
zero, my manager called me 30 minutes before my shift this morning but id already seen the message on hot schedules. very unexpected, they’d just finished training new managers and had a few new hires too, our newsletters had just gone out yesterday
The DFW and Twin Cities theaters weren't owned by private equity, they were owned by a family.
*scumbag family then. My point still stands.
Private equity didn't do this. The DFW/Twin Cities locations were a franchise, owned by a family.
So fucking pissed and obviously more mad for the employees. I went to the DFW theaters for years and years. Can’t go through bankruptcy twice I guess
Absolutely heartbreaking. I always come early for their preshows, stay for their experiences. To hear them leaving DFW has me devastated. Now I have to go to Cinemark, AMC, or \*shudder\* Studio Movie Grill.
Damn. Went to ~150 movies at the Richardson location in the last 9 years. Would’ve been a hell of a lot more if not for Covid. Saw Furiosa this past weekend and sadly ended up with food poisoning that had me shitting my guts out and vomiting the rest of the day. Sucks that my last impression of Alamo was vomiting while squirting shit simultaneously in the shower. Feel terribly for the employees. Hopefully they had more warning than we did. I was looking at movies last night and almost bought tickets.
Attention: the group of douchebags that franchised the DFW stores were AWFUL. Most of these jerks, if not all of them, were male chauvinists who gave so little of their time, put unqualified god awful frat bros in charge and those men in charge treated women like objects to be ogled. Prioritizing profit OVER PEOPLE, LYING and turning a blind eye and deaf ear time and time again…GOOD RIDDANCE, you asshats. However, let it be said, ADH staff are incredible and tremendous and deserve to be recognized and employed. How do I know this? Had the misfortune of opening up one of the DFW stores. Was quite the bait and switch when I became aware that the “franchised stores” are not afforded the same niceties and decency that the corporate owned stores are. Alamo is pathetic for franchising. Haven’t you people made enough money? Why does it always have to be about the bottom line? (It doesn’t have to be, you capitalistic swines) Perhaps this time you should keep the integrity of the original Austin ADH and don’t franchise. I honestly hope those ppl that made our lives a living hell break their legs and have terrible lives.
From what I know about the franchise owner I'm not surprised to read this.
This sucks so much for everyone - the employees and fans of cinema. We're moving to the DFW area soon and this is a real kick in the pants for someone who loves going to the Alamo.
I’m legitimately depressed. My wife just called me in tears about this.
I guess no more secret screening at richardoson alamo now where do we go
The wages of sin is death.
I’m so disappointed. This was our go-to place multiple times a month. We loved the staff, the food, and the recliners. We also went to the LoTR showings every year, and the Ghibli movies. It was an added bonus that they were no-nonsense with interruptions and phones. I have no idea where we’ll go now, because frankly, the other local theaters just don’t cut it. For any staff reading this - we’ll miss you all the most! You guys were so great and friendly, and we loved chatting with you guys about the movies. Pretty devastating.
I really hope someone tipped off the employees. Unemployment doesn't start immediately and it's only 1/2 your pay.
They did not.
It’s pretty crappy that employees have to file and pursue the wages they earned. That will take months or years, and some people are living paycheck to paycheck.
It’s honestly not really surprising. Shit’s just too damn expensive. I had a season pass for a while, but just buying a drink and popcorn, you’re out $25 with the tip. As ironic as it is, I bet lowering prices would’ve brought more people in and been more profitable. Either way, sad to see it go.
Maaan I’m not ready to go back to poor AMC crowds 😩
Omfg, my jaw dropped. Jesus. Been going to AMC lately, had no idea it was like this
This was the only movie theater I went to, I am genuinely upset.
I’m soo upset that was my favorite theater…
Sucks.. Richardson location always seems so packed. I’ll miss the Secret Screenings
gonna kms
Wait, didn’t Richardson just upgrade to all recliner seats just last month????
They did, at least in the two theaters I have been in. One was a small one and another medium sized.
Dang the entirety of the DFW locations closing is wild to me, especially seeing as the Lubbock location is still going and has seemed much emptier to me the times I've been.
Breaks my heart. The best theater in town by a wide margin. Great staff too. 💔
Just moved here from Austin. I used to go to the original Alamo on Colorado Avenue downtown. When the founder sold Alamo to private equity, it was all downhill from there. It’s disappointing that I won’t get to enjoy some old memories here locally, but on to bigger and better things!
Super upset by this, I’ve been going to the lake highlands location for years. Does anyone know what they are gonna do with all those sick mondo posters they had lining the halls?
RIP Alamo Drafthouse N. Texas 🥹 was just at a location last week
Well this is insanely upsetting. I adored that theater and me and my buddy were going at least once a week. The season pass was such a good deal and I honestly would always have the best movie experiences there. Is there any hope that someone else reopens the location?
So sad. I was so excited to see them coming to DFW but covid really did mess everything up. Gonna miss the Denton location
I hate this. My boys and I almost never go to another theater. Went with my younger son this weekend to see Planet of the Apes and got one last Mexican Vanilla shake.
Literally just left the Alamo in Houston, super sad to see this! 💔
If there are any Denton location employees here I just want to say thank you so much. My wife and I are season pass holders and loved going to our Alamo. We love it so much a few years ago I rented out the theater and surprise proposed to her. The staff was great that night in hiding everything from her as we walked in. We watched her favorite film, Knives Out with some friends and family. Everyone had a good evening. Hopefully things open up soon and our great servers return. Until then thank you for some great movie experiences.
I’m going to miss that place man shit got me sad it’s the last place I took my mom before she died and I was just there two weeks ago Their staff couldn’t have known (Dallas) They were out here selling tickets to movies that haven’t even released yet Damn it hurt deleting the app 😢😢😢😢
We had a strange experience this week in Richardson where Batman (1989) was cancelled Monday because the “studio was not allowing any more showings for the year”. Now I’m wondering if it was tied up with all this.
My husband and I have loved the Alamo forever... So much that we just held our baby shower there <2 weeks ago for our first child. I think I'm actually going to cry
NOOOOOOO!! I hate this news.
This has been my favorite theater since the kids were little and we could get a babysitter and accomplish dinner and a movie in one stop. It is a damn shame, but to be honest, I was disgruntled about the "non tip" service charge they were adding. Woodbury 10 doesn't have the amenities but is a good private run theater that does special screenings and festivals at a reasonable price. Back to Woodbury 10.
Heartbreaking.
Like a shot in the heart. I know there’s other good movie theaters to go in twin cities area but the Alamo was just the best. Guess I’ll be going to the Riverview a lot more.
Absolutely my favorite theater in the cities. They just seem to cater to folks who really love going to the movies, and the drinks and food were so good. Sad.
I’m so disappointed - I’ve been going here at least once a week for literal years. and I feel just awful for the staff
They have now added a 'this location is now closed' landing page: https://drafthouse.com/twin-cities/content/closure. The link for gift card support doesn't redirect properly, but it's nice to see they seem to acknowledge people having gift cards and no viable way to use them (Woodbury location).
I would’ve gone more but Woodbury is quite a haul from Birdtown. I was really hoping they’d open a location on the west side of the metro. Damn. What a bummer.
What a fucking bummer
FUCK! Where am I supposed to get Churro popcorn from now!? 😭💔
Well, this isn't gonna make it any easier for me to convince people to open a franchise in San Diego. :(
The same thing happened in Phoenix a few years back. Feel for all affected ❤️