Tim League

Watch Drafthouse CEO’s Great Response to Texting in Theaters
Watch Drafthouse CEO’s Great Response to Texting in Theaters
Watch Drafthouse CEO’s Great Response to Texting in Theaters
The Alamo Drafthouse is built on a simple concept: great movies, good food, and most important of all — don’t talk or use your cell phone in the theater, or they will not hesitate to kick you out without a refund. Drafthouse CEO Tim League has devoted his brand to focusing on why we go to theaters in the first place, which is to watch movies, despite what some movie-goers and major corporate chains would have you believe. Following AMC’s briefly disastrous flirtation with allowing people to text in their theaters, League delivered a very thoughtful response, but if you’d rather watch a TL;DR version, you can see his predictably great reaction to this ill-conceived concept in the video above.
Theaters Refuse to Screen Netflix's 'Beasts of No Nation'
Theaters Refuse to Screen Netflix's 'Beasts of No Nation'
Theaters Refuse to Screen Netflix's 'Beasts of No Nation'
It was only a matter of time before we began to see the effects of Netflix’s foray into the film distribution business. We previously assumed that some major theater chains would refuse to show films which premiere simultaneously on the streaming service, but today brings confirmation of those assumptions, as some of the top theater chains have vowed not to screen Beasts of No Nation at their venues due to Netflix’s release plan.
Tim League Interview: Alamo Drafthouse Founder Previews Fantastic Fest 2013
Tim League Interview: Alamo Drafthouse Founder Previews Fantastic Fest 2013
Tim League Interview: Alamo Drafthouse Founder Previews Fantastic Fest 2013
Fantastic Fest 2013 kicks off this week in Austin, Texas -- every year, Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League and his selection committee choose a variety of genre films to present to movie fans and Drafthouse devotees at the festival, which takes place this year at the recently opened Lakeline location in North Austin. Fantastic Fest is the kind of festival where you'll see everything from Keanu Re