Alamo Drafthouse Launches Alamo Exclusives Label for Unreleased Festival Films, Starting with Butthole Surfers Documentary
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is launching a new distribution label called Alamo Exclusives, which will offer limited theatrical runs for unreleased film festival titles on its own screens. The initiative addresses the growing challenge of independently financed festival films struggling to secure nationwide distribution. The first title under the label is the SXSW documentary "Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt" by filmmaker Tom Stern, chronicling the influential Austin-rooted band.
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is getting into the distribution business with their new label Alamo Exclusives, which will offer limited run theatrical engagements to unreleased film fest titles on the exhibitor's screens.
The move by Alamo Drafthouse comes at a time when it has been increasingly challenged for independently financed film festival movies to find nationwide theatrical distribution.
Kicking off Alamo Exclusives is the SXSW documentary Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt from filmmaker Tom Stern.
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