“Sorry everyone! Sony is having issues with their projectors that is preventing us from being able to project movies at some of our theaters today.” That’s what theater chain Alamo Drafthouse social media sites on New Year’s Eve, adding that it was closing five theaters entirely for the rest of the day as a result. As of New Year’s Day, however, most theaters and most showtimes now appear to be available, with a few exceptions. It’s not entirely clear what happened. As New Year’s Day is a holiday, we somewhat understandably haven’t yet been able to reach Alamo or Sony spokespeople, and not every theater or every screening was affected. That didn’t stop Alamo from blaming its Sony projectors for what at least one theater called a “nationwide” outage, however. “Due to nation-wide technical difficulties with Sony, we aren’t able to play any titles today,” read part of hanging inside a Woodbury, Minnesota location. That didn’t keep the customer who took a picture of that sign from watching at that very same location, though: Here’s from Alamo on January 1st: What might have only affected some screenings at some theaters? I’ve seen speculation that it may have something to do with expired digital certificates used to unlock encrypted films, but we haven’t heard that from Alamo or Sony. We’re looking forward to finding out. in 2020; all of the company’s existing models . /
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