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"Bullhead," a movie from Drafthouse Films, the distribution unit of Austin's Alamo Drafthouse, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film beat out nine other finalists for the nomination. The Belgian film directed by Michael R. Roskam, was purchased for the new Drafthouse Films distribution arm by Alamo Drafthouse and Drafthouse Films CEO and co-founder Tim League after Alamo's Fantastic Fest. The Academy Awards ceremony will be held Feb...Read Full Story

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema LLC will host a grand opening for its new South Austin location March 22. The new eight-screen venue, at the corner of MoPac Expressway and Slaughter Lane, also includes the Austin-based theater chain’s first stand-alone cocktail lounge with a focus on tequila, mescal and agave spirits called The 400 Rabbits. The name of the bar comes from the Aztec goddess Mayahuel, the divine personification of the agave plant, officials said. Bill Norris, beverage director for...Read Full Story

"Silence...! I Kill You!" -- Achmed, the dead terrorist one of Jeff Dunham 's puppetry characters. Anderson Cooper: “The next time you’re about to text in a film, remember the Alamo.” by Dana Harris (Updated 3 hours, 26 minutes ago) OK, one more day of Tim League/Alamo Drafthouse canonization and we’re done. Probably. No less than CNN’s Anderson Cooper has cited Tim League as a “great American hero” for his theater’s talk-or-text-and-you-die (or at least, you’re dead to him) policy, as...Read Full Story

I love Mondo Art from Alamo Drafthouse. I always try to feature as much of it as I can on this site because they do some really cool stuff with the latest mainstream movies out there. In a first for Mondo, Alamo Drafthouse’s collectible art boutique, they have partnered with Marvel to design the cover to CAPTAIN AMERICA: FIRST VENGEANCE with artwork by Tyler Stout.  The comic is a prequel to CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER and will be available in comic shops everywhere Wednesday (6/29...Read Full Story

Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo have released their next classic Disney limited edition, MICKEY’S SERVICE STATION. This was done in partnership with Sideshow Collectibles as a continuing series with artist Tom Whalen (previous prints have included STEAMBOAT WILLIE & WISE LITTLE HEN MICKEY’S SERVICE STATION by Tom Whalen 18×24 Edition of 370 $45 On sale Friday, 5/27 at MondoTees.com Follow @MondoNews for the “on sale” announcement. ABOUT MONDO Mondo is the Alamo Drafthouse’s...Read Full Story