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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Boch Wang Theater on Tremont Street. Boston’s independent movie theaters are still drawing patrons to their films despite national decline.

Boston’s independent movie theaters thrive despite national box office decline

By Ben Siegal October 8, 2025
About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new film on streaming services instead of in a theater in the past year, according to a recent poll. Yet in Boston, historic independent theaters, like The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge and Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, are drawing some of their largest audiences in years.
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