In LA, directors have clubbed together to save a landmark cinema. Why don't Brits do the same?

One of LA's loveliest cinemas - the huge, sentinel Village Theater in Westwood - has been bought by Jason Reitman, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Lulu Wang, Chloe Zhao, Guillermo del Toro, Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, Ryan Coogler, Bradley Cooper, Gina Prince-Bythewood and lots of other film-makers.

But with cinemas struggling or closing in several cities - Bristol, Edinburgh, etc - why haven't UK-based directors bought some of them? The first, obvious answer is money. Few of us directors earn remotely enough to have a spare few hundred thousand.

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