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Sony Pictures Entertainment Acquires Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

June 12, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

The Press Release:
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema today announced that SPE has acquired Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the unique and fastest growing theatrical exhibitor. The company will be managed within SPE under a newly established division, Sony Pictures Experiences. The deal reinforces SPE’s long-held commitment to theatrical exhibition and continued initiatives in experiential entertainment.

Alamo Drafthouse’s Michael Kustermann will remain CEO of the pioneering dine-in movie theater chain and head Sony Pictures Experiences, reporting to Ravi Ahuja, President and COO of SPE. Alamo Drafthouse will continue to operate all 35 of its cinemas across 25 metro areas under the Alamo Drafthouse brand. Alamo Drafthouse-owned Fantastic Fest, the world-renowned genre film festival, is included in the acquisition and will also continue to be operated by Alamo Drafthouse. The company’s headquarters will remain in Austin, Texas.
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Ken Pierce Media Posts 600th Clip on TikTok

May 6, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Greetings and Felicitations Friends of the Ken Pierce Media realm and all of our entertainment efforts. It’s once again time to make a post about the Official TikTok for KPM hitting its next plateau and once again this was done is just over a one month period. We have now pressed publish on the 600th clip and its a fun one as it relates to a happening that I greatly enjoy around this time of the year called “Free Comic Book Day”. For the unaware this is a yearly happening where participating comic book retailers let you take a batch of comic books that have been designated for this funny geeky experience. After adventuring around the city hitting a number of shops I shared the visual of the loot for one of our TikToks. These “reveals” seem to do good for our own network and generally hit about 300 or so views within hours of being posted. A longer video from the aforementioned adventuring will premiere on YouTube once I get it all formatted and scheduled. Now, before I get any deeper into this post – presenting the 600th TikTok from Ken Pierce Media.

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Here’s a quick view of the Free Comic Book Day 2024 provisions that I secured across the day #fyp #foryoupage #freecomicbookday #freecomicbookday2024 #marvel #dc #image #idw #comicbooks #piercingmetal

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Categorically Speaking: Announcing Menu Changes for Piercing Ken’s Website

April 25, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Greetings my friends and welcome to another technical update. Every now and again you’ll find the Ken Pierce Media website doing this kind of broadcast as opposed to it being shared over on one or both of my other two websites. I’ll explain why shortly and will add that this particular notice is specifically geared towards any of you who are regular readers of my Piercing Ken website aka “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken”. I’m penning this announcement up a few short weeks after the 19th Anniversary of the PiercingMetal site (which is documented HERE for the interested) and since “The Chronicles” will reach its own 14th Anniversary in the coming weeks, I thought that it was a good idea to both make the change that I will be discussing and share it along with you in this fashion. Now onto the subject at hand. For many years, the Piercing Ken website has used a similar menu structure like the PiercingMetal website and has even mirrored two of its main categories with both the “Pop Culture” and “Reviews” sections matching down to the letter. Let’s discuss the Pop Culture section first. It used to look like the structure that you see down below with a Parent Category on the top and then the Child Categories down on the bottom. That’s the web-publishing vernacular in case you wondered.

POP CULTURE
– Comics
– Film and Television
– Toys and Collectibles
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Ken Pierce Media Posts 550th Clip on TikTok

March 31, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Hey there my loyal followers of the Ken Pierce Media realm and all the awesome stuff that we hope is keeping you entertained. I’m back to share the news about the Official TikTok for KPM hitting its next plateau and actually managing to do it in just over a month. Yes we have posted our 550th clip on the platform and this one hails from the performance by Tyr who were playing the Gramercy Theatre. The band hasn’t been here in a few years and one of the things I’ve been trying to do at shows are these check-in videos. I will focus on the marquee and briefly talk up the show in the hope of raising some awareness for the dates that will be following the one I am at when I am doing the video. Though these clips don’t go virual in any sense they do get a few hundred views and some even post comments which is fine by me. Truth be told I was very excited for the Tyr show since it had been some time since they were here in New York City. If you haven’t seen this TikTok already then please enjoy it down below and if you have seen it, please enjoy it once more and don’t forget to chime in or click the “heart” which shows that you are in our corner. Now without any further adieu, The 550th TikTok Post on Ken Pierce Media.

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Checking in from the Gramercy Theatre for the return of Tyr from the Faroe Islands. Support coming from The Dread Crew of Oddwood and Aether Realm #fyp #foryoupage #tyr #dreadcrewofoddwood #aetherrealm #gramercytheatre #supportlivemusic #piercingmetal

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Content Creator Ken Pierce Celebrates 18th Year On YouTube

March 25, 2024 Ken Pierce Leave a comment

Hey there my friends, I just would like to take a pause in the regular creativity to use the KPM platform to share one of the media milestones for the personal side of the fence. I’m so happy that you’re joining me because today I’d like to pause the creativity for a moment and share a little bit of the personal side of the fence with you all. Today, March 25th 2024 is actually the 18th year of my using the YouTube network. Now for those keeping score that means I’ve had my own personal YouTube account for almost as long as I’ve had the PiercingMetal website which was launched back in April 2005. That anniversary post is coming soon enough on its own website post so please be patient as I reflect on my first, original YouTube profile/channel etc. Oh and if you’re just learning of this way late in the game, my personal YouTube Channel is found by clicking @kenpierce

Now despite my lengthy tenure on the platform, I am in no way shape or form one of the founding creatives or an influencer. Such terms weren’t really the thing back then and Google wouldn’t even purchase them until later on in 2006. I didn’t post any clips of my own until five years later in 2011 which I mentioned on the last anniversary but I was so oblivious to this as a medium that I never felt that I was losing any “traction” for my creative efforts. Since I shared the first video ever posted her the last time around, with this anniversary post I’m going to share the most recent video and what’s funny is this one was actually recorded yesterday and scheduled to premiere very early this morning. Once I had my coffee in me I had to scramble to get these thoughts in place to be on proper point with the milestone. The video is from the Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade. I live in that neighborhood and our parade happens the week after the main one in the city for the most part. I hope you like this before I continue along.

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