About 300,000 people. Maybe two dozen screens.
That’s the moviegoing situation in Durham, where 17 of those screens carry mainstream fare at AMC Southpoint and three focus on first-run indies at the Carolina Theatre. You can eke out a few more by including the likes of Duke University’s Griffith Film Theater or the former Full Frame Theater now operated by Fullsteam Brewery.
Of the latter, Fullsteam owner Sean Lilly Wilson told the INDY he hopes to open the brewery’s new American Tobacco Campus location by Labor Day and wants to keep the small theater available as a local resource. In January, it hosted the Black Trans Short Film Festival, with a screening by the tipsy Durham Instagram account Two Beer Cinema Club coming up on June 27…