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Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

This article on the Scala (club) states:

"At Kubrick's insistence, Warners sued and won. As a result, Scala was almost bankrupt and closed in 1993"

The Clockwork Orange article states:

"Unable to meet the cost of the defense, the cinema club was forced into receivership."

The reference for this is the Scala Club's own history page that states:

"In 1993 the Scala Cinema Club went into receivership after losing a court case over an illegal screening of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange."

The article on Stanley Kubrick states:

"The Scala cinema in London's Kings Cross showed the film in the early 1990s, and at Kubrick's insistence, the cinema was sued and put out of business, thus depriving London of one of its very few independent cinemas."

However, the only reference for this statement was an article at http://www.turbosound.com, which no longer exist's. A search for "scala" with turbosound.com's own search function, as well as with Google returns no results.

Despite this viewpoint being prevalent - namely that the cinema was "put out of business" as a direct result and solely due to losing the court case - there are several other sources that suggest the court case was just one of many problems facing the cinema. A quick Google gives:

"disgustingly high rent increases, the decline of the King's Cross area"

"increasing rent, declining box-office income and the local council banning vital fund-raising parties"

"it's not true ... that the case led directly to the cinema's closure"

I'm afraid I'm new here and I don't know enough about the situation or the history to do a rewrite, but I feel a less-biased comment would be more appropriate. Laned130 (talk) 09:57, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was a regular Scala-goer from 1978 to 1993. My recollection is that the cinema closed down so soon after starting an appeal to members for donations that there probably wasn't time for any court case to have taken place. It was a huge building and didn't have large audiences after the move to King's Cross, although it seemed to me to change its programming quite a lot in the last few years and I didn't go so often as a result, although others might have gone more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.156.106.79 (talk) 11:58, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]