Movie Palace Investments, Inc., otherwise known as Wyomovies.com, own a true movie theater monopoly in the state of Wyoming, leaving many viewers dissatisfied without other theaters to compete. They advertise on their captive-audience-held-hostage pre-film message to contact a manager if they can improve in any way. Over many years, many have tried to do just that only to be ignored. Said simply, Movie Palace's owners instead continue to engage in dishonest and deceitful thought control and censorship through that monopoly.  

Community members throughout the state have regularly requested listings for political, artistic, and independent films that represent vantages that differ from mainstream views in Wyoming and the personal views of the owners. Craig Hosey and Randy Pryde have refused those requests consistently for over a decade.  

In their dishonest and deceitful thought control, Hosey and Pryde deprive Wyoming viewers of alternate perspectives on the most important issues of their day.   Few such films have graced their screens before they've become blockbusters due to their censorship. If Hosey and Pryde deign, Wyomingites are allowed to see them a year or more later, long after their release and definitely long after the election, but only if they are commercial blockbusters.  

From Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, to Oliver Stone's W., to Moore's Sicko or Where to invade next?, Hosey and Pryde refuse to allow Wyomingites the opportunity to even see films that differ from conservative ideology but are all too happy to show films from convicted criminal filmmakers like Trump-pardoned Dinesh D'Souza and his discredited Hillary's America and now his critic-panned Death of a Nation. They're also eager to push faith-based films like God's Not Dead.  

Each time, they've claimed to patrons requesting to see these nationwide blockbusters that there is no profit for films like them in Wyoming despite hundreds of requests to the contrary. Eventually, responding to public criticism in letters to the editor, they've carried films they had claimed there was no market for in WY a year or two late to packed houses around the state, proving that market exists.

Hosey and Pryde need to get out of the business of censorship. They should not be in the business of deciding for consenting adults what their audiences are even able to see. Instead, they should provide opportunities for their viewers to consume balanced, diverse perspectives and leave it up to their viewers to make up their own minds. If they refuse to do that, then we, the undersigned, call for a general boycott of Movie Palaces, Inc., and the following movie theaters.  Americans are finding it easier to bypass a censoring monopoly like Movie Palace Inc. in the comfort of their own home, and Hosey and Pryde seem determined to be sure they do so.  

Casper: Studio City Stadium Cinemas (East Casper), Studio City Mesa +ARQ (West Casper), America Luxury Movie Palace & Rialto Movie Palace (downtown Casper), and Fox III $ Dollar Savers theater (also downtown Casper).  

Laramie: Studio City UW+ARQ

Cheyenne: Capitol Cinema 12+ARQ

Rock Springs:  Star Stadium 11+ARQ

Green River: Star Twin Digital Cinemas