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Madonna banned from theaters for texting

That’ll teach Madonna not to text at the movies.

A movie-theater chain with a strict no-texting policy has banned the Material Girl from ever watching a flick at its facilities.

Madonna is now banned from watching movies at Alamo Drafthouse theaters.Rick Kern/Getty Images

The symbolic but snarky ban, by the boutique chain Alamo Drafthouse, was sparked last week after Madonna’s thumbs kept prodding her BlackBerry during the Lincoln Center premiere of “12 Years a Slave.”

“A blonde in black lace gloves wouldn’t stop texting,” a spy had told Page Six at the time.

When an audience member asked her to stop, the blonde, who turned out to be none other than Madonna, snapped back, “It’s for business . . . enslaver!”

Alamo, headquartered in Austin, Texas, prides itself on kicking moviegoers out if they refuse to stop texting, and seized on the news.

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Tim League, tweeted, “Until she apologizes to movie fans, Madonna is banned from watching movies at all Alamo Drafthouse locations.”

A company spokesman confirmed that the tweet came from his boss.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, League admitted that at first, he meant the tweet as an “offhand joke.”

But then he reconsidered, given that the resulting publicity was a good way “to get the issue out there.”

“Now that it seems to have taken hold, sure, I’m going to enforce it,” he said, conceding, “I’m serious, but I don’t think it really affects her life that much.”

Alamo has a new location in Yonkers, as well as nine across Texas, two in Virginia and one in Colorado.

In 2011, League posted on YouTube a seething voicemail from an angry customer who had been kicked out of a theater.

“I will never be coming back to your Alamo Drafthouse, or whatever,” the customer ranted in the clip. “I’m going to tell everyone how sh–y you are!”

The clip went viral, and became a public-service announcement the theaters would screen right before its movies.

“If you blatantly text, we will warn you to stop. If you persist, you will be asked to leave,” League explained of the policy at the time.