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Here is the sentence for context.

> 独立系の映画館はシネコンと違っていて、チケットが安いのですが、どこにでも **あるわけ** ではありません。

My translation - Independent cinemas are different from multiplex ones as they
have cheaper tickets but _not everywhere has one._

Its the last bit of my translation that I'm not sure about, I can't seem to
figure out what this あるわけ is. I know ある is 'to have' whilst ではありません is a
negative state but what is this わけ?
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grammar translation verbs conjugations
What are ある and わけ in 「どこにでもあるわけではありません」?
わけ here is from the kanji 訳 which you may have seen for example in 申し訳ありません.
It would literally be translated to "sense" I believe, but of course vary
along this line with the context.

In your case, we have:

> ある訳ではありません

You are right for the ある and ではありません parts, if they would be seperate. In
general, you can see ある訳 as to "have sense", so something like ある訳ないんでしょう？
would be "There is no way this/that is true/etc."

To answer your question, どこにでもあるわけではありません could be translated to "There is no
way that they are everywhere" (hence there is no way you can find independent
cinemas everywhere), and so to complete your translation:

> "Independent cinemas are different from multiplex ones as they have cheaper
> tickets, but there is no way they are everywhere".
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Your translation is close, but a little off. The pattern `〜わけ{では・じゃ}ない` means
"Does not (necessarily) mean that 〜". The `ある` here is for existence, not for
possession. So it would translate as

>   * 独立系の映画館はシネコンと違っていて、チケットが安いのですが、どこにでもあるわけではありません。 → Independent theatres
> differ from big multiplexes; the tickets are cheap(er), but they are not
> (necessarily) found everywhere/all over.
>

I believe @Yakobu's translation is incorrect. To make a claim that "there is
no way they are everywhere" seems too strong. `〜わけ{では・じゃ}ない` means the may not
be everywhere, although they _could_ be and the speaker just doesn't know it.
The point is that there is room for doubt. Here are some examples I've found.

>   * だからといってそれが間違っている訳ではない → "This doesn't mean (that) it is wrong" → It's
> inferred that it _could_ be wrong.
>   * と言ってもそれは君が間違っていないというわけではない → "However, that's not to say that you are
> right (not mistaken)" → It's inferred that you _could_ be right (not
> mistaken).
>
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