Richard Gelfond said the large format screen player has alternatives for its studio tentpole release calendar with new titles like the Taylor Swift concert tour film, and local language film titles.
Cinemas have been doing good business showing classics on the big screen, such as the old Disney cartoons, Jurassic Park, Kung Fu Panda and all the other movies hitting their anniversaries. There’s no reason they shouldn’t show them if it brings people in, and allows many of us to see things we missed the first time round in the ‘proper’ way.
I really hate how insanely profitable the film industry is yet almost all the wealth goes to a few obscenely wealthy people, while the regular workers who make films struggle. My knee-jerk reaction was that it’s great that there’s a slowdown of releases to put pressure on people, but I forgot how little movie theaters usually make on movies (I think they barely make any money on the movie and make most of their income on concessions).
It’s great to see there’s a way to keep theaters earning money while the writers continue their strike.
My understanding is all the money from there opening weeks goes to studios.
That’s why a good theater with a receptive audience can make money by regularly showing classic films alongside the blockbusters: nearly all of that money goes to the theater.
Getting a 2nd crack at seeing Inception in theaters during the pandemic has had me hoping there’d be another reason for something like this to happen again just maybe… Not so extreme as last time…
I’d love it if all the Nolan and Scorsese movies returned, oh and the Kubrick ones too. I haven’t seen the Dark Knight in ages and would be more than down for going to see it again.
The BFI IMAX in London just had a Nolan countdown before Oppenheimer released and they played all his movies on 15/70mm IMAX. I saw Tenet, Inception, Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises there and they were some of the best cinema experiences I’ve ever had.
Hopefully they play them again soon!
I would kill for an IMAX run of Kubrick films. Favorite director of all time and I’ve never been able to see any of his films in a theater. That first shot from The Shining in IMAX sounds like heaven.
