Excerpt from The Guardian From Live Events reporting about the David Tennant/RSC screening of Richard II in UK cinemas. By Charles Gant Wednesday 7 May 2014 02.23 EDT. The live event Once again, stunning numbers have been delivered by the flourishing event-cinema sector. The latest production from NT Live – Sam Mendes directing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear – delivered a gross of £771,000 on Thursday, and with encore screenings that tally rises to £809,000. That would be enough to earn it fourth place in the UK weekend box-office chart, and thats basically from a single evening. The King Lear number compares unfavourably with the top end of NT Lives repertoire: War Horse delivered £1.56m for its live debut, and has since gone on to push past £2.7m. Fairer comparisons are the top-performing Shakespeare live events such as David Tennant in the RSCs Richard II (£890,000 on the night; £1.44m to date), Tom Hiddleston in the Donmars Coriolanus (£754,000 on the night; £952,000 to date) and Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in the National Theatres Othello (£735,000 on the night; £936,000 to date). While the success of alternative programming such as NT Live is great news for cinemas, the numbers can only be the envy of art-house film distributors. King Lear took more money in the last few days than many niche movie releases will in their lifetime. Di* Via Guardian/DTOnTwitter
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 06:29:08 +0000
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