Need to do a little market research here... There are a number of excellent films that never make to small markets--including ours. Let me give you three examples: 1. MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT is a 2014 Woody Allen film about an arrogant English magician who seeks to debunk a so-called spiritualist. 2. THE DROP is is a new crime drama that follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters - money drops in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. 3. THE SKELETON TWINS is about estranged twins Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hader) who feel theyre at the end of their ropes, when an unexpected reunion forces them to confront why their lives went so wrong. You can read more about these movies at rottentomatoes, and you will find that the last two movies were universally well-reviewed. Ive seen all three of them and realized that perhaps some of you would likely enjoy them too. But heres the rub. Or rubs. The studios will never give a small market a play date when the movies are first released. We would likely have to wait three or four weeks to get them. Another problem is that with five screens, we are always going to chase the movies that will do the biggest grosses. Yet we think we can find room for films like this if there is an audience that is willing to search them out and be ready to see them when we can get them. It might mean we would have them for four days during the week. It might mean they would take over a screen for an entire week. But they are the type of movies that we would have to fit in--they would be here and they would be gone, and our hope is that 200 people could reliably seek them out. Our best movies gross upwards of $10,000 when they are in town, but we would love it if there was steady stream of $1,500 for quality, non-blockbuster movies. We are thinking about a $10 annual Critic Choice Film Club membership that would give you advance notice of when these films are coming, maybe save you a book on the admission, and give you a discount for concessions purchased at these movies. We are not asking you to put up money today, but I wanted to float the idea and get a conversation started that could enhance the movie selection we make available to you in 2015. There are other ideas I have, but I will save them for a different time. Topic of the day is: Would you be interested in seeing smaller, well-reviewed films that are less driven by special effects, and more driven by plot and meaning? --Eric Gubelman Eagle Theater Corp
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 17:39:10 +0000
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