The distributor’s widest release yet is directed by Shekar Kapu and written by Jemima Khan. New specialty openings: There’s been a rush in recent weeks, fewer this weeked, the widest being cross-cultural romatic comedy What’s Love Got To Do With It?from Shout Studios on 560 screens, mix of arthouse and commercial. to the people who are going to Beau Is Afraid. After all these years, we didn’t really have that last mile of how to really talk to our guests. “We were forced to develop them during Covid. The industry talked about it for years, he said, but didn’t have great tools. “I select the locations based on areas that really need a good theater,” Schultz said.Įffective exhibitor marketing is also key, and new. Reston, Virginia is next, then Riverside, CA.
It’s got locations in LA (Glendale, Downey, Redlands, Monrovia) and Dallas, Georgia and Arizona and another New York theater in Dobbs Ferry in Westchester County. The chain filed for Chapter 11 during Covid (it’s since emerged) and Schultz moved on to start Look Dine-In Cinemas in 2021. But it just kind of got my imagination going.” He found a backer and another old Dallas theater and launched Studio Movie Grill.
And I literally just fell in love with it. “Draft beer, bucket seats with a table and frozen chicken tenders. Schultz started out in politics as assistant to the late Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter but became entranced at a theater in Dallas while out on the campaign trail in the early 1990s. The seven auditoriums at West 57th Street, which range in size from 180 sets to 25 for private events, have laser projection, wall-to-wall oversize screens, digital surround sound, luxury recliners and mobile ordering. Independent distributors have been challenged by an ongoing post-Covid trend of arthouse and arthouse-y chains dedicating many screens to wide releases. And then the big question, which is my major concern, is what’s the experience that you have when you do?” Look will play indie films, but isn’t an arthouse chain.
Schultz predicts the slower-to-recover indie market will revive but could “take a little bit longer, maybe because we’re out of the habit.
The box office for franchise wide-releases are rebounding. A bartender at Look Cinemas on West 57th finishes off one of his creations (Look Cinemas)
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