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Blackpool Council announced today it had secured contracts including a 25 year lease for a nine-screen cinema complex with the largest IMAX screen in the North West. Source: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/
With many cinemas across the country closed due to coronavirus restrictions meaning that they can only open with 50% capacity, and far fewer movies being released to tempt cinemagoers, CGV came up with the idea of renting out its auditoriums … Continued
In preparing for its 43rd edition in March, the venerable Big Muddy Film Festival at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will provide a few new twists. One of the nation’s oldest film festivals affiliated with a university and widely known for … Continued
I’m almost dumbstruck by the fact that we’re now 10 years from 2011. To me, 2011 is the future. I’m still stuck somewhere in 2004. How in the hell are there 21 year olds born this century now? Still, here … Continued
We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to rewrite movie endings they didn’t find 100% satisfying. Here are the amazing alternative endings… Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylayandoli/alternate-movie-endings
An independent Kingston movie theatre owner says the theatre will be popping popcorn and welcoming back guests as soon as they’re allowed, after the community helped raise $100,000 to keep the cinema’s doors open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Source: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/lights-camera
We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community, “What’s a movie that was so disturbing, you wish you had the ability to unsee it?” and they DID NOT hold back! But first, a CONTENT WARNING: Due to the nature of … Continued
Since the first lockdown – way back in March when all of culture was shut down – I started saving £2 coins in a jar labelled “theatre, gigs, concerts, fun”. I’m five jars in now and on course to fill … Continued
We asked the Buzzfeed Community which book-to-movie casting was done perfectly and, honestly, I can’t argue with their answers… Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylaharrington/book-to-movie-castings-that-knocked-it-out-of-the-park
In 1971, Van Peebles released “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” the revolutionary film that laid the groundwork for blaxploitation on the silver screen. It was an immediate success despite initially being shown in only two theaters. Black audiences were so fond … Continued