The Goonies : 25th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition 11/2/10

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Originally Posted by MazeRunner

Saw this in theatres last night, my first time seeing it ever. Highly enjoyed it, and can't wait to pick up the 4K in September.

In a theater?! Where?!

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by PrestonXI

In a theater?! Where?!

My local theatre has been open for 3 weeks now, playing older releases. I went twice so far and each time has been a ghost town, sadly. There were about 10 of us in my showing last night. Terrible numbers for a Friday night.

[UnionJackMix]

I really don't see why showing older movies in cinemas cannot be done as a standard if newer movies are harder to come by. Unless it's a problem to obtain them. What happens to the reels once a cinema ends its run? Do they have to return them? Actually, what have they been using the last years?

[Pulp Hero]

Originally Posted by UnionJackMix

I really don't see why showing older movies in cinemas cannot be done as a standard if newer movies are harder to come by. Unless it's a problem to obtain them. What happens to the reels once a cinema ends its run? Do they have to return them? Actually, what have they been using the last years?

At this point, pretty much all theaters have shifted over to digital projectors -- the theater receives the movie via download (a satellite system I think) or on special hard drives.

When film was the standard, theaters "rented" the movies and would return them back to the distributor when done. In fact, movies used come back to theaters all the time; Disney's Vault, started by Walt himself, began as a way to drive interest in Disney's film through periodic theatrical runs. Some movies, like THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) were genuine box off bombs their initial theatrical run and didn't start making movie until they had been back to theaters a couple-three times.

The last several years running older movies theaters has shifted to almost exclusively Fathom Events. There really no reason a theater can't pick up an older movie to run through the normal distribution channels like they used to. The theaters that offer low cost or free tickets for daytime viewings of older family & kids movies over the summer use this method still.

Any evening showings are now pretty much all up to Fathom Events -- a film will get a couple showings across a couple days and it's done. This system works well for movies that won't necessarily draw a high audience over an extended period (IE anime movies). I keep running into the problem of not having a theater near me that participates in Fathom Events showings. There's an AMC reasonably close (AMC is also part owner of FE) and even though they're always sure to show the Fathom Events commercials they never actually run anything.

Some older movies could easily support at least another short theatrical run -- THE GOONIES, THE BLUES BROTHERS, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, etc. Who knows what from a studios archives could do well, or at least well enough. I'd love to be able to see the original KING KONG on the big screen, or something like FORBIDDEN PLANET. The studios have thousands of hours of movies in their archives, I think it'd be a big win for everybody to roll out older movies of all sorts back to theaters and fill some of these gaps in the schedules.

[dmwc]

Man, there are tons of older movies, and even some newer ones, I'd love to see come back to theaters. A nearby drive-in theater showed the Back to the Future trilogy a couple weeks ago. I don't know if it was a Fathom event thing or just something they did themselves, but I didn't go, and I wish I had. I was too young to see those on the big screen, when they first came out, and it would be awesome to see them in a theater now. Even some more recent movies would be great to see in a theater again.

[IndyMLVC]

For anyone interested, there's a new Kickstarter up for the "Life After" series of docs. This one is covering The Goonies and they interviewed Dick before he passed.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...?ref=user_menu

[TwinCitiesBluFan]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

For anyone interested, there's a new Kickstarter up for the "Life After" series of docs. This one is covering The Goonies and they interviewed Dick before he passed.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...?ref=user_menu

Oooh, I may have to back this! Always been a big fan of the film and it sounds like a worthwhile documentary. And knowing the filmmaker has already completed three other documentaries like this makes me feel a lot more confident that this one will get done.

[IndyMLVC]

https://www.amazon.com/Goonies-Ultim...9238441&sr=8-1

Releasing 9/2/25