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SMC Pod #230: Bringing back Cinema pop culture relevancy (opens the original)
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Buckle up Secret Movie Clubbers, it's going to be a bumpy pod. Movies have always found a way back to pop culture primacy when the naysayers have prematurely tried to call cinema out for the count. Exhibit 1: just a few months ago, both OBSESSION and BACK ROOMS came out of nowhere to make a combined $1B+ IN MOVIE THEATRES powered by 18-24 year olds at the international box office on nothing budgets and stunned the world. Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill takes a (hopefully toler
SMC Pod #229: Ernst Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper, MOST DANGEROUS GAME, KING KONG, GRASS, & CHANG (opens the original)
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Though not necessarily on the tips of every cinefile's tongue, the filmmakers Ernst Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper blazed a trail and crafted a certain kind of action-adventure template that American movie making has been indebted to ever since. Even if it rarely approaches the same levels. The duo cut their teeth on stunning 1920's documentaries including Grass and Chang before coming to Hollywood to direct narratives. Their one-two punch shot back to back of The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and
SMC Pod #228: Miles Williams & The Alex Theatre's return to 70mm (opens the original)
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Artistic Director Miles Williams has been part of the great theater re-inventions in Los Angeles. In downtown Los Angeles alone, Miles was at the center of the Orpheum and United Artists Theater's incredible turnarounds. Several years back he took the helm of the Alex Theater movie palace in Glendale, California which hadn't shown a movie since Terminator II in 1991. This summer, the Alex became the highest grossing 70mm theater in the United States with its 6 week run of Christopher Nolan's The
SMC Pod #227: Obsession, Backrooms, and Gen Z and Gen Alpha returning to movie theaters (opens the original)
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Stop us if you've heard this one before. . .Curry Barker's dark horror comedy Obsession and Kane Parsons' sci-fi horror mindbender Backrooms are scrambling narratives about the decline of movie theater attendance. These two low budget horror features combined have made almost $800 million box office. More than that, teens and twenty somethings are attending these movies in massive numbers. So what can we learn? What can we do about it to keep this sudden energy going? Secret Movie Club founder.p
SMC Pod #226: The Odyssey, The Epic, & Film Formats (opens the original)
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Christopher Nolan's just released The Odyssey is another Nolan juggernaut, having made $700 million in just 12 days of release. It's also the first movie shot fully on IMAX film. And it's a certified classical epic. Often, cinema has pulled a kind of miraculous magic trick by finding technologies and film formats and the right epic material to make a movie in the theater a must see experience. Every time the naysayers write off movies or the movie theater, sound (1920's), color (1930's), widescr
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