![]() The Showboat Drive-In Theater in Hockley, Texas, had almost 50% more business than usual for a March weekend. While drive-ins were ordered closed in Los Angeles on March 23, 2020, The Paramount Drive-In in Paramount, California had seen their business double in the previous week. “In a lot of people’s minds, it kind of revalidated what a drive-in could be for society.” I never expected that to be the truth,” Frank added. premiere… I never thought I’d say this, but we’re literally the only movie theater operating in Austin, Texas, and the surrounding areas. “Features aren’t going to do a throwaway event because festivals want to say it’s the world premiere or the U.S. “So I kind of expected this to happen, but the feature didn’t write back,” owner Josh Frank said to Ars Technica. Sadly, none of the feature films wanted to premiere there. It will show, “ SXSocial Distance: A Night of Short Films,” a series of four mini-festival evenings that will screen shorts previously scheduled for SXSW. One drive-in that is stepping into the breach left by cancelled festivals is The Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In in Austin, Texas. Following government guidelines, it is expected to open March 26, 2020. ![]() Created by the OneAgency, films will be family-focussed and will show two screenings each day on three screens. In the United Kingdom, Manchester will have a new drive-in, The One Drive-In. ![]() The Big Mo at the Monetta Drive-In Theatre in South Carolina is open for business. They’ve found a new form of entertainment due to this epidemic.” The most populated area around Seoul, Gyeonggi has eight drive-ins the Jayuro alone can accommodate 900 cars. “Currently, I believe drive-ins are the number one date spots for couples and for family gatherings as well. “Sales have increased 30 to 40 percent compared to before the virus outbreak,” Yun said. According to Yun Hye-kyung of the Jayuro Drive-in Theater in Gyeonggi, the coronavirus has increased interest in seeing films from your car. Last week, Seoul’s only drive-in, the Jamsil, was crammed, with queues of automobiles waiting to go in. “You’ve got this invisible force all around you you don’t know what way it’s going to act.”īusiness is booming for drive-ins. “Its sort of like ‘The Invisible Man,'” he said. Boaz is very wary of keeping people safe. This drive-in – with its biggest screen nicknamed The Big Mo – took in more than 150 cars to watch three double features. Staying open on a week-to-week basis, Monetta is enacting single occupancy restrooms, adjusted concessions access and half-capacity parking to achieve social distancing. From the knowledge we have now, it is safe enough to open the drive-in if people stayed in their cars and maintained the social distancing everyone is talking about now.” That is Richard Boaz who, along with his wife Lisa, run The Monetta Drive-In Theatre in South Carolina. “We gave it a tremendous amount of thought this weekend about even being open. Two mondo screens will dominate the reopened drive-in, a fact sure to please drive-in-ers who recall the pleasure of checking out the film fare on the opposite screen from time to time.In these days of self-isolation, “vectoring” only with those you must, going out to the cinema is not an option – or is it? As the coronavirus closes multiplexes, movie theatres, outdoor screenings and specialist cinematic events in the west, the drive-in seems to be the last man standing in big screen entertainment. Swap meet regulars will know the 11-screener Bianchi Theatres at 7770 Rosecrans Avenue in Paramount. The LA Times reports that Glenn Bianchi and his son will re-open the drive-in this spring with digital projectors and audio via FM radio. ![]() The lot wasn't always a place to sell and trade used goods, though The Roadium debuted there back in 1947, which the early days of the drive-in's triumphant era. Yep, the place where the swap meet has been for lo these many years. There are movements to battle time's march against this particular way of viewing movies - the fairly recent introduction of digital has helped, as have fundraising groups like Project Drive-In - but a lover of film under a big sky can't help but cringe when another drive-in story rolls around.Ĭringe not, drive-in-istas, at the latest news out of outdoor-screen-land: Paramount's vintage drive-in is set for a reemergence. Fans of classic drive-in movie theaters have learned over the last couple of decades a melancholy truth: If a favorite screen or beloved cinema shows up in a headline, the story to follow very often tells of that place's closure.
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