Have you been wanting to go to the movies but don’t feel it is safe because of the coronavirus pandemic? Well, AMC has you covered. You can rent a theater to watch one of their select movies with up to 19 of your friends. The best part is most of the films like Empire Strikes Back and Shrek are going for $99 plus tax. Newer movies like The War with Grandpa and Unhinged start at $149.
I forgot to see Jumanji: The Next Level when it was in theaters, and now I can do just that. I just wish they had the offer at Universal City Walk. I would walk over with my neighbors, vote, and then go see the feature. How much fun would that be?
I mean, who hasn’t dreamed of having the theater all to themselves? I have had that happen to me a few times. I have awful taste in movies and never see one the first week it comes out.
Last week, MGM announced that it was delaying No Time to Die until Easter. Over the weekend, Cineworld announced that it will be keeping its movie theaters in the UK and Regal Cinemas in the US closed for the foreseeable future.
“We had reached the stage where we had no alternative, it was a very, very difficult decision for us, mainly in view of the move we will have to take towards the employees,” CEO Mooky Greidinger told Sky News on Monday.
“From a liquidity point of view, we were bleeding much bigger amounts when we are open than when we were closed.”
Their decision to shut down their 663 in theaters in both countries will cause 45,000 people to lose their jobs.
But hey, let’s not wear a mask, social distance, and act like everything is normal. It isn’t. Wake up and be responsible. I want to hug a friend on their birthday. I want to go to the movies again. I want to go to a concert again. I want to see a play again. But I can’t because of people acting like they are invincible against an invisible killer. We are not. Please, take this seriously because if we don’t, the things we love might cease ever to exist again.
Back in March, movie and TV production shut down for several months. However, a few clever filmmakers found a way around that.
Rob Savage shot his terrifying Horror movie Host for Shudder on Zoom and with cameras on phones and computers. He is not the only one who got creative, so did Howard J. Ford. He asked his actors, including Tony Todd, to film their own horrifying scenes for The Lockdown Hauntings. After watching the trailer, they did an impressive job.
The movie is described as “With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, AKA ‘The Locksmith’, is back from the dead and he has even more potential victims. Can self-isolating detective George Parker (Angela Dixon) with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers (Tony Todd), prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?”
You know, I wasn’t scared of the lockdown until movies like this and Host. Now, I sleep with the lights on because this could happen. Think of all the scary stuff there already is on video chatting, who is to say that paranormal entities can’t materialize on there and kill us. Boo!
The Lockdown Hauntings is slated to come out on March 16th. That is exactly a year after the United Kingdom was placed on locked down, and a serial killer rose from the dead.
AMC Theaters is celebrating its 100th birthday on August 20th. The same day some of their movie theaters are reopening for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
They want to celebrate the milestone by rewinding prices back to 1920. Back then you could go to see a film for 15 cents. Last year you were lucky if you could see one for $15.
The price is too good to be true. Especially here in California where there is no set date to reopen. The gesture is nice. Too bad there is this whole pandemic thingy going on.
Back in the ’90s, Pauly Shore was doing stoner comedies like Encino Man, and everyone loved them. Then, all of a sudden he stopped.
Well, now he is back doing what he does best, making us laugh in his own outrageous way. On September 4th, he is coming home to our homes in Guest House. A raunchy comedy that also stars Mike Castle, Aimee Teegarden, Billy Zane, and Steve-O.
It is like what Neighbors wishes it could have been. Seth Rogen should bow down to the original.
It is nice to know that not everything in 2020 is going to be. Guest House is going to be the laugh we desperately need.
