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As you may be aware, Regal Entertainment Group (Regal) has taken over Consolidated Theaters, which included the Park Terrace 6, where the Charlotte Film Society has been showing our SECOND WEEKEND program. This has presented us with a problem (another change of partner and the potential loss of our SECOND WEEKEND program), as well as an exciting opportunity, which we'd like to explain a bit more.
Regal has decided to convert the Park Terrace into an Art House Theatre, running precisely the types of films that we have been trying to support. In a sense they are helping us to complete our mission, with very little effort on our part!
We believe that we have an enthusiastic membership with local connections, which will help Regal with input, suggestions, and promotion of these films. We will be working with them to bring what we and they consider the best of foreign, classic & independent movies to the Park Terrace, as well as the Manor. We currently offer discounted tickets ($1 off regular price) to our members at Park Terrace and this discount is now officially being extended to the Manor as well (all shows, all films). Moreover, it is intended that discounts will continue to be a feature of our membership. We will also be working with Regal to try to bring occasional limited screenings of less popular, but, in our opinion, worthwhile movies – in particular classics and independent films from less well known parts of the world.
In order to "launch" this relationship, we will be showing a sneak preview of Bottle Shock at the Park Terrace at 7:00 PM, Thursday, August 14. All proceeds from this show will go to the Society and the entrance fee for members will be at a heavily discounted price of $5.00. As the film is about wine, we are also going to have a wine tasting after the film (included with your entry ticket).
For those who know nothing of the film, it is the story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as the "Judgment of Paris." It is based on the true story of a Californian Chardonnay beating out the French, is delightfully funny, and beautifully shot and acted. Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman star. Details at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914797/.
So, please come along if you can, but if not, remember that as a Society member, you now have a wonderful opportunity, with discounted tickets at 8 screens (2 at the Manor and 6 at the Park Terrace) showing independent movies here in Charlotte. To whet your appetite, the following films will be opening at the Park Terrace on August 15, the day after our screening:
Bottle Shock
Encounters at the End of the World
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824
Henry Poole is Here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029120/
Brick Lane
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0940585/
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/
We will keep you informed of upcoming films and as soon as we have full details about membership for 2009, we will let you know.
Regal has decided to convert the Park Terrace into an Art House Theatre, running precisely the types of films that we have been trying to support. In a sense they are helping us to complete our mission, with very little effort on our part!
We believe that we have an enthusiastic membership with local connections, which will help Regal with input, suggestions, and promotion of these films. We will be working with them to bring what we and they consider the best of foreign, classic & independent movies to the Park Terrace, as well as the Manor. We currently offer discounted tickets ($1 off regular price) to our members at Park Terrace and this discount is now officially being extended to the Manor as well (all shows, all films). Moreover, it is intended that discounts will continue to be a feature of our membership. We will also be working with Regal to try to bring occasional limited screenings of less popular, but, in our opinion, worthwhile movies – in particular classics and independent films from less well known parts of the world.
In order to "launch" this relationship, we will be showing a sneak preview of Bottle Shock at the Park Terrace at 7:00 PM, Thursday, August 14. All proceeds from this show will go to the Society and the entrance fee for members will be at a heavily discounted price of $5.00. As the film is about wine, we are also going to have a wine tasting after the film (included with your entry ticket).
For those who know nothing of the film, it is the story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as the "Judgment of Paris." It is based on the true story of a Californian Chardonnay beating out the French, is delightfully funny, and beautifully shot and acted. Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman star. Details at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914797/.
So, please come along if you can, but if not, remember that as a Society member, you now have a wonderful opportunity, with discounted tickets at 8 screens (2 at the Manor and 6 at the Park Terrace) showing independent movies here in Charlotte. To whet your appetite, the following films will be opening at the Park Terrace on August 15, the day after our screening:
Bottle Shock
Encounters at the End of the World
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824
Henry Poole is Here
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029120/
Brick Lane
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0940585/
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/
We will keep you informed of upcoming films and as soon as we have full details about membership for 2009, we will let you know.
THE NOW COMATOSE
SECOND WEEKEND SERIES
The NEW SECOND WEEKEND Series began January 11, 2008, and ran through May 2008. We screened one film each month starting the second Friday and ending the following Monday.
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Thanks to all members and to the public who saw our March-April and September-November 2007 SECOND WEEK films. Thanks also to those who saw our January-May SECOND WEEKEND films: What Would Jesus Buy?, This Is England, Adam's Apples, Blame It on Fidel!, and All About Eve.
We planned to return for a September-November 2008 SECOND WEEKEND Series, but Regal Entertainment Group's purchase of Consolidated Theatres, effective May 2008, has left us in limbo. We are negotiating with Regal to try to produce original programmming, but, as the opening anouncement states, we do not know if we will be able to return to our SECOND WEEKEND programming in 2009. Please visit this web site for information about future programs.
We planned to return for a September-November 2008 SECOND WEEKEND Series, but Regal Entertainment Group's purchase of Consolidated Theatres, effective May 2008, has left us in limbo. We are negotiating with Regal to try to produce original programmming, but, as the opening anouncement states, we do not know if we will be able to return to our SECOND WEEKEND programming in 2009. Please visit this web site for information about future programs.
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