Theaters are showing TV shows now?

[kdonnel]

I was looking to see when She Said was playing tonight and noticed that The Chosen Season 3: Episodes 1 & 2 is one of the "movies" playing.

Episodes 1 & 2 are being shown in the theater and the rest of the episodes will be streaming online.

I know that the volume of movies released to theaters is still nowhere near pre Covid levels but this is the first time I have seen a TV/Internet show as a movie.

I am also a little annoyed that straight up commercials play now during the previews.

 

[TwoMisfits]

I was looking to see when She Said was playing tonight and noticed that The Chosen Season 3: Episodes 1 & 2 is one of the "movies" playing.

Episodes 1 & 2 are being shown in the theater and the rest of the episodes will be streaming online.

I know that the volume of movies released to theaters is still nowhere near pre Covid levels but this is the first time I have seen a TV/Internet show as a movie.

I am also a little annoyed that straight up commercials play now during the previews.

It's 2nd season premiere made almost $10M during its 5 day OW last November - theaters were grateful for the business in 2021, and probably will be again this year b/c the 3rd season may make that much in just the 3 day OW...

It's gonna outgross at least one of the movie openers this weekend, and possibly both.

People seem willing to watch tv in theater and theaters are willing to let them if they pay the movie ticket fee...

 

[barkley]

not seen it around here. i'm just thrilled for the one we've got that has a $5 tuesday for 'backstage pass' members (just sign up/no fee). $5 (including brand new releases) and a free popcorn to boot! just saw wakanda this week.

 

[mom2rtk]

Kudos to them for trying to reinvent.

 

[RamblingMad]

The release schedule has been awful this year. I've seen more special features at the the theater this year than new releases. The best was Lost Boys. I saw ET too, but they didn't bother to show the 4K version.

 

[barkley]

The release schedule has been awful this year. I've seen more special features at the the theater this year than new releases. The best was Lost Boys. I saw ET too, but they didn't bother to show the 4K version.

we have a cool old theater nearby. it shows 2nd run shows for the most part and reminds me SO MUCH of when i was a teen in the san francisco bay area and went to watch 2nd run shows in berkeley. it really did my heart good when my oldest had at our old school theater her first ever (full blown, audience participation, toilet paper and rice throwing) midnight viewing of 'the rocky horror picture show'.

 

[dclpluto]

I’m not interested in the show but even if I was I wouldn’t do you have to pay for it. I have regal unlimited that’s only for movies just checked I will have to pay for this. Of course I’m paying for regal unlimited but I don’t want any more.

 

[kdonnel]

I’m not interested in the show but even if I was I wouldn’t do you have to pay for it. I have regal unlimited that’s only for movies just checked I will have to pay for this. Of course I’m paying for regal unlimited but I don’t want any more.

That's interesting that the Regal Unlimited does not cover this "movie". I figured it wouldn't cover Fathom events but thought otherwise everything else was would work.

I buy tickets in bulk from Regal Corporate Box Office. You have to buy a minimum of 50 at a time at $9 each. When we first started buying they were only $5.50.

The 50 tickets last us a year, well more than a year lately with the poor choice of movies.

We also still have our Regalator. Way back in 1999 they sold cups with $1 refills for life. Whenever Regal switched from Pepsi to Coke they replaced the cups so this cup is not 23 years old, perhaps only 18-19 years old. They have now switched back to Pepsi and my local theater says they have no plans to issue us a Pepsi cup. I wonder what Pepsi thinks about their product being served in a Coca Cola branded cup? The people working the concession stand are generally younger than the cup and have to be told how to handle the cup in the cash register, sometimes by a manager, sometimes by us. Sometimes we get charged $1, sometimes it is free.

 

[TwoMisfits]

That's interesting that the Regal Unlimited does not cover this "movie". I figured it wouldn't cover Fathom events but thought otherwise everything else was would work.

I buy tickets in bulk from Regal Corporate Box Office. You have to buy a minimum of 50 at a time at $9 each. When we first started buying they were only $5.50.

The 50 tickets last us a year, well more than a year lately with the poor choice of movies.

We also still have our Regalator. Way back in 1999 they sold cups with $1 refills for life. Whenever Regal switched from Pepsi to Coke they replaced the cups so this cup is not 23 years old, perhaps only 18-19 years old. They have now switched back to Pepsi and my local theater says they have no plans to issue us a Pepsi cup. I wonder what Pepsi thinks about their product being served in a Coca Cola branded cup? The people working the concession stand are generally younger than the cup and have to be told how to handle the cup in the cash register, sometimes by a manager, sometimes by us. Sometimes we get charged $1, sometimes it is free.


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The Chosen series premiere IS a Fathom event, just a longer, wider, and more showings than normal one...

 

[mom2rtk]

And I will add the Fathom events aren't a response to the pandemic. We were happily attending many years before Covid.

 

[kdonnel]

The Chosen series premiere IS a Fathom event, just a longer, wider, and more showings than normal one...

Hmm. I thought fathom events were typically one night only? Was this just shown last night? Checked while posting and there are showings through Monday. Nothing on the Regal app indicates it is a fathom event. It does say in small print no passes or super savers. This might be the first fathom event shown at my local theater. Normally you have to head to a regal theater located inside the perimeter to see those events.

 

[BrianL]

When things went digital it became possible for theaters to show all kinds of content. Here they sometimes have older animated movies as special Saturday matinees and such. Some of the hot streaming shows also get "premieres" in tehaters too.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Hmm. I thought fathom events were typically one night only? Was this just shown last night? Checked while posting and there are showings through Monday. Nothing on the Regal app indicates it is a fathom event. It does say in small print no passes or super savers. This might be the first fathom event shown at my local theater. Normally you have to head to a regal theater located inside the perimeter to see those events.

It's a multi-night one...I Heard the Bells is coming Dec 1 and is another Fathom event (which is actually a film, this time) that will also be multi-night...

 

[MillauFr]

Seems like the line between TVs and movies is increasingly being blurred.

 

[mom2rtk]

Hmm. I thought fathom events were typically one night only? Was this just shown last night? Checked while posting and there are showings through Monday. Nothing on the Regal app indicates it is a fathom event. It does say in small print no passes or super savers. This might be the first fathom event shown at my local theater. Normally you have to head to a regal theater located inside the perimeter to see those events.

The shows we've seen through Fathom events always had at least a couple different days, with more than one showing per day.