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Joffrey: Our Best Interactive Q&A Yet!
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#JoffreyMovie Santa Fe, NM – our audience loved it, thank you so much! congrats on premiering a new, high tech way of running a Q&A!
— The Screen (@TheScreenSF) January 28, 2012
Great applause at The Boedecker Theater in Boulder! #JoffreyMovie
— Dairy Center for Art (@DairyArts) January 28, 2012
In what’s becoming a trademark of Emerging Pictures’ special movie events, last Saturday we held our latest interactive Q&A, and our most successful one to date in terms of theatre participation. The “simultaneous world premiere” of Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance featured a live webcasted introduction by Dance Film Association’s Joanna Ney and the film’s director Bob Hercules, and was followed by a 40-minute interactive Q&A and panel discussion. Over 30 theatres spread out across the United States were tuned in and projecting these live portions in their auditoriums, and we received questions via Twitter in real time from more than 20 of those theatres, both new highs for Emerging. Audience members from Philadelphia (Prince Music Theater) to Naples, Florida (Silverspot Cinema) to Bridgeport, Connecticut (Bijou Theatre) tweeted questions and even photos and videos directly from their smartphone to document and share the experience. The hashtag #JoffreyMovie yielded over 200 Tweets, reaching over 200,000 people on Twitter, providing a valuable burst of exposure for a modest documentary film. But in addition to being a new way of marketing the film, these interactive national screenings are just flat out fun! And easy for theatres to participate in too. We can’t wait for the next one…(coming in March!).
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The ‘simultaneous world premiere.’ Joffrey‘s festival debut screens LIVE to Emerging audiences nationwide on January 28
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Get ready! Early in 2012 Emerging will be bringing our latest movie event to digital cinemas across the US, only this time we plan to hit our arthouse documentary fans and Ballet In Cinema audiences in one fell swoop!
Teaming up once again with the prestigious Lincoln Center in New York City, Emerging Pictures, in partnership with Hybrid Cinema, will be presenting the World Premiere of the documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance at movie theatres simultaneously with the film’s screening at Film Society of Lincoln Center on January 28th. Joffrey opens the 40th edition of the Dance On Camera Festival, produced annually by Dance Films Association. This event marks the first time that a film has simulcast its world premiere out of a major festival.
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Two Nutcrackers in cinemas nationwide!
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Ballet in Cinema & Emerging Pictures are proud to present not one, but two different productions of The Nutcracker to celebrate the 2011 holiday season.
Families sharing the joy of the holidays will love The Nutcracker from the Royal Ballet, with choreography by Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov. This now-classic production creates the world of the 19th-century onstage, with a Christmas tree that magically grows and toy soldiers that come to life! Starring Ricardo Cervara, Iohna Loots, Miyako Yoshida and Steven McRae.
The Bolshoi Ballet takes a fresh look at this wintery favorite with Yuri Grigorovich’s inventive staging. Clara’s magical nighttime journey takes on new and daring dimensions in a production that is sure to thrill balletomanes who have had their fill of the usual sugarplums! Starring Nina Kaptsova and Artem Ovcharenko.
For a complete list of showtimes and to buy tickets, visit:
The Nutcracker from The Royal Ballet and The Nutcracker from The Bolshoi
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Kevin Smith makes Emerging the next stop of his “Red State” tour
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This January at the Sundance Film Festival enfant terrible Kevin Smith premiered Red State, his controversial foray into the horror genre, then proceeded to denounce traditional film distribution, proclaiming he’d be releasing the film himself, and in a bold, new way. A 15-city tour followed, with Smith on hand for one-night, premium-priced and sold-out houses. Meanwhile, Smith’s rabid fanbase and average movie-goers alike were left to wonder if they’d ever get see the film on the big-screen themselves. That wait is over… for cities with an Emerging Cinema.
On Sunday, September 25th, Emerging Cinemas will present Red State for ONE SHOW ONLY. The big seller: that screening will include a Q&A with Kevin Smith himself via live webcast, taking questions from audiences via Twitter. Smith will join participating theatres live from the stage of the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles for an epic 75-minute post-screening Q&A that will be capped off with a mini-episode of Smith’s podcast HOLLYWOOD BABBLE-ON.
These virtual Q&As have become a hallmark of Emerging Pictures’ special movie events – this summer we held a series of them with our British showcase FROM BRITAIN WITH LOVE, and have previously done them with the documentary films “Gerrymandering”, “11/4/08” and Oscar-nominated “Gasland” in 2010. But never have we connected this many theatres nationwide at one time as we will on September 25th, and Kevin Smith will surely make this a Q&A like no other. And only independent arthouses will be involved. Or, as Smith put it, “We stayin’ indie, son!”
Written and directed by Kevin Smith and produced by Jonathan Gordon, Red State stars 2011 Academy Award® winner for Best Actress Melissa Leo, Golden Globe winner John Goodman, and Michael Parks.
To date Red State has grossed $1,065,429 at the North American box office from only 22 single show engagements and its Academy-qualifying run, making it the highest per screen average film of the year and the 9th highest per screen average film of all time.
Red State tells the story of a group of teens in Middle America who receive an online invitation for sex, but soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
For a list of participating Emerging Cinemas, click HERE.
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#BritFilm. Bringing ‘FROM BRITAIN’ Q&As to cinemas LIVE with Twitter
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The UK film showcase FROM BRITAIN WITH LOVE is in full swing after kicking off on June 11th as part of the opening festivities for the splendid new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center in New York. The first three films in the series – Toast, In Our Name, and Africa United – had their premiere screenings at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater to enthusiastic audiences of arthouse fans and anglophiles alike, who were treated to in-person post-screening discussions with the directors of all three films (and in the case of In Our Name, the powerhouse lead actress as well). The most fun part for us, though, might have been bringing these live Q&As to audiences outside of New York City and into cinemas around the country.
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Brit indie cinema comes stateside with FROM BRITAIN WITH LOVE
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Ken Stott as Dad, Helena Bonham Carter as Joan Potter, Freddie Highmore as Nigel Slater in Toast
Emerging Pictures is excited to partner with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UK Film Council to present FROM BRITAIN WITH LOVE, an initiative to bring the freshest of independent cinema from Great Britain across the pond to American audiences.
FROM BRITAIN WITH LOVE will highlight six UK indie films through screenings at Emerging Cinemas across the US in June and July 2011, launching with Toast starring Helena Bonham Carter.
The showcase will premiere at New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center, the curator of the program, on June 11 as part of the opening celebration for its state-of-the art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Each of the six films showcased will be shown once at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, once downtown at the IFC Center, with simultaneous and subsequent screenings occurring throughout the country through Emerging’s digital cinema network. The series is also supported by partners: UK Trade and Investment, BAFTA, and Creative Screen Associates.
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April 17th, NYC: One Day, Three Operas, Three Locations
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One Day, Three Locations, Three Operas
Sunday April 17, 2011:
La Traviata
from the Royal Opera House, London
Starring Renee Fleming, Thomas Hampson & Joseph Calleja
“[Fleming] delivers the superstar goods…The crowd went wild, and rightly so…” -Warwick Thompson, Bloomberg.com
► 10AM at IFC Center, 323 6th Ave
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The IFC Center plays Opera & Ballet in Cinema
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Opera and Ballet Come to IFC Center With High-Def Presentations on the Big Screen
Noted Downtown Arthouse Teams with Emerging Pictures To Bring Music and Dance from the World’s Most Acclaimed Performing Arts Companies to the Village in April.
IFC Center is proud to announce a new program to bring Emerging Pictures’ “Opera in Cinema” and “Ballet in Cinema” presentations to downtown Manhattan this spring. Featuring canonical works mounted by world’s greatest opera and ballet companies—including the Royal Opera, the Bolshoi and the Royal Ballet—these events present high-definition performances from such stars as Renée Fleming, Placido Domingo and Natalia Osipova.
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Springsteen supporting independent cinemas with The Promise
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Continuing a tradition of support to community-based, independent cinemas, Bruce Springsteen and Columbia Records have once again partnered with us to offer a widely acclaimed Springsteen film for charitable screenings across the country.
From April 22 to May 3, The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town will receive a special theatrical run only at Emerging Pictures’ network of community-based cinemas, performing arts centers and independent art-houses as a benefit screening and fundraiser.
Not-for-profits theatres showcasing the film will keep 100% of funds from ticket sales. For-profit venues will keep 50%, donating the remaining funds to a charity of their choice. All benefit screenings will also feature Springsteen merchandise giveaways, with audience members eligible to win The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town BluRay, available at physical and digital retail outlets on May 3rd.
The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town combines never-before-seen footage of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band shot between 1976 and 1978 Read More…
Take a trip back to 1969 and to the creation of a musical masterpiece with Simon & Garfunkel.
Emerging Pictures has partnered with Legacy Recordings to once again bring a unique musical journey to the big screen. THE HARMONY GAME: The Making of Bridge Over Troubled Water, a new documentary behind the creation of the Simon & Garfunkel’s landmark 1970 album, will have its theatrical run exclusively at Emerging Cinemas in February and March.
THE HARMONY GAME tells the story behind Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, an album shrouded in rock n’ roll mythology with legendary tales of inspiration, innovation and separation. This spectacular documentary combines rare archival footage and new interviews with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel discussing the creation and reception of Bridge Over Troubled Water, along with several of the duo’s collaborators from the period: Roy Halee (co-producer/engineer), Hal Blaine (drums), Joe Osborn (bass guitar), Jimmie Haskell (arranger), and Mort Lewis (manager).
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