Blue Starlite, an impartial drive-in theater in Austin, Texas, has introduced its first nationwide cinema match sequence, Silents Synced, the place vintage silent motion pictures shall be paired with rock song from Radiohead, R.E.M., They May Be Giants, Pearl Jam, Pixies, and Amon Tobin.
Silents Synced sequence 1 is the primary of a couple of sequence to be produced through Blue Starlite Leisure, the brand new content material arm of the impartial drive-in.
The content material screenings shall be disbursed q4 by means of a partnership with impartial match cinema distributor CineLife Leisure, a department of Highlight Cinema Networks, which is now reserving impartial indoor and drive-in cinema networks regionally.
“Silents Synced is a strategic structure to attract new audiences to cinemas for a communal song enjoy like no different,” stated Josh Frank, CEO and author of Silents Synced.
Frank endured, “The query for impartial theater operators has transform what are we able to do to encourage folks to go away their properties out of doors of Hollywood blockbusters motion pictures? Whilst conventional moviegoers will at all times be our lifeblood, song fanatics will pass to bigger lengths for a shared enjoy. They’re a essentially new target market for us all. With those very important artists and our distribution spouse, CineLife Leisure, we search to encourage folks to assemble in cinemas and invigorate impartial theaters in a wholly new approach to assist them with attractive and distinctive occasions.”
Blue Starlite initiated conversations with the control of those artists to reimagine those undying silent motion pictures with their seminal albums and different picks from their catalogs.
Silents Synced’s first season will kick off within the fall of 2024 with Radiohead’s “KID A (2000) / Amnesiac (2001),” paired with Nosferatu (1923), with long term motion pictures slated to practice each and every 4 months. An international premiere of Silents Synced “Radiohead: Nosferatu” will happen prematurely of its nationwide release within the fall.
R.E.M.’s Silents Synced movie is slated for distribution in early 2025.
“The fellows concept it sort of feels like a good suggestion and so they just like the uncanny manner their song and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr., fit up — roughly very best. What an excellent and not going manner of presenting nice artwork,” mentioned Bertis Downs, supervisor for R.E.M.
Further titles will practice go well with all through 2025 with time-honored silent motion pictures to be introduced quickly, synced to They May Be Giants, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Amon Tobin, and extra to be introduced as further offers are finalized.
“There’s something surprisingly interesting about syncing fashionable song to an previous silent movie — it brings a complete new viewpoint. I love to believe Buster Keaton shifting round on set with a 1927 model of They May Be Giants bouncing round in his head. It’s a really perfect combo,” says Pete Smolin, supervisor of They May Be Giants.
“We’re overjoyed to be a spouse in distributing as a result of we consider within the energy of match cinema blended with choice song’s maximum enduring artists,” stated CineLife Leisure’s EVP, Bernadette McCabe. “It is a thought that are supposed to paintings similarly neatly for impartial, indoor and drive-in cinemas, because it provides potential match cinema that can attraction to a couple of generations of present consumers, in addition to song fanatics.”
