Blue Starlite, an unbiased 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 Would possibly Be Giants, Pearl Jam, Pixies, and Amon Tobin.
Silents Synced sequence 1 is the primary of more than one sequence to be produced by way of Blue Starlite Leisure, the brand new content material arm of the unbiased drive-in.
The content material screenings shall be allotted q4 by the use of a partnership with unbiased match cinema distributor CineLife Leisure, a department of Highlight Cinema Networks, which is now reserving unbiased indoor and drive-in cinema networks locally.
“Silents Synced is a strategic structure to attract new audiences to cinemas for a communal song revel in like no different,” stated Josh Frank, CEO and author of Silents Synced.
Frank endured, “The query for unbiased theater operators has change into what are we able to do to encourage folks to go away their houses out of doors of Hollywood blockbusters movies? Whilst conventional moviegoers will all the time be our lifeblood, song enthusiasts will move to larger lengths for a shared revel in. They’re a basically new target audience 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 unbiased theaters in a wholly new technique to lend a hand them with enticing and distinctive occasions.”
Blue Starlite initiated conversations with the control of those artists to reimagine those undying silent movies 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 run movies slated to practice each 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 they usually just like the uncanny approach their song and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr., fit up — more or less highest. What a perfect and not likely approach of presenting nice artwork,” said Bertis Downs, supervisor for R.E.M.
Further titles will practice go well with all through 2025 with time-honored silent movies to be introduced quickly, synced to They Would possibly Be Giants, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Amon Tobin, and extra to be introduced as further offers are finalized.
“There’s something unusually interesting about syncing fashionable song to an outdated silent movie — it brings an entire new viewpoint. I love to believe Buster Keaton shifting round on set with a 1927 model of They Would possibly Be Giants bouncing round in his head. It’s an excellent combo,” says Pete Smolin, supervisor of They Would possibly Be Giants.
“We’re overjoyed to be a spouse in distributing as a result of we consider within the energy of match cinema mixed with selection song’s maximum enduring artists,” stated CineLife Leisure’s EVP, Bernadette McCabe. “This can be a thought that are meant to paintings similarly neatly for unbiased, indoor and drive-in cinemas, because it provides possible match cinema that can enchantment to more than one generations of present buyers, in addition to song enthusiasts.”
