[Dixielandjazz] What Business Are We In? - Entertainment

[Ron L'Herault]

Modern movies -harrumph - too violent, too loud, too in-your-face, too
expensive.  Heck you don't even get a cartoon anymore, and there is only one
movie.

We actually have a cinema-pub in our town.  It is not first run but it is
fun.  You sit at tables, can get beer and wine, pizza and complete dinners.
The  admission price was $4.00 last time I was there (To see Under the
Tuscan Sun, I think).  Although it was a little loud, at least it was not
filled with violence and foul language.

Ron L

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com]On Behalf Of Steve
barbone
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:04 AM
To: DJML
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] What Business Are We In? - Entertainment


CAVEAT - LONG POST - NOT OKOM - HOWEVER, A CUTTING EDGE ENTERTAINMENT VIEW

Like it or not, bands and Festivals are in the Entertainment Business. Our
main competition? "Home Entertainment".

It is no longer enough to just present Music Festivals. Attendance is
declining all over the place. What to do? Re-Invent! Think outside the box.
Here is what someone else in the ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS is doing about it.

They refused to accept the premise that people were no longer interested in
going to the movies. They changed the total experience. We (band leaders and
promoters) can do that to with a great chance of success also.

Will we? Depends upon "management" and that's another subject.

Cheers,
Steve


Liked the Movie, Loved the Megaplex

By BRUCE WEBER August 17, 2005 NY Times

BOCA RATON, Fla. - It was Saturday night at the Palace 20, a huge megaplex
here designed in an ornate, Mediterranean style and suggesting the ambience
of a Las Vegas hotel. Moviegoers by the hundreds were keeping the valet
parkers busy, pulling into the porte-cochere beneath the enormous chandelier
style lamps. Entering the capacious lobby, some of them dropped off their
small children in a supervised playroom and proceeded to a vast concession
stand for a quick meal of pizza or popcorn shrimp before the show.

Others, who had arrived early for their screening of, "Wedding Crashers" or
"The Dukes of Hazzard" - their reserved-seat tickets, ordered online and
printed out at home, in hand - entered through a separate door. They paid
$18, twice the regular ticket price (though it included free popcorn and
valet service) and took an escalator upstairs to the bar and restaurant,
where the monkfish was excellent and no one under 21 was allowed.

Those who didn't want a whole dinner, or arrived too late for a sit-down
meal, lined up at the special concession stand, where the menu included
shrimp cocktail and sushi and half bottles of white zinfandel and pinot
noir. As it got close to curtain time, they took their food and drink into
one of the adjoining six theater balconies, all with plush wide seats and
small tables with sunken cup holders. During the film, the most irritating
sound was the clink of ice in real glasses.

Not your image of moviegoing? Pretty soon it might be. <SNIP>
seats.

"In my book, the Muvicos and Raves of the world represent the future of
moviegoing in this country," said Mr. Glantz,
"I don't think we could ever build them fast enough," he said.


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