Posted on 05/21/2005 8:12:43 PM PDT by El Conservador
SALT LAKE CITY - Robert Redford's Sundance Group will launch Sundance Cinemas, a movie theater chain for independent, documentary and foreign-language films as well as some studio projects.
"Anything which helps new and interesting voices in the cultural realm reach more people can only enrich the experience of artists, audiences and communities," Redford said.
Other programming will include shorts, filmmaker interviews and public forums.
Sundance Cinemas will be operated by the theater management team of Paul Richardson and Vert Manzari. The pair has worked together since starting an exhibition theater in 1975. That enterprise was merged with Landmark Theatres in 1982, growing into the largest art theater circuit in the country. Richardson and Manzari left Landmark in 2004.
The number of new theaters was not released. But Manzari said Sundance Cinemas is looking nationally for locations.
"Drawing on our collective long-term relationships in the independent film and festival communities as well as those in the realm of distribution, we feel Sundance Cinemas will be highly successful in crafting a new and different experience for audiences," Manzari said.
Redford founded Sundance Group in 1988 to oversee his ownership interests in Sundance Village, Sundance Catalog and Sundance Channel, as well as his involvement in the not-for-profit Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival and North Fork Preservation Alliance.
No, thanks. I'll stick with my run-of-the-mill, 50-screen theaters. :P
As if regular junk food wasn't expensive enough!
hey this is great! i like seeing the left throw there money away it makes me happy.
Hopefully, this'll be the Err-America equivalent of theater chains. In fact, they'll likely ask to know theater-goers their political party affiliation, sexual preferences, pro-abortion or anti-, ad nauseam...
ROTFLMBO!
-Regards, T.
Ahh more pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, socialist propaganda! America can't get enough of it!
Isn't the whole point of Sundance to make movies that aren't mainstream? So that famouse actors like Tom Cruise can do a movie for a pittance -talk about it on Oprah and keep their street cred. Basically, Sundance is selling out.
Great, more black and white films about gay cowboys who eat pudding.
Sounds like a late April fool's day prank to me. Sundance in SLC? Give me a break.
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