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Local group aims campaign at Rave Motion Picture at the Greene
By Dave Larsen, Staff Writer
A local Facebook group has launched an effort to return holiday films to Rave Motion Pictures at the Greene.
The former National Amusements cinema showed such films as “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “White Christmas” during December as part of that company’s annual holiday film series.
The theater, along with 34 others, was acquired by Rave in December 2009 from National Amusements.
The new owner doesn’t appear to offer a similar holiday films series, so the “Bring Holiday Films Back to the Greene” group on Facebook is asking fans to call the theater management to request the films’ return.
Jeremy Devine, vice president of marketing for Dallas-based Rave, said he has forwarded the group’s request to the company’s film buying department to see what can be done.
Most holiday films are available in 35mm prints, but Rave will have converted all 46 of its Dayton-area screens to digital projection by mid-November, Devine said “We may simply have a format issue that would preclude that,” he said.
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By Duh
October 20, 2010 12:30 PM | Link to this
Stay home and watch them. They’re on 34 times a day beginning in November.
By Sounds Fine
October 20, 2010 2:50 PM | Link to this
Given the poor quality of the films they now produce, they’d get a better gate showing those stand-byes versus some X-mas horror flick featuring killing teens or alleged comedy that few get.
By Too bad
October 20, 2010 5:22 PM | Link to this
I’ve gone for the last three years. See, the cost of admission is one non perishable food item and the food goes to food banks. Also, it was nice to see classic films on a theater screen.
By Max
October 21, 2010 7:48 AM | Link to this
Does anyone over the age of 14 take Facebook seriously, or, even go to the movies any more? The trade off for the big, wide screen experience - classic films were not designed for that anyway - is sitting in the dark with a gaggle of strangers with varying degrees of perfume/cologne over application, lacking in cell phone etiquette and small talking all through the presentation. Speaking of such, when will the Rave do an extended midnight Rocky Horror Picture Show run?
By M
October 21, 2010 9:12 AM | Link to this
If you’ve never been to see these classics at the theater, I can understand the nay-saying. There’s something magical about seeing these shows on the BIG screen-and White Christmas, Elf and A Christmas Story were definitely made to be shown in widescreen. The experience of viewing these classics with 400 others (who clearly love them as much as you do cuz who else would show up at 10am at the busiest time of year?) refreshes these well-worn movies AND it’s all for a good cause-the canned good donations go to local food banks.
By reggaequeen
October 21, 2010 1:06 PM | Link to this
I’m more concerned that they are discontinuing the discount rate on Tuesdays and Senior Citizen discounts on Wednesdays that Showcase offered. Whenever my husband and I attended on Wednesdays the theater had plenty of senior citizens attending who probably would not have been there otherwise.