SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Paul Serwitz has made his career as a film buyer, including 25 years for Regal Cinemas and most recently, President and COO of Landmark Theatres. He’s now consulting as a distributor for Roadside Attractions and has lots of interesting insights into the biz of buying and distributing films, including.
– Outlook for 2025 and beyond
– Upcoming films from CinemaCon
– Musical trailers with no music
– Theatrical windows
– The 4-audience quadrants
– How movies are marketed now
– Why horror movies open almost every week
– What is Day and Date releasing
– Attending the Oscars
LINKS
Good 4 Her (film screening)
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear June 21st, 2024
WRIR Presents: Discussing Disability (1st) & Final Friday Signal Boost presents:
Hosted by Nate Wise. This month’s episode focuses on volunteering!
One Hit Wanda WRIR Presents: Discussing Disability (1st) & Final Friday Signal Boost June 14th, 2024
Posted In: Local, News, Volunteering
River City Limits presents:
Andrew with RVA Playlist takes a look at the history of the Listening Room, a local concert series that ran from 2009 to 2014 where the main rule was no talking was allowed during the performance. Special guest Jonathan Vassar, one of the original Listening Room founders and curators, will be joining to discuss all the musical memories.
rvaplaylist River City Limits June 8th, 2024
Posted In: Local, Music, Music Shows
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
In UNFROSTED Bailey Sheetz is discovered by Jerry Seinfeld’s character in a dumpster eating what would become a Pop-Tart. This young actor has a funny part in the new Netflix hit that was written, directed and stars Jerry Seinfeld. Our lively interview covers much more than any of the local print stories, including:
– His relationship to the gas station/restaurant with the same last name
– His love of antiques, esp. vacuum cleaners
– Being called “an old soul” on Big Little Shots with Melissa McCarthy
– His first role as the voice of a squirrel for Apple
– Working with Seinfeld, McCarthy and Jim Gaffigan
– Flying on top of a truck
– Almost getting strangled by a candy necklace
LINKS
My review of UNFROSTED
Podcast on Pine Grove School
The vacuum cleaner episode was on How to with John Wilson, Season 3, Ep 4 of (my 5-star review)
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear June 7th, 2024
Brain Box presents:
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… Quetzalcoatlus northropi?!? Timshel Purdum, the Science Museum of Virginia’s Virginia C. Ellett Deputy Director of Education, is back in WRIR studios to tell us about this prehistoric creature. While the Quetzalcoatlus has been long extinct (it lived at the same time as the dinosaurs… but it’s not a dinosaur!), you can experience for yourself what they were like at the SMoVA where a 3-D life-size replica has recently been installed in the Speed exhibit. There’s also a 2-D sculpture that you can stand next to and see for yourself how huge these ancient bird-like creatures were.
House of SWÉ / Just Cause presents:
Whether it’s Hip Hop and Rap music that gets you moving, R&B music that makes you reminisce, or the vibrations of good ol’ soul music that soothes you. Join me every other Sunday from 11pm-1am to listen to all the elements of music. I also share some of my favorite quotes, and hot topics in pop culture
Andrea Kearney House of SWÉ / Just Cause June 2nd, 2024
Posted In: Local, Music, Music Shows, Website
River City Limits presents:
smack River City Limits June 1st, 2024
Posted In: Blogging, Charts, Local, Music, Music Shows
Tags: rvamusic
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
Paul Serwitz has made his career as a film buyer, including Regal Cinemas for 25 years and most recently, President and COO of Landmark Theatres. He’s now consulting as a distributor on a new comedy opening this weekend called Summer Camp. Paul will talk about that movie, but he’s also got lots of interesting insights into the biz of buying and distributing films.
– The difference between buying & booking a film
– The sliding scale and bidding process for film rentals
– Negotiating with film companies to get the right films in the right cinemas
– How Landmark Cinemas is different and how they coped with Covid
– Why art house theaters are suffering
On Part 2, he’ll talk about booking issues for various genres, what’s coming in 2024 and going to Oscars.
LINKS
Summer Camp trailer
Ray Bentley’s podcast about the Midnight Movies
Joe Masher podcast Part One
Joe Masher podcast Part Two
My review of Anyone But You
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear May 31st, 2024
SIFTER for the Ear presents:
DANVILLE 1963, LEGACY OF A MOVEMENT is a documentary featuring first-hand accounts of the peaceful Civil Rights protest in Danville on June 10, 1963, that was met with shocking violence by the local police department. It became known as Bloody Monday and was an event that would shape Civil Rights history. There’s a free screening at the Library of Virginia on June 6 from 5:30 to 8:30pm with a panel discussion. Producer Jonathan Parker talks about making the doc.
LINKS
Register for the Virginia Library screening
Where else you can watch THE MOVEMENT
THE MOVEMENT trailer
Parker Productions
Our History Matters
BEYOND WILDER DREAMS is a new film about L. Douglas Wilder, who was the first Black governor in the country. There’s already one documentary about his political career, but this one puts the emphasis on his personal experiences, including his painting skills. I’m joined by writer/director Brian Bullock and DP Ryan Pace.
LINKS
The trailer for BEYOND WILDER DREAMS
Wilder: An American First (the 2006 doc from PBS)
Hidden History with Brian Bullock
Jerry Williams SIFTER for the Ear May 24th, 2024
Brain Box presents:
This is a rebroadcast of our interview with Rose Basom on Neanderthal genes in Homo sapiens that originally aired on January 1, 2024.
In this episode, we meet the Science Museum of Virginia’s David and Jane Cohn Scientist, Rose Basom. Rose is a biological anthropologist (you’ll learn what that is) and she talks us through some recent studies that show how genes can express themselves in our behavior, and the distant origins of some of those genes. Tune in – you might learn some things about yourself!
To learn more, visit the Smithsonian Institute’s website on human origins.
amiller Brain Box May 20th, 2024
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