– Destination Ciné (@destinationcine) 6 August 2020
After watching the video and the deal he had made vibrate on the film network on Twitter, I came across his theme, which turned out to be Gérard Lemoine, owner of the independent Cinepal cinema in Palaiseau, on the southern outskirts of Paris.
“My video is a little more than I expected,” Lemoine told me. He has had over 150,000 perspectives on Twitter and his account, and has won countless responses.
The film owner explained that he had to make the video to express his frustration after learning of Disney’s decision. He said he had been selling Mulan “for months” and that he and his fellow operators were hoping that the film would be a code name to encourage their reopening efforts.
Cinemas reopened in France in June and Lemoine admitted that since then it has been difficult to attract audiences, even in a country known for its thirst for film.
“It’s a huge effort to stay open right now for most of us, yet we assume there would be ambitious movie releases in the coming weeks,” he said. “By wasting Mulan, we missed the opportunity to offer our audience a long-awaited film that would have helped us after those last difficult weeks. It’s also a bad message to send to the audience [who was expecting a movie premiere].”
Lemoine is now putting her hopes on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, which is scheduled to open in France as soon as it can be imagined on August 26. “We are very grateful to Warner for releasing Tenet at the end of August. But that’s not enough. The desire of the studios to perceive that if they cancel those films or put them on platforms, it may not last long. I’ve committed my life to video appearing and I don’t want to die! ».
Could Disney’s move harm studio dating with exhibitors in France? Lemoine says the resolution is “very tough and devastating,” but still hopes they can count on them for long-term releases, such as Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man, dated September 16 in France.
The best of the deadline
Deadlines bulletin. For the latest news, we on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. “Data-reactid – 53” – Subscribe to the Deadline newsletter. For the latest news, we on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
PATRICIA: Hospital staff, nursing home staff and Ontario citizens, as well as all essential service personnel, deserve to have been the first to be evaluated. An article published in The Globe and Mail on July 5, 2003, “Nursing Aid Inadvertently Spreads SARS,” which can be read online, points to cases where this Toronto city worker jammed and spread the virus in Toronto. My mother lived there for 10 years and my biggest complaint is that the province of Ontario has never provided enough investment for the guilty staff of caring for totally powerless citizens. A few years later, after other resident issues spread or published in our local newspapers, Providence hired a hundred new inspectors. It would have been much wiser to hire fitness staff to help overworked staff, whose monthly salaries would have been much lower than those of inspectors. My mother died in 2013 and does not blame existing officials in the city of Toronto or the province of Ontario. However, you might think that common sense would have indicated that Covid-19 tests deserve to begin where epidemics occur.
23.4 km