A brand new urge for food for previous ham is flourishing within the cinema

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Retro feminism on the display screen: “Thelma & Louise” from 1991, again in cinemas in 2024.
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Hollywood is in re-release fever, and smaller cinemas in Austria are additionally relying an increasing number of on new releases of gems from movie historical past this summer season. Is that this additionally a technique to appeal to a younger viewers to the classics?

Outdated is new: knowledge that has lengthy been legitimate within the cinema. We knew early on that previous films can all the time generate new cash. As Charles Chaplin grew to become a star, cinemas instantly tried to revenue from his early work. Studio founder William Fox launched his previous movies in the marketplace round 1920 underneath new titles. Within the sound movie period, silent movies merely offered sound, Disney In keeping with legend, he created the “seven-year rule” (which says that you could launch a film each seven years for a brand new era), and the primary film “Star Wars” (1977) got here additionally in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1997 in cinemas.