![]() And if you look at streaming services, they oftentimes don’t have these classic movies. So the truth is, they’re not as readily available to just go out hunting for as they might have been at one time. You’ve had major retailers go out of business, and stores like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Target greatly reducing the amount of space they make available in their stores for classic movies. But the retail environment has dramatically changed. “In the past, the physical home entertainment market was thriving, and you could go to stores and walk down the aisle and find a lot of classic movies. “I think the appeal is that we deliver a different experience than you’re going to get at home,” muses Tom Lucas, VP of Studio Relations in an exclusive interview. 27, and Sleepless in Seattle hitting 25 with screenings on Dec. 12, Superman: The Movie- now 40! - on the Nov. ![]() 14, the animated Batman: Mask of the Phantasm celebrating 25 years on Nov. But that’s really only the beginning, with the original Die Hard(its 30th Anniversary) hitting select screens on Nov. The past few years have seen screenings like The Sound of Music, Jaws, Labyrinth, Casablanca, The Dark Crystal, Dirty Dancing, Grease, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Princess Bride. Screening over the course of one or two nights are select movies oftentimes celebrating anniversaries. Unfortunately, all of those technologies listed above more or less did away with the idea of re-releases, although for a number of years, Fathom Events has been doing something about it. In the days before VHS - which were in the days before DVDs, which were before Blu-rays, which were before streaming - your only hope for re-watching a movie that you loved was when it made its TV debut, or the studios would re-release them on the big screen (oftentimes as part of some pretty bizarre double features - The Odd Couplepaired with Rosemary’s Babyimmediately comes to mind).
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