drive-ins

April Wright has spent a good chunk of her career chronicling the history of the film industry, with feature documentaries on movie palaces and drive-ins covering the exhibition side. The writer/director/producer turns her lens (and her drones) on the 21st...

The United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association (UDITOA) have unveiled their new website AuthenticDriveIns.com, allowing moviegoers to locate authentic drive-ins near them, find showtimes, as well as the latest drive-in theatre news. More than 300 drive-in theatres across the U.S. combine...

Interview with United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association President John Vincent Jr. A popular narrative emerged during the first phase of cinema reopenings in the summer of 2020: drive-ins—purportedly unaffected by most Covid-19 restrictions—were enjoying a land-office business. The reality was...

PRESS RELEASE MUMBAI – (November 16, 2021) – Christie® is pleased to announce that PVR Cinemas, the market leader in terms of screen count in India, has deployed its CP4450-RGB large-format RGB pure laser projection system for a new drive-in...

Recently changing from 35-mm projection to 4K laser projection, the Nite Owl Drive-In in Miami is screening a combination of classic and more modern movies this month. Their projector is now a Series 4 model from Barco, introduced in 2019...

PRESS RELEASE Ultimate Outdoor Entertainment (UOE), a Texas-based outfit that specializes in outdoor movie screen rentals, has announced the opening of their first drive-in theater in East Austin by April 2021. Branded The Ultimate Drive-In™, the theater will provide a...

Houston-based Star Cinema Grill is opening a drive-in theater at its Cypress, Texas location. The drive-in will launch this Thursday (Sept. 3) with the release of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. In addition to Tenet, the drive-in will be screening new films...

On May 30, Showcase Cinemas opened a “pop-up” drive-in theater at their Patriot Place location in Foxborough, Massachusetts with a screening of Steven Spielberg’s 1981 classic Raiders of the Lost Ark. The sold-out event— which doubled as a fundraiser for...

In an unprecedented spring season that saw the shuttering of hard top theaters, a release slate emptied of major studio films and an improbable resurgence of drive-ins, an unlikely hit emerged: IFC Films’ The Wretched, a low-budget horror film about...

From the late ‘60s through the late ‘70s, producer and distributor Sam Sherman and his company Independent-International Pictures Corporation released a trove of movies, many of them directed by the late cult filmmaker Al Adamson, including Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Nurse...

Malco Theatres is reopening its Summer Drive-In Theatre in Memphis this Friday, May 15. One of only 330 drive-in theaters remaining in the U.S., the quad-screen cinema closed in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Beginning Friday, it will offer...

Tribeca Enterprises has announced a partnership with Imax and AT&T to unveil “Tribeca Drive-In,” a drive-in entertainment series that will take place this summer at drive-in theaters and other exclusive venues nationwide. “Tribeca Drive-In” will kick off on Thursday, June...