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[cinemadeco.livejournal.com]

Good Morning!

My apologies beforehand for potential cross-posting on your friends list, or for a potential off-topic post. I did my best to check the rules of the community beforehand to ensure that I was within the community guidelines.

I am working with a group to explore opening a movie theatre in Somerville dedicated to showing independant, classic, and genre films such as science fiction, action-adventure, and romantic comedies.

To help develop our plan, we've put together a short survey to try to gauge what the community would want in a new movie theatre. If you're from the Boston area, love movies, and have 3-5 minutes to take the following survey, I would greatly appreciate your support.

Click here to take survey.

If you have any questions, please comment below.

Comments

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Where in Somerville? We've already got the beloved Somerville Theater near Davis Square. I don't think there's room to support another in the immediate vicinity - unless forcing it out of business is part of your plan.

[cinemadeco.livejournal.com]

We haven't gotten far enough in planning to determine exactly where yet. The Somerville Theatre, from what I know, shows movies that are at the very end of their first run. We are looking to show movies that have been out of the theatre for at least several years, if not decades. Somerville would probably be hurt more by the Fenway Theatre or theatres in downtown Boston than by us, I imagine. We would be more competition for a video store than another movie theatre.

We're not looking to force anyone out of business. I enjoy going to the Somerville Theatre myself. When I miss a movie in current run for whatever reason (usually because I'm too busy during its limited release run), I welcome the opportunity to see it there before it disappears to video. What we're trying to determine is whether there's a niche that neither the Somerville Theatre nor any other current movie theatre currently supports.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Well, if you did that, it seems that both the choices of movie and the ambiance of the theatre would be quite important (more so than for anything showing something recent). I imagine the Brattle does reasonably with its varied film festivals of older movies, often by theme or some other unifying idea.