Landmark Cinemas

I'm Lucas Anders.

Today we're connecting with Nikki Ray-Hallow, the director, lead actor, and producer on the film Trinkets, which is making its world premiere right here in Edmonton for the Edmonton International Film Festival Sunday at 7 o'clock down at Landmark Cinemas downtown as part of the Edge of Night Studio A 5.0 shorts package.

Nikki is going to be in attendance for a Q&A following the screening.

Welcome to Moving Radio, Nikki.

Jumping in and playing in that kiddie pool of this can be so exciting and so fun rather than anxiety inducing and panic driven.

Does that make sense? Yeah.

You're listening to CJSR 88.5. I'm speaking with Nikki Rae Hallow, the director, lead actor, and producer on the film Trinkets, which makes its world premiere down at Landmark Cinemas Sunday at 7 o'clock as part of the Edge of Night Studio 5.0 shorts package.

You explore power dynamics and violence with a very strong female protagonist.

That adds 164 screens to the Kinepolis global portfolio.

The Belgian-based circuit now operates a number of cinemas in the North American market, including Landmark, the number two player in Canada, MJR and Emagine out of Michigan, and now having a presence in the northeast with Showcase, one of the, let's say, historic circuits definitely in our industry.

We know, as was the case with MJR, Emagine and, uh, Landmark, Kinepolis will retain that Showcase branding for their customers.

Great move there, and it's always nice to see a circuit getting acquired by a familiar player, a leader in this space, and definitely one that is run by folks that are passionate about this industry.

Other news here that we have in the world of theatrical exhibition includes a new subscription program for Regal, the number two circuit in terms of screen count in North America, launching Rewards+.

Just go through as many people as possible.

You mentioned, uh, working Spider-Man weekend, record-breaking weekend for the box office with Epic Theatres, and the fact that there are no lines, that everyone is grabbing, spending their concessions, money, and then going to their seat, I think is so important to say, and I think that's one of the reasons this, this marketplace concept is, is really sprouting up.

If we look here in, in the North American market, uh, Landmark Cinemas out of Canada, uh, Landmark Theatres out of Canada, I think does it very, very well with some of their locations.

Now, the second big announcement, a leadership change.

Longtime CEO Ellis Jacob is stepping down immediately, and he's being replaced by Bill Walker, the former head of rival Landmark Cinemas.

And shares of McDonald's are falling after the fast food giant announced an $8.5 billion growth initiative.

It's all part of their new next strategy, where they're pouring billions into rental relief franchisee support.

Um, it's, it's confusing to me why they would...

Landmark Cinemas would put a movie on that's a new release.

There's still, like, there was nothing, there was only three movies released this week, and we saw the wait.

It had one running time.

So it kind of worked out well for that.

But basically, yeah, come on down to the Landmark Cinemas.

That's over in the Brighton area and, uh, six o'clock we're going to be showing first for country first in last out.

And then, uh, the operation friction doc that's season one, episode four of Canada remembers our heroes, which is all about the Gulf war.

To our buddy Matt.

Thank you so much for making it in here today and showing off the big documentary.

Again, 6 p.m. this Thursday at Landmark Cinemas.

First in, last out.

Krispy Kreme, free donut.

What? Landmark Cinemas, a free large popcorn.

Oh.

I wonder if you have to even go to a movie.