A collection of Japan's art house cinemas have banded together to launch a streaming service, dubbed the 'Temporary Cinema,' to keep the country's indie film community afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. Details:
Users will be asked to pay the usual $17 ticket price for each indie film they watch. Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda, who organized the effort, is emphasizing that there is"no replacement for the theatrical experience."
The price charged to stream each film will be roughly the same as what movie theaters would have charged for a single ticket . The organizers of the initiative say that proceeds will be shared equally by two parties: participating cinemas and the films' distributors. That's the same 50/50 split that undergirds Japan's theatrical film business during normal circumstances.
Japanese law doesn't provide a mechanism for forcing business closures or preventing people from going out, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration ordered a national emergency in mid April, which included a strongly worded request for non-essential businesses to close their doors. Nearly all of the country's movie theaters have since gone dark; many were already offering reduced screenings.
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