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There’s day drinking, daytime television, and day care. Now, there’s a daytime drive-in theater.
The new Loco Drive-In in Loudon, Tenn. is open for business, allowing viewers who can’t wait for the night to see films in the comfort of the great outdoors during the day.
A 35-foot by 63-foot LED video board screen is capable of screening films in bright sunlight. The screen uses Samsung technology to display a 4K picture, similar to a traditional television.
“There’s no facility that we know of like this right now in the US. That’s what Hollywood is telling us,” said Gordon Whitener, founder and CEO of the Whitener Company, to Knox News. “This will be truly unique… the drive-in will be the core, but we’ll have concerts, car shows, boat shows and more.”
The drive-in holds 400 cars and uses loud speakers rather than radios to broadcast sound.
The new Loco Drive-In in Loudon, Tenn. is open for business, allowing viewers who can’t wait for the night to see films in the comfort of the great outdoors during the day.
A 35-foot by 63-foot LED video board screen is capable of screening films in bright sunlight. The screen uses Samsung technology to display a 4K picture, similar to a traditional television.
“There’s no facility that we know of like this right now in the US. That’s what Hollywood is telling us,” said Gordon Whitener, founder and CEO of the Whitener Company, to Knox News. “This will be truly unique… the drive-in will be the core, but we’ll have concerts, car shows, boat shows and more.”
The drive-in holds 400 cars and uses loud speakers rather than radios to broadcast sound.
- 8/14/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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The Burt Reynolds movie “The Last Movie Star” premieres in theaters and on VOD today, and Variety has a first look at the debut music video for the film, “Yet to Come,” which riffs on the movie’s primary Nashville setting. Scenes of Reynolds and costar Ariel Winter (“Modern Family”) cruising through Music City’s downtown streets are inserted into freshly shot footage of a previously unknown Nashville duo, Stranger Friends, busking in front of Tootsie’s and other locations familiar to tourists who flock to the town’s thriving Lower Broad district.
Surely it was tough getting permits to close down Nashville’s busiest block on a weekend for a music video shoot, right? Actually, no permits were involved, according to writer-director Adam Rifkin. “Somehow, when we’ve been making independent films for long enough,we know we know that if you ask the right way, almost anything is possible,...
Surely it was tough getting permits to close down Nashville’s busiest block on a weekend for a music video shoot, right? Actually, no permits were involved, according to writer-director Adam Rifkin. “Somehow, when we’ve been making independent films for long enough,we know we know that if you ask the right way, almost anything is possible,...
- 3/30/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
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