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Drive-In Movie Theaters Thrive Despite Lack of New Titles: "People Just Want to Get Out"
Drive-In Movie Theaters Thrive Despite Lack of New Titles: "People Just Want to Get Out"
6:10 AM PDT 4/18/2020 by Scott Roxborough
INA FASSBENDER, AFP via Getty Images
A drive-in theater in Maal, Germany on April 6, 2020
In the age of social distancing, drive-in ticket sales in Germany and South Korea are booming.
We pull into the drive-in, dad and mom in front, the kids in the back in their pajamas, fighting. Dad parks, turns off the engine and turns to snap at the kids. "Stop hitting each other! The movie's about to start!"
It could be 1978 and I'm seven, waiting to see The Cat From Outer Space at the Valley Drive-In in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Instead, I'm in Cologne, Germany. This is 2020. And I'm the dad in the front seat. My daughters, reluctantly, stop fighting, put their smartphones away, and sit back to enjoy what for them is an entirely new experience: watching a movie, in a field, in the car.
Regular German cinemas, like those across most the world, remain closed due to the coronavirus. But drive-ins, those anachronistic remnants of a cinema industry from a generation past, are packing them in.
Autokino Essen, one of only two year-round drive-in theaters in Germany, has sold out every screening since the country went into lockdown in early March. On April 6, it sold 500 tickets for Manta Manta, a German comedy that was a huge hit. In 1991.
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6:10 AM PDT 4/18/2020 by Scott Roxborough
INA FASSBENDER, AFP via Getty Images
A drive-in theater in Maal, Germany on April 6, 2020
In the age of social distancing, drive-in ticket sales in Germany and South Korea are booming.
We pull into the drive-in, dad and mom in front, the kids in the back in their pajamas, fighting. Dad parks, turns off the engine and turns to snap at the kids. "Stop hitting each other! The movie's about to start!"
It could be 1978 and I'm seven, waiting to see The Cat From Outer Space at the Valley Drive-In in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Instead, I'm in Cologne, Germany. This is 2020. And I'm the dad in the front seat. My daughters, reluctantly, stop fighting, put their smartphones away, and sit back to enjoy what for them is an entirely new experience: watching a movie, in a field, in the car.
Regular German cinemas, like those across most the world, remain closed due to the coronavirus. But drive-ins, those anachronistic remnants of a cinema industry from a generation past, are packing them in.
Autokino Essen, one of only two year-round drive-in theaters in Germany, has sold out every screening since the country went into lockdown in early March. On April 6, it sold 500 tickets for Manta Manta, a German comedy that was a huge hit. In 1991.
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when in line for the popping popcorn and the dancing colas!
