Cereal At Midnight

As the Hollywood strike continues, Actor/Filmmaker Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon A Time, Longmire, Risky Business, Only In Theaters) directly responds to skeptics and explains why EVERYONE should care about what's at stake during this strike.  See my full interview with Raphael about his documentary ONLY IN THEATERS, which chronicles the Laemmle Theater chain HERE: https://youtu.be/uvIE5vhuUsQ https://onlyintheaters.com https://www.raphaelsbarge.com https://www.laemmle.com https://www.kinolorber.com/product/only-in-theaters https://amzn.to/3ODd3XC Only In Theaters Review: https://www.cerealatmidnight.com/2023/07/review-only-in-theaters-2022.html Find the Cereal at Midnight Podcast wherever you download your podcasts! If it's not there yet, we're working on it! It can already been found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, the Podbean app, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeart Radio, PlayerFM, Samsung, and Podchaser! Please subscribe, rate, and review! ************************************...

ONLY IN THEATERS chronicles the family-owned Laemmle theater chain and the challenges that independent cinemas face in a rapidly-changing era that's been impacted by both streaming and the pandemic. Actor/filmmaker Raphael Sbarge and theater president Gregory Laemmle explain why supporting local theaters matters more than ever.  https://onlyintheaters.com https://www.raphaelsbarge.com https://www.laemmle.com https://www.kinolorber.com/product/only-in-theaters https://amzn.to/3ODd3XC Only In Theaters Review:  https://www.cerealatmidnight.com/2023/07/review-only-in-theaters-2022.html Find the Cereal at Midnight Podcast wherever you download your podcasts! If it's not there yet, we're working on it! It can already been found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, the Podbean app, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeart Radio, PlayerFM, Samsung, and Podchaser! Please subscribe, rate, and review! **************************************************************** Review Archive: CerealAtMidnight...

Theaters were hit hard by the pandemic and subsequent quarantine closures, but the impact of the crisis on small businesses and independent movie houses was catastrophic. Only In Theaters, a 2022 documentary from Raphael Sbarge, begins a year or two before the global crisis and focuses on Greg Laemmle's family history in the motion picture industry and their life-long devotion to cinema. And that word--cinema--is very important because Laemmle Theatres never showed big blockbusters and commercial studio fare; rather, they were an island in an ocean of excess, focusing on independent, foreign, arthouse, and auteur cinema. Through Laemmle, many films were given a theatrical showing that enabled them to be eligible for Academy Awards.  Owning a theater chain must be great, right? Right! Well, yes and no. The dramatic conflict of the story comes from the fact that the independent film business isn't what it once was. Many audiences seem to be only interested in thrill rides and sp...