Monday, March 18, 2024

‘SouledOut Cinema’ Brings Classic Black Films Back To Big Screen

Souled Out Cinema

*SouledOut Cinema is bringing Black movies back to the big screen so you can enjoy classic films from the 80s, 90s and 00s at a theater near you!

“Watch your favorite movies like Boomerang, Waiting to Exhale, Coming to America, Soul Food, Bebe’s Kids, The Players Club and Friday. The movies that will make you “ease on down” and ask “what’s love got to do with it?” The film titles for each screening are announced when tickets go on sale,” according to the website.

Huff Post notes that the new venture aims to collaborate with movie theaters across the country to show three to eight screenings of various black films over the course of any given weekend. Local black restaurants have been invited to get involved by replacing crappy, overpriced theater food with jerk wings, mac and cheese, pound cake, and more.

According to founder Mark Luckie, the goal is to “bring community together around something everybody loves,” he told The Huffington Post, which is a media partner of the initiative.

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Luckie, who previously held management positions at Twitter and Reddit, said he came up with the idea for SouledOut Cinema after a trip to California with his friend in October.

“I was in Palo Alto, one of the whitest places in California, and there we were, two black men walking down the street feeling very aware of our blackness,” Luckie said. “We then walked past this theater showing [old] black-and-white movies and I thought, ‘Hey why don’t they show black movies?’”

Shortly after the trip, Luckie resigned from his role at Reddit and returned to Atlanta to help launch SouledOut Cinema. The first event will be held in the city between Dec. 16 – Dec. 18, where films like “Coming To America,” “Waiting To Exhale” and “Friday” will be shown across multiple screenings throughout the weekend. SouledOut Cinema so far has a list of over 40 films that can be screened.

“No slave movies, no maid movies, no civil rights movies and no blaxploitation movies,” Luckie said. “We want to see movies that are more accurate reflections. We want to see something that’s reaffirming for the community rather than this twisted, funhouse mirror version of black life.”

 

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