Peter Hyoguchi is touring his indie thriller The Occult with one-night screenings in 22 cities, including a Campbell screening Oct. 7 at Pruneyard Cinemas with a Q&A featuring editor Robert Días. Hyoguchi promotes screenings by leaving tarot cards around town and by negotiating revenue splits with theaters instead of paying four-wall rental fees. He offers theaters a 50-50 split of ticket sales. He describes a decline in theatrical feature releases from 101 in 1990 to 52 last year and attributes the drop to phone-based content drawing viewers away. The Occult features a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack intended for an immersive big-screen experience.
""In the past if you were an independent filmmaker and you wanted to do a tour like this, you'd have to pay the theaters what's called a four-wall fee-a rental fee-and it can be very expensive . But I haven't done that once, and I've done 22 screenings. I'm offering theaters a 50-50 split off ticket sales.""
""It's got nothing to do with Covid," he asserts. Rather, it's the availability of content on people's phones, which is "taking away eyeballs by the billions.""
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