"Family Summer" returns to AMC bringing Land Before Time back to theatres!

[gaastra]

Last time AMC did it's $5 summer series was 2019. It's back again and looks like first up this weekend is the classic land before time back in theatres!

Nice to see littlefoot back in theatres but little mermaid is going to steal bunch of the kids I bet.

List--

May 27/May 31 – The Land Before Time
June 3/June 7 – DC League of Super-Pets
June 10/June 14 – Minions: The Rise of Gru
June 17/June 21 – Paw Patrol: The Movie
June 24/June 28 – Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
June 30/July 5 – Kung Fu Panda
July 8/July 12 – Trolls World Tour

July 15/July 19 – Mummies
July 22/July 26 – The Secret Life of Pets
July 29/August 2 – The Boss Baby: Family Business
August 5/August 9 – Shrek 2
August 11/August 16 – Sing 2
August 19/August 23 – The Croods: A New Age
August 26/August 30 – Sonic the Hedgehog 2

https://www.boxofficepro.com/amc-theatr ... ince-2019/

[Dacey]

LBT was already playing here earlier this year, for whatever reason.

Also I guess this is how we’re getting Mummies in the states?

[Ben]

They should run the original Mermaid and see how that fares…

[gaastra]

American tail would have been a great choice for this weekend also.

[EricJ]

While Regal is countering with $2 movies.
And...pretty much the exact same lineup of DreamWorks, Sony and Illumination animateds.

(Is it wrong that I'm old enough to remember when there were so few family movies in the mid-70's that Saturday Matinees became a studio/theater cottage industry, and MGM and Columbia got into the business of kiddy reissues of Forbidden Planet and Seventh Voyage of Sinbad?)

[Ben]

MGM Morning Matinees!

[EricJ]

While Cinemark countered with $1.50 movies. And only half of the exact same list.

Also I guess this is how we’re getting Mummies in the states?

It's already streaming on HBOMax.
The popular belief is that it's already on Netflix, which is incorrect, but kind of hints at WHY we think so.

[Ben]

I still don’t get why it’s not WB-Max, or just plain WB+. Max as a brand name is just nothing.

[Ben]

Somewhat related…

The original The Land Before Time is getting a CG update: casting is now starting to spread for the voice of the characters in what will be a photo-realistic version, currently titled Littlefoot: A Land Before Time.

No other details yet, but that’s what I’m hearing on the grapevine…

[GeffreyDrogon]

Source?

[Ben]

…the grapevine…

I was somewhere the other day and someone mentioned it. I have no idea what it is…could be a special, could be a movie, could be whatever, but I just heard rumblings of a casting call for a new LBT to be done in photorealistic CG. To be honest, I’m surprised we haven’t already seen something like this, outside of Dinosaur.

[GeffreyDrogon]

And Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie?

[Ben]

Was never a WWD fan, so never saw the movie, but here’s hoping the upcoming new series will be better.