Manang (Rashtriya Samachar Samiti): A Bollywood film will be shot in the Himalayan district of Manang, which has been closed due to floods and landslides for the last few months.



The film 'Uchai', which is being made under the banner of Bollywood's famous Rajshree Productions, is being shot in Manang.



Producer-director Suraj Badajatya's team has come to Manang from two Altitude Air helicopters to observe the filming site. The team of producers and directors stayed in Manang for two days and observed various places for the movie.



The team has observed various places around Ngisyang village municipality of Upper Manang. After two days of observation, the team returned to Kathmandu on Wednesday and went for an on-site observation at the Everest Base Camp for filming, said Suraj Acharya of Three Wheelers Films.



According to him, Manang is a very suitable place for the movie. The film will be shot in Manang for about 10 days, said Binod Gurung, a tourism entrepreneur from Manang. The film will be shot in the Manang district and other places in Nepal.



The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa, Sarika, Bowman Irani, Parineeti Chopra in the lead roles. Even two weeks ago, the team had visited Jomsom, Kagbeni, Lukla, Namche Bazaar and Langtang area.



According to Gurung, the filming of the movie is expected to help the tourism business in the region, which has been hit hard by Corona, and increase the attraction of Indian tourists in Manang after the release of the movie. According to him, after the screening of this Bollywood film, not only Manang but the whole of Nepal will be promoted and Nepal will be introduced to the world.

Bollywood team in Manang to shoot a movie

BBC: UK cinema box office takings in the month since all Covid restrictions were lifted in England were half of their pre-pandemic level.



Box office tracker Comscore said £65.7m was spent on seeing films like Black Widow and Fast &amp; Furious 9 in the four weeks after "freedom day" on 19 July.



The figure for the corresponding weeks in 2019 was £129m.



Cinemas said they were "very pleased" with the figures and "pretty confident" they will get back to previous levels.



It's a similar picture in the US, where takings for the last four weekends have been 51% of the equivalent 2019 figures.



Many major movies that were delayed by Covid in 2020 have finally been released in cinemas this summer, but have not enticed the numbers they would have previously expected.



Continuing uncertainty in the US, where the Delta variant has recently led to rising cases, has disrupted release schedules again.



In recent weeks, Clifford the Big Red Dog, the Venom sequel and Hotel Transylvania 4 have either been pushed back or moved to streaming.



There has been speculation that the next James Bond outing No Time To Die - which is due out in late September in the UK after being delayed three times - could be postponed yet again. However, on Wednesday The Hollywood Reporter suggested that's unlikely to happen.



"The conditions remain challenging, there's no doubt about that," said Phil Clapp, chief executive of the UK Cinema Association.



"It's clear that there is still some reluctance among certain audience segments to return, and that's particularly true among older audiences," Mr Clapp said. "There's a continuing need to offer reassurance and to ensure that there's the right film content for those older audiences.



"But broadly I think people [in the industry] are very pleased with the response of the public to the reopening of cinemas. The film slate is strengthening. We're now seeing a major title released, if not quite every weekend, then every other weekend."



The UK industry lost £2bn during the pandemic and no-one expected things to bounce back immediately, Mr Clapp said. "Everyone knew that we would need to have to work hard over the initial weeks and months. Everyone's broadly where they expected to be."

Cinema box office takings at 50 pc of pre-pandemic levels

AP: Steven Yeun, Nathan Lane, Issa Rae, Robert Pattinson, Janet Jackson, Leslie Odom Jr. and Laverne Cox are among the artists being invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.



The organization that puts on the Oscars said Thursday that 395 film industry professionals, 46% of whom are women and 39% from an underrepresented group, have been invited to join the 2021 class. If they accept, which most do, they will have voting privileges at next year’s Oscars.



New invitees from this year’s Oscar nominees include Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”), Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) and Paul Raci (“Sound of Metal”), as well winners like “Minari’s” Youn Yuh-jung, “Mank” cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, singer-songwriter H.E.R. and “Promising Young Woman” writer Emerald Fennell.



Fennell was also invited to the director’s branch alongside fellow 2021 nominee Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”). Those invited in multiple branches must decide which they want to join.



A recent Oscar nomination doesn’t guarantee an invite, but it is a starting point for selecting artists and executives, like Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek, who have made significant contributions to film.



Other acting invitees include Carrie Coon (“The Nest”), Kingsley Ben-Adir (“One Night in Miami…”), Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians), Clea DuVall (“Zodiac”), Hugh Bonneville (“Paddington 2”), Stephen Root (“Office Space”), Eiza González (“Baby Driver”) and Jonathan Majors (“Da 5 Bloods”).



Among the directors invited are Lizzie Borden (“Born in Flames”), George C. Wolfe (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”), Janizca Bravo (“Zola”), Shaka King (“Judas and the Black Messiah”), Nia DaCosta (“Candyman”), Cathy Yan (“Birds of Prey”), Craig Brewer (“Hustle &amp; Flow”) and Jonathan Glazer (“Under the Skin”).



Diversity and inclusion continue to be a main priority for the film academy and, in addition to the relatively large numbers of women and underrepresented groups invited, it’s also a very international class. Over half of the invitees are from countries other than the United States.



The number of invitees also dropped steeply this year in an effort to, “steady future growth.” In the past few years the organization had invited classes of around 800 new members or more annually to help quickly diversify its ranks following the #OscarsSoWhite criticisms. With this new class, the Academy said its total membership is now 33% women and 19% underrepresented groups.



The Academy has said it remains committed to broadening its own lens over the next few years.

Oscars invite Steven Yeun, Issa Rae, others to join Academy

LOS ANGELES (AP): Britney Spears’ powerful plea to a judge to end the conservatorship that has controlled her life since 2008 brought sympathy and outrage from fans, famous supporters and even casual observers who say she deserves independence.



Yet lawyers who deal in such matters say the speech itself may not have helped her in the legal process, which will be long and arduous.



“When Britney spoke, I mean, the world listened. This was amazing,” family law attorney Peter Walzer said. “Now, whether the judge will buy it, whether the judge will let her out of her conservatorship, my bet is no.”



Spears’ passionate, at times emotional address Wednesday to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny was the first time in 13 years she has spoken in open court on the conservatorship, which she called “abusive” and “stupid.” The conservatorship was put in place as Spears, hounded by paparazzi and media scrutiny while a new mother, underwent a very public mental health crisis in 2008.



Spears revisited the speech in an Instagram post Thursday, apologizing “for pretending like I’ve been ok the past two years.



“I did it because of my pride and I was embarrassed to share what happened to me,” she said, later adding, “Believe it or not pretending that I’m ok has actually helped.”



In court, Spears said she is forced to keep using an intrauterine device for birth control and take other medications, is prevented her from getting married or having another child, and is not allowed let her have her own money. She condemned her father and the others who control it.



The speech was compelling for the same reasons it may be problematic to the court. She spoke very quickly, often profanely, and could seem out of control as she rattled off injustices and the emotional turmoil they have brought her.



“It just seems to me that her presentation to her court didn’t do herself any favors,” said David Glass, a family law attorney with a doctorate in psychology. “The words came out like bullets. She shifted rapidly between thoughts and ideas. She also admitted to being depressed and crying all the time. I’m not her psychologist, but these are things that potentially point to being in the middle of mental illness.”



Penny did not tip her hand or offer much reaction to the dramatic presentation, other than to say Spears’ speech was “courageous.” It’s unclear how much the judge has heard before, either during Spears’ previous addresses to the court in closed sessions or in the numerous sealed documents filed in the case.



“The court didn’t say ‘I don’t agree with you,’ or ‘I’m concerned for you’ or ‘I’m disappointed these issues were not brought before me previously,’” Glass said.



There is evidence that Penny considers Spears’ opinions in her decisions.



She recently appointed estate-management firm the Bessemer Trust as co-conservator of Spears’ finances, though kept her father James Spears as its co-conservator against her wishes. And Penny has been keeping court hearings like Wednesday’s increasingly public and leaving more documents unsealed since Spears pushed for greater transparency in the case last year.



Short of ending the conservatorship, Penny may alter it to make it more palatable to Spears, and could order an immediate investigation into some of the allegations.



“I’m alarmed if I’m the judge,” said Sarah Wentz, an attorney who specializes in estates and conservatorships. “I’m going to find out ASAP if there are things we need reviewed or corrected, for the court to see if there are not human rights violations.”



There is plenty of room for Penny to make changes that don’t end the conservatorship entirely.



“What they can do is try to put together a plan that meets her goals and wishes in every way possible, so she only has a few things that she needs to check in on,” Wentz said. “It doesn’t have to be an all-in kind of thing.”



Spears’ court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III, said that despite his client’s pleas to Penny to end the conservatorship, she has yet to even ask him to file a petition to do so. He said before the presentation Wednesday that he made no attempt to “control, or filter, or edit” his client’s words.



That most likely meant that while he felt compelled to pass along Spears’ request to speak, it doesn’t necessarily mean he agreed with her approach.



“This is why lawyers don’t like their clients speaking a lot,” family law attorney Chris Melcher said. “We know what to say and how to say it. Sometimes what the client says can really come back and bite them and end up proving the other side’s case.”



Melcher said a different approach could have proven more effective.



“I think she would be best served by a calm demeanor, acknowledgement of her past problems, and acceptance of the court’s previous decisions,” he said.



That was the approach taken by Ingham in recent filings for Spears that attempted to get her father removed and assert more control. Those documents acknowledged that the conservatorship had done a lot of good in its early days while forcefully arguing for change and saying she reserved the right to end it eventually.



One thing that will certainly not happen is the conservatorship being terminated, as Spears requested, without any further evaluation of her.



A petition to terminate the conservatorship, which Ingham said he may file soon, would be only the beginning of a process that places the burden on Spears to show her competence.



“It’s up to Britney or another interested person to convince the court that it needs to end,” Melcher said. “This is not a voluntary process where she can just walk out the door.”

Britney Spears’ public support may not mean much in court

LONDON (AP): Thousands of heavy metal fans were camping, singing — and even moshing — on Saturday at Britain’s first full music festival since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.



The three-day Download Festival, taking place at Donington Park in central England, is one of a series of test events to see whether mass gatherings can resume without triggering outbreaks of COVID-19.



About 10,000 fans, a tenth of the festival’s pre-pandemic attendance, secured tickets to watch more than 40 U.K.-based bands including Frank Carter &amp; The Rattlesnakes, Enter Shikari and Bullet for My Valentine.



Attendees all took COVID-19 tests before the event, and don’t have to wear masks or follow social distancing rules during the festival.



Promoter Andy Copping said there was a “real sense of euphoria” at the event, which runs through Sunday, despite the wet weather lashing much of the U.K. after several weeks of warm sunshine.



“It wouldn’t be Download unless there was a bit of rain,” he said.



Concertgoer Alexander Milas said rain and mud would not mar the event.



“In a way it makes it better,” he said. “It is amazing how that brings people together. The sheer misery and joy of being around a lot of like-minded, really wonderful people. I feel like it is perfect because it’s like ‘Weather be damned, we are going to have a great time.’”



Britain has recorded almost128,000 coronavirus deaths, the highest toll in Europe. The government has delayed the lifting of remaining social and economic restrictions for four weeks from the planned June 21 date amid a rise in cases driven by the highly contagious delta variant first identified in India.



Health officials are aiming to give everyone 18 and over in the U.K. a first dose of vaccine by July 19, and to have everyone over 50 fully vaccinated with both doses.



All mass events in Britain were canceled in March 2020 when the country entered the first of three lockdowns. Crowds are starting to return to performances and sporting events as part of the pilot program, with capacity limits being increased despite a nationwide surge in infections.



A Euro 2020 soccer semi-final and the tournament final at Wembley Stadium in July will be played in front of 40,000 fans, about half capacity. The government plans to allow full-capacity crowds of 15,000 to watch the women’s and men’s Wimbledon tennis finals on July 10 and 11.

Metal fans mosh at 1st UK live music festival since pandemic

Kathmandu: The second edition of the Mount Everest Fan Runway, which holds the record for the world's highest altitude fashion show, is scheduled to take place in August / September.



In the first edition of the program held in December, 2019, the title of world record was obtained from the Guinness Book of World Records.



India's leading communications maker Indimol Sign India has teamed up with Nepal's K Films and ME Two Films to host the second edition of the show.



According to the organizers, the event will be held at an altitude of 5,8000 meters in the Everest region, where the atmosphere will contain only about 50 percent oxygen and the temperature will be minus 30 degrees Celsius.

Second edition of 'Highest Altitude Fashion Show' announced

Kathmandu: Mexican woman Andrea Meza has won the Miss Universe 2020 crown. Former Miss Universe Zozobini Tunzi has crowned her. The beauty, who has a degree in software engineering, won the title in a competition held in Florida, USA.



Brazil's Julia Gama is the first runner-up while Peru's Janick Maceta is the second runner-up. Anshika Sharma of Nepal also participated in this competition. However, she could not make it to the top 21.

Andrea Meza wins the title 'Miss Universe 2020'

Kathmandu: Legendary singer and musician Prem Dhwaj Pradhan has passed away. He died at Kathmandu Neuro and General Hospital in Sundhara on Thursday.



He was admitted to the hospital a few days ago due to chest problems.



Pradhan - 84 - was also known as 'Golden Voice' in Nepali music.



Dozens of songs including Yo Nepali Shir Uchali, Para Laijau Phoolharu, Ghumti maa naau hai, Goreto tyo gaonko, are some of his popular songs.

Singer Premadhwaj Pradhan passes away

NEW YORK (AP): Gal Gadot is using her Hollywood starpower to spotlight remarkable women from around the world.



The “Wonder Woman” actor is host and executive producer of a new documentary series that follows six women who made a positive impact on their communities despite dealing with poverty, violence, discrimination and natural disasters.



The 35-year-old says “National Geographic Presents IMPACT with Gal Gadot” grew from her quest to “do something good with my fame and my social media” after the success of 2017′s “Wonder Woman.”



She and her husband Yaron Varsano, who is also an executive producer on the series, watched a short documentary from music video director Ryan Pallotta about a dancer from the favelas in Brazil.



“We completely fell in love with the story, and we decided that we’re going to build a concept around the story,” Gadot said.



The first episode follows a young Black figure skating coach in Detroit who has dedicated her life to coaching young girls of color to empower them.



“She’s not only she’s empowering them, but she’s giving them a skill … that is familiar or familiar with white people doing it, which is ice skating,” Gadot said.



Another episode tells the story of Kayla, who helps create a safe community for homeless transgender women of color in Memphis, Tennessee, by building homes.



The series debuts April 26, a day after the Academy Awards. Gadot said she’s encouraged by the inclusion at this year’s ceremony: “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao and “Promising Young Woman” director Emerald Fennell became only the sixth and seventh women ever to be nominated for best director.



“Women that are used to be only in front of the camera are now going to the other side of the camera and developing stories that they’re passionate about and that they care about and that now it’s becoming a norm, almost. You know, you see it with the Oscars,” she said.



“There’s a great change. But at the same time, I got to say that the change can only happen when we include the men. It’s never like you can just empower the women and not educate the men.”



She said that’s what her DC cinematic universe superhero was able to accomplish for a new generation.



“The girls can go and be inspired by the girl and imagine themselves doing these amazing things as girls. But also, it gives them a role model for boys to admire as well and to understand that women can be strong and great and just like men,” she said. “So, for me, it’s educating both women and men in order to reach this place that we always talk about gender and equality and all of that. We have to do this together.”

Gal Gadot spotlights women’s stories in new docuseries

Kathmandu: Veteran comedian Madan Krishna Shrestha has diagnosed with covid-19 infection. Five members of his family, including Shrestha, have been diagnosed with corona infection.



Artist Shrestha on Monday informed through social networking site, Facebook that he, his son, daughter, daughter-in-law and granddaughter have seen corona positive.



He also urged everyone not to play with the corona infection. 'After that, there will be torture, so don't play with this virus. Beware of corona as much as possible, 'he wrote on Facebook.



Monday is also Shrestha's birthday. He even thanked everyone who wished him a happy birthday.

Actor Madan Krishna Shrestha diagnose with covid-19

LONDON (AP): Gig-economy Western “Nomadland” won four prizes including best picture on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, which were handed out during a pandemic-curbed ceremony that recognized a diverse array of screen talent.



“Nomadland” filmmaker Chloe Zhao became only the second woman, and the first woman of color, to win the BAFTA for best director, and star Frances McDormand was named best actress. “Nomadland” also took the cinematography prize.



Emerald Fennell’s revenge comedy “Promising Young Woman” was named best British film, while the best actor trophy went to 83-year-old Anthony Hopkins for playing a man grappling with dementia in “The Father.”



An event that was criticized in the recent past with the label #BAFTAsSoWhite rewarded a diverse group of talents, including Black British star Daniel Kaluuya, newcomer Bukky Bakray — who shone as a London teenager in “Rocks” — and veteran Korean actress Yuh-Jung Youn.



The fact that Britain remains under coronavirus lockdown measures, with its movie theaters still closed, gave the evening a poignant tone, as did the death on Friday of Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, a long-time patron of the British film academy.



Prince William, who had been due to attend and make a speech in his role as president of Britain’s film academy, was absent following the death of his grandfather. The ceremony opened with a tribute to Philip, who was the academy’s first president in 1959.



Presenters including Hugh Grant, Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Priyanka Chopra Jonas announced the winners from the stage of London’s Royal Albert Hall, but recipients accepted their honors remotely, and there was no black-tie audience to cheer them on.



Director Remi Weekes, who won the British debut prize for his first feature, “His House,” noted the surreal sensation of accepting the award while sitting in his living room in a tuxedo.



“Nomadland” stars McDormand as a middle-aged woman who travels the American West while living out of her van and picking up short-term work.



Zhao, who lived among real American travelers for the film, thanked “the nomadic community who so generously welcomed us into their lives.”



“How we treat our elders says a lot about who we are as a society, and we need to do better,” she said.



The only previous female directing winner was Kathryn Bigelow in 2010 for “The Hurt Locker.”



The British film academy expanded its voting membership and shook up its rules last year in an attempt to address a glaring lack of diversity in the nominations. In 2020, no women were nominated as best director for a seventh consecutive year, and all 20 nominees in the lead and supporting performer categories were white.



Under new rules that, among other things, made watching all longlisted films compulsory for academy voters, this year’s slate of acting nominees was strikingly more diverse, and four of the six filmmakers nominated for best director were women: Zhao, Sarah Gavron (“Rocks”), Shannon Murphy (“Babyteeth”) and Jasmila Zbanic (“Quo Vadis, Aida?”).



Asked what her directing prize meant for Asian women in film, Zhao said: “If this means more people like me get to live their dreams, then I feel very grateful.”



BAFTA chief executive Amanda Berry said the academy was “determined to make change.”



“We are not there yet, this is definitely still a work in progress, but I am really pleased with how far we have come,” she said.



Kaluuya was named best supporting actor for playing Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”



Youn appeared astonished to win the best-actress prize for Korean-American family drama “Minari.” The Korean performer said she had always thought of the British as “very snobbish people.” But, she later clarified, “not in a bad way.”



Bakray, 19, won the Rising Star award, whose previous winners include Kaluuya, Kristin Stewart, Tom Hardy and John Boyega.



“I don’t know how to feel,” she said. “When we filmed ‘Rocks,’ I thought 100 people would watch this film, max.”



Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” was named best film not in the English language. Vinterberg paid tribute to his daughter Ida, who had been due to appear in the film and died in a car crash at the start of the shoot.



“We made this movie for her, so the honor granted by you, BAFTA voters, means more to us than you could ever imagine,” he said.



The British awards are usually held a week or two before the Academy Awards and have become an important awards-season staging post. This year, both the BAFTAs and the Oscars were postponed from their usual February berths because of the coronavirus pandemic.



BAFTAs in craft and backstage categories were handed out in a separate ceremony on Saturday, when “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” won two prizes, for costume design and hair and makeup.



Other double winners included “The Father” (best actor and adapted screenplay), “Sound of Metal” (editing and sound), “Promising Young Woman” (British film and original screenplay) and “Soul” (animated film and musical score).



Director Ang Lee was awarded the academy’s top honor, the BAFTA Fellowship.



Actor, writer and director Noel Clarke received the outstanding British contribution to cinema award, dedicating it to “my young Black boys and girls out there that never believed it could happen to them.”

‘Nomadland’ wins 4 BAFTAs including best picture, director

HOUSTON (AP): A historic Houston theater that director Richard Linklater called his “film school” and that for decades was the place to catch hard-to-find independent and foreign films has closed for good — like many theaters and other businesses, a victim of the coronavirus pandemic.



After nearly 82 years in business, the River Oaks Theatre turned off its projectors last month, depriving the nation’s fourth-largest city of an institution where everyone from rappers to suburban kids and cinephiles formed friendships, fell in love and found community. Its loss has left more than just an empty building behind.



“Throughout the pandemic, we’ve experienced so much loss and so much grief and loss of life. It is also a profound grief to lose the places of community and the places that you would come together and feel that love … that safety,” Leen Dweik, 24, told dozens of other River Oaks fans during a vigil after the theater’s final showings.



Dependent on large crowds to survive, U.S. movie theaters have been hammered by the pandemic, as they were shut down for months and saw their revenues plunge by 80% in 2020. Although some have managed to survive with the help of aid and through workarounds, Landmark Theatres, which ran the River Oaks, wasn’t able to reach an agreement with its landlord, Weingarten Realty, over rent it couldn’t pay during the pandemic. Weingarten Realty didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.



Movie theater trade groups believe their industry will bounce back after the pandemic, in part with the help of more than $16 billion in federal funding from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program. Theaters are also hoping to get a boost from “Godzilla vs. Kong,” one of the first event movies to be released during the pandemic. And there’s cause to be optimistic, as it made $123.1 million internationally last weekend.



About 55% of the 5,800 movie theaters in the U.S. are currently open, but many are still saddled by capacity limits and lingering fears about spending long periods in crowded indoor spaces — justifiable, given the recent case surges in some states despite the ongoing vaccination efforts. In China, where the pandemic is well under control, moviegoing is close to pre-pandemic levels.



“We’re optimistic. Things may change permanently, but it’s not going to be the end of cinema by any means,” said Rich Daughtridge, a board member with the Independent Cinema Alliance, which represents more than 300 independent theater owners.



Patrick Corcoran, a spokesman for the National Association of Theatre Owners, which also represents larger theater chains, said his organization doesn’t have a comprehensive list of theaters that have permanently closed or declared bankruptcy due to the pandemic, but that it’s still a relatively small number.



That may be, but several chains have thrown in the towel or shown they’re in distress. Cinemagic announced in February that it was closing all eight of its locations in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. And two larger chains — Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas Holdings and the company that owns CMX Cinemas — have filed for bankruptcy protection during the pandemic.



“There are still going to be some tough times after we get back to normal, that may still have some effects on companies,” Corcoran said.



Supporters of the River Oaks, including Linklater and Houston rapper Bun B, hope that the theater — with its distinctive marquee, Art Deco architecture and ornate carvings — won’t be torn down or drastically altered and might even be used again to show films or host live performances.



“That was the church I had wandered into (in the early 1980s) and found the holy spirit of cinema,” Linklater, whose films include “Dazed and Confused” and “Boyhood,” said during a virtual panel held Wednesday in support of the theater.



The River Oaks opened in 1939 and for the last 45 years, it has mainly operated as an art-house theater showcasing independent and foreign cinema. Although there are other Houston theaters that show such films, none had the profile of the River Oaks.



“We’re not just losing a movie house,” Bun B, a self-described cinephile, said during the panel discussion. “We’re losing one of those places where artists can come and present themselves to the world, but then also young creators can come and ponder what their future might be.”



River Oaks supporters hope the venue doesn’t have the same fate as another nearby historic theater that was converted into a Trader Joe’s grocery store. Although the River Oaks received city landmark status when it was in danger of being torn down in 2007, it could still be razed and the notoriously developer-friendly city doesn’t have a great history of preserving its historic buildings, said Sarah Gish, who helped start the group Friends of River Oaks Theatre to try and save the building.



“The main thing is save the building itself because that is the cultural history. We have already lost so much of the history” in Houston, Linklater said.



The pandemic exacerbated many of the concerns that movie theaters were already facing, including shrinking windows in which to exclusively show films. With some studios now simultaneously releasing new movies in theaters and on streaming platforms, it’s going to be even harder for independent and art house venues like the River Oaks, Bob Berney, CEO of film distributor Picturehouse, said during the panel discussion.



Gish, who worked at the River Oaks in the 1990s, said she still hopes that it might be saved.



“All movie theaters are a repository for huge emotions. They’re community gathering spots, they’re memory makers, all of that. That’s what we’re losing with the River Oaks Theatre going away,” Gish said.

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