Recapture a sense of event with Lionsgate’s Friday night live streams

(This was written for the Vail Daily on April 16, 2020.) 

Since we can’t go out to the movies, Lionsgate wants to bring the movies to us.

Starting this Friday and continuing every Friday until May 8, the studio is live-streaming its most popular films on YouTube at 7 p.m. Mountain Time. “The Hunger Games” will kick off the series, followed by “Dirty Dancing” on April 24 and “La La Land” on May 1. The series will wrap up with both a literal and figurative bang by airing “John Wick” on May 8. All movies will be completely free, though Wick will require audience members to register.

Yes, it’s entirely possible you already have access to movies through on-demand, a streaming service, or a DVD or Blu-Ray collection (yes, some of us still do that). But Lionsgate wants to make this feel like an event, which means they’ve tapped Jamie Lee Curtis to host all four movies. She’ll be sharing memories from her own filming experiences, and make small talk with various other celebrity guests, some of which will be YouTube personalities.

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