INDIE FOCUS with Flix Brewhouse's Matthew Baizer, Presented by Spotlight Cinema Networks

In this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, co-hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, and Rebecca Pahle discuss the weekend box office numbers, with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings soon to pass Black Widow as the highest-grossing movie of the pandemic. 

In this month’s Indie Focus interview, Daniel and Rebecca talk to Matthew Baizer of Flix Brewhouse—the only first-run movie theatre in the world to incorporate a fully functioning microbrewery—about the cinema chain’s re-opening efforts, coming changes to their operations model, and reinforcing contactless experience for moviegoers.

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Episode Resources:

• Flix Brewhouse

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:42 Shang Chi is now the 2nd highest grossing movie in 2021
• 07:35 How Cry Macho is fairing in its opening weekend
• 11:51 Dune debuted at the number 1 spot in its international release
• 18:05 What 2020 was like for Flix Brewhouse?
• 21:15 Reopening efforts 
• 24:06 Now, film release dates don’t move around too often
• 25:50 Out of 9 cinemas, six were re-opened
• 29:46 Creating an identity in a very competitive industry
• 35:14 Focus is on mobile and contactless operation