"COACHELLA" DOCUMENTARY FILM TO HAVE WORLD PREMIERE ON THE BIG SCREEN IN 115 MOVIE THEATRES NATIONWIDE ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 24TH
Special Big Screen Concertssm Event Features Six Years of Highlights & Performances from the Acclaimed Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Including Radiohead, The White Stripes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Oasis, The Chemical Brothers & More
New York, NY (1/16/2006) -- As excitement and anticipation builds for 2006's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, music fans across the country will now have the chance to experience highlights and performances from the festival's groundbreaking first six years on the Big Screen with the world premiere concert documentary film entitled COACHELLA.
In this special One Night Onlytm Big Screen Concertssm event, COACHELLA will be presented by National CineMedia and Goldenvoice in association with Network LIVE in breathtaking High-Definition and cinema surround sound at 115 participating Regal, United Artists, Edwards and Georgia Theatre Company movie theatres in 55 markets across the country, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle and more, on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. in Alaska).
Directed by Drew Thomas and produced by Goldenvoice, COACHELLA is a two-hour feature film capturing the magical sense of adventure unique to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, hailed as "The Best American Festival" by Rolling Stone, "...the nation's most respected rock festival" by the Los Angeles Times and "probably the best festival in the world" by England's NME. The film is filled with one classic performance after another by iconic headliners and wide-ranging, forward-looking artists including The Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork, Bright Eyes, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Fischerspooner, The Flaming Lips, Iggy & The Stooges, Kool Keith, The Mars Volta, Morrissey, Nu-Mark & Cut, Chemist, Oasis, Pixies, The Polyphonic Spree, Prodigy, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Roni Size, Saul Williams, Spearhead, Squarepusher, The White Stripes, and Zero 7, plus guest appearances by Beck and Josh Homme. The film also features interviews with Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival performers and fans amidst the vast green landscape framed by beautiful desert mountains.
Tickets for this exciting world premiere Big Screen Concerts event are on sale now at participating theatre box offices and online at BigScreenConcerts.com for $10.00 in advance and $12.50 on the day of the event. (For a complete list of participating theatre locations, please visit BigScreenConcerts.com or www.coachella.com.)
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National CineMedia, LLC is a venture of AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark USA, Inc. and Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC), three of the world's leading theatrical exhibition companies. The company develops pre feature entertainment; cinema and lobby advertising products; comprehensive meeting and event services; and alternative forms of entertainment content for approximately 13,000 screens operated by its owner theatre circuits and other theatre affiliates. National CineMedia distributes its products and services across its Digital Content Network (DCN), the world's largest in-theatre digital distribution network. Once installation of its DCN technology is completed in Cinemark theatres, National CineMedia's network will comprise approximately 11,000 digital North American theatre screens in 150 markets (49 of the top 50), reaching 525 million movie patrons annually. For additional information, please go to www.ncm.com.
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Network LIVE is the first entertainment network committed to redefining the creation and distribution of live content in the digital age. A joint venture formed by AOL, XM Satellite Radio and AEG, Network LIVE has produced and distributed marquee events such as Live 8, as well as concerts from Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, Green Day, Madonna, Keith Urban, Gorillaz and John Mayer Trio.
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