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A poster advertising American International Pictures' double feature of Die, Monster, Die! and Planet of the Vampires.. The double feature is a motion picture industry phenomenon in which theaters would exhibit two films for the price of one, supplanting an earlier format in which the presentation of one feature film would be followed by various short subject reels.
With audiences draining away to television and other economic pressures forcing the studios to scale back production schedules, the Golden Age–style double feature began disappearing from American theaters. At the beginning of the 1950s, most U.S. movie houses still programmed double features at least part of the time. [2]
The B movie, whose roots trace to the silent film era, was a significant contributor to Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. As the Hollywood studios made the transition to sound film in the late 1920s, many independent exhibitors began adopting a new programming format: the double feature.
A movie theater (American English) [1 ... (double feature), ... then be fully drawn to reveal the full width of the screen for the main feature. Some theaters, ...
Here's an exclusive peek at the 15 movies now in theaters or coming soon that you absolutely, positively must see between now and the end of the year: 'Red One' Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson, left ...
A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature, somewhat similar to B-sides in recorded music. However, the production of such films as "second features ...
Malibu movie theater owner, with a 'servant's heart,' died in the Palisades fire. ... At the cozy cinema on Cross Creek Road, you could take in a double feature for less than $5, sit in an ...
Grindhouse is a 2007 American double bill.It consists of two films, Planet Terror, a horror comedy written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Death Proof, a slasher film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles.