Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
London: Lights, camera, action! A new popup cinema
website, designed to provide easy access to the best of London’s popup cinema
events, has launched.
The site, www.WeGotPopup.com,
will finally offer a one-stop shop for all London’s Popup cinema needs.
It will list a wide range of London’s freshest film experiences, from a seat on
a 1930s riverboat down the Thames bound for an Elizabethan manor house
screening, to getting lost in Camden’s Coram Secret Garden on the back of
Falkor the Luckdragon.
Producing these unique
experiences for film lovers are… the popup film barons Cult Screens, Pop Up Screens, The Nomad and Rooftop
Film Club alongside The Lucky Dog Picture House,Matrix
Grimsby, The East Dulwich
Tavern, Bloomsbury Lanes, Roadside Picnic, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival,
and Boughton House whose events will all be listed on the
site.
The screenings can be
cross-referenced by date, title and most importantly, distance from where you
are currently sitting. (prepare to add at least 2 points to your 'cool
ranking').
WeGotPopUp.com will be (ahem)
“popping up†for a limited four-month window, arriving just in time to provide
film fans with all the information and easy access to often elusive events. So
log-on, explore, and click your way to a popup packed summer.
The portal was the brainchild of
ticketing experts WeGotTickets, who have ticketed weird and wonderful one-off
events since 2000, offering tickets for the UK’s original popup supper clubs
and cinema. WeGotTickets has ticketed over a thousand of these – from Films on Fridges,
where a white goods wonderland took over a recycling-plant-turned-Olympic-Park,
to a popup feast night at a hidden Cornwall beach hut. Not to mention
screenings at abandoned petrol stations, under bridges, at lidos, and of
course…on rooftops.
Said Kate
Pelen, Design and Communications Manager, The
Nomad Cinema "There
has been really healthy growth in popup cinema events over the past few years,
with audiences increasingly on the look-out for a unique and memorable way to
enjoy their favourite film, or discover something totally new in a different
environment.
“That's why WeGotPopup is such a
great idea, allowing customers to search all the best pop-up providers for
their favourite film or venue all in one place. We're sure this new venture
will be a great success as the WeGotTickets team are a very determined and
hard-working bunch of people with a great attitude and a reputation to match.''
WeGotTickets keep tickets
paperless, fees low and completely transparent – regularly working with and
donating a percentage of their booking
fees back to a variety of charities.
About
WeGotTickets
WeGotTickets
is the UK’s leading paperless ticketing agency. Launched in 2002, WeGotTickets
works with thousands of event organisers placing it in the top five ticket
agencies in the UK.
WeGotTickets
has made it possible for organisers of events of all shapes and sizes to
benefit from advance ticket sales, and now sells close to a million tickets a
year; from popup cinema, art events and underground restaurants to traditional
live music and comedy shows and festivals.
Since
its launch, WeGotTickets has consistently pushed for innovation, transparency
and best practice across the ticketing industry, with many of the company’s
ideas becoming standard industry practice.
The
company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across
the business, whilst its pioneering paperless ticketing system has been a major
factor in reducing the live music industry’s carbon footprint.
Over the
years WeGotTickets has been proud to work on a number of special campaigns with
charities such as Oxfam, Macmillan, ActionAid and Warchild, and regularly
donates a percentage of their booking fees back to these groups. In 2009 the
company launched a unique feature allowing ticket buyers to quickly and easily
make a donation to a featured charity whilst purchasing tickets, which has
raised tens of thousands of pounds for those charities.
WeGotTickets
is now proud to be a full member of STAR (Society of Ticket Agents and
Retailers) and is fully behind the organisation’s new fraud prevention kite
mark.
www.WeGotTickets.com.
Forthcoming screenings include:
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB – 10th July (Bussey Building)
Psycho – 14th July (Queen of Hoxton)
Easy Rider – 22nd July (Queen of Hoxton)
My Night at Maud’s – 15th August (East Dulwich Tavern)