Madison's GRAVEYARD GRINDHOUSE Is Coming

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I sit here with three entrepreneurs in LLC of Sorts
and Entertainment LLC. Gentlemen, introduce yourselves to the audience.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Vinny, my name is Luke Panankini. I don't know if
that last name may ring a bell or not.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
You are an alarmingly handsome young man.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
I've been told it comes from it comes from the
mother's side. Really, you've so much the dat.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
You have been told that often too, and I cannot argue.
I cannot dispute.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm Zach.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
My name is Matthew. I'm very happy to be here
for this entreneurial group. Yeah, I love I just hope
we make some money.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Do you guys? Do you guys have actual like who's
in charge of this? Who's in charge in that? I'm
the promo guy, titles within the confines of what it
is you're looking to do. I love what you guys
are looking to do.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, Actually we don't, seriously. It kind of just all
started a night on shift where the three of us
were like talking about we love to work a graveyard
shift at our local movie theater, Madisons. Those of the
Graveyard Grindhouse will be held October thirty at at eleven
pm for all those interested, three dollars fifty cent tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well done, my man.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
And we don't have titles, but we're all kind of
equal in it, and it's just, you know, all on us.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Luke has been a fan since he was like really young,
as far as I would tell him stories of the
Downtown Art House Theater and how it would have these
eleven pm showings year round, not just the annual rocky
horror Picture show nonsense. So ever since he was a
kid to be like, i'd be awesome to like go

(01:37):
to a movie at eleven o'clock and they'd get original
stuff too. You guys will appreciate this. In nineteen ninety
I looked it up downtown. They were getting this movie
called Franken Hooker. You guys got to check it out.
I remember it, you know, holding up pretty well. It's
obviously inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but it's Franken Hooker

(01:59):
tongue played in cheek, but eleven o'clock at night, and
you got a crew of you know, film lovers mostly
that because that's what you want more than troublemakers. And
we would get original stuff. So I used to tell
them stories like that. He's like, I'd love to do
stuff like that. How did you guys feel when it
was first brought up.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Yeah, we just thought it was a really cool idea.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, and it was really anything to not think about work.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
So it was really just isn't it more work?

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Though?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I mean, it's still you're still at the theater. It
isn't like a disgruntled employee.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
I'm so happy at my job. It's not even funny.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You've made it. I mean, this is more work.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yeah, it's more work.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, But I at the time it seemed like an
escape from work, so I appreciated that.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I guess in a lot of ways it is an
escape from work. You know, it's because it's your own
thing and you guys get to cheat them.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Thing is that this is something we're doing near independently
outside of where we're going. Yeah, So it's just it's
more fun because it's something that we get to do,
you know, we don't have to storm boss.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
And how about you? You responded right away.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, I think this is a great idea that we're
doing it. I love staying up late at night. I
watch a movie pretty much every night, do you Yeah,
And I just I feel like it's nothing better than
just going on a movie late and then even like
the next day. Yeah, I mean, it's just amazing.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
It's actually funny. It was his idea in a lot
of ways.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Really.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
We were talking about how the two of us stay
up real late watching movies, and we figured it would
be a ball to invite other people in the community.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
And you know the fact that Luke stays up and
watches weird movies. I don't mean that in a funny way,
but he'll watch like a three hour German film, a
lot of art house stuff, a lot of stuff that
challenges the mind at too in the morning. And I
don't know what you tend to like. That's why I
think horror for lack of a better word. You guys

(03:51):
might not like me using that word. Luke might not
like me, but that's what works from eleven to one
am people a little camp. I don't know that art
house movies would work. It's like, that's that's why Rocky
Horror I think took off the way it did.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
And we have to stress it it's not necessarily.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Horror, right. I knew you were going to hit me
on that.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Well, the thing is we found your mouth. We found
that there.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Well, no, this is an interview, this is a professional environmenthere,
I'm gonna speak my mind on my business.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
What I'm gonna say, there's your mom again.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
What I'm gonna say is the three of us found
that there was a severe lack of horror films in
Madison cinemas and a lot of the movies that we
get ring ten people max for these art house films,
and then the big ones do fairly well because it's
an older scene. So we're trying to bring not only
horror movies. We find that there's obviously, like I said,

(04:44):
a severe lack of them, but there's also a million
other grindhouse pictures that fit into that genre, including you know,
spaghetti westerns, which we have an interest in. Oh really,
we want we want to do a lot of samurai movies.
A lot of movies are considered grindhouse. That's why we
put graveyard in front of it. It's a graveyard shift,
not necessarily because it's going to be hard. Oh yeah,
so it's a graveyard grindhouse special. It's a late night

(05:07):
grindhouse film, not necessarily horror.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that that that's very cool, and I
think a lot of those could work in that way too.
I gave Luke the idea recently of you should have
graveyard goodies, you know, so I have different concessions. He
was very resistant to this idea. Do you guys, yeah,
do you guys find that you're bringing up ideas that

(05:32):
he shoots down like before you're even done with them?

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Pretty much every day, every hour?

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Yeah, anytime.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Graveyard Goodies was really great. I've been at this a
long time. I got shot down. I was like, I
was barely done.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
Well, we're pushing our luck at this point.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
No, I think I think the guys have been really receptive.
Were you surprised that management was receptive?

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Absolutely to three young guys.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I think you're doing yeah, that they're saying to trust
you with the place you're going to hopefully draw a crowd.
The first graveyard Grindhouse is are you announcing what the
movie even is?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
To say, yeah, it's up, it's up on our website,
them on the flyers. But it's a it's gonna be
sleep Away Camp.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Sleep Away Camp, and it's Mischief Night. You know.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
It is October thirty at three dollars fifty.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Cent October thirtieth, three dollars and fifty census. My man
keeps saying, and hopefully, you know, you fill the joint
with people looking to have some fun. Laugh at the
parts they're supposed to laugh at. Sometimes you laugh at
the parts you're not supposed to laugh at.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
So many people might say, laugh through the fright, scream
at the site.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
They might if you it's a late night affair. I
don't Knowline, I love it.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do you have the next few mapped out? I know
you have a few that you've already discussed. You have
the dates, though.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
We don't have dates yet.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
What we're aiming for is when college kids are back home,
because we think that's a huge crowd.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah, and a lot of Thanksgiving weekend that would be
a foot I would love it again.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I would love this last weekend, you know, not necessarily
like we're doing this the day before.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah. Today, Yeah, this.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Time around, we're doing you know, you go in the
thirtieth and you come out and it's October and we
really like that idea.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, and it comes out and it's Halloween. You're saying, yeah, yeah,
that's that's kind of awesome. You're going in on Mischief
Night when you're leaving the theater, It's Halloween, man.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
People are gonna have stuff to do Halloween night, you know.
And there's a lot of Halloween night screenings, you know,
Yale Archive is doing one, the Strand is doing one.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
A bunch of theaters are doing Halloween night ones.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
But we figure a bunch of college kids are going
to be, you know, out doing their thing and time,
so it's better to do it the night before, especially
on a Thursday, you.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
Know, for class in the morning. Yeah, if they do,
you know.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
And then are there any films that come to mind,
Luke that actually take place on Mischief Night?

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Crow?

Speaker 6 (07:52):
Because I know you're just trying to.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well done, well done, my solf. Do you guys love
the Crow or what is that a movie? What are
your favorite movies to let the crowd know.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
My favorite movie is King of Staten Island.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
No kidding, a great movie but fairly recent. U argue
with big Davidson fan is that what it comes from?
Bill Burrow was great in that too, he had he
had a great scene in that. I'm a huge Bill
Burr fan.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm not really a huge Davison fan.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
No, I mean, I just that was a deep movie too. Yeah,
you find comfort in that movie. That's interesting. Yeah, he
was fantastic in that. I didn't really think he could
act that well until I saw that movie. I mean,
he was funny on Saturday Night Live, but that movie Surprise.
That's an interesting answer from a man.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
How about you Transformers?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Transformers?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
What do you mean the first one?

Speaker 1 (08:42):
The og with Shia LAbau and she did a great
job acting. So that was a great movie.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Man.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
I always looking, how do.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
You feel that that franchise has gone? Though? It's been
kind of up and down.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
I mean I watched the Mark Wahlberg stuff, yeah, and
I was like, oh, okay, yeah, you know it's not
the same. Yeah, and I feel like they're short of
just trying to do the Hasbro stuff.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah, but I like the first one. Yeah, I thought
that had a good note.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
He was fantastic and Megan she she was fantastic. Oh
that movie.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
I have a favorite movie too. You know, I'm.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
You knew that, but I know it changes often, But
I know what he's gonna say right now.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Film by Brian de Palma, starring John Travalta and Anty Allen,
titled below out which I would love to do near
Liberty Day for the He's been bringing that up all day.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
I saw. I meant to tell you, Luke, because I saw,
because Luke and I are both big Brian de Palma fans,
and he's got a ton of Brian to Palma left
to watch that you haven't gotten to yet. But I
saw one that I didn't even know it was Casualties
of War. Did you know that was the Palma? Yeah,
because you and I have talked about that movie a lot,

(09:58):
with Sean Pan and with Michael J. Fi. I would
have never remembered that was the Palma. Is there a
name for this, like the Three Amigos?

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Like this is That's exactly what I said, And he
shot it down the minute I.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
Saw It's coffeeryed.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
He's like, it's awful.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
It's like there are three people, you call it, the
three Stooges, three migos, three musketeers.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
It's all been hurt.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, so what do you what are you going with?
What do you got?

Speaker 6 (10:23):
The graveyard grind House.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Grave Graveyard Grindhouse LLC. Sure, yeah, we could say that,
and the l S could be Luke Cage, you know, it.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Could just be you know, Luke ben Zach Elder and
Matthew Belletier were just.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
So, why were you starting with your name?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
It could we could go like Prestige World.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Why that would be bad?

Speaker 1 (10:41):
The Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
I finished that lyric we already did this morning.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
On the show. That's how it's just breaking all the roles.
All right, I want people to know. First of all,
let's give the web the website they've been giving you guys.
Love the Marquee looks great, I really do. I think
you guys have done to banging job, like the the
marketing for it has. I think it's been great so far.
And the information is at the website. Is it just

(11:08):
Madison Cinemas.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Dot com, Cinemas two dot com.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Madison Cinemas two dot com And you can purchase your
tickets online to the October thirty debut, the first one ever,
which is Sleepaway Camp, and you're gonna have a go. Yeah,
that's great. I mean I love it, And uh, you're
going did you just say Nona? Oh? I I don't know.

(11:33):
And uh, you can buy your tickets right there online. Yeah,
how come you don't have a date locked down for
the next one. You already know what the next movie
is because people should know, like the Thanksgiving one will
be tied to the actual holiday.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Yeah, that's the same as Christmas.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
How come you don't know the date yet?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well, because we haven't really reached out to our bosses
about it yet, because we're trying to fly under the
radar until we can prove that this is going to
be the huge success that it's actually going to be.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, I know. Ever since I was a kid, when
we were done eating Thanksgiving dinner, we'd catch a ten
PM show. I think that's when I saw Home Alone.
I want to say I saw the original Home Alone
on Thanksgiving Night. I'm pretty sure it was broke the
record as a matter of fact, money wise, So I

(12:22):
think Thanksgiving night is a good way to go for
an eleven PM showing. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yeah, we'll have to see.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Now.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
We're just trying to focus on getting the first one
to perform.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Well, yeah, because of that one. Then if we plan
all this extra stuff and it's just not going to go.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Anywhere, it's good business sense. Yeah, yeah, good business sense.
All right. So it's the Graveyard Grindhouse. First show is
October thirtieth. Gentlemen, I wish you well with this endeavor.
I think it's going to be a blast. I'd love
to see that theater full of people, and we want
to see the concessions go. That's where the real action,
and you actually have a great You actually have a

(12:56):
great concession stand.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
There deals too, so it about fifty percent off usual
prices that night, so it's really everything.

Speaker 6 (13:04):
There is going to be a steale night.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, well, thanks for coming in this morning. Anything else
we need to hit before we let you go?

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, I got one thing.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Come on.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
There was a New York Times article that came out
about two days ago. Okay, and I don't want to
bring any.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
More what's the word promotion to this free promotion, So
I'm not going to name what the actual business is called.
But there's about fifty two one hundred flyers around subway
systems in New York City about a new AI program
where you could spend one hundred and fifty two dollars
to make a friend an AI friend. And it's heinous

(13:41):
and it's absurd. So I'm only touching upon this because
I think this is a perfect time to market the
fact that we are from we're not AI, and we're
promoting Every flyer we've made has been genuinely made by us,
and we're promoting this event.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
And I wanted to bring this up because this is
a community.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Event where you can meet actual people and make actual.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
Friends, connections and connections.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
As a terminator, it's Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
And I know that might make it.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
I know that might sound cool, but it's just it's
a robot parrot who's just gonna say everything, regurgitate whatever
opinions you have back at it.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
And this offends your This offends you because you would
rather see human beings interacting with other human beings and community,
build a community.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
And the CEO Wild and the CEO of this business
is now tweeting like crazy that the graffiti artists who
are actually serving poetic justice by ruining these posters in
subway systems.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
He's tweeting that it's free promotion. It's making us bigger.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
You know, we're getting more publicity than we could have
ever imagined. And it's absurd because nobody's paying attention to
the actual remarks that graffiti artists are making. Because this
guy just gets to go on Twitter and tweet look
at how much we people are going to be angry
about something this big and we're not looking. We should
stop looking for people to be angry for.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I love it. It's a very interesting ending to the interview,
my man. I love the passion, I love the project. Guys,
I appreciate you coming in and I wish you the
best of luck with the Graveyard Grindhouse.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Thank you, sir, Thank you.