Secret Movie Club Choose Your Own Tickets & Lifetime Memberships

DEAR SECRET MOVIE CLUBBERS, AS WE WEATHER THIS CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, AND WE WILL WEATHER IT, WE ARE PUTTING ALL OUR ATTENTIONS TO IMPROVING/INNOVATING EVERYTHING WE CAN ABOUT SECRET MOVIE CLUB SO WE ARE AT OUR BEST POSSIBLE CAPACITY WHEN WE RE-OPEN FOR PHYSICAL SCREENINGS.IN THE MEANTIME, WE ARE TAKING THIS TIME TO ALSO LAUNCH A SERIES OF VIRTUAL/ONLINE FEATURES WE HAVE BEEN MEANING TO GET TO AND NOW CAN (MORE ON THOSE FEATURES NEXT). FIRST OFF, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE ALL THESE FEATURES FREE AND ACCESSIBLE TO OUR AUDIENCE. YOU DON’T OWE US ANYTHING. YOU ARE A GREAT AUDIENCE AND WE’LL GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER. WE HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED AT SECRET MOVIE CLUB AS A COMMUNITY AND GROUP PROJECT. ANY SUGGESTIONS, FEEDBACK YOU CAN GIVE US AS WE LAUNCH THESE FEATURES WILL ONLY HELP US MAKE THEM BETTER. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT SECRET MOVIE CLUB DURING THIS TIME TO HELP INSURE WE’RE IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE POSITION AS WE INNOVATE AND THEN RE-OPEN, WE ARE OFFERING A SERIES OF GIFT CERTIFICATES/“TICKET” DEALS THAT REPRESENT OUR BEST DEALS EVER. PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE NO REFUNDS FOR THESE TICKETS. SO ONLY PURCHASE IF YOU'RE SURE YOU WILL USE THEM. WE’RE KEEPING IT SIMPLE, SO HERE THEY ARE: LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP (ONLY 10 AVAILABLE): These would only be for folks in a position with real discretionary cash. We are only offering 10 of these EVER. This would get the holder into ALL Secret Movie Club events/screenings/etc at all venues in perpetuity. By our calculation, these would begin to pay for themselves after approximately 2 years of screenings. And then after that, it would be all gravy forever! If you purchase a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP, you never have to worry about another sold out screening or special event ever. A purchase of one of these would be a huge help and give us plenty of space for the next 1-2 months of being closed. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ALL-ACCESS SEASON PASS (50 AVAILABLE): This will get you into all screenings at all venues for the season of your choosing. All you have to do is email US at secretmovieclub@curiousproductions.com when you know what season you want to attend. We have a Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall season (3 months each) every year. Right now, we currently average between 60-80 screenings a season. This CHOOSE YOUR OWN SEASON PASS comes out to approximately $5/event, our best ever season pass rate. CHOOSE YOUR OWN SERIES PASS (100 AVAILABLE): This will get you into all screenings at all venues of a series of your choosing. Our series usually run between 4-12 MOVIES (for example our ANIME BUFFET series is 11 MOVIES TOTAL). All you have to do is email US at secretmovieclub@curiousproductions.com when you know what series you want to attend. We’ll confirm your selection and have you down for tickets to EVERY movie in that series. This CHOOSE YOUR OWN SERIES PASS comes out to approximately $8/event, our best ever series pass rate. CHOOSE YOUR OWN 5 PACK/GIFT CERTIFICATE (100 AVAILABLE): This will get you into any 5 upcoming screenings at any of our venues of your choosing. All you have to do is email US at secretmovieclub@curiousproductions.com when you know what 5 movies you want to attend. We’ll confirm your selection and have you down for tickets to EACH of those 5 movies. This CHOOSE YOUR OWN 5 PACK/GIFT CERTIFICATE comes out to approximately $10/event, a more than 20% discount off our individual “Budget Special” ticket rates. CHOOSE YOUR OWN EARLY BIRD TICKET (500 AVAILABLE): This single ticket (at $12) gets you into any one FUTURE SCREENING of your choosing at any venue as long as it hasn’t SOLD OUT. All you have to do is email us at secretmovieclub@curiousproductions when you know what movie you want to attend. As long as it hasn’t sold out, we’ll confirm (or let you know it’s sold out). Then all you have to do is come and attend the movie. This CHOOSE YOUR OWN EARLY BIRD TICKET which can be used at the Vista, the Club, OR The Million Dollar Theater is a versatile ticket. Best always, Craig Hammill 35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer SECRET MOVIE CLUB FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: SCREENING LOCATIONS: We currently screen our movies at: THE VISTA: The Vista Theatre, 4473 Sunset Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027; THE CLUB: 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021; THE MILLION DOLLAR THEATER: 307 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013 THE LOS FELIZ 3: 1822 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027; We also do occasional pop-up screenings at fun historic spaces around Los Angeles. So please double check the address to make sure you’re heading to the right location! PARKING/PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: As a general note, taking public transportation or using ride-sharing services to our events will definitely minimize the hassle of finding parking. So if you can, explore that route. If you’re driving to our events, we list the best places to park below. Always allow yourself 20 extra minutes to find parking. THE VISTA & LOS FELIZ 3 have no dedicated parking lots. Thankfully, there is parking in the residential areas around both theatres. Just plan to get to the theater 20 minutes early so you have enough time to park, walk to the theater, get your tickets, get a seat. Make sure you read the street signs! A few streets are permit-only parking. We don’t want any Secret Movie Clubbers getting parking tickets. There are many great public transportation options near the Vista & Los Feliz 3 including a Metro subway stop at the Vermont/Sunset station which is about 4 blocks from both the Vista & Los Feliz 3 Theater. THE CLUB (1917 BAY STREET, 2ND FLOOR, LA, CA 90021) is our 99 seat theater/performing arts space in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles. Once you get to the address, you actually access the Club by taking a right on Wilson Street then a right into the brightly lit street art alleyway behind the building. We are the first set of black steps after the big gate. We can park 20+ cars around our entrance so always try to park in front of the Club first. If parking is full there, there is also good parking on Bay Street. Try to avoid any unlit streets, especially Violet Street of which we've heard complaints. THE MILLION DOLLAR THEATRE MOVIE PALACE (307 S BROADWAY, LA, CA 90013) offers parking at the GRAND CENTRAL MARKET PARKING LOT (308 S HILL STREET, LA, CA 90013). If you are planning on attending, consider pre-purchasing a $6 All-Day Validated Parking Pass (which we offer as an Add-On for all Million Dollar Events). We will hand you this pass upon request once you get into the theater. The average cost of parking in other downtown Los Angeles lots on a Sunday is approximately $10 (as of March 2020). TICKETS: Tickets for all our events are available online at: https://secretmovieclub.eventbrite.com [https://secretmovieclub.eventbrite.com] or through each individual event on our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/secretmovieclub35mm/ [https://www.facebook.com/secretmovieclub35mm/]. We also make tickets available at the Vista Box Office. IMPORTANT WARNING: NEVER BUY TICKETS FROM ANYONE YOU DO NOT KNOW PERSONALLY. WE HAVE NOTICED A RISE IN FRAUDULENT SCALPERS ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA AND ELSEWHERE. IT’S ALWAYS BETTER TO JUST WRITE US DIRECTLY AT: SECRETMOVIECLUB@CURIOUSPRODUCTIONS.COM TO INQUIRE ABOUT TICKETS. OUR 35MM POLICY: We strive to project all movies on film that were originally shot on film. This means that we work to screen the majority of our movies on 35mm prints (with the occasional 16mm print if no 35mm print is available). We will screen a movie digitally if its original medium was digital. This usually means that we screen what’s called a DCP or Digital Cinema Print. Almost all movies shot in recent years are digital and screen on DCPs. In some rare instances, a film print will arrive to us in such poor condition that we deem it will be more distracting than entertaining. For this and other reasons, we reserve the right to screen a DCP in an emergency. However, we will make all best efforts to alert the audience immediately if we have to screen a DCP alternate when a 35mm print was advertised. Situations where we have had to substitute a DCP for an advertised 35mm print have thankfully only occurred a handful of times in our history. But we do need to reserve this right to insure the best possible presentation of a movie for our audience. ORIGINAL POSTERS: We do original poster runs for almost all of our movies. We sell these posters at the events and do our best to let our audience see the design ahead of a screening via our email and social media. We are currently working to launch our website (WWW.SECRETMOVIECLUB.COM) and online movie store in the Spring of 2020 so you can peruse our entire backlog and order posters of your favorite movies and/or by your favorite designers. Stay tuned! REFUNDS & COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS: We honor all refund requests made through Eventbrite 24 hours or more before the listed start time of the screening. After that, we are unable to process refund requests. BUT. . .we can offer complimentary tickets to future screenings (as long as they haven't already sold out & aren't special differently priced events). _PLEASE NOTE REFUND REQUESTS MUST BE MADE THROUGH EVENTBRITE AND NOT VIA OUR EMAIL. _ HOW DOES A SECRET MOVIE CLUB SEASON PASS WORK: If you buy a Secret Movie Club All-Access Season Pass (access to all movies we’re showing within one season), you get entrance into every single movie we show throughout that time (including any screenings or special events we may announce at a later time; so your value may increase!). This is our best deal at $6.25/per movie if you know you’re going to see the majority of movies in a season. These passes are available up to the start time of the first screening of a season at https://secretmovieclub.eventbrite.com [https://secretmovieclub.eventbrite.com] If you decide to buy the SEASON PASS and have already bought an individual ticket, just write US: secretmovieclub@curiousproductions.com and we’ll issue you a refund for the individual ticket(s) you bought so you can get the All-Access Season pass. With the All-Access Season Pass, we generate a special list with your name on it. All you have to do is come to our table ahead of each movie or event, give us your name, and get your ticket. You’re a VIP now and never have to worry about a movie selling out. We always save you a seat. HOW DOES A MONTHLY, LOCATION SPECIFIC, AND 5-PACK PASS WORK: You also have the option to purchase a Monthly All-Access Pass (at approx $7.25/per movie) before the 1st of every month. This Pass works exactly like the Season Pass but for the specific month for which you purchased it. We also offer Vista/Los Feliz 3, The Club, and Million Dollar Theater Passes for folks who know they will attend many events at one specific location. Lastly we offer a 5-Pack pass at $10/movie that allows Secret Movie Clubbers to pick any 5 movies they want to see in the Season. When you purchase the 5-Pack just write us at: secretmovieclub@curiousproductions.com before the 1st screening of that season and name the 5 movies you would like to see. We'll hold your tickets for those 5 movies. And you never have to worry about the movie selling out! Your seats are guaranteed! HOW DOES A SERIES PASS WORK: If you want to see all the movies in a particular series but not necessarily all the movies in a season this is the way to go (at $9/per movie). The price of each Series Pass depends on how many movies we show in that series. So for instance if we are showing 7 movies in the series, the pass would cost $63 (or $9 per movie). If we are showing 4 movies in that series, the pass would cost $36, and so on. You can buy a Series Pass through any individual Eventbrite link for a movie in that series. We generate a special list with your name on it for that series. All you have to do is come to our table ahead of each movie, give us your name, and get your ticket. CONCESSIONS: The Vista/Los Feliz 3/Club Concessions counter is open for all our events. So you will always have access to popcorn, soda, candy, coffee the works! We strive to have concessions of some kind at all our events regardless of venue. The Million Dollar Theater is right next to LA's historic Grand Central Market. Because the two venues have the same owners, you can order breakfast/lunch/dinner/drinks at the GCM and bring them into the Million Dollar! SHOWTIMES: Always check the listed showtime before buying your ticket to make sure you can make that showtime. We screen our movies in the mornings, in the evenings, and at 11:59p at night. MAILING LIST: We started as a SECRET EMAIL LIST WAY BACK IN APRIL 2016. In respect to our origins (and because the programmer is superstitious), we will always announce our upcoming seasons, special events, and speakers via the email list first before posting to any other social media. If you’d like to get on the SECRET EMAIL LIST, email US at: secretmovieclub@curiousproductions.com. OTHER QUESTIONS/COMMENTS: You can always email US at: secretmovieclub@curiousproductions.com or send a message through our Facebook page: @secretmovieclub35mm We work to respond asap within receipt of your email or message. We strive to address your issues and always want to hear your thoughts on how we can improve the Secret Movie Club experience.