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RGC News KISS Alive! on the Big Screen - You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best! KISS in Concert at Detroit's Cobo Hall, 1976, Plus Never-before-Seen Rockumentary
NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In 1976, KISS came to Detroit for an incendiary concert at the Motor
City's Cobo Hall and the world of rock & roll was never the same again.
On October 26th at 8:00 p.m. local time, fans
can travel back in time with the biggest, baddest, most triumphant show
band in rock & roll history to catch that historic show in a Big Screen
ConcertsSM event for only one night in select
movie theatres nationwide.
KISS ALIVE! ON THE BIG SCREEN features the band’s
classic line-up – Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley,
Ace Frehley and Peter Criss – plus a
never-before-seen special rockumentary with Gene Simmons and Paul
Stanley as they take a look back to the band’s
1970s roots. All historic concert and rockumentary footage including the
Cobo Hall performance and KISS Day in Cadillac, MI will be shown in its
original 1975-76 format. In the past thirty years, a thousand musical
trends and genres have come and gone and come again, but through it all,
there has always been KISS!
KISS lead singer and co-founding band member Paul Stanley comments, "I
was blown away by this footage. Watching it on the big screen is as
close as anyone will ever get to traveling back to those days."
KISS ALIVE!ON THE BIG SCREEN will be presented by
National CineMedia and VH1 Classic in association with McGhee-Proffer
Media for only one night at 164 participating Regal, United Artists,
Edwards, Cinemark, and Georgia Theatre Company movie theatres across the
country. Tickets for this exciting Big Screen ConcertsSM
event are on sale now at presenting theatre box offices and online at www.BigScreenConcerts.com
for $10.00. (For a complete list of participating theatre locations,
please visit the Web site.)
KISS has more Gold Records than Fort Knox and, after 33 years of rocking
and rolling all night and partying every day, KISS continues to be the
juggernaut of licensing and merchandising. The group has earned more
than 55 gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards since receiving its
first gold record for "KISS Alive!" in 1975. KISS has performed more
than 3500 concerts in front of nearly eighty million fans in virtually
every country on planet earth. Where other bands have fan clubs, KISS
has a full-fledged Army of the most rabid and loyal true believers in
the world. For more information, visit www.kissonline.com.
"KISSology Vol. 1 1974-1977," a 2-disc DVD will be released on Halloween
day, October 31, five days following the Big Screen Concerts event.
"KISSology Volume One 1974-1977" provides ample evidence of why KISS has
lasted so long and continues to mean so much to so many millions of
people. For the KISS Army, this DVD marks the arrival of nothing less
than a Holy Grail: 6 solid hours of vintage KISS going all the way back
to the deep early roots of the band's classic line-up –
Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss –
captured and re-mastered on 2 state-of-the-art DVDs featuring more than
70 live performances and four full concerts bundled along with
unreleased tracks and never-before-seen footage. "KISSology Volume One
1974-1977” is the first volume of a definitive
three part collection – Volumes Two and Three
are being readied for release in 2007.
“KISS truly took rock and roll to new
heights. Music fans will witness how high on this special night as well
as on the upcoming ‘KISSology Volume 1’
release, presented by VH1 Classic,” said Eric
Sherman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, VH1 Classic. “And
as a card-carrying member of the KISS Army since I was 15, I’m
personally excited to see the band on the big screen.”
About National CineMedia
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 distribution across the approximately 13,000
screens operated by its owner theatre circuits and other theatre
affiliates. Over 11,000 of these screens are part of NCM’s
Digital Content Network (DCN), one of the world's largest in-theatre
digital distribution networks. The network provides content and
advertising to 150 U.S. markets, including 49 of the top 50, reaching an
estimated 525 million movie patrons annually. For additional
information, please go to www.ncm.com.
About VH1 Classic
Launched in May 2000, VH1 Classic is a 24-hour network that present
videos, concerts and music specials all day long, featuring the best of
rock, soul and pop artists from the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s,
including The Beatles, The Stones, Tina Turner, Led Zeppelin, Marvin
Gaye, The Who, Stevie Wonder, The Police and many more. Learn more at www.vh1classic.com.
About McGhee-Proffer Media
Highly regarded music and media producers, architects and management,
with a long history of connecting with audiences. MPM has Academy,
Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards and nominations in their
portfolio to back up their vision as well as a few hundred million
records sold from their production and management clients. MPM has
expanded its pedigree by architecting and executing original content for
brands and distribution companies to get their message across, utilizing
music as an organic component.
