Chris Willman Music WriterHaving your official or unofficial debut at a drive-in tends to take the “gala” out of “gala premiere,” for worse or for better.
For Dave Franco, the director and co-writer of the horror thriller “The Rental,” who admitted that having his film unspool for the first time at the Vineland Drive-In in the City of Industry “wasn’t quite how I expected the first public screening to go,” he’s willing to admit that he saw the light about debuting it in a vast outlay of dark parking lots, after some initial trepidations.“It was definitely surreal,” said Franco, speaking with Variety Friday morning about the previous night’s preview event, which took place on all four screens of the Vineland, the last drive-in remaining in.
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