Five big nights. Each one ready to run.
From the Nov 20 release to the Oscars on Mar 14, small venues improvise every premiere. Houselights sends a complete night two weeks ahead: trivia, menu, run-of-show, posters and posts.
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Premiere-night kits for indie cinemas, bars and bookshops, one for each blockbuster.
Five crowd events land in 16 weeks this winter, and small venues build each night from scratch. Houselights is an events studio that ships a whole premiere night per release: a trivia deck, a themed menu, a run-of-show, original posters and ready posts. Every kit is unofficial and original, with no studio logos or stills.
- Step 01
Writes the trivia and the menu
A 60-question deck in six rounds from press kits and public interviews, plus five drinks and three snacks with generic names and costing.
- Step 02
Designs original posters and posts
Illustrated posters and table tents in a ‘fan night’ style that avoids every official design, and ten ready social posts.
- Step 03
Sends each kit two weeks ahead
Your venue’s name on every page, delivered two weeks before each date, with the release calendar watched for moves.
Built for indie cinemas, trivia pubs and bookshops.
A 60-question trivia deck
Six rounds of plot and production facts written fresh, with no quotes beyond a line and no stills.
A themed menu and run-of-show
Five drinks and three snacks with generic names and costing, and a two-hour plan with costume-contest rules.
Posters, table tents and posts
Original fan-night art and ten social posts, plus an ops sheet for running a double feature on Dec 18.
First up: A free sample trivia round for the Nov 20 release, sent to indie cinemas and trivia pubs.
The world just changed.
What changed, and where it was reported.
Lionsgate set the global release of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping for 2026-11-20.
Tom’s GuideDune: Part Three opens on 2026-12-18 in IMAX, the same day as Avengers: Doomsday. IMAX gave Dune a three-week exclusivity.
WikipediaNetflix’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew gets IMAX previews on 2027-02-10 and a global theatrical release on 2027-02-12.
Variety Australia
One person and 2 AI agents.
The agents, all day
- Writing and fact-checking trivia
- Designing original posters
- Costing themed menus
- Watching release dates
- Personalising each venue’s kit
What a person does
The owner reviews every kit’s art for any accidental resemblance to official key art before it goes out, and signs each cinema and bookshop partnership. Agents write, design and send everything else.
Is this official studio material?
No. Kits are unofficial fan-night material. We never use titles as a brand, logos, stills, character likenesses or quotes, and the owner checks the art before release.
What if a release date moves?
Dates do move, and one film this season already moved once. If a date changes, your Season Pass rolls to the next event.
Will the trivia spoil the film?
No. Kits ship before release, so the questions only cover earlier films, the books and production facts.
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