Austin-based "Urban Drive-In" Theater Featured On NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams

Online, August 27, 2012 (Newswire.com) - WHO: Josh Frank-entrepreneur, writer, producer, dreamer
WHAT: Austin-based "Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In"
Featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams

This past Friday on NBC, a new and popular movie theater concept-Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In-was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, which is calling it "The drive-in of the future." The Blue Starlite is Austin's first drive-in movie theater in over 20 years and is a new take on the national drive-in resurgence-with a 2-year head start.

Blue Starlite creator Josh Frank has also done something more intimate and more convenient. Frank's programming concentrates on childhood favorites, drive-in classics, indie films, art house, cult, and gen X/Y pop culture favorites-complete with vintage reels before the feature attraction. With concessions and projection coming from retro trailers and sound coming from retro-fitted drive-in speakers, the experience is both old an new.

As where other modern drive-ins are sprawling, rural affairs, the Blue Starlite is designed to happen right in the heart of the city. In a busy city-they decided-this concept requires less space and is more exclusive, more personal, and much more convenient.

Recently, NBC flew down to Austin TX to spend an evening at the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In-currently set up at Austin Studios at the former airport-and subsequently chose the story for prime time broadcast. The segment aired on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams on August 24th.

Josh Frank is also the author of Fool The World, the Oral History of the Band Called Pixies (St. Martins Press USA/Virgin Books U.K.) and In Heaven Everything Is Fine-The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers (Simon and Schuster/Free Press). He is presently researching his third book and finishing a new screenplay.

How It Came To Be
Having been one of the first trailer retailers a few years ago with a dessert trailer and an adjacent boutique concept, published author and producer took his advance and started buying up drive-in movie theater speakers on eBay-teaching himself how to restore them. A lifelong move buff, he created the first version to woo his then-girlfriend/now-wife and the concept quickly caught on.

With a few more ad-hoc showings, the response when it started in 2010 was fantastic and the boutique drive-in was born by taking advantage of the main things that nearly made the drive-in extinct a few of decades ago: the exodus from city centers to the suburbs (less room meant less space for hundreds of cars); and the advent of VHS, Cable, Satellites, and DVDs meant that people could watch everything at home without having to drive 30 miles out to a field in the middle of nowhere.

With a mix of nostalgia, and modern design, The Blue Starlite has tapped into a longing for a more social, less isolated movie-going experience. Since Frank opened his first 'Mini Urban Drive-in', he has upgraded from an alley way fitting 18 cars to a lot on a local movie studio with a 50 car capacity. He is currently planning his national expansion by perfecting his newest drive-in vision "The Portable Drive-in."

About Josh Frank
Josh Frank is a entrepreneur, writer, producer, director and composer. He has penned numerous plays, including an authorized adaptation of Werner Hergoz's Stroszek, screenplays, including an adaptation of Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express, and musicals, including The Jonathan Richman Musical. He is the author of Fool The World, the Oral History of the Band Called Pixies (St. Martins Press USA/Virgin Books U.K.) and In Heaven Everything Is Fine - - The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers (Simon and Schuster/Free Press.)

He is presently researching his third book and finishing a new screenplay. Over the last decade, Frank has worked with some of the most interesting and innovative musicians, filmmakers, producers and artists in the industry, including Black Francis of the Pixies, David Lynch and Harold Ramis. He has interviewed over 400 of America's most notable names in entertainment for his books and screenplays. With the rest of his time, he runs the Blue Starlite Mini-Urban Drive-In Movie Theatre.

WEB: www.bluestarlitedrivein.com | on Facebook and @UrbanDriveIn
WATCH: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/48784821/