The Breakfast Club is coming up on its 30th anniversary and to commemorate this moment the classic John Highs film will be returning to theaters.
Variety reported that the film will be shown at 430 theaters around the United States for two nights only. These two nights will be in March on the 26th and the 31st at 7:30pm (local time).
On top of getting to view the film in theaters again, The Breakfast Club 30th anniversary screenings will also showcase interviews with several of the cast members, including Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and John Kapelos.
In addition to the cast members there will also be interviews with filmmakers Diablo Cody (the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno), Amy Heckerling (writer and director of Clueless), as well as Heathers director Michael Lehmann.
The Breakfast Cub was originally released in February 1985. The film instantly became a huge hit. It only had a budget of $1 million and the film made $5 million at the box office opening weekend along. The film went on to make $45 million in domestic sales.
The film was written and directed by John Hughes and went on to make each of the actors involved major stars. Especially the ones that played the troubled students.
It didn’t only help the actors, but helps the Scottish band Simple Minds by turning their song Don’t You (Forget About Me) into the movie’s anthem.
In a 1997 interview John Hughes said, “I played the Simple Minds song three times, with three mixes — the demo, an instrumental and a vocal mix at the end. You had a raw sound on the demo, then it went into a finished instrumental track and then we played it at the end. People get used to music by hearing it repetitively. You play it three times, so by the end of the movie they will get it. And it was a hit, which was really fun for me — to make a hit of a band, that I gave a platform to a band that didn’t have one before.”
John Hughes has been dead for nearly six years, but he is still remembered and loved through his great movies that he wrote, produced and/or directed throughout his lengthy career – including Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck and The Breakfast Club.
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