Overview

• Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, which premiered at SXSW in March, is back in select theaters for the film’s 50th anniversary.
• Joel Thurm says he told Barry Bostwick to “just bring Susan,” enabling Sarandon to read for Janet after her agents advised against an audition.
• Barry Bostwick recalls he and Sarandon feeling like outsiders, while stage veterans including Richard O’Brien, Tim Curry, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell and Christopher Malcolm reprised their roles for the England-shot film.
• Fox abandoned an initial Halloween rollout before embracing midnight screenings at New York’s Waverly in 1976, and the movie went on to gross about $115 million on a roughly $1 million budget.
• At a Los Angeles anniversary Q&A, Tim Curry remembered the frigid pool shoot and Sarandon’s pneumonia, and he praised the film’s lasting resonance with LGBTQ+ audiences.