Trivia

Almost every scene includes a throw back or reference to a classic movie, TV show, or comic book. These range from silent era films of a hundred years ago to the 21st century. See how many you can identify.

The tills and ticket machines in the Monarch are all mechanical. As Jon remarks, while they can show digital screenings, they also show movies on old fashioned film reels.

Scott Frakes' name is a blend of Montgomery Scott in Star Trek (1966), played by James Doohan, and Jonathan Frakes who plays Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). At one point someone called Scott Frakes, "Jonathan Frakes" by accident.

Filmed in Fresno, California, although it is never stated in the USA exactly where the Monarch Cinema is supposed to be located in the film itself.

The spelling "Concessionaires" is used in the title of the film, but "concessionaries" is how it is pronounced in the dialogue. Neither of these is incorrect and both words have the same meaning.

Stan Lee: as Grandpa Frakes, who gives him a box full of first editions of old comic books.

Sasha Grey: as a Film Snob, who claims that their showing of the Italian film L'Avventura (1960) was wrecked because they showed it with English subtitles.

Yuri Lowenthal: as a customer. He is mostly known for dubbing anime into English.

Tracie Thoms: as a customer who thinks the rating for the Passion of the Christ should be lowered.

Beth Grant: as an irritating customer.