Brewer's '$5 Cover' premieres in Memphis April 30

The date is set: Craig Brewer’s “$5 Cover” will have its big-screen public world premiere at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at the Malco Paradiso, 584 S. Mendenhall.

Tickets are $10 each, and go on sale April 17 exclusively at indiememphis.com. (Tickets also can be bought at the door the night of the screening, if any are available.)

Memphis musician Valerie June is in Craig Brewer's "$5 Cover".

Memphis musician Valerie June is in Craig Brewer's "$5 Cover".

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Presented by Malco Theatres and the Memphis and Shelby County Film & Television Commission, the event is a fundraiser for Indie Memphis.

Produced as a Web series for MTV.com, the made-in-Memphis “$5 Cover” — a fact-inspired, fictional episodic serial centering on the lives and loves of Memphis musicians — debuts on the MTV network and online May 1.

All 15 episodes of the series (which, together, essentially form a 95-minute feature) will be shown during the April 30 screenings — the first public premiere for a Brewer project since his debut feature, “The Poor & Hungry,” in 2000.

-- John Beifuss: 529-2394

Submit your photos to the $5 Cover Night Out photo contest for a chance to win two tickets to the local premiere and two V.I.P. tickets to the Indie Memphis Film Festival.

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