Blue Beetle
Doors: 3:00pm, Show: 4:00pm
4140 Broadway, New York, NY 10033
Ordering Closed
General admission tickets available Monday, March 18 at 10am
NYP Sponsor tickets available with access code on March 13
3:00 PM: Doors Open; 4:00 PM: Film Screening; 6:15 PM: Talk back
The movie is 2 hour, 7 minutes long and rated PG-13
FREE ADMISSION (See Ticket Policy at bottom of page)
Movies at the United Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda continues its 2024 season, entitled “Movies We Missed,” with Blue Beetle, about a recent college graduate who is chosen by an alien scarab to be its symbiotic host, bestowing him with a suit of armor that’s capable of extraordinary powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle.
After the screening, attendees will be treated to a special conversation between the United Palace’s good friend, patron, and neighbor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and director Angel Manuel Soto.
Miranda's 2023 Movies at the United Palace series was cut short by the writers' and actors' strikes, which also hurt the promotional efforts around many new releases. This led us to this year's theme of "Movies We Missed" that will both shine a light on films that were released during the 2023 strikes, and also some films that we originally planned for our 2023 season.
Miranda has supported screenings at the United Palace since 2013 when he helped the theatre’s fund-raising campaign to purchase a new projector, screen, and surround sound system to return movies to the theatre after a 40-year hiatus. His guests in 2022 included Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Hugh Jackman, and Danai Gurira, and the film series attracted about 15,000 guests to the heart of Washington Heights. (Watch a short video.)
Movies at the United Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda is sponsored by the Miranda Family Fund with support from New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
ANGEL MANUEL SOTO: Angel is attached to direct THE WRECKING CREW, a buddy action comedy set up at MGM, with Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista attached to star. Before that, he directed BLUE BEETLE, a DC Films/Warner Bros superhero movie, starring Susan Sarandon, George Lopez, Xolo Maridueña, and Harvey Guillén, which is now streaming on MAX. Angel is co-writing a TRANSFORMERS spin-off for Paramount Pictures, which he is attached to direct. He currently has a series in development at Amazon, which he is co-creating with Gareth Dunnett-Alcocer. Juno Diaz and Borderless Pictures are executive producing. He is also developing an animated/live-action hybrid for Paramount Pictures with Ryan Reynolds starring and producing. Angel produced and directed the limited doc series MENUDO: FOREVER YOUNG, which premiered on HBO Max. Before that, Angel directed CHARM CITY KINGS, which won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast at Sundance 2020 and is streaming now on HBO Max.
A native of Puerto Rico, Angel discovered soccer and boxing at an early age, which inspired his first film EL PUGIL, an homage to the kids he had grown up with and the power of sports in economically repressed communities. Angel pursued his interest in art, studying architecture and eventually documentary filmmaking and writing. He began his career in entertainment as a TV producer and later focused on art direction at a local advertising agency. He made his feature directorial debut with LA GRANJA (The Farm), which sheds a thought-provoking light on the tough realities facing the people of Puerto Rico. He went on to create several groundbreaking narrative VR pieces such as DINNER PARTY and BASHIR’S DREAM, which have premiered to critical success at festivals.
United Palace: The history of the United Palace begins in 1930 when it opened as one of five Loew’s “Wonder Theatres,” premiere vaudeville and movie houses located in four boroughs and New Jersey. The outrageously ornate architecture was designed by noted architect Thomas Lamb (Cort Theater, the former Ziegfeld Theatre) and decorative specialist Harold Rambusch (Waldorf Astoria, Radio City Music Hall). Noted architecture critic David Dunlap described the ornate interior as “Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco.” With nearly 3,400 seats the United Palace is Manhattan’s 4th largest theatre. It hosts concerts (Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Bad Bunny, Wilco), TV and film shoots ("Only Murders in the Building”, “John Wick 3”), movie premieres (“Halftime,” “In the Heights,” “High Strung - Free Dance”), and other corporate and community events. The in-house selection of state-of-the-art technology updates the 1930 opulence for 21st century audiences.
Miranda Family Fund: For over 40 years, the Miranda Family has championed community activism. They have created and supported institutions that have served both underserved populations in Upper Manhattan and communities throughout New York City, across the country, and in Puerto Rico. Luis A. Miranda, Jr. and Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda are proud parents to Luz Miranda-Crespo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Miguel Towns. Now as adults, Luz and Lin-Manuel are married to Luis Crespo and Vanessa Nadal, respectively, with children of their own. They continue to foster the family’s commitment to advocacy for education, the arts, and social justice -- along with a sustained focus on relief and rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria.
NewYork-Presbyterian: NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the nation’s most comprehensive, integrated academic healthcare systems, encompassing 10 hospitals across the Greater New York area, nearly 200 primary and specialty care clinics and medical groups, and an array of telemedicine services. A leader in medical education, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the only academic medical center in the nation affiliated with two world-class medical schools, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. This collaboration means patients have access to the country’s leading physicians, the full range of medical specialties, latest innovations in care, and research that is developing cures and saving lives. Founded 250 years ago, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has a long legacy of medical breakthroughs and innovation, from the invention of the Pap test to pioneering the groundbreaking heart valve replacement procedure called TAVR. NewYork-Presbyterian’s 48,000 employees and affiliated physicians are dedicated to providing the highest quality, most compassionate care to New Yorkers and patients from across the country and around the world. For more information, visit www.nyp.org and find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
Ticket Policy: General Admission tickets are frequently “sold out” shortly after the become available online, but not everyone who reserves a ticket attends the movie. We are often able to accommodate several hundred guests with Standby tickets. Seating is general admission, first come, first served. Ticket does not guarantee admission. Venue reserves all rights to restrict access to the United Palace if in its sole discretion it deems the theatre’s capacity has been reached. On show day, guests with accessibility needs should go to the ADA entrance at the front of the line near the marquee.