This past weekend Cinefamily, a nonprofit, cult movie-loving theater, held their second annual Fantastic, Elastic 24-Hour Holiday Telethon and to their surprise Robert Downey Jr. made true on his word to attend the event, with an added bonus.
The theater had found a time capsule on their premises with instructions saying that Robert Downey Jr. himself will open it in 2017. Although it's only 2012, the theater sent an email to try and get the actor to attend their fundraiser.
"We sent an email, through friends of friends we asked and literally all he said was, 'Sure, cool, I'll be there.' I don't even know if he knew it existed until we emailed him. It's a big mystery," Cinefamily co-founder and current executive director Hadrian Belove said, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Downey not only showed up to open the time capsule, he also pledged to help the theater get a new digital projector among other things the five-year-old theater needed.
"To our surprise, delight, fainting, and relief Robert Downey Jr. pledged to take care of our projector and sound needs. We renamed Cinefamily ‘Cinedowney’ on the spot and, in general, he is now the official coolest movie star ever in the history of the universe. And, we probably get to re-do our retrospective of his dad’s films," Cinefamily spokesperson Mya Stark told Entertainment Weekly.
"There is also a double joy in this — with the mission critical stuff covered by RDJ, we’re free to use the Kickstarter for what our audience has been dreaming of probably since the theater opened: Acceptable seats," she continued.
When it came to what was inside the Downey time capsule Stark revealed, "It was all stuff a bunch of fans left for him — a doll of himself, a VHS of Heart and Souls, a calendar of him, mix tapes, letters. Insane.”