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Topic: What's the latest theatre to close or open you have heard about?
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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene
Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 12-19-2004 12:59 PM
Regency Theatres is re-opening the former Madstone in Trolley Square in Salt Lake City Utah. They will keep the 4-plex an art house cinema, with a cafe, lounge, concierge, food and alcohol offerings, etc.
It is a definate plus for salt lake. Our other two art houses are the single screen Tower Theatre built in 1926, that looks feels and smells like it has had no maintenance since then, and the broadway center cinemas, operated by the same owner as the tower, which uses seats so comfortable that your ass will never forgive you.
They reopen on christmas day this year, so I am a little stoked.
Ciao baby
dave
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-19-2004 03:32 PM
quote: Lionel Brannon
If my memory serves me correctly they use to present movies in 70mm there. They were also the first in Dallas to have SDDS. I remember seeing the "Last Action Hero" there in SDDS.
Um, I think you're mistaken regarding that Dallas theater trivia.
I saw "Last Action Hero" at the UA Plaza (and saw "Jurassic Park" across North Central Expy at the huge GCC Northpark #1 the same day). The UA Plaza only had that show in 70mm Dolby mag. The Plaza also had a 70mm print of "Cliffhanger" as well. At least three or four of the screens at the UA Plaza had 70mm capability. They had the most THX certified screens under one roof in the Dallas area, until the Galaxy theater opened up by LBJ Freeway in 1996.
I'm pretty sure that only a couple theaters in New York and Los Angeles had SDDS engagements of "The Last Action Hero." SDDS was only an experimental system at the time. Actual production units were not introduced to the public until nearly 2 years later.
Regarding the first SDDS theaters in the Dallas area, I think the AMC Glen Lakes 8 theater had the first install. They hyped it with the release of "Frankenstein". Two Loews locations (one in Arlington and a THX/70mm equipped screen in Plano) were also among the first. During the fall of 1995, months after the opening of the AMC Grand 24, UA and Cinemark put in volume orders for SDDS units. I think that's when the UA Plaza and a number of other DFW area UA sites got SDDS systems installed.
For quite some time there were very few Dolby Digital equipped theaters in the Dallas area. I think the GCC Northpark #1 theater and Cinemark Hollywood USA in Garland had the first Dolby Digital systems in the Dallas area. The West End 10 and Casa Linda 4 theaters were next. The Casa Linda 4 was the first location to have at least two DD systems in one multiplex. Throughout the late 1990s, the DFW area had lots of DTS and SDDS equipped theaters. It would be interesting to know how many DD equipped screen there are in the DFW area now.
quote: Lionel Brannon
Good news is that Dallas (proper) is now getting more stadium seating theatres. AMC Valley View 16 opened in May of this year, the upcoming AMC North Park Mall 15 in Spring 2006 and Rave Motion Pictures has announced that they plan to build 5 theatres in 2005 in the Dallas area.
I'm not a big fan of AMC in how they currently design their theaters. It is just flat out stupid to stuff the surround speakers up in the ceiling. Combine that with those solid Torus screens (with speakers above and below). You just wind up with an auditorium that echoes all over the place and essentially has only two effective channels of sound: one big channel in front of you and one on top of your head. That sucks much ass.
Given AMC's current theater design, I don't care if they build a 50-plex at Northpark Mall. I'm still not going to drive 200 miles to check it out. Years ago, when the glorious CGG Northpark #1-2 was open, I had no problem at all driving from Lawton to see a show there. I don't care if that theater had no stadium seating. It was a premiere-class 1100 seat auditorium, equipped for 70mm and had one of the original THX systems, personally designed by Tomlinson Holman himself. That place kicked ass. The new AMC won't be able to hold a candle to the presentation standards that existed there.
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holes at best and inexcusable, especially for being located in downtown Salt Lake City. All I can assume is that they must have some deal cut with the mayor to exist as they do.
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