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Author Topic: What's the latest theatre to close or open you have heard about? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-22-2007 09:22 PM                     quote: Dennis Benjamin He has been known to sit on property for long periods of time before doing anything with it. Does he eventually sink into the mud when he sits for so long or does he have that spot ass faulted?? Mark  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 08-23-2007 03:15 PM                        Yuck-yuck-yuck.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-27-2007 09:14 AM                     quote: Scott D. Neff The Hastings 8 is closing??? I need to get permission to take photographs before it gets torn down. The Hastings 8 has just closed over the weekend. The management told my friend who attended the last show, Pacific would not let any one take any pictures of the inside of the theatres. Sounds like the good old Pacific, I worked for once.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 08-27-2007 12:51 PM                        Baaah. If somebody can get me the landlords phone number, I'll call and arrange permission. I just need somebody else to go in and take photos. We were discussing this theatre at Cinema Treasures and Ed Collins got in to take some photos. They're not the greatest, but when we get them touched up and online at CinemaTour, I'll post the link here. [ 08-27-2007, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: Scott D. Neff ]  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 08-29-2007 05:22 AM                     In Boise, Idaho: the Towne Square Reel 6 shuts its doors and goes dark as of Tuesday night. Location was a sub-run theatre playing movies that had just came off of the first run venues, but still too new for discount theatre release. Lease ran out and was not renewed by the building owners. Outcome of this building is unknown...  |  IP: Logged Jeff Arellano Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Monterey Park, CA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 09-01-2007 08:37 PM                     Scott, If you get the permission, I'd go. Im about 15 minutes from Pasadena on the side-streets. One catch, Im in Montreal from 9/5 - 9/12. And It'd have to be when I am free off work.  |  IP: Logged Raymond Watson Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Waldron, Arkansas Registered: Feb 2006 posted 09-03-2007 02:51 PM                     We are proud to announce that after 3 years and a lot of hard work, The Scott theatre is once again the 3rd oldest operating theatre in the state of Arkansas. It may sound a lot like small potatoes to everyone, but the people of Waldron have been keeping us hopping at the ticket window and the conc. stand. We opened on July 20 with sellout crowds for Transformers and haven't looked back. I want to thank everyone at Film-tech for all the advice and technical help we recieved. I have never been in a projection booth besides the one I own, learned it all from Film-tech! and from talking to select others, and the net. We changed entire proj. booth, all equipment was upgraded and only had to hire Ben Kehe with motion picture services to align the sound. It seems to be there is a run of theatre openings in Arkansas lately, Malco just opened a multiplex in Van Buren, and the Logan Theatre (an old sister theatre to the Scott) has re-opened its doors in Paris, Arkansas. Things seem to be looking up in the boondocks...!! Ray  |  IP: Logged Ray Faultless Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Amington, Tamworth, England Registered: Jun 2001 posted 09-03-2007 07:20 PM                     Well done Ray. Best of luck for the future.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 09-03-2007 07:50 PM                     Congrats Ray, hope the lines stay long for you guys.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-04-2007 05:43 PM                        I just assumed that this thread being as long as it is, someone would have posted this closing, but I did a search and not so -- so here goes: UA 150 in Syosset New York. A beautiful and well maintained Dimension 150 single screen theatre nearly right up to its end. It was such a great venue in which to watch movies that we would pile into sometimes three cars and drive nearly an hour to get from Brooklyn to Syosset, even braving the dreaded Long Island DistressWay. The UA 150 kept its deep curved Dimension 150 screen (not as severe as Cinerama, but certainly impressive) right until the end. It used one Norelco/Philips DP70 and a Century JJ (I believe) -- odd that they weren't physically matched, but the image on the screen was. The presentation was all roadshow quality. Even flat 1.85 was projected on the curve using the Dimension 150 curve correction lens so that the horizon wasn't terribly distorted when projected on the screen. Once the UA management gave orders that they had to run rolling stock, after the slide junk, they would still close the curtains, wait two minutes and then open them for the film, a very nice touch. Then it all fell apart. They knew the theatre, which UA only leased, was going to be closed and the last year or so, nothing was repaired. They curtain motor broke and was not repaired, tiles got some water damage and weren't replaced. You know how sad that is....when you actually wittness the death of a great lady.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-05-2007 02:21 AM                     ...sad Frank, but it's called "teenage" Hollywood that closed that cinema down, for probably back then, when it was in its' heydays, it was the theatre for the parents of those teenagers - who enjoyed seeing movies that were ten times better than what is made now ..  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-05-2007 03:12 AM                        Well said Monte; I guess the real question is, why deal with the overhead of running a great movie theatre when the audience which 80% of the movies are geared to is perfectly happy watching them on a hand-held "pods" with 4in screens? Interesting thing was, United Artists kept this theatre alive for much much longer than you would have expected for such a large single screen. In fact, once we discovered its existance and began going regularly, on more than one occasion I would ask the manager how long before UA would either multiplexed it or rip it down completely. At one point he thought it would be closed at the end of the year, but happily he was wrong. Seems UA had its headquarters in Farmingdale, short distance from the theatre and so they were reluctant to close the theatre that their big-wigs used for private screenings and corporate entertaining. It was, after all, their flagship house in the area. When you're a theatre company executive and want to show off, you're not going to hustle your party into some crappy shoebox multiplex when you have a magnificent Dimension 150 theatre down the block. In the 5 or 6 years before it closed -- I don't have the exact date of its demise, but if my recollection is correct, it was in 2001 or 2, -- it seemed to be doing smashing business. We always found well-filled houses, even during the last show on weekdays, which is mostly when our staff was able to get out there.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-20-2007 04:26 AM                     RIP Edwards "Big Corona" 15  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 09-21-2007 04:21 PM                        Seriously?!?! The Big Corona is closed?! I hope you got more pictures than just that one! What's going on down in SoCal with all these awesomely cheesy-big theatres closing all the sudden?  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-21-2007 06:56 PM                     What are they doing with the deserted megaplexes? I'd like to check out one that's been converted to something else. We had a Cinema 150 in Sacramento which became the Crestview Cinema after UA dumped it; it was a live theater briefly in the mid-90s and torn down shortly after.  |  IP: Logged

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