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Author Topic: What's the latest theatre to close or open you have heard about? Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-29-2008 07:08 PM                        The Cinderella Twin Drive-in by the old Cinderella City in Englewood, CO has been ripped apart and demolished to make way for apartments and townhomes! We could always use more apartments and townhomes, especially since we can't stop reproducing!  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-31-2008 11:19 PM                        Consolidate Theatres opens their new Grande 14, located in the new Market Commons urban shopping mall April 3, 2008.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-01-2008 09:09 AM                        This location in Myrtle Beach will be a managed location. Meaning that the Manager will not be working for Regal when the takeover happens (real soon).  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 04-02-2008 05:52 PM                     Odeon Doncaster. Just been announced that it's due to close. As far as I'm aware the last day of operation is meant to be Thurs April 10th. "The Gaumont Palace Theatre in Hallgate, Doncaster opened on 3 September 1934, having been designed by W. E. Trent and W. Sydney Trent. It had 2,020 seats and a full stage and flytower. There was also a large cafe. The art deco auditorium was extremely elegant with panelled walls, a curvaceous ceiling with lighting troughs, and a noted painted safety curtain depicting the railway industry prevalent in the town. Although it was modernised in 1964, there is much of the original still remaining. It became the Odeon, one of the last Gaumonts to lose its name, in 1987. This was long after the theatre had been tripled in 1973, with two mini cinemas under the balcony (seating 144 each) and the main screen with a still impressive 1,003 seats in the former circle and front stalls. This was to retain the use of the large stage. In 2007 this is still open and still a three-screen operation, seating has been reduced to 975 in screen 1, although screens 2 (159 seats) and screen 3 (161 seats) have had a few extra squeezed in."  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-04-2008 03:23 PM                        This was a theatre I used to go to as a kid. It is close to my grandparents house in Bethel, Ohio. I wish I had the money to buy this place and re-open it: (From the Cincinnati Enquirer) "Bethel's Midway Theatre closes Stops the projector after 71 years BETHEL - Fans of the Midway Theatre gathered outside Thursday in the cold for a photo to warmly remember the movie house that specialized in family-friendly films and low-priced popcorn and sodas. The grandfather of current owner Deborah Brooks opened the theater in 1937, charging 37 cents for adults and 17 cents for children. Fans of the Bethel landmark these days had to pay $3.50 for matinees and $4 for the late show. Candy or popcorns cost $2, with a soda an extra $1.50. Health issues prompted Brooks to lower the curtain, although she hopes someone might someday reopen it." THE LINK  |  IP: Logged Betsie Beadling Expert Film Handler Posts: 178 From: Fairfax, Virginia, USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 04-06-2008 05:35 PM                     Looks like Mount Vernons National Amusements Multiplex in Alexandria, Virginia closed its doors!!! I wonder why???  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-07-2008 07:19 AM                        I drove past the old Polk in Jackson Heights, New York the other day; a plywood fence was up around the demolition site. You could see the pile of bricks thru the cracks. The Polk was a nice neighborhood theatre that was common around since the 40s. It was an unremarkable single screen with art deco-ish side wall lamps that were its only interesting feature. It seated about 500 with no balcony; the lobby was a long spacious affair which in days gone by was needed to hold the audience for the next show. With no balcony, it was really not big enough to twin, other than winding up with two of those horrid, long, narrow rooms. Instead, it went to running porno around the mid-80s as a means to stay alive. To the best of my knowledge, they continued with porn until its demise. As is not uncommon there was some brief noise by the community not to distroy it but to keep it as a "neighborhood family theatre" -- you know, the kind that the community thinks is a dandy idea and then doesn't support, which is why it went to porn in the first place. The reality is, of course, that anyone who has any money to invest knows that condos will return much more money than a single screen theatre ever could. The Polk -- RIP The Earl, which is 20 blocks away from the Polk in the same neighborhood is an almost identical structure and I suspect, but can't confirm, it was built about the same time and likely by the same company. Neither theatre was operated by any large chain. The Earl went to porno about the same time as the Polk but then as the neighborhood changed with an influx of Indian-Americans, they dropped porn and are now running Bollywood fare and doing quite well it seems. Unlike the Polk, they changed with the environment and survive.  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 04-07-2008 12:55 PM                        Well the warren Luxury Theater just opened in Moore OK and I can tell it. Our business didn't drop by half but it did take a significant drop. The cost of gas and the high cost of tickets and concessions at that theater will eventually get most of customers back, I HOPE! I'm planning a trip over for a mat. showing soon but at $7.00 discount tickets that is pretty pricey for me!  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-13-2008 11:15 AM                        Showcase Cinemas in Dedham, MA. (adjacent to the National Amusements home office) was put out of its misery last Thursday (April 10). It opened as a 3-plex and closed as a rather dumpy 12-plex. It will be replaced by a new theatre in a new shopping center development.  |  IP: Logged Robert LaValley Expert Film Handler Posts: 104 From: Tampa, FL Registered: May 2007 posted 04-13-2008 06:38 PM                     Has anyone heard anything on the 12 screen that was built at the base of the condo's in downtown orlando? Last I heard no company was taking it and it probably wasnt going to open. Also, AMC altamonte is suppost to be getting an IMAX screen, how does the regular cinema sized screen "IMAX" differ from the regular IMAX besides screen size? and has anyone heard developements on this location getting upgraded? The workers are tight lipped. Also I heard from the guy who delievers my DFS films that carmike looks like it is going under now that the bank owns more of the company then the owner does. Anyone hear anything on this? The digital roll out must have ran them in the ground.  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 04-15-2008 08:44 PM                        In NYC, the Clearview Chelsea West Twin (which was originally the RKO 23rd Street) is going to be taken over by the School of Visual Arts, which is going to turn it into an art house, the Visual Arts Theatre, after supposedly completely renovating the exterior and interior. Clearview has a 9-plex diagonally across the street, so they really didn't need this twin as well.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-16-2008 08:22 AM                     I have a roll of 35mm film from 1961 announcing the start of construction of the RKO 23rd Street. It features the head of RKO Theatres, the NYC borough president, and the star of the film Seven Women From Hell standing in a vacant lot with shovels under a billboard picturing what the new theatre is too look like. The announcer indicates that this theatre will be state of the art, able to play all film formats including CinemaScope and 70mm.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 04-16-2008 04:13 PM                     Vue recently opened a new multiplex in Stirling, Scotland. The Alan Park cinema in Stirling, Scotland closes on the 20th April 2008, after 70 years of continuous operation. A bit poignant this one, it was the first cinema I ever serviced the projection gear in. web page  |  IP: Logged Gene Stavis Film Handler Posts: 26 From: New York, NY Registered: Aug 1999 posted 04-19-2008 02:52 PM                        <<I have a roll of 35mm film from 1961 announcing the start of construction of the RKO 23rd Street. It features the head of RKO Theatres, the NYC borough president, and the star of the film Seven Women From Hell standing in a vacant lot with shovels under a billboard picturing what the new theatre is too look like. The announcer indicates that this theatre will be state of the art, able to play all film formats including CinemaScope and 70mm.>> Hi Mitchell: I am the director of the new Visual Arts Theater (formerly Chelsea West). We will indeed be renovating this summer and I'd love to see that footage (and maybe arrange to borrow it for our opening). In any case, contact me if you need any information about our plans. I am usually referred to by another part of the horse, but in this case I can give you info straight from the horse's mouth.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-19-2008 03:00 PM                     Gene, Will the theater function as a commercial movie theater to showcase art house films? Or will it have some function for students of School of Visual Arts? I wish SVA had its own full blown movie theater back when I was a student there (1987-1991). Would have been great for those movie nights. Do you still have that anamorphic 16mm print of Bladerunner? I remember watching it in film history class.  |  IP: Logged

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