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Topic: What's the latest theatre to close or open you have heard about?
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Ky Boyd
Hey I'm #23
Posts: 314
From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-02-2010 03:51 AM
Rialto Cinemas Lakeside played its last regular shows on Sunday, August 22nd. On Monday, August 23rd we had a Last Night At The Rialto party with 800 people in attendance. Yesterday, August 31st, we finished vacating the building. After ten years and 8 months of operation over 2,500,000 tickets were sold, 1,400 films played and more special events than I can count. Santa Rosa Entertainment Group will re-open the theatre later this fall as Summerfield Cinemas after supposedly extensive earthquake retro-fitting. Our final line-up was Get Low, Grease Sing-Along, The Kids Are All Right, I Am Love, The Extra Man and appropriately, Farewell. Onward to better things and a new Santa Rosa location soon.
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Scott Jentsch
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1061
From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-07-2010 10:57 AM
The Midway Theater in Bethel, Ohio closed in late August.
Bethel, OH: Midway Theater Closes
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The Midway Theater in Bethel, Ohio closed its doors in late August 2010. An announcement on the theater's web site from the owners just says that the theater is now closed under the current ownership, but left the door open that a new owner may re-open the theater.
The single-screen theater is currently listed for sale for $149,000. The real estate agency's listing for the property mentions that the owner is retiring.
According to the theater's entry on Cinema Treasures, the Midway Theater opened in 1938 and seated 400 people. It closed briefly in 2008, and was reopened later that year. The real estate listing says that the theater now seats 260 people.
Moviegoers in the Bethel area will now need to attend either the Starlite Drive-in or Greater Huntington Pierce Point 10 in nearby Amelia, or the Danbarry Dollar Saver - Eastgate in Cincinnati.
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Jason Metcalfe
Expert Film Handler
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From: Austin, TX, U.S.
Registered: May 2010
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posted 09-08-2010 02:05 PM
The Angelika Houston closed its doors about two weeks ago, I didn't see this on here, though I may have missed it:
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Below, two Friends of Unfair Park wonder if the shuttering of the Angelika Film Center in Houston yesterday is a sneak preview of bad news heading for the Dallas and Plano locations. Good question. So I asked Ellen Cotter, Angelika's Manhattan-based chief operating officer -- who's in Houston at this very moment, actually, closing down the 13-year-old location.
"Everything in Dallas is fine," she tells Unfair Park. "The Plano theater's fine. The New York theater's fine. This is an isolated incident." (Or, as Culturemap Houston puts it this afternoon: "Meanwhile, in Dallas, Angelika is thriving, with two multiplexes in the trendy lower Greenville area and affluent Plano. I have a hard time believing Dallas is that much more open to independent cinema than Houston.")
Cotter explains: The downtown Houston location's lease was terminated by the landlord, Bayou Place Limited Partnership. She says the landlord gave the Angelika 30 days notice to scoot -- as in, "This letter shall constitute notice that Bayou Place Limited Partnership is terminating Bayou Cinemas, LP's month to month tenancy effective September 18, 2010," per Angelika's press release. (The landlord, in a conflicting release, insists otherwise: "We had hoped that they would stay longer but unfortunately, after saying they would commit, Angelika changed its mind." Cotter disputes that version.)
Cotter says "we enjoyed being down there, and we probably would have stayed, but they terminated our lease. But it's been a great run, and we'll look for another place in Houston. We've been bringing independent films here for 13 years, and hopefully we'll find another location. But the message for the Dallas readers is: Our locations there are fine."
I'm sure Brad will be happy to hear that the Dallas location won't be shutting down anytime soon.
http://angelikafilmcenter.com/angelika_index.asp?hID=3854
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/08/after_shuttering_of_angelikas.php
forgot to cite my sources
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David Stambaugh
Film God
Posts: 4021
From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 10-06-2010 01:23 PM
Regal is installing an IMAX screen at the Valley River 15 in Eugene. The news story is a little lacking in details. It will probably be LIE-MAX, esp. since the story says it will be a retrofit to an existing screen, but I'm not complaining.
The Register-Guard
http://www.registerguard.com/
IMAX screen coming to Eugene (http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25370350-41/imax-screen-theater-experience-regal.csp) |
Company officials hope to have the giant theater ready at the Valley River Center by the end of 2012
By Sherri Buri McDonald (mailto:sherri.buri_mcdonald@registerguard.com)
The Register-Guard
Posted to Web: Tuesday, Oct 5, 2010 11:42PM
Appeared in print: Wednesday, Oct 6, 2010, page A4
Not too long from now, getting an “immersive” IMAX film experience in Eugene might be as easy as a trip to the shopping mall.
Regal Entertainment Group and IMAX Corp. are planning to build an IMAX theater at the Regal Cinemas at Valley River Center by the end of 2012. No date has been set yet for construction, Regal spokesman Richard Grover said.
It would be the fourth IMAX theater in Oregon.
The others are the OmniMax Dome, a five-story domed screen, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland; the six-story flat screen at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville; and the 50 feet wide by 30 feet high screen at Regal Cinemas at Bridgeport Village in Tigard.
Technicians are working on the design to retrofit one of the existing theaters at Regal Valley River Center, and details, such as screen size and ticket price, have not been determined, Grover said.
“However,” he said, “the IMAX experience is a premium movie going experience and will have an upcharge.”
If Bridgeport Village is any indication, the price could creep toward $20 a ticket. Bridgeport Village is charging $17.25 a ticket for the 3-D IMAX version of “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’hoole,” a PG-rated animated fantasy film. That’s $6.50 more than the theater’s standard price for the same movie in regular 2-D.
In their quest to provide a more spectacular movie-going experience than what viewers can get at home, theaters have been offering extras, such as stadium seating and 3-D.
Regal Cinemas, as well as Cinemark at Gateway Mall in Springfield, already offer 3-D movies, which when viewed through special Buddy Holly-style glasses, can create the illusion of floating in space, or of objects popping out of the screen.
Add IMAX’s expansive screen and powerful surround sound and it takes the 3-D experience one step further, said Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office division at Hollywood.com.
The jury is still out on whether 3-D will become a new norm for such film genres as animation and action adventure, he said. That depends largely on audience and filmmaker acceptance. But IMAX is well-positioned whether or not 3-D goes mainstream, Dergarabedian said.
“To me (IMAX is) almost a must-have because for certain films it just elevates the experience to a whole new level,” he said. “Unlike 3-D, where there’s a lot of discussion over whether it’s worth it, whether it’s a gimmick, or whether it’s here to stay, IMAX doesn’t really fall into that because it can be just as effective in 2-D and in 3-D” because of screen size and the sound quality.
“The bigger question is the cost,” Dergarabedian said. “When ticket prices start … pushing up towards $20 a ticket, you’re going to have some push back from the audience,” he said. “What is the tipping point where people say it’s not worth it? They’ll find out. Attendance will tell the tale.”
Another key factor is the quality of the films themselves, he said. “You can throw IMAX 3-D at a bad movie, and it’s just bad on a grander scale,” Dergarabedian said.
The IMAX theater slated for Valley River Center is part of a broader rollout by IMAX and Regal — both publicly traded companies.
Through a joint venture, the companies plan to create 16 to 25 IMAX theaters in the United States. That is in addition to 39 theaters announced under a 2008 agreement.
Eugene made IMAX and Regal’s list — other cities include Albuquerque, N.M., Charlottesville, Va., and Atlanta, Ga. — for several reasons, including loyal theater patronage and ability to draw moviegoers from a large geographic area, Grover said.
The gargantuan IMAX theaters at OMSI and Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum don’t compete directly with these new IMAX multiplex theaters, according to museum officials.
“Our screen size is vastly larger than what you’ll typically see put into a multiplex,” OMSI spokesman Lee Dawson said.
“We do not try to compete with the Hollywood films,” he said. “We’re catering to films specifically shot in IMAX. We’re looking for content that’s in line with the science museum experience. We’re not looking to show the latest Harry Potter in 3-D. To be honest, a lot of the Hollywood films tend not to work best on our curved screen.”
The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum IMAX theater, now showing “Legends of Flight,” and “Hubble 3-D” also sticks to movies focused on its mission: “to honor the veterans and to preserve aviation,” museum board member James Nelson said.
“We don’t get into the more popular Disney and animated movies — with one exception, “The Polar Express,” he said.
The holiday-themed film, based on the Caldecott medal-winning children’s book written by Chris Van Allsburg, was the first full-length feature to be converted into IMAX 3-D.
Evergreen’s theater offers a phenomenal IMAX experience, Nelson said. “It’s a flat screen over six stories tall. You have no diffusion on the edges. Our 45 speakers were designed for our theater, so you can truly hear a pin drop, and when the jets go roaring by, you shake.”
In “The Polar Express,” you find kids (in the audience) batting the snow because it really feels like its snowing.”
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