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Topic: What's the latest theatre to close or open you have heard about?
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Sam Graham
AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues.
Posts: 1431
From: Waukee, IA
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted 12-05-2010 10:19 PM
Going back to the Blue Oaks Cinema, if you thought 13.1 surround was interesting, take a look at the eighth picture in the slide show below.
Sneak Peek at Blue Oaks Cinema 16
Never mind that the owners have their feet up on the seats in front of them...check out what's behind them.
That's right, kids...The projector is IN THE AUDITORIUM. As confirmed in the story below...There's NO PROJECTION BOOTH. NONE.
Sacramento Press
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The new, locally owned and operated, Blue Oaks Cinema 16 in Rocklin opened its doors today to a waiting crowd. The state-of-the-art megaplex features 16 all digital theaters with high-end Klipsch surround sound. The Theater also features a UDC theater with a wall-to-wall screen, 13.1 surround sound, leather seats and more leg room.
The owner, Dan Tocchini, stated that the theater is the first in the world to feature elevated digital projectors that do not require any projection booth. The technology allows them to maximize usable space and give the audience a better experience. Continuing with the advanced features in the theater, Tocchini stated that every aspect of each theater is controlled by an iPhone looking device: lights, projections, air conditioning and sound can be adjusted instantaneously – allowing for each movie to get a personalized touch.
With an average of 175 seats per theater (individual theaters range from 130 – 290 seat), there is ample room for the growing Placer community. The theater also conveniently offers four ticket kiosks, along with your normal ticket counter, as you enter the doors. These kiosks allow you to purchase tickets or pick-up tickets you purchased online.
For the convenience of families, the theater is offering an Early Bird special for all movies starting in the 10:00am hour. The price for the Early Bird special is $5.50 for general movies and $8.50 for 3D movies.
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Tom Petrov
Five Guys Lover
Posts: 1121
From: El Paso, TX
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 12-06-2010 04:48 AM
Local Theater Closes
Local movie theater closes after almost 20 years
The only thing now showing at the Colonial Commons AMC Movie Theater is a sign that thanks movie goers for their 19 years of support. Owners closed the cinema last month, leaving employees and movie buffs baffled.
" Between the employees and customers you know it's three weeks to say good bye to something you've done for an extremely long time and it's really hard," said Kelly Martin, AMC Former Manager.
The theater's former manager Kelly Martin says there was no digital projection, no stadium seating and no 3D movies and all of that could've hurt sales. But those aren't the reasons why Betty Jean Philippi kept coming back. It wasn't just a theater. She says it was a family.
" You had your crazy aunts and uncles and I was one of those, but you also had your motherly, fatherly people and everyone seemed to look out for each other," Betty Jean Philippi, moviegoer.
Now roughly 20 people, who lost their jobs, are looking for work. And those who loved to come there are looking for a new place to watch their favorite flicks.
This isn't the only theater AMC is closing. The former manager says that the chain has already closed about 15 or 16 across the country.
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-06-2010 05:00 PM
quote: Adam Martin
I think many of you have missed the fact that the projector is on an elevator, which is in its lowered position in the photo for publicity's sake.
Yes, I see what looks like a track behind the unit that could possibly be what the projector rides up and down on, and if that is it, it still leaves the projector obtrusively hanging out over the last row, like a big cow, where it will still make plenty of fan noise and just be all around aesthetically ugly as sin.
And I take it back what I said about no other theatres in the world having projectors located in the seating area. Seems all those theatres in the late 70s that converted to video to show porn, had those three-gun CRT projectors hanging from the ceiling out in the middle of orchestra over the patrons. So I guess if that's the aesthetic he is going for, well, he's got it.
Or maybe he's going for that grade school auditorium look where they rolled in a 16mm projector on a cart in the back of the room. And if he really wants to complete that non-professional, amateur look, he can always set up one of those classroom DaLite roll-up screen on a tripod in the front of the theatre -- those were Common Width too.
And I too stand by my assessment that Common Width is the antithesis of what "wide screen" is all about. An entire industry did R&D backflips to come up with a way to make images panoramic....W-i-D-E-R, not freakin squatter. And believe me, I understand that in theatres converted from larger spaces and downsized or theatres that are forced because of some odd and unusually constricted architecture, to use Constant Width out of absolute necessity; but to DESIGN a new build with this glaring, permanent defect that is going to affect every screening for the life of the theatre is simply absurd, IMHO.
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