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Topic: What's the latest theatre to close or open you have heard about? (part 2)
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Jeffry L. Johnson
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From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 03-26-2015 09:51 AM
Regal Cinemas in Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Regal Cinemas at Severance Town Center in Cleveland Heights will close permanently tonight
By Bob Sandrick, Northeast Ohio Media Group
on March 19, 2015 at 9:39 PM, updated March 19, 2015 at 10:06 PM
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Regal Severance Town Center Stadium 14 -- the movie theater at Severance Town Center -- will close permanently after the last show tonight, three theater workers confirmed earlier Thursday evening.
No signs inside or outside the theater indicated the closing. However, workers said they would post signs announcing the theater closing at about 10:45 p.m.
Officials at Regal Entertainment Group could not be reached tonight. Cleveland Heights Mayor Dennis Wilcox also could not be reached.
Regal's closing is the latest sign of trouble for Severance. In December, a Cuyahoga County judge signed off on a foreclosure decree related to the retail center. A lender has asked that Severance be sold at auction in an attempt to recover more than $38 million in debt.
In late 2013, Walmart -- which took up about 20 percent of Severance's retail space -- pulled out to open a new Supercenter in South Euclid.
Regal has several movie theaters in Greater Cleveland, including those in Richmond Heights, Middleburg Heights and Westlake. In December 2013, Regal opened a new theater at Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted.
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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!
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From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 04-03-2015 10:19 PM
From The Atlantic a short doc about the last days of a film theater (somewhere in Oklahoma City, OK) that did not convert to digital:
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Aug 27, 2014 | 178-part series
Video by Jason Gwynn & Jay Sheldon
In this documentary, directors Jason Gwynn and Jay Sheldon interview film projectionists during their last days on the job at a soon-to-be-defunct movie theater. As Hollywood studios move toward digital distribution, many theaters are forced to abandon their 35mm projectors—and pay up to $150,000 for new projection technology. This change, as the documentary explains, is heartbreaking for the people responsible for reels and reels of film.
If you enjoyed this short, you may also want to read Matthew Dessem's essay at The Dissolve about the challenges of preserving movies in a digital age. "Unless the unique challenges of digital preservation are met," he writes, "we run the risk of a future in which a film from 1894 printed on card stock has a better chance of surviving than a digital film from 2014."
Author: Chris Heller
Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection
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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!
Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 05-11-2015 11:30 AM
ICON Cinemas 10 opening in the Four Hills shopping center in Albuquerque, NM around the end of this month. This will be the second location for the Roswell, NM based company. ICON is also opening a location in San Angelo, TX very soon.
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Four Hills movie theater coming back to life
A family-owned theater company wants to reinvent the way Albuquerque watches movies.
Roswell-based Icon Cinemas is reviving a 10-screen movie theater at the Four Hills Village Shopping Center with a new model that features electric recliners, all-you-can-eat popcorn and a ticket-buying process that allows customers to identify and reserve open seats.
The new Icon Cinema is slated to debut this spring, ideally in time for the release of “Furious 7″ — the latest installment in the blockbuster “The Fast and the Furious” franchise — owner/operator Samson Snell said this week.
“I think everyone in Albuquerque is not only going to enjoy (the Icon experience), but appreciate what we’re doing to that building,” Snell said.
Regal Cinemas formerly operated the Four Hills multiplex but left the center in December 2013, shortly after opening a 16-screen property at Winrock. Four Hills subsequently lost Albertsons, its other anchor tenant.
The Daskalos family has since stepped in, buying the fading 171,500-square-foot shopping center at Central and Tramway and working with CBRE’s retail brokers to rekindle it.
“Money hasn’t been put into that center for years, and Icon and the Daskaloses are going to be spending substantial money to bring this into its new life and spur that development,” said Lia Armstrong of the CBRE team.
She said negotiations are underway with an unnamed anchor tenant for the old Albertsons. The Daskaloses also plan to overhaul the shopping center’s facade, she said.
Snell declined to divulge the cost of the theater renovation but described the process as extensive.
“The walls of the auditoriums will still be there, but everything will be remodeled,” he said. “Pretty much when you walk in, it will be a whole different theater.”
Snell’s family currently owns just one other theater, a 10-screener in Roswell, though it plans to also open a San Angelo, Texas, location. His parents, Sam and Julie, came to the business by way of their seating company, which has designed theater chairs.
They designed a special “VIB” chair that has speakers and will vibrate in accordance with the movie action. Snell said each auditorium at Four Hills will have a few rows of VIBs, but electric recliners (VIP seats) will make up the rest.
Snell couldn’t provide a pricing schedule yet but said Icon aims to make movies a family-friendly experience. That includes concession offerings like all-you-can-eat popcorn — which customers butter and salt to their taste — plus all-you-can-drink sodas and a nacho bar that lets customers lather on just as much cheese and jalapeños as they’d like.
“We’re a family ourselves, so we want to make sure families can come to the movies and not think they’re getting gouged and be able to enjoy the movie and get more,” he said.
Icon’s ticket-buying process also differs from the norm. Customers form a single line to pay for tickets and concessions and can view a screen to see which seats remain open and reserve the ones they want, Snell said.
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Jim Pennington
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From: Brookville, PA, USA
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posted 05-17-2015 06:43 PM
Two Pittsburgh area theaters closed this past Thursday, May 14th:
First one as the previous post mentioned -
Former Showcase Cinemas North shutting its doors
May 12, 2015 4:05 PM
By Barbara Vancheri / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The former Showcase Cinemas North — known as Rave Pittsburgh 11 — will close after business Thursday.
The theater, operated by Cinemark but just a short stretch down McKnight Road from the chain’s new 12-auditorium location at McCandless Crossing, has been a mainstay for roughly three and a half decades. It once was the only centrally located first-run movie theater in the North Hills and one of three Showcase Cinemas in the region.
Showcase Cinemas gave way to Rave Motion Pictures, which then handed over operation to Cinemark. A spokeswoman for Cinemark confirmed the theater will close as of Friday, and employees at the multiplex, at 9700 McKnight Road, could not answer other questions.
Showcase Cinemas West closed in April 2010, and Showcase Cinemas East in September 2004.
Second one is Carmike closing its Indiana, PA theater with Golden Star Theaters reopening the theater in mid-June:
Indiana Mall movie theater changing hands
by CHAUNCEY ROSS on May 15, 2015 10:59 AM
A company that operates a chain of movie theaters in the western Pennsylvania area wasted no time Thursday after the announcement that it would take over operation of the Carmike Cinemas IV at the Indiana Mall.
Mall owner Zamias Services and Golden Star Theaters, of New Castle, jointly reported the theater would change hands on June 1.
Only hours after signing the lease for the theater, Golden Star posted the new name of the theater, its opening date and an invitation for job applicants on its website.
Indiana Mall Cinemas, the ninth facility in Golden Star’s chain, will reopen June 12, according to goldenstartheaters.com.
Golden Star publicist Katie Gancy and Indiana Mall Manager Sherry Renosky said the transition began almost immediately after the agreements were signed Thursday morning.
Carmike, an original tenant since the opening of the mall in 1979, planned to close when its show schedule ended Thursday and to start removing equipment and fixtures today, Renosky said.
On June 1, Golden Star will reverse the process by installing equipment to begin showing movies again.
The company then plans to renovate each of the four theater auditoriums one by one, and to rehab the lobby and common areas, finishing by the end of summer, Gancy said.
“Our goal is to reopen as quickly as possible and proceed with the renovations,” Gancy said. “We’ll work in the mornings before we open for the day, so we can keep the movies on the screens for the customers.”
Under Carmike, each theater seated 220 patrons. They may seat fewer after the renovations, Gancy said, as Golden Star has plans for “new comfy seats … with greater leg room.”
The overhaul will result in bigger screens, digital “surround sound” and 3-D viewing technology, new carpet, a new concession stand and renovated restrooms.
As Carmike has for 36 years, Golden Star plans to play first-run films.
“This will feel fresh and new for moviegoers,” Gancy said.
According to its website, Golden Star operates theaters at Waterworks on Freeport Road in Fox Chapel, and on Route 19 in Cranberry Township, Butler County. The chain has five theaters in Pennsylvania, two in Ohio and one in Maryland.
Golden Star is the combination and “rebranding” of two independent, family-owned chains, operated in the region since the 1970s by the Harper family of Pittsburgh and the Moses family of New Castle, Gancy said.
The heavily promoted releases of “blockbuster” films this summer is driving the fast turnaround, Renosky said.
“They don’t want to have a lot of downtime,” she said.
Officials at Carmike Cinema’s headquarters in Columbus, Ga., didn’t return a call requesting comment.
Renosky said Golden Star offered work to the current theater employees.
The immediate change of theater operators generated a feeling of confidence for Indiana Mall management. Other recent transitions have left some storefronts and floor space vacant for a time, including the late March closing of Dingbats Restaurant.
“I’m ecstatic,” Renosky said Thursday. “We needed a fresh look.”
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