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Author Topic: Regal Is Building Right Down The Street From Me Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 02-03-2016 03:57 PM                        Here is an artist's rendering of the new Regal, tastelessly stolen from Taylorsville City's website. Here is a property map showing where the Regal will be (slightly behind Harmon's), also tastelessly stolen from Taylorsville City, who had themselves stolen it from Coldwell-Banker's website. You're welcome, sexy bitches. And Mark.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-03-2016 04:30 PM                     quote: Scott Jentsch How dense is the population? That section of Taylorsville is packed with homes galore where that section of Redwood Road has the traffic. Bet REG is planning on pulling some traffic away from the Cinemark 24.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2016 05:10 PM                        Something I never really noticed about modern multiplexes vs. old theaters is, newer places always have the word "CINEMA" in huge prominent letters, but no old theater I've ever seen has "THEATER" (or THEATRE) anywhere. Just the name of the theater, such as FOX or ORPHEUM or whatever. When I become a billionaire and build my own plex, I'm going to keep it classy that way.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2016 05:48 PM                        Mike, I could post plenty of photos of buildings with Cinema or Theatre(er) on their marquees. And plenty that don't If you go really far back, like the teens, theatre didn't have marquees, and you'd be right about those. Many of them were retrofitted with marquees in the 30's and 40's and then got the extra words added. I do, however, have pix of the Crown Theatre in Mobile, AL (1911) and The Strand Theatre in Montgomery (1915) with "Theatre" on the front of the building. As for chains like Majestic and Orpheum, or the palaces of the 20's, they were also vaudeville houses, so certainly didn't want to call them cinemas. Ultimately, it probably just came down to whatever the person building it want to call it. I'm still fond of "Theatrorium."  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2016 09:06 PM                     Thanks for posting that Sam! Well, Redwood Road and 5400 South is the busiest intersection in the State. But the stores in this south west corner area with the exception of Harmon's and Shaghetti Factory generally do not do well. There is considerable vacant space. The north west corner does well and so does the south east corner because there is a super dooper Wal-Mart there. The last theater that was there did just so-so. I knew the manager of it. I hope the new theater helps out around there but parking sure is going to be a joke and the new theater doesn't even use the entire footprint that I outlined above. Looks like a strip mall is going in to the north of it, I was thinking the FYE and the vacant 40.000 sf area would also get demolished. By the way, I counted 13 empty store fronts on that map, several are very large! Monte, the Cinemark is further than either of the Megaplex locations are. Even the brand new Cinemark in West Valley is quite a distance away. Mike, Cinema is less expensive than Theater by one $12,000.00 letter!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2016 10:36 PM                        quote: Martin McCaffery Mike, I could post plenty of photos of buildings with Cinema or Theatre(er) on their marquees. And plenty that don't I'm sure you're right, and obviously I haven't seen very many theaters, but in Billings there were the Fox, the Babcock and the World; Bozeman still has the Ellen (now a stage venue); Miles City has the Montana; Anaconda has the Washoe; Missoula has the Wilma, and Forsyth has the Roxy -- none of which say anything but those words out front. I think what's driven the change is the lack of marquees nowadays. Since there are a dozen or more screens in the new builds, the don't want to put a marquee out front so they just have a big boxy building that doesn't look like anything in particular, so they have to put WHATEVER CINEMAS on it.  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-03-2016 10:52 PM                        I'm waiting for the first 'VIDEOPLEX' lol!  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 02-04-2016 08:36 AM                        quote: Mike Blakesley Something I never really noticed about modern multiplexes vs. old theaters is, newer places always have the word "CINEMA" in huge prominent letters, but no old theater I've ever seen has "THEATER" (or THEATRE) anywhere. That's way more prominent in the Northwest because Act III plastered "CINEMA" on every damn multiplex they built. That's actually not accurate elsewhere in the country...none of the other big circuits did this. In the rendering I posted, the end product is more likely to say "R E G A L" down the spire, with nothing across the canopy. The rendering was probably made generic for display before the operator announcement.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-04-2016 09:58 AM                     Utah doesn't have very strict regulations on so age so it wouldn't surprise me if the sign was larger than the entire theater. There have already installed one panel type sign on the multi-store sign directly across the entrance from Randy Millers theater. No doubt Randy is already planning a second run strategy there. Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-04-2016 11:02 AM                        Well to be really cool it ought to have R E G A L down the vertical spire, and then some imaginative theater name in much larger letters across the canopy. But that would cost more and we must make sure Amy Miles gets enough millions, I guess.  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-04-2016 12:31 PM                     Mike When I become a billionaire and build my own plex, I'm going to keep it classy that way. Tabs in all screens then? pleeeeease  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-04-2016 01:20 PM                        Oh absolutely. I'm still determined to do that in my li'l one-screener here.  |  IP: Logged Alan Plester Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: great yarmouth england Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-04-2016 01:42 PM                     Mike......can i apply for the position just to push the button? I have 20 yrs experience and I like your cinema, yea, thatl`do it you just wont be able to say no.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 03-05-2016 07:32 PM                        So I drove over and took a look at the construction site today, where the first exterior wall is going up on one end while lot prep continues on the other. The lot footprint and the parking area look WAAAY bigger in person. Shouldn't be a problem.  |  IP: Logged

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