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August 10, 2009
Capital 4 Theater merge plan
JEFFERSON CITY, MO — According to this story, the Capital 4 Theater will be closed on August 27, 2009 and its operation “merged” into a revamped Capital 8 which is nearby.
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August 6, 2009
Regal Cinema Grimsby re-opening
GRIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE, ENGLAND — The classic Odeon Grimsby is set to reopen as the Regal.
Mr Harris said: “We’ve been working behind the scenes for weeks. The building has been extensively refurbished and renovated.
“Both my son and I have been involved in the cinema industry for a long time.
“The ticket prices have been set low at £4 for under 12s and £5 for over 12s, on purpose and we are also going to be selling our sweets at very reasonable prices.
“Unlike many empty cinemas, it was fully equipped, and the work we had to do was simply finishing touches.
Read the full story in This is Grimsby.
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August 1, 2009
Hollywood Theater reopens
DORMONT, PA — Stop out on Saturday August 1st at 6 PM for the Grand Reopening of the Hollywood Theatre! There will be a ribbon cutting, cake, and a special appearance by B Movie Director Jim Wynorski. Mr. Wynorski will be presented a Citation from Pennsylvania,celebrating his work, stating Saturday B Movie Night in Dormont. He will then introduce his classic film “Chopping Mall”.
Check out the Hollywood Theater website for the August schedule. It includes everything from Jerry Lewis to John Wayne to Quentin Tarantino’s latest film! And check out the Facebook Page The Hollywood Theater for more pictures and stories.
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July 14, 2009
Cary’s first movie theater now community space
CARY, NC — The former South Hills Twin is now going to be used for various community purposes.
An abandoned historical building that began as Cary’s first movie theater is an eyesore no longer. Renovated by Connections Church, the former South Hills Twin Cinema on Buck Jones Road now serves as a unique, multi-purpose facility available to the community.
The building, located at 1280 Buck Jones Road, was built in 1973 as Cary’s first movie theater and stayed in operation until 1994. The space was reborn in 1995 as a fitness gym and continued helping Cary residents stay in shape until 2006, when Beyond Fitness closed it down. It sat abandoned until Connections Church and new investors took it over in 2008.
Read the full story at My NC.
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July 10, 2009
First-run movies return to 95 year old theatre
HAMMONTON, NJ — The first major motion picture to be shown in Hammonton in nearly 50 years, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, will be presented at 12:01am on Wednesday, July 15th at the Eagle Theatre. After the special Midnight showing, the film will be presented at the Eagle Theatre every day, show times will be 12:30pm, 4:15pm and 7:30pm, for the next several weeks.
Order tickets online at the official site. For more information call 609-704-5012 or email
The Eagle Theatre, a non-profit organization, is located at 208 Vine Street in Downtown Hammonton. The historic theatre was originally constructed in 1914 for the showing of silent motion pictures. The theatre closed in 1927. This June, renovations were completed and the theatre has been reborn as the premier center for motion pictures and the arts in South Jersey.
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July 7, 2009
The 400 Theater is back
CHICAGO, IL — The Rogers Park institution last known as the Village North reopened as the 400 Theater.
That old movie theater staple of North Sheridan Road and the Loyola area — renamed for years the Village North before closing in January — reopened Wednesday night as the New 400 Theater.
It’s still configured with its four subdivided auditoriums, but administrator Jennifer Chan said a $700,000 renovation added some (though not all) new seats, new carpeting, new screens, new audio-visual equipment, new curtains, a new concessions area and — this is a biggie for patrons of the theater’s previous incarnation — a new air-conditioning/heating system.
Read more in the Chicago Tribune.
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July 3, 2009
Laie Theater reopening as Palms Cinemas
LAIE, HI — A much loved local cinema is reopening as the Palms Cinemas under new ownership.
The Laie community and BYUH students have shown great enthusiasm about the reopening of the Laie movie theater. Since the theater closed in early 2008, Don and Alicen Nielsen, who recently moved to Laie from the Central Coast of California, have decided to reopen the theater as an independent theater called Laie Palms Cinemas.
The Nielsens arrived for the Fall 2008 semester. Alicen was accepted to BYUH to complete her IDS degree in Art and Anthropology. Don had been looking for a job. Despite his previous experience in finance business and having worked at a bank in California, he was not successful in finding a job. Alicen saw a letter from a community member posted on campus that said that if the community had known Laie Cinemas was going to go out of business they would have gladly paid more. Alicen felt like something should be done and talked with her husband about starting a family business. Alicen believed they were lucky and blessed with the timing of everything.
Read the full story in Ke Alaka'i.
UDPATE 7/20: Star Bulletin story.
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June 23, 2009
It’s curtains for one Fayetteville movie theater
FAYETEVILLE, AR — A once popular mall cinema, the Malco Mall Twin, is closing its doors after thirty years.
The screens of Malco’s Mall Twin Cinema in the Northwest Arkansas Mall have fallen dark for the last time.
Some say the theater that’s full of their movie memories marks the end of an era. The movie’s entrance used to be a main thoroughfare for the Northwest Arkansas Mall, busting with people buying movie tickets and hot popcorn at the mall twin cinema. Now, there’s no chance of catch a flick there anymore; the long-running cinema rolled closing credits for the last time this week. Mall Twin Cinema fans like Darin Bell can’t believe the cinema’s seats have already been ripped out. “We were kids, so we all sat right in the front, and I think there’s a piece of my bubble gum that I probably left from 30 years ago, too, ha!”
Read the full story at KFSM.
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June 22, 2009
El Cerrito, Parkway theaters may reopen soon
OAKLAND, CA — After reporting that the Parkway Theatre might reopen, the Cerrito Theatre looks to possibly open as well, after a brief moment in the dark.
The Cerrito Theater in El Cerrito and its former sister theater, the Parkway in Oakland, will both likely reopen within the next few weeks, this time as competitors instead of siblings.
The Cerrito and Parkway both closed this spring, when the owner, family-run Speakeasy in Oakland, ran into financial troubles. The Cerrito’s new operator is expected to be Rialto Cinemas, which runs the Elmwood theater in Berkeley and the Lakeside in Santa Rosa. An Midwestern investors' group called Motion Picture Heritage is negotiating to buy the Parkway.
Read the full story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
(Thanks to lslphoto for providing the photo.)
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June 15, 2009
Shuttered Mill Avenue theater reborn
TEMPE, AZ — The former Harkins Centerpoint Theatre is seeing new life as a performance venue.
Now called MADCAP Theaters, the old movie house has been remodeled as a venue for live music, film screenings, stage performances, lectures and art exhibits.
“Our main goal is to take an asset we already have in this great building and repurpose it to bring a fresh, exciting vibe back to the Centerpoint courtyard area,” says Casaundra Brown, spokeswoman for the Downtown Tempe Community, the partnership of Mill Avenue District merchants and community leaders who, along with sponsors like Pepsi and Sitewire, got the project off the ground.
Read more in the East Valley Tribune.