I imagine that it was built with 20 screens but one screen either was merged with another screen to create a bigger auditorium or one in used for storage.
Same thing with the Studio 30 in Kansas City and why it has 29 screens instead of 30.
These would be good choices for recent art titles to play:
Che (roadshow version)
Waltz With Bashir
12 (it’s in Russian but it’s a remake of 12 Angry Men and it’s sort of an epic)
The Class (seems rather accessible to American audiences)
Happy-Go-Lucky
Fanboys
Sunshine Cleaning
Man On Wire
Very heartfelt and touching story, Mr. Parsons. Even in sadness, theatres can be magicial places.
And a nice list of scope films, Cinemark. Though in your situation I would have thrown in Madea Goes To Jail and the 3-D Coraline (both flat), that’s a great lineup.
As for upcoming releases in your game, I’d suggest Duplicity (filmed in Panavision I believe), the 3-D Monsters vs. Aliens (in scope), Observe and Report (possibly in scope) and Earth (not scope but would look breathtaking on a big screen).
I haven’t heard anything but I imagine that it has been delayed for budget reasons from the parent company. I’m figuring this since Dickinson chose not to buy new DLP projectors for the recent installation but simply removed them from their Little Rock theatre and put them in the other theatres. That is a sign of economic cutbacks.
When the theatre became Movieland, it opened with Private Benjamin and not Any Which Way You Can. The October 10th, 1980 New York Times even features a “Warner Bros. welcome New York’s newest movie house” blurb bordering the Movieland listing in its full page ad.
The theatre closed in late April or early May 1985. The final double bill I believe was The Killing Fields and Wim Wenders' Hammett.
And the second film that played with Return Of The Jedi was Max Dugan Returns with Jason Robards and a young Matthew Broderick just before he did WarGames.
I believe that the only way that piracy will be solved is if they put computers behind the screens that could shoot lasers at the pirates, killing them instantly.
But since that is a little too radical and too expensive, piracy will end up continuing no matter how hard people try.
I’m guessing that this theatre was originally intended to be an arthouse since their two THX auditoriums on opening day were playing art films (along with two other art films in other auditoriums).
I imagine that Zoot Suit got a 70mm release since it was a musical (many musicals of the era got 70mm) and Universal was hoping for a big hit in the vein of films such as Fame (even though the failures of Sgt. Pepper, The Wiz and Xanadu should have taught them). The reviews were decent but the film failed and didn’t manage much of a release.
However, Universal finally did get a hit musical in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas a year later (which interestingly enough did not get a 70mm release).
Possible reason of why Run, Run Joe ran (and in 70mm): Pacific Theatres distributed the film in a likely attempt to follow in National General’s (and later the United Artists Theatre Circut’s two label, UFDC and Taurus) footsteps. Not surprisingly, it didn’t work.
I’m guessing this closed as part of DeLaurentiis’s many bankruptcies.
I imagine that it was built with 20 screens but one screen either was merged with another screen to create a bigger auditorium or one in used for storage.
Same thing with the Studio 30 in Kansas City and why it has 29 screens instead of 30.
Wow. Nowadays you never see runs of 97 weeks, 75 weeks, 53 weeks and 36 weeks unless it’s an IMAX film.
These would be good choices for recent art titles to play:
Che (roadshow version)
Waltz With Bashir
12 (it’s in Russian but it’s a remake of 12 Angry Men and it’s sort of an epic)
The Class (seems rather accessible to American audiences)
Happy-Go-Lucky
Fanboys
Sunshine Cleaning
Man On Wire
So it’s becoming an arena for bicycle races?
Very heartfelt and touching story, Mr. Parsons. Even in sadness, theatres can be magicial places.
And a nice list of scope films, Cinemark. Though in your situation I would have thrown in Madea Goes To Jail and the 3-D Coraline (both flat), that’s a great lineup.
As for upcoming releases in your game, I’d suggest Duplicity (filmed in Panavision I believe), the 3-D Monsters vs. Aliens (in scope), Observe and Report (possibly in scope) and Earth (not scope but would look breathtaking on a big screen).
I’m guessing that this theatre is getting Fast and Furious since the film is compatible with the D-Box motion format and this theatre has it.
So it looks like they’ve created a way to get more people to hate Bradford Howell.
I haven’t heard anything but I imagine that it has been delayed for budget reasons from the parent company. I’m figuring this since Dickinson chose not to buy new DLP projectors for the recent installation but simply removed them from their Little Rock theatre and put them in the other theatres. That is a sign of economic cutbacks.
I don’t know if it’s going to work in a place like Greenville, Alabama but I do like the idea and the ambition of the owners.
Wrong page, buddy.
They get all of the good stuff in the East Coast! Oh well. But it still sounds like an entertaining night.
When the theatre became Movieland, it opened with Private Benjamin and not Any Which Way You Can. The October 10th, 1980 New York Times even features a “Warner Bros. welcome New York’s newest movie house” blurb bordering the Movieland listing in its full page ad.
The theatre closed in late April or early May 1985. The final double bill I believe was The Killing Fields and Wim Wenders' Hammett.
And the second film that played with Return Of The Jedi was Max Dugan Returns with Jason Robards and a young Matthew Broderick just before he did WarGames.
I believe that this theatre opened in 1983, possibly with Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Oh, thank you.
Tiny URL?
Here’s a link to the article about the Korean films making their US premieres at the theatre:
View link
Keep in mind that I’m only being half-serious. The computer thing is serious, but the lasers were only a joke.
Didn’t the exterior for this theatre appear in Near Dark (showing Aliens)?
I believe that the only way that piracy will be solved is if they put computers behind the screens that could shoot lasers at the pirates, killing them instantly.
But since that is a little too radical and too expensive, piracy will end up continuing no matter how hard people try.
I’m guessing that this theatre was originally intended to be an arthouse since their two THX auditoriums on opening day were playing art films (along with two other art films in other auditoriums).
I imagine that Zoot Suit got a 70mm release since it was a musical (many musicals of the era got 70mm) and Universal was hoping for a big hit in the vein of films such as Fame (even though the failures of Sgt. Pepper, The Wiz and Xanadu should have taught them). The reviews were decent but the film failed and didn’t manage much of a release.
However, Universal finally did get a hit musical in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas a year later (which interestingly enough did not get a 70mm release).
Possible reason of why Run, Run Joe ran (and in 70mm): Pacific Theatres distributed the film in a likely attempt to follow in National General’s (and later the United Artists Theatre Circut’s two label, UFDC and Taurus) footsteps. Not surprisingly, it didn’t work.
I found that one other film played in 70mm here: The Last Emperor in 1988.