I feel for you, Newt. In the area where I live, there is no respect for the arts and those same people run the state government so spending on the arts is considered wasteful spending. In fact, lots of those same people will consider arts as satanic (I wouldn’t be surprised if they were Fred Phelps people). Also, these people will also cut arts spending in schools but won’t cut the more wasteful in spending cheerleading programs. Not only is that wrong but it limits the role models and job opportunities in young and adolescent females.
I would encourage that we should get the state and city governments to help the arts before it is too long. I’m considering trying to get our new governor-elect to pass a bill that would bring film production to the state. Not only does it help the arts but it also promotes the state and it boosts the area’s income. But it would get voted down by the same people who find the arts wasteful spending but not electric chairs or taking money from oil companies.
Several of Universal’s rep titles are still cirulating in 35mm. Recently, prints of titles such as Animal House, Tremors, Jurassic Park and this week, Repo Man, have played in my area.
They pulled out of the Springfield/Branson in 1998 or 1999, after the closings of three theatres (Century 21, Tower, North Town) and a fourth on its last legs(Fremont) due to competition from the Campbell 16 (Wehrenberg) and the Palace (Warren).
This has been in the works for a while. For example: back when they bought back the Springfield 8 in Springfield, Missouri, they announced that all the auditoriums would get digital projection plus an IMAX screen would be built for Spring 2009.
The quadded theatre opened on May 21st, 1996 with Mission: Impossible and opening three days later, Spy Hard and Jane Eyre. To celebrate the opening, special free weekend showings of Toy Story, All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 and Babe also ran.
The theatre opened on November 22nd, 1991 as a twelve-screen theatre. The theatre opened eight additional screens on June 30th, 1995 to become twenty screens. The theatre became twenty-two later that year.
Noticed that Stony Island was an engagement in 1978. That was the directorial debut of Chicago native and future director of The Fugitive Andrew Davis.
This strikes me as being extremely tacky. Give me the booth anyday.
By the way, does anyone find it amazing that Alabama has so many theatres with digital projection while larger states or cities seem to have so few? For example when St. Louis got their first theatre with digital projection (in one auditorium) in 2005, many smaller cities in Alabama already had digital projection and in multiple auditoriums as well.
I’d say that this hurts video stores more than theatres. The films themselves won’t be entirely new so it only hurts theatres a little. However, some people probably won’t need to go the video store ever again with this and as a result, it decreases the amount of money made in the home entertainment industry.
Right now, the only things that will hurt theatres would be same-day theatrical to video windows on everything and Paris Hilton on the A list.
I first saw this on FX (edited, of course) when I was thirteen. Shortly after, I saw all of the sequels on DVD (best sequel: Halloween II, worst sequel: Halloween: Resurrection). I saw the remake in theatres the day it opened at the Springfield 8 in Springfield, Missouri. The first half (which focused on the origin and Michael developing into The Shape) was very good but the second half failed to live to the first half.
And here’s another little-known fact about Halloween:
According to “A Cut Above The Rest” from the 20th Anniversary DVD, the film premiered in Kansas City, Missouri. Not a big premiere or anything but it was first released regionally in the Midwest and Kansas City was the first city to get the film. It ended up playing for more than six months in Kansas City theatres. Nowadays, horror films are lucky to get one month in first run.
I read that article and it mentioned that the French film Romance was the next-to-last show (The Insider being the last). That must have been great watching a NC-17 rated erotic drama on a large Cinerama screen.
The theatre opened on November 27th, 1991 with four open auditoriums running My Girl (on three screens) and For The Boys. A week later, the other two auditoriums opened with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (on two screens, at least one print was 70mm).
I remember seeing Must Love Dogs (the one with Diane Lane and John Cusack) here back in 2005 while visiting Omaha. I remember that it was a pretty nice theatre.
I feel for you, Newt. In the area where I live, there is no respect for the arts and those same people run the state government so spending on the arts is considered wasteful spending. In fact, lots of those same people will consider arts as satanic (I wouldn’t be surprised if they were Fred Phelps people). Also, these people will also cut arts spending in schools but won’t cut the more wasteful in spending cheerleading programs. Not only is that wrong but it limits the role models and job opportunities in young and adolescent females.
I would encourage that we should get the state and city governments to help the arts before it is too long. I’m considering trying to get our new governor-elect to pass a bill that would bring film production to the state. Not only does it help the arts but it also promotes the state and it boosts the area’s income. But it would get voted down by the same people who find the arts wasteful spending but not electric chairs or taking money from oil companies.
Several of Universal’s rep titles are still cirulating in 35mm. Recently, prints of titles such as Animal House, Tremors, Jurassic Park and this week, Repo Man, have played in my area.
That sucks about the film. Not only the porn but Pet Sematary is one of the better Stephen King adaptations. Hell, King’s even in it.
They pulled out of the Springfield/Branson in 1998 or 1999, after the closings of three theatres (Century 21, Tower, North Town) and a fourth on its last legs(Fremont) due to competition from the Campbell 16 (Wehrenberg) and the Palace (Warren).
This has been in the works for a while. For example: back when they bought back the Springfield 8 in Springfield, Missouri, they announced that all the auditoriums would get digital projection plus an IMAX screen would be built for Spring 2009.
There is an error in the article: Olathe is in Kansas, not in Missouri but very close to the Missouri-Kansas border.
The quadded theatre opened on May 21st, 1996 with Mission: Impossible and opening three days later, Spy Hard and Jane Eyre. To celebrate the opening, special free weekend showings of Toy Story, All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 and Babe also ran.
The theatre opened on November 22nd, 1991 as a twelve-screen theatre. The theatre opened eight additional screens on June 30th, 1995 to become twenty screens. The theatre became twenty-two later that year.
The theatre opened on July 15th, 1988.
According to the ad, the opening engagements were the reissue of The Sting, Day Of The Animals and Peckinpah’s Cross Of Iron.
Yes, Dirty Dancing!
I kind of got the idea that this theatre never did that well. The fare always seemed to be too obscure, even for New York.
Noticed that Stony Island was an engagement in 1978. That was the directorial debut of Chicago native and future director of The Fugitive Andrew Davis.
This strikes me as being extremely tacky. Give me the booth anyday.
By the way, does anyone find it amazing that Alabama has so many theatres with digital projection while larger states or cities seem to have so few? For example when St. Louis got their first theatre with digital projection (in one auditorium) in 2005, many smaller cities in Alabama already had digital projection and in multiple auditoriums as well.
I’d say that this hurts video stores more than theatres. The films themselves won’t be entirely new so it only hurts theatres a little. However, some people probably won’t need to go the video store ever again with this and as a result, it decreases the amount of money made in the home entertainment industry.
Right now, the only things that will hurt theatres would be same-day theatrical to video windows on everything and Paris Hilton on the A list.
I first saw this on FX (edited, of course) when I was thirteen. Shortly after, I saw all of the sequels on DVD (best sequel: Halloween II, worst sequel: Halloween: Resurrection). I saw the remake in theatres the day it opened at the Springfield 8 in Springfield, Missouri. The first half (which focused on the origin and Michael developing into The Shape) was very good but the second half failed to live to the first half.
And here’s another little-known fact about Halloween:
According to “A Cut Above The Rest” from the 20th Anniversary DVD, the film premiered in Kansas City, Missouri. Not a big premiere or anything but it was first released regionally in the Midwest and Kansas City was the first city to get the film. It ended up playing for more than six months in Kansas City theatres. Nowadays, horror films are lucky to get one month in first run.
I wonder how Titanic will do over there.
So, was that protest just a publicity stunt or were they serious?
The article about the closing. Forgot to clarify.
I read that article and it mentioned that the French film Romance was the next-to-last show (The Insider being the last). That must have been great watching a NC-17 rated erotic drama on a large Cinerama screen.
Didn’t this theatre host Cleopatra’s world premiere?
The theatre opened on November 27th, 1991 with four open auditoriums running My Girl (on three screens) and For The Boys. A week later, the other two auditoriums opened with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (on two screens, at least one print was 70mm).
I remember seeing Must Love Dogs (the one with Diane Lane and John Cusack) here back in 2005 while visiting Omaha. I remember that it was a pretty nice theatre.
And even then it was 19 screens.
Mamma Mia’s been a monster over in the UK. It might break Titanic’s record for the highest grossing film in UK history.
Holy crap, Che is long. I can see why Soderbergh can’t find anyone in the US to release it.
But Del Toro looks like a badass in it.