New Plaza Cinema
1871 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1871 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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I went to this theater only once for GODS AND MONSTERS in 1999.
Whew! It’s back again and showing SCOOP. Flooding again, perhaps?
No listings for this theatre! Has another single screen theatre closed in Manhattan?
I walked by hear on Friday and saw a “For Rent” sign in the window, but the theatre was still open. When I walked by again last night, the “For Rent” sign was gone. Hmmmmm.
I’m kind of surprised this one is still open. I caught a film here New Year’s day weekend (TRANSAMERICA) because I figured it was one I would be able to get into since so many films have platform releases. There were quite a few people at the weekend afternoon screening that I attended.
After their 1998 merger the then-newly rechristened Loews Cineplex held onto the following former Manhattan Cineplex Odeon locations:
The Cinema Latino idea was quite an interesting one, but they chose to release films that had little or no US exposure (I’m not suprized to hear most were projected from video). They had an ambitious plan to show a new picture every week. It’s a great idea, maybe in a multiplex where you can give a film a 100-seat theatre and if the audience grows bump it up to a 300 seat auditrium. But the apeal is limited as I don’t think these films were reviewed in the local papers (simular to the aproach taken with Bollywood Cinema). Clearview plans to show self-distributed and works in progress at their IFC Center…although, somehow, some buzz-worthy film from Sundance will find an audience, I’m sure. These films, especially some of the more obsure fare are a hard sale.
Additionally, before being aquired by Clearview Cinemas this was owned by Cineplex Oden. Upon merging into Loews Cineplex all, if not most, Manhatten Cineplex Oden locations were sold to Clearview. In New Jersey Clearview aquired sites in Cranford and Ridgewood.
I went to several of the Cinema Latino screenings. Part of the reason is I have the hots for actress (and Almodovar diva) Cecilia Roth and she seemed to play at just about every other movie that screened there.
I have mixed emotions about seeing Cinema Latino go belly up because at least one of the two or three screenings I attended was projected video and a friend of mine had the same experience with a different film. And another time I attempted to go to another screening (also with Ms. Roth) and they had canceled the late afternoon/evening screenings for a special event without any warning (listings had the film running).
The DVD release of ‘Being Julia’ might not necessarily be the reason Clearview is dropping it from the 62nd & Broadway, Mike; its box office might have finally petered out enough where it didn’t make sense to hold onto it any longer.
In regards to films being dropped due to their availability on DVD, that no longer seems to be the issue it once was (or was as well when VHS still ruled the home entertainment roost). A solid number of first-run theatres are holding onto ‘Finding Neverland’ beyond tonight, even though it was released onto DVD and VHS this past Tuesday, and ‘Ray’ had a run at the Loews State in Times Square several weeks after it became available in the retail and rental marketplace. Chains (and theatres in general) are more likely to hold onto films in such circumstances than they used to, due to the glut of screens across the country and the box office numbers being just sufficient enough.
Being Julia came ou ton DVD Tuesday which is why is is ending this week. Of course knowing Clearview Cinemas, they will probibly close this one like they are planning with the Beekman.
There is a story here about the Latino format, which suprisingly did not work.
filmjerk.com/nuke/article998.html
The long run of ‘Being Julia’ at the 62nd and Broadway (and it’s time to change the name back on this theatre’s posting; the Cinema Latino name was dropped last November) is coming to an end tomorrow night, being replaced by a move-over of ‘William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice’.
‘Being Julia’ is in its sixth month in Manhattan, Warren. It opened at the Paris and (I think) the Union Square Stadium 14.
That movie is still playing in the Boston area, at West Newton Cinema. Until recently it was playing at several local second-runs theatres as well. Are you sure that it’s a flop, as opposed to a film with a small but dedicated word-of-mouth following?
While a lengthy run of “Being Julia” is unusual, the film seems to have found an audience on the Upper West Side. I went to the last screening on a Sunday night in January, and the auditorium was about ¾ full. And this was before the Oscar nominations were announced, which would have likely boosted attendance. Not bad for a film that was released about four months earlier.
It’s still a Clearview house, although given all of the current turmoil at parent company Cablevision, who knows for how much longer?
In any event, as the “Cinema Latino” name was removed months ago, the listing for this theater should be changed.
It might be a case, Warren, of the lease on the 62nd and Broadway nearing its end and Clearview not caring much how much revenue, if any, the property generates. One thing which inarguably hurt them greatly was Fox lifting its self-imposed ban on booking their product into Manhattan Loews Cineplex theatres; without those films to fall back on, and with its operating chain apparently thinking little of it (not that Cablevision, Clearview’s parent company, doesn’t have bigger items on its plate at the moment, but still… ), it seems fairly safe to say the 62nd and Broadway is living on borrowed time.
Right, I forgot about those – and the Nova, too…
also the Essex and the Coliseum at one time.
It is – the previous three instances I recall being the 8th Street Playhouse from at least the mid- through the late-‘80s; the Film Forum, which used to have a first-show starting time of somewhere around 4 pm during the week, through not long after their move to Houston Street in the early '90s; and the Columbia Cinema in the late-'80s, early '90s.
It’s unusual for a Manhattan house to be evenings only.
I don’t know what kind of business the ImaginAsian is doing in general, Robert, but do know management recently decided to drop afternoon shows Mondays through Wednesdays. They also may be benefiting from Loews' decision to double-run the State Theatre first-run major-studio bookings with the E-Walk on 42nd Street (and, at least what seems like a possibility from this non-insider’s P.O.V., decision to stray from Bollywood flicks) as the Indian film ‘Veer-Zaara’ is scheduled to open there later this week. Hopefully the venue itself is at least holding its own…
That was suprising about Cinema Latino, did anyone hear how the Asian Imagine theatre is doing?
Even though Gemini means twins they should have just called it Gemini Cinemas, I loath the name of it now.
Anybody know why the Cinema Latino didn’t take off? I t seemed like a great idea. I saw in the Times yesterday that the theater is back to 62nd and Broadway. I agree about the name. I feel the same way about United Artists 64 & 2nd. Theaters should have regular names.
I always loathed names like 62 & Broadway Cinema, why cant they use names.