Hello, my wife and I have a few theaters and are opening up a twin screen in Texas. There’s no competition for 45 miles. We are renovating the theater, and would like to have a silent or working partner with a small investment.

If you’re interested, please contact me.

Thanks

Hi,

I am completing a study of the adaptive reuse of historic movie theaters and churches. Many movie theaters are used as live performance space or event space, but I was wondering if anyone could direct me to some adaptive reuse projects that are unusual or more creative uses of the space.

Thanks,
Sarah

Looking for a General Manager for California location.  Please send resume and salary requests to bloomhuffentertainment@hotmail.com.

I was wondering if anyone had any info and insight on how I would go about showing older movies on a single screen theater. 

Where do I go to find these? What can and can’t I show? How much will it cost to show older movies? 

I’ve been kicking around the idea of opening a single screen theater that would specialize on showing older movies that most have not had the chance to see on the big screen. I am also interested in hosting midnight showings of older and newer B-movies. I want to concentrate on quality movies, a great vintage atmosphere, and a concession stand that would serve a vast variety of home grown recipes and snacks. 

Does anyone know of a resource or articles that discusses alternative uses for movie cineplex buildings?

I’m doing research into a newer mall 8 theater cineplex that is vacating soon.

I wanted to think of alternative uses for the building mall owner.

We have 15 rows of seats, each that have been used for church pews. There are 5 seats per row.  It is possible they originally came out of a theater and may date back to 1920’s or 1930’s. They have metal frames with wooden backs and seats bolted to them. Each seat folds up & down and they have wooden armrests. 

The metal end caps have a design that consists of an “Aladdin” type lamp with a flame @ the spout and rays of light radiating from the flame. 

We were wondering if anybody has seen seats like these with that design and is there anyway to tell who made them?  Of course any other information you have we would appreciate.

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I’m working with the newly saved and to be totally refurbished Franklin Theater in Franklin, TN. I desperately need to talk to someone about projection systems.

Rod Daniel
615-790-1700

I’m a professional photographer with an assignment to photograph a few classic theaters. The results will be displayed as very large prints in the lobby of the Lynwood Theater on Bainbridge Island, WA. I’m looking for suggestions of theaters to photograph in the Washington/Oregon area that would be most photogenic. They could also be former theaters now functioning as other businesses, or closed but intact, large or small.

Joel Sackett
sackettjk@aol.com
206 842-9835

JERSEY CITY, NJ — Even as our season of classic films and other events continues, Friends of the Loew’s is moving forward with a number of volunteer projects to improve our Loew’s Jersey Theatre.

So, this coming Saturday . . .

For weeks, several FOL volunteers have been working to remove decades of old bubble gum from more than two thousand metal seat parts from the Loew’s balcony. It may not sound very glamorous, it is nevertheless very important.  Now, the next step is to disassemble those parts. All of this is in preparation for re-painting those parts, re-installing the seats and — FINALLY! — reopening the Loew’s balcony! We need three people to use pneumatic wrenches (the kind you see in auto-repair shops) to remove the bolts and disassemble the parts. It’s not really hard, and no special skills are needed. Come join the Balcony Team at the Loew’s!

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PRESTON, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND —

Hi there,

I have restarted the campaign to save the New Vic from further decay with the ultimate aim of reopening the cinema as a kinda-Cornerhouse affair. 

Email for futher details and a visit.

NewVic.