Today's Newsreel

The new owners of the Ioka seek to avoid the limelight, the Rockland Strand could reopen by summertime (see previous story), the Cerrito Theater gets $3.5 million for renovations, and the Hollywood Reporter gets to the bottom of what killed the AMC/Loews Cineplex merger — all in today’s newsreel.

• Orchestra tunes up for Warner Grand
• Roll Credits — AMC, Loews Merger Talks Off
• Cake, ice cream and a movie
• $3.5 million goes to Cerrito renovation
• Canada enlists Conan to help boost tourism
• New owners of Ioka seek anonymity
• Small-town theaters staving off extinction
• Boston’s Opera House being restored to former glory
• Remembering The Rogers Theater
• Stoughton Village Players raising money for facility
• Dumbed-down, overcommercialized movie theater experience little better than TV anymore

(Thanks to Gregg Anderson for the Cerrito info.)