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August 21, 2009
The League of Historic American Theatres presents 2009 Awards
BALTIMORE, MD — The League of Historic American Theatres, celebrating leadership among historic theatres throughout North America, presented its 2009 Outstanding Historic Theatre Award to Proctors in Schenectady, NY, and its 2009 Outstanding Individual Contribution Award, to theatre architect Killis P. Almond, San Antonio, TX, during its 33rd Annual Conference and Theatre Tour in Cleveland, OH.
League President James Boese, Vice President of the Nederlander Producing Company of America, New York, NY, John Faust, Theatre Manager, Stanley Center for the Arts, Utica, NY, Maureen Patton, Executive Director, The Grand Opera House, Galveston, TX, and Tony Rivenbark, Executive Director, Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Wilmington, NC announced the awards during the organization’s Annual Award Banquet on July 18, 2009 in the Palace Ballroom of the Wyndham Cleveland Hotel at Playhouse Square.
Presenting the Outstanding Historic Theatre Award to Philip Morris, President & CEO of Proctors, Boese acknowledged the historic theatre’s significant accomplishments, inspiring excellence in the preservation, restoration and sustainable operation of American historic theatres. John Faust, who had nominated the theatre for the award, praised Proctors as “a major success story, a stellar example of how the restoration, expansion and innovative programming of a historic theatre totally revitalize a community.”
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August 20, 2009
Norwood celebrates 60 years
BRACEBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA — The Norwood Cinema is celebrating sixty years in business as it looks back at the changes in moviegoing over the years.
Joseph built the original 600-seat building in 1949, complete with a stage for live shows, two aisles and a screen to show movies.
Times have changed and the building now houses three cinemas. Cinema One has 235 seats, Cinema Two has 220 seats and Cinema Three has 120 seats.
The original theatre also had red velvet curtains and its live shows were well attended, remember its owners.
Read more in the Bracebridge Examiner.
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Regent Highland Park Village Theatre closes; may re-open in 2010
DALLAS, TX — The Regent Hyland Park Village four-screen multiplex in Dallas is closing, but is scheduled to re-open in May after renovation. The theater is leading location for art house and indie fare.
The Regent Highland Park Village theater has closed.
Thursday’s slate of films, which included movies as varied as The Hangover and indie $9.99, will be the last ones shown until the theater reopens in May.
More details in the Dallas News.
The chain’s other theatre, Los Angeles' Regent Showcase, also recently closed.
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New Jersey Theater for rent—full time or part time
Renovated theater in Western New Jersey available for rent. Located in Blairstown, New Jersey. Seats around 200. Film, live music, live theater, dance all possible. Lighting system in place. Concert piano. Part time rental possible. Please call Howard for more information: 415 377 9052
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August 19, 2009
Israel’s aspiring ‘film capital’ is losing its movie theaters
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — Despite recent enthusiasm for the film market there, Jerusalem has been losing its theaters.
Ever since Nir Barkat won the mayoral race in Jerusalem in November, the new administration under his helm has gone out of its way to prove the city is vital and has much to offer young people. Barkat spoke of Jerusalem as a “film capital” and hosted Hollywood producers to persuade them to shoot movies there.
But even if this dream comes true, Jerusalemites may soon be forced to go elsewhere to watch these movies. The capital is turning into the periphery, culturally speaking, in the number of functioning movie screens. In just three months, six screening halls in the Malha shopping mall will close to make way for the H&M clothing chain. And a serious threat of closure hangs over the Lev Smadar, a historic and much-loved institution, active as movie house for the last 81 years in the German Colony.
Read more at Haaretz.
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Local set to remodel Gateway 8
WEST BOUNTIFUL, UT — Despite a recent ownership change, new renovations are coming to the temporarily shuttered Gateway 8 Cinemas.
However, movie goers do not have to fear traveling to Salt Lake City for too long or worry about whether the theater will stay in its current location. Spencer Marsden, a former Bountiful resident and graduate of Bountiful High School, said the theater will remain intact.
“We’re renovating the whole thing,” he said.“"We want to create an environment in which customers have a memorable and fun experience at the movies.
“This theater is an integral part of the community, and we want it to be a place where families, couples, and people of all ages can go and have a great time from the moment they enter the theater to the moment they leave.”
Read the full story in the Davis County Clipper.
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Capitol Theatre Building gets high profile tenant
FLINT, MI — Television station WJRT reports at that the Spencer Agency, an advertising agency presently in Mundy Township, is renovating a storefront space next to the iconic Capitol Theatre/ downtown. Owner Joshua Spencer is excited to be a part of the revitalization of downtown Flint. The agency plans on moving to the theater building in the fall.
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August 18, 2009
New operators for NY theaters
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Movie Palace History summarized online
Here’s a wonderful new online article with fantastic photos illustrating what a movie palace is about and the wonderful survival of some of them:
With so much confusion, careless mismanagement and blind ignorance in play, is it any wonder that so few of the grand picture palaces of yore have survived?
Not all is lost, though so much has been relegated to the dust bins of history. After the cavalier purge and demolition in the mid to late 60s, the early 1970s saw a sudden revival of interest in these crumbling paradises, most immediately from civic-minded cultural preservationist groups who aggressively campaigned to raise money and save their picture palaces that had fallen on hard times.
Read more at Hollywood Art.