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April 13, 2009
Theater for sale…reduced price!
The Regent Theater in Wellington Kansas for sale. Remodeled in 2006.
Please see listing for pictures and information.
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April 10, 2009
Cinema Treasures is seeking a few volunteers
Greetings, everyone.
We’re looking for a few volunteers to help us improve the accuracy of our theater addresses.
The majority of our listings have correct addresses. But there are some that do not. Sometimes, an address has the wrong number, street name, or direction… and we need to correct those mistakes.
This job is best suited for someone who enjoys being a sleuth and hunting down the most accurate address for a movie theater. You should also be comfortable using various tools of the web (Google, Google Maps, Google Earth, etc.). Ideally, you’d also have 5 – 10 hours a week you could dedicate to this task.
This is a volunteer position, and you will receive credit on our Volunteers page. And if things go well, there’s a possibility that we might bring you on as one of our theater editors.
If you’re interested, please contact us.
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San Angelo to sell 40 acres, get drive-in theater
SAN ANGELO, TX — The wheels are in motion for San Angelo to get a drive-in.
The city council Tuesday approved the sale of 40 acres in the city’s industrial park – at U.S. Highways 67 and 277, and Loop 306 in northeast San Angelo – to Lamesa Enterprises. The company wants to develop a three-screen drive-in theater there.
According to the agreement, the company will pay $8,000 an acre for the land. In turn, the city will build a 3,300-foot sewer line to the property and let the company drill a water well for the business.
Read the full story at Go San Angelo.
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Mekala Theatre faces demolition
CHENNAI, INDIA — A local favorite for generations, the Mekala Theatre has closed and might be torn down.
Movie buffs are unlikely to cheer as the curtains have finally come down at the Mekala theatre. For decades, it was a popular theatre
for residents in Purasawalkam and Kilpauk.“I remember it being around even in 1958. Mekala is one of the oldest theatres,” said Film News' Anandhan. “It used to screen MGR films, and families used to throng the place. It had stopped screening films couple of years ago and was not listed as a theatre. It is sad that so many theatres are coming under the bulldozers,” he added.
Read more at the Times of India.
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Theater photography project
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
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April 9, 2009
Remembering Cinerama (Part 26: Des Moines)
REMEMBERING CINERAMA
Part 26: Des MoinesThe following is Part Twenty-six in a series of retrospectives on Cinerama, the legendary motion picture process that kicked off the widescreen revolution. The series focuses on providing a market-by-market, film-by-film, historical record of when and where Cinerama and its multi-panel clones were exhibited. The easy-to-reference articles also serve to provide nostalgia to those who experienced the Cinerama presentations when they were new and to highlight the movie palaces in which the memorable events took place.
Part 1: New York
Part 2: Chicago
Part 3: San Francisco
Part 4: Houston
Part 5: Washington, DC
Part 6: Los Angeles
Part 7: Atlanta
Part 8: San Diego
Part 9: Dallas
Part 10: Oklahoma City
Part 11: Syracuse
Part 12: Toronto
Part 13: Columbus
Part 14: Montreal
Part 15: Northern New Jersey
Part 16: Charlotte
Part 17: Vancouver
Part 18: Salt Lake City
Part 19: Boston
Part 20: Philadelphia
Part 21: Fresno
Part 22: Detroit
Part 23: Minneapolis
Part 24: Albuquerque
Part 25: El PasoAnd now… Part 26: Cinerama Presentations in Des Moines, Iowa!
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Art-house theater weathers storms, recession
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Celebrating ten years in service, the Cinema Paridiso is still going strong
In the 10 years of its existence, Fort Lauderdale Is your Fort Lauderdale restaurant clean? – Click Here.’s Cinema Paradiso has seen plenty of noise and bustle. It’s hosted fundraisers, barbecues and classic car shows; motorcycle rallies, rock festivals and Halloween shindigs.
But Broward County Click here for restaurant inspection reports’s lone art-house cinema is quiet as a church on most weekday mornings —– appropriate for a place that used to be one. On one morning last week, the lights are dim and the air conditioning is scant. The theater is empty except for Hal Axler, the theater’s programming director and the executive director of the Broward County Film Society. Sitting alone in the spacious second-floor office, he fields all the phone calls and even helps to unpack Bud Light cases from a hand truck during a morning delivery.
Read the full story in the Sun Sentinel.
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Motion-enhanced seats coming to a theater near you
Taking a cue from the theater developments of the 1950’s, motion-enhanced seats are being tested out.
Heading to the movies just became a more “moving” experience, thanks to new motion-activated theater seats available for theatergoers, D-BOX Technologies announced today. Beginning April 3, audiences will experience the seats with the release of Universal Pictures' new action-thriller, Fast & Furious.
D-BOX Technologies will debut its Motion Systems for the first time during this theatrical release. The seats are equipped with the company’s Motion technology and powered by D-BOX Motion Effects that corresponds to the action taking place onscreen, causing the seats to tilt and shake in perfect synchronization with the onscreen action.
Read more in PR Newswire.
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April 8, 2009
MovieTickets.com inks 150th theater chain partner
Apparently leaving Fandango and all others in the dust, MovieTickets.com announced its 150th chain partnership at ShoWest.
MovieTickets.com (www.movietickets.com) today announced at ShoWest it will provide online movie ticketing services for its 150th theater chain — a milestone partnership for the company, which now represents seven times as many exhibitors as its nearest competitor.
Read the full story at Fox Business.
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Wind lights up Ill. drive-in
GIBSON CITY, IL — Want to save some money in today’s economy running your theater? How about operating your theater on wind like the Harvest Moon.?
When its season opened two weekends ago, the Harvest Moon blew in with the wind literally as the world’s first and only turbine-powered movie theater.
“Indoor or out,” said Onarga-based owner Mike Harroun, who has operated the twin-screen drive-in since 1989.
The only similar venue, he said, is the Color House Theatre, a live children’s stage in Merton Abby Mills, England.
Read more in the Chicago Tribune.