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February 4, 2009
Kew Gardens Cinemas adds sixth screen
KEW GARDENS, NY — It’s almost a year now that Kew Gardens Cinemas added another screen that replaced the dry cleaners located in the same building. It’s stadium seating with nice width and great sightlines. What a great theatre to visit for great films.
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February 3, 2009
Palace restoration fundraiser
CANTON, OH —The Palace Theatre is holding a fundraiser this month so it can be refurbished and appreciated by more generations.
The “atmospheric” theater — one of only a few dozen of its kind still in existence — remains as an elder resident of downtown’s Market Avenue N. It’s used for more than 300 arts and community programs. Canton Ballet performances. Movie nights. Concerts. Dance studio recitals. Broadway-style productions. Musical events. Fundraisers.
But heavy traffic invariably leaves footprints, says Georgia Paxos, executive director, and the money left behind by patrons doesn’t pay for the maintenance needed to keep the entertainment venue pristine. That’s why the Canton Palace Theatre Association is putting on “An Affair to Remember” Feb. 28 at McKinley Grand Hotel —to help fund necessary repairs to the theater.
Read more at the CantonRep.
(Thanks to theamericanroadside for providing the photo.)
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Mayor meets with university students on efforts to salvage Astro
CLEMSON, SC — The city is evaluating the options to save the Astro III.
Clemson Mayor Larry Abernathy informed between 20-25 Clemson University students earlier this week that nothing new has occurred regarding efforts to purchase the vacant Carmike Cinema Astro Triple Theatre from the Mount Pleasant family which owns the building and property.
Abernathy did tell students he is still talking with a potential investor, and if the family agrees, the investor would purchase the theater, while the city would purchase the parking spaces at the College Avenue site.
Read more at Upstate Today.
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Anniversary show at the Carlisle
CARLISLE, PA — Auditions are currently underway for the 70th Anniversary show at the Carlisle Theatre.
Currently under development, the show will feature music, dance and historical facts from the seven decades the old movie house has witnessed since it first opened as the Comerford in 1939.
The goal is to take the audience back to a simpler time when cell phones did not exist, space travel was newfangled, Burma Shave signs graced two-lane highways and families gathered around the TV Sunday night to watch Ed Sullivan.
Read the full story in the Sentinel.
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February 2, 2009
Bijou celebrates 100 years
KNOXVILLE, TN — A new marquee is up to celebrate the Bijou’s Centennial.
A blue vertical sign with 448 LED bulbs and sidewalk marquee was turned on just before 6 p.m. at the 803 S. Gay St. theater to celebrate the building’s first century.
The ceremony began four days of Bijou 100 Year Jubilee events and the culmination of the “Light Up the Bijou” campaign that raised money for the marquee and sign that gave the Bijou a look similar to one of its past. The Bijou for decades had a sign and marquee. The last marquee apparently was removed when the theater was saved from demolition in the 1970s.
Read more at the Knoxville News.
(Thanks to lumierefl for providing the photo.)
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National Cinemedia releases 2009 outlook
The country’s largest cinema ad operator released its 2009 projections.
National CineMedia Inc. updated its anticipated financial performance for 2008 and released its outlook for 2009 on Thursday, saying it expects last year’s revenues “to be at the high end or slightly exceed” its initial estimate of $364 million to $368 million.
The Centennial company operates North America’s largest movie-theater digital network.
Read more at Bizjournals.
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State Theatre revival help
I’m looking for investors to bring this theater back in bussiness. I have all the vendors in place with cost of property and cost to retool. I’m asking for anyone that would like to help.
I can be reached at:
Chris Hammontree
650 Windsor
Kingman, AZ 8640910 am-1pm M-F
928-565-1659
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January 30, 2009
Baltimore offers $320,000 to keep Senator open as a nonprofit
BALTIMORE, MD — The city of Baltimore is offering up money to keep the Senator Theatre going, but the owner will have to turn it into a nonprofit.
Not wanting to see the Senator Theatre closed on their watch, city officials are offering $320,000 to keep it open – provided the 70-year-old movie house is turned into a nonprofit business.
“The Senator Theatre is a Baltimore icon,” Deputy Baltimore Mayor Andrew Frank said yesterday. “It’s ingrained in the psychology of Baltimore. … Its closing would be felt in ways that would be manifest throughout the community.”
Read more in the Baltimore Sun.
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Connecticut Film Festival is still accepting submissions!!!
The CT Film Festival, to be held in downtown Danbury, June 2-7, 2009 is still accepting movies of all kinds – shorts, features, documentaries, animations, interactive, mixed media, etc.
Please go to www.withoutabox.com or www.ctfilmfest.com for more information.
Dave Bonan
CT Film Fest
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Theater admissions fall in ‘08
It certainly wasn’t a win, but a not so serious decline and current increase in ticket sales provide a bright pictures for theaters.
Theater admissions fell less than anticipated in 2008 — 2.5% — while they are up a sizeable 4.5% so far this year.
Tallies provide further evidence that moviegoing has become a favorite pastime in brutal economic times.
Industry estimates released at the end of December showed that admissions for 2008 were running 4%-5% behind 2007.
Read the full story in Variety.