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January 5, 2009
Theater building cost?
I was just wondering if anyone out there has built a single screen theater, and how much did it really cost? I am talking actually, not maybe this or that. I have been interested for quite sometime now, and an option for a sight has recently popped up here in Northern California.
Any info would be great. I appreciate all responses .
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January 1, 2009
Happy New Year’s
Happy New Year’s from all of us here at Cinema Treasures. We wish you all a happy and healthy new year and we’ll be back next week with more news.
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December 31, 2008
Remembering Cinerama (Part 18: Salt Lake City)
REMEMBERING CINERAMA
Part 18: Salt Lake CityThe following is Part Eighteen 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, D.C.
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: VancouverAnd now…Part 18: Cinerama Presentations in Salt Lake City, Utah!
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Cuban picks up shares of Carmike
Already owning part of the Landmark Theatres chain, Mark Cuban is broadening his portfolio by buying shares of Carmike Cinems.
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team and co-owner of the Landmark Theaters cinema chain, has acquired a 9.4% stake in Carmike Cinemas (CKEC), according to a regularly filing on Monday.
In the Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Cuban reported buying 1.2 million Carmike shares on the open market for roughly $2.8 million of his own funds. According to the filing, Cuban has been acquiring the shares through his personal investment account since mid-October.
Read more in USA Today.
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Academy Theater wins Preservation in Action Award
To celebrate their 20th anniversary, the Architectural Heritage Center/Bosco-Milligan Foundation created the “Preservation in Action Award” with the goal of recognizing projects which demonstrate and celebrate the cultural, historic, and economic value of historic preservation in our communities, and thereby inspiring others to do the same.
A distinguished panel of judges chose 15 projects completed over the past 20 years which they considered to be outstanding works of historic preservation. Among them was Portland, Oregon’s Academy Theater: Visit AHC.
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Getting the reels?
I am absolutely brand spanking new to this. How does one secure the rights, and get the reels to show at a theater? I’ve looked on the internet, and haven’t come up with a thing. Can anyone help me to understand what I am doing so I can do it well?
Thanks,
Joanne Conger
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ISO Movie theaters or auditoriums in the Inland Empire
I am a Real Estate Agent and was commissioned by a Non-Profit (501.C.3) Community Development Organization to look for a movie theater or auditorium for sale in the following areas of California:
Inland Empire
San Bernardino County
High Dessert
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December 30, 2008
Varsity reaches 70
DES MOINES, IA — Last week, the Varsity Theatre reached its 70th Anniversary and it’s still going strong.
Bev Mahon still keeps a grainy photocopy of a newspaper advertisement that was published in early 1939. The Varsity Theater had just opened, and the advertorial boasted that it was “not just another theater, but in a setting as picturesque as the locality it represents a charming place to spend your entertainment hours, leisurely, unobtrusively.”
When one considers that description, the Varsity hasn’t changed all that much during the years. On Christmas Day, the single-screen theater across the street from historic Drake University will reach a milestone of its own — its 70th anniversary.
Read more in the Des Moines Register.
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Beach Theatre closer to end
CAPE MAY, NJ — With future plans now in motion for the theatre site, the Beach Theatre’s days are numbered.
The city’s last movie theater is one scene closer to The End.
The Cape May Planning Board late Tuesday night granted preliminary site plan approval for Frank Investments Inc. to convert the Beach Theatre into six housing units.
The company still needs state environmental permits before it can build.
Frank Investments, which runs a chain of cinemas, including ones in Rio Grande and Stone Harbor, previously received approval to demolish Cape May’s 58-year-old movie house.
Read the full story in the Press of Atlantic City.
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West Erie Plaza Cinemas to close after 58 years
ERIE, PA — After almost sixty years in the business, the Plaza Cinemas is scheduled to close.
The locally owned Plaza Cinemas screens will go dark for the final time next week. The theatre, located in the West Erie Plaza, will close on Tuesday, December 23, after nearly 58 years of business.
The theatre, opened in 1950, was the area’s first suburban theatre showing top Hollywood blockbusters. Opened as a large single screen theatre, it was converted to a four-screen multiplex in 1980.
Read the full story at WEP Cinemas.