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September 29, 2006
Cast Aluminum 12" Marquee Letters for sale
Vintage old “Adler Silhouette (cast aluminum) Letters” for sale. They are 12" tall and I have 58 letters comprised of the following mix:
1) A
1) D
6) E
4) F
3) G
3) H15 comments -
Village Theatre’s days are numbered
VALPARAISO, IN — After a hard-fought battle to keep it open for a bit longer, it looks like the Village Theatre will soon shut its doors.
Village Entertainment CEO Ron Rooding hoped the movie theater could remain open until January, but Porter Superior Court Judge William Alexa ruled Tuesday that the theater has 15 business days to cease all operations.
The north-side theater located in the former County Seat Plaza can file for an extension of 15 additional days for good reason, Alexa said. After that, Porter County police will be called to change the locks.
For the full story, visit The Post-Tribune.
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September 28, 2006
Movie theater tosses texting teens
ARLINGTON, TX — Looks like there is some justice in this world yet. Two teenagers were thrown out of a theater, just for texting!
A local movie theater is in the spotlight after kicking out a group of teenagers for sending and/or receiving text messages inside one of its auditoriums.
The AMC 24 in Arlington Parks Mall used police officers to escort the teens from the theater during the weekend.
Did they go too far?
For more, visit NBC5.
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Same day burning now possible
A company called CinemaNow, is breaking out some new technology with its same-day release of the new Fast and the Furious DVD.
Online movie service CinemaNow on Tuesday said it will offer a version of Universal Picture’s “The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift” that customers can download onto a blank DVD the same day it is available in stores.
The “download-to-burn” Web release on the same day the DVD lands in stores is a first for a major Hollywood studio. Until recently, studios have been reluctant to offer downloads to “burn,” or copy, for fear of piracy and because doing so might cannibalize retail sales in the $24 billion home DVD market.
For the rest of the story, visit Reuters.
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MovieLand investigation
EUGENE, OR — I’m sad to say MovieLand in Eugene, Oregon has been demolished. It had sat vacant for so long and people had vandalized it really bad. I was in Eugene, looking for a vacant theater to make into a brew pub, when I stumbled across the boarded up Movie Land.
Vandals had broken the glass doors. I got brave and made a plan. I ran to Fred Meyers store and bought a throw away camera and flash light. When I entered Movieland, it was huge and ominous. The whole entire lobby had been trashed. The Electricity had long ago been shut off.
Vandals had spray painted graffiti and kicked over garbage cans. I could tell Regal had just shut the doors and locked the place up. Everything was still there, ice machines, popcorn popper, hot dog wrappers.
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September 27, 2006
Odeon Morecambe
I think this cinema was the best designed provincial Odeon, perhaps the very best ever!! The main foyer was bigger and better than any other??? Anyone else know of this theater and feel the same way?
Best wishes to all
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Westgate Cinema closes
RACINE, WI — The first-run Marcus Westgate Cinema opened in the late 1960’s and was named to honor the recently-demolished Westgate Outdoor Theatre which itself had been truncated over the years for encroaching commercial construction (the Westgate shopping center) which eventually overwhelmed the Westgate Outdoor.
The Westgate Cinema’s demise had been expected to occur around Thanksgiving as the Marcus chain prepares its new multi-screen complex in the nearby village of Sturtevant. So the sudden closing on Sunday night after the final screening of “Hollywoodland” at 11:39 pm took the community by surprise.
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More Movies at the Palace Theatre
ALBANY, NY — The Palace Theatre has added more movies to their schedule.
On Sunday, October 1st the Palace will be showing a “Then and Now” feature. At 1 PM, the 1933 classic ‘King Kong’ will be played and then after a 30 minute intermission, the 2005 remake will be played.
On Wednesday, October 4th, the Palace will be showing 1941 movie ‘The Maltese Falcon’. The movie will be played at 1 PM and will be repeated at 7 PM.
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September 26, 2006
Laemmle closes Fairfax 3
LOS ANGELES, CA — Laemmle closed The Fairfax 3 Cinemas last week. The theater was mostly known for second-run indepedent films and minor festivals. This is the message of the Laemmle website:
After five years and a thousand and one good foreign, independent and art movies (or thereabouts)
Laemmle Theatres reluctantly announces we are ending our tenancy at the historic Fairfax Theatre.
Sincere thanks to all our Fairfax customers for their loyal patronage.
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Cinemas adapt in changing times
A report in the Toronto Star, ‘Beyond blockbusters’ shines some light on how some theater owners in Canada are going ‘Darwin’ on their industry.
The article points out that “Movie theatre owners are very resourceful folk and they reinvent themselves every 10 to 15 years. This has been going on since the movie palaces of the 1930s,” and goes so far as to suggest “The future of movie theatres, in fact, seems to have less and less to do with movies as new technology allows cinemas to telecast everything from hockey, wrestling, opera and HBO comedy specials to hosting children’s birthday parties, church services and interactive video games.”