Story Screen Cinema

ridethectrain on February 5, 2026 at 9:49 pm

please update, close as of February 9, 2025

Text GREENPORT — Story Screen Cinema will shutter Sunday, becoming the second movie theater to open and close at its location in under four years.

The closure was due to “some major issues” with the building at Fairview Plaza, owners Mike Burdge and Diana DiMuro said in an Instagram post. They decided not to renew their lease after

“much back and forth” with the landlord at the commercial shopping district about a mile north of downtown Hudson.

The theater’s departure leaves another retail space empty in Fairview Plaza, where vacant storefronts and “for lease” signs have proliferated in recent years. Trinity Realty Group broker Kevin Parisi declined to comment on the latest closure at the property he oversees. County records show the plaza is owned by a limited liability company based in Brooklyn and Ann Arbor, Mich.

The theater’s screenings of classic and cult movies endeared it to local cinephiles. In its final days, the movie theater planned to show a double feature of “Beetlejuice” and “A Mighty Wind” to honor Catherine O’Hara, the Canadian actress and comedian who died last week.

Burdge started Story Screen in 2014 as a community for film enthusiasts. He helped to reopen and manage the Beacon Theater before teaming up with DiMuro to open the three-screen venue in Greenport. The pair said they would continue to host pop-up events and outdoor screenings throughout the Hudson Valley while they looked for another location.

The Madison Theatre briefly operated an outpost at Story Screen’s plaza location. The Albany theater opened its Greenport venue in 2022, temporarily closed that same year, and later reopened for a short stint in August 2023 before shuttering within months.

Burdge and DiMuro thanked patrons for supporting Story Screen during its two-year run.

“We have loved meeting you and hosting you for events and talking movies with you,” they wrote. “We are truly saddened to be leaving so soon and we will be working on finding a new space.”

dallasmovietheaters on October 26, 2022 at 4:13 pm

The operators of the Madison Theatre in Albany reopened this venue as the Madison Theatre Hudson on December 17, 2021 with “Spider-Man No Way Home” as well as two holiday-themed repertory films with “A Christmas Story” and “Christmas Vacation.” The original relaunch was to have occurred late in 2019 but was delayed with a March 11, 2020 opening announced but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit closing most hardtop theatres in March of 2020, the opening was scrapped. The theater apparently had a soft launch in May of 2020 with to go food service before closing again.

The grand opening in December of 2021 was muted as the theater’s business model was compromised in its inability to secure a liquor license. And despite the reopening, the City of Hudson was indifferent to the venue which featured a restaurant but, apparently, a lounge unable to serve mixed drinks. The operators tried to buoy its operation by offering monthly and annual subscription plans for unlimited movie watching. The theater was unable to secure a liquor license leading to a challenging environment along with few major film releases after the big Summer of 2022.

The Madison Theatre Hudson closed with slow business and - yet - symmetry as the final films were “Beast,” “Bullet Train,” and, in time to both open and close the house, the reissued “Spider-Man: No Way Home (Extended Cut)” on September 14, 2022. Folks who bought the unlimited subscription to the theater were given alternatives. The name should be the Madison Theatre Hudson as the venue could reopen if a liquor license is granted.

The theatre went the name of Fairview III Cinemas for a lengthy period until closing on March 19, 2017. Cosmic Cinemas took on the venue as the Cosmic Cinemas Hudson on November 18, 2018 after a substantial $1 million refresh as a bar/restaurant. That investment was a disappointment with the theater closing a year later on November 24, 2019. So the venue was known as Cosmic Cinemas - Hudson and Fairview III Cinemas. I don’t see any operational period for this venue as the “Hudson Cinemas”. (And you can remove “renovating” from the listing.)