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May 23, 2011
New Tenant Hopes to “Revive” Capitol Theatre
FLINT, MI — A downtown church group has moved into renovated space on the Harrison Street side of the historic Capitol Theatre building. Hand of God Ministries held its first service in the renovated storefronts at 600 Harrison St on Sunday, May 15. The ribbon cutting took place on May 13 with Flint mayor Dayne Walling in attendance. More details from the Flint Journal.
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Classic Film Series and Midnight Specials at Somerville Theatre
Somerville, MA – The historic Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, one of the nation’s longest continually operating movie theaters, has announced its summer line up of Classics and Midnight Specials. Each of these movies will play on the Somerville’s big screen, in the grandeur of the theatre’s beautifully restored main auditorium. Many of the titles will be archival prints, as the theatre’s main booth was revamped in 2009 to handle the most precious of 35mm and 70mm film prints. Few realize that the booth in the main theatre is one of the most sophisticated projection facilities in New England, and here the theater presents a summer of films to take advantage of this position.
See a classic film in a classic setting!
The Classic Film Series, each Sunday at 11am and Monday nights at 5pm and 8pm are:
June 19-20 Captains Courageous
June 25-26 Double Indemnity
July 3-4 The African Queen
July 10-11 Singin' In The Rain
July 17-18 The Wizard of Oz
July 24-25 Dr. Strangelove
July 31-Aug. 1 Ninotchka
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May 19, 2011
Cinema Treasures Site Update
Hello Everyone —
Just a quick update to let you know that we are close to relaunching the site. Look for it this weekend or Monday at the latest. All of the current site’s content (theaters, blog posts, comments, etc.) has now been migrated to the new site and we’re kicking its tires, updating this and that, and getting ready for Cinema Treasures 3.0.
Thanks for your enthusiasm and your patience!
— Ross, Patrick, Ken, and Michael
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National Amusements Opens New Theatre in Yonkers, NY
Yonkers, NY — May 18, 2011 — National Amusements, Inc., a world leader in the motion picture exhibition industry, today announced the opening of its Showcase Cinema de Lux Ridge Hill luxury theatre in Yonkers, New York. Featuring the highest quality in movie projection technology with Sony 4K and RealD 3D, the theatre will bring all of the latest movie releases to the amenity-rich location. The theatre opens for business on Friday, May 20.
Yonkers Mayor Philip A. Amicone, Chairman of the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency said, “National Amusements' impressive new cinema is an important cornerstone of the Ridge Hill development, both of which were made possible with the assistance of key economic incentives provided by the Yonkers IDA.
“This state-of-the art theater will provide 110 part-time jobs and 10 permanent jobs at a time when unemployment — particularly for our young people — is still too high. I’d like to congratulate National Amusements and its development partners for their hard work and determination in making this exciting family-friendly entertainment venue a reality.”
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May 18, 2011
Courtland Cinemas reopens
BURTON, MI — The six-screen Courtland Cinemas, first opened as the single-screen Eastland Mall Theatre in 1969 and last operated by National Amusements until it closed in 2008 will reopen on Friday, May 20 under the management of NGC Cinemas. It is now being called the NCG Courtland Cinemas. This will bring movies back to the east side of the Flint, MI area. Details from the Flint Journal and from NCG Cinemas, which shows very reasonable ticket prices and offers free refills on all sizes of pop and popcorn. All screens have stadium seating.
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May 17, 2011
Big Dusk-To-Dawn Show at the Harvest Moon Drive-In Theater
LINDEN, PA — If you don’t want to drive home from the Big Dusk-To-Dawn Show, Sunday Night, May 29, Memorial Day Eve at Crazy Bob’s Harvest Moon Drive-In Theater, you have the option of camping on the rustic drive-in grounds, under the stars, in the fresh night air, against a scenic mountain backdrop.
Plus, you’ll be able to watch one of the greatest movies of all time: “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” plus the exciting, action classic “Escape from New York” and two, new big hits on Crazy Bob’s massive drive-in theater screen!
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AMC converts six screens at Downtown Disney to dine-and-view
ORLANDO, FL — Six screens at AMC Downtown Disney 24 have been remodeled by AMC to accommodate its dine-and-view concept. Located on the Planet Hollywood side of the megaplex, the theater-within-a-theater offers appetizers, a variety of sandwiches and other main courses, and some desserts, in addition to beer and wine.
They’ve re-purposed the six smaller theaters on the west (Planet Hollywood) side of the complex, pulled the seats out and set up seats in sets of four (except on the edges of the theater, where there are two) seated in front of a counter, with menus, ketchup and a little call button that you press for wait staff service. These 100 seat theaters offer you dinner, drinks (beer, wine) and a movie, much the way The Enzian does it (orders taken by waiter, food delivered to your table).
Read more in theOrlando Sentinel.
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For Sale/Lease - Pickwick Theater
DOBBS FERRY, NY — This landmark property located at 39 Cedar Street is a single story, brick construction building located in downtown Dobbs Ferry. Currently there are 5 retail units/storefronts on Cedar Street, with a combined frontage of 83'. The building also features an intact theater with Roscoe-Broadway dance floor for artistic performances; live plays, music, dance, cinema etc, and was once used for vaudeville performances. An additional highlight is a fully functional, state of the art, digital recording studio frequented by musicians in the local Greenburgh district as well as major Broadway artists from neighboring New York City. The property is located just a few blocks away from the Dobbs Ferry Metro-North train station and surrounding businesses include mom-and-pop restaurants and bars, Stop & Shop and the USPS.
The theater is in use as a music conservatory at this time. The theater seats 400 but we currently have 140 seats installed for our use as a conservatory. The town has a municipal lot 1 block away.
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May 16, 2011
Dormont’s Hollywood Theatre now operating as a not-for-profit
DORMONT, PA — The Hollywood Theater has reopened yet again, this time under the management of the not-for-profit Friends of the Hollywood Theatre. The theater most recently closed in 2009.
In its new life in the hands of the nonprofit group Friends of the Hollywood Theater, the movie house is being run in an approach used by many arts organizations and a growing number of historic single-screen movie theaters.
The Strand in Zelienople, the Valley Players in Ligonier and the three city movie theaters operated by Pittsburgh Filmmakers are all being operated by nonprofits. The nonprofit Denis Theatre Foundation is raising $4.5 million to reopen The Denis, a 1930s Mt. Lebanon theater that closed seven years ago.
The story can be read at PittsburghLive.
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Tally’s Electric Theatre - old photograph found
LOS ANGELES, CA — I was browsing through a 1926 copy of ‘The Film Daily’ when I came across a photograph labeled T.L.Tallys first show shop, Los Angeles. It was obviously a very old photo, although not dated in the magazine – and was curious, so looked up Tally’s on Google and found this website.
I’ve done a general search for images for Tally’s on Google but not found this particular photo. There is an awning over the door advertising “The Great Corbett Fight”. As far as I can find this was filmed in 1894 so it’s obviously a very early photo of the first American movie house. I’ve put it on my Flickr photostream here as I’m sure you will find it of interest.