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August 13, 2010
Old movie theater and/or equipment for sale!
Hi,
I’m selling a small 220 seat movie theater and/or its equipment. It is located in a small town in Ohio, only about 20 miles from Amish Country, which is a big tourist attraction.
If interested please with questions! Thank you and God Bless!
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August 12, 2010
LA’s downtown United Artists Theatre for sale
LOS ANGELES, CA — Long a church, the United Artists Theatre is back on the market and the Los Angeles Theatre Foundation is hoping it gets the right buyer.
When Scott died in 2005, his widow, Melissa Scott, decided to move the empire north to their Glendale campus. They are now selling the theater with its 12-story office tower for $12 million (dropped from $15) and Wright wants more than anything to buy it. His plans are to turn the UA back into an entertainment venue for films and/or live performances because he believes the grandiose décor honors performers and inspires the audience. Although the 28-foot stage can’t accommodate big productions, he says there are other theaters that can. So the UA would host medium sized productions or movies.
There’s plenty of room inside the palatial interior. The 2,214 seat theater was Mary Pickford’s personal pet project and the silent movie starlet lifted the gothic details from the Spanish Cathedral at Segovia, adorning archways and windows with sculpted facades and ornate plasterwork. The vaulted ceilings and walls are painted with frescos of the UA founders. There’s even an orchestra pit that used to house a manual Wurlitzer theater pipe organ (removed in 1955).
Read more in the Wall Street Journal.
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Half of Eastown Theatre building destroyed by fire
DETROIT, MI — A suspected arson fire has destroyed the apartments portion of the long abandoned Eastown Theatre. As a result, what’s left of the building is expected to be torn down. Photos and video of the aftermath can be found from DetroitFunk.com as well as at DetroitFiregroundimages.com
Further details are in the Examiner.After its days as a movie theater ended, the Eastown was best known as a rock concert venue in the 1970s. This is a sad loss for what was once a gorgeous Cinema Treasure serving the east side of Detroit.
UPDATE 8/12: Detroit Free-Press link
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Movie and theater equipment for sale!
Has anyone seen American Pickers lately? I’m the one with all of the equipment after my father’s passing. His name was Bill Goff and he was a projectionist for movie theaters, dailies on movies, and stages. I have a large building full of movies, projectors, housings, lamps, tools, sound gear, screens, lenses, and much more. Please contact me through .
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August 11, 2010
Cinemark opens new theater in Tulsa
TULSA, OK — The Cinemark Broken Arrow opened on August 6. Featuring twelve screens, six of which are 3-D capable, the theater is the chain’s second all-digital theater.
Each theater boasts stadium seating, and they range in size from 100 to 250 seats. That largest capacity theater is smaller than at Cinemark’s Tulsa location at 71st Street and U.S. 169, indicative of the “neighborhood theater” concept that Cinemark envisions for one of the state’s fastest-growing communities for decades.
“We discovered this area of Broken Arrow years ago, and we always knew it would be a perfect spot for a theater,” said James Meredith, vice president of marketing and communications for Cinemark, talking as he toured the crisp, clean multiplex with an undeniable new-movie- theater smell.
There is more at TulsaWorld.
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Hanover Theater for sale
HANOVER,. PA — The Hanover Theater is for sale. Opened in 1928 as the State Theater, it operated until 1986 and was later used as an antiques warehouse. It was acquired in 2007 by a holding company created by a preservation group which had plans to restore the theater as a performing arts center. Realizing that delays in restoring the theater are having a negative impact on the revitalization of downtown Hanover, the holding company has decided that the best thing for the community is to sell the building to an organization or individual who is in a position to restore the theater as a public space.
The theater was decorated by Arthur Brounet and by all accounts is one of only three Brounet decorated theaters still in existence. The other two are the Byrd Theatre in Richmond, VA and the Loew’s Victoria Theatre in Harlem, NY. The theater was “modernized” in 1960 and the 961 original seats were removed and replaced with about 600 seats. Most of the plaster work was covered with red curtains, the original ticket booth was replaced with one brought from a nearby theater which had closed and the marquee was replaced. While the theater was being used as an antiques warehouse, a persistent roof leak damaged 60% of the ceiling in the second lobby and a few small leaks damaged the ceiling in the auditorium.
Further information on the Hanover Theater is available at http://www.HanoverTheater.info.
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UC Santa Barbara looking for prints
Hello. I run the new University of California at Santa Barbara Pollock Theater.
I am looking for 35mm Prints. These prints would be used for classroom screenings and training of students.
I am looking for anything you have. I have a soft spot for 80’s movies. But I am open to anything and I would love Oscar level movies, in addition to 80’s movies.
Thanks
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August 10, 2010
Princess Theatre blog
HARRIMAN, TN — I have a running account of the progress on the Princess restoration.
The old seats were removed last week, and this week the new roof is going on. The work is expected to last 3 weeks. After that the facade work begins then comes the new marquee.
The inside work is expected to last through the rest of 2010. A 2 to 3 day celebration is planned once the Princess is ready for unveiling!
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Petitions call for movie theater
ROANOKE, VA — A young man is trying to get a local theater built the hard way by collecting signatures to submit to Carmike Cinemas.
A young Roanoke man has petitions across Randolph County in hopes of getting a movie theatre to come back to Roanoke.
Michael Fielder, 22, said he spoke with a representative of Carmike Cinemas who advised him to get signatures, get the city’s approval and call them back. The representative did not say how many signatures were needed, so Fielder set his goal at 2,000.
Read the full story in the Randolph Leader.
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Rudolph Valentino: The Silent Idol - Book signing and screening
RUDOLPH VALENTINO
THE SILENT IDOL
BY DONNA HILL
BOOK SIGNING & SCREENING of Valentino Rarities
SATURDAY AUGUST 21ST 7:00 P.M.
LARRY EDMUNDS BOOKSHOP
6644 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
323-463-3273
Larry Edmunds Valentino: Silent Idol