I asked my mother about this incident, since she was a regular customer of the Madison in the 50’s. She remembers Hallooween shows taking place for sure in the late 50’s. She said they very very cheesy like a Coney Island sideshow and would have coffins and sometimes “monsters” running among the audience. Then you would see a grade Z horror flick.
I just came across this flyer from the Fall 92 repertory festival at the 8th St. This was when City Cinemas was booking the theatre. They started with first run and then gave revival a shot.
8/19 La Belle Noiseuse
8/21 Duck Soup & Animal Crackers & Horsefeathers
8/23 Pinocchio & Cyrano De Bergerac
8/26 Via Appia
9/6 2001 & Full Metal Jacket
9/2 La Dolce Vita
9/4 Pink Floyd the Wall & Song Remains the Same
9/6 2001 & Full Metal Jacket
9/9 Slacker & The Graduate
9/11 Wild at Heart & 9 ½ Weeks
9/13 Toto Le Heros & 400 Blows
9/16 Poison & Tongues Untied
9/18 Room With a View & Maurice
9/20 Children of Paradise
9/23 The Vanishing & Wages of Fear
9/25 Shadows of Fog & Kakfa
9/27 Daughters of the Dust & Mississippi Marsala
9/30 Noises Off & This is My Life
10/2 Prosperos Books & Edward 2
10/4 Citizen Kane & King Kong
10/7 Rambling Rose & Poison Ivy
10/9 Brazil
10/11 Cabaret & Something for Everyone
10/14 Last Picture Show & Texasville
10/16 Jules & Jim & Black Orpheus
10/18 Batman Returns & Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
10/21 Road Warrior & Deliverance
10/23 Now Voyager & Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
10/25 The Devils & Women In Love
10/28 Blow Up & Red Dessert
10/30 Performance & The Shining
11/1 Alien & Aliens & Alien 3
11/4 Cannes Festival of Humor
11/8 Rear Window & Vertigo
11/11 Lovers & Basic Instinct
11/13 Fearless Vampire Killers & Freaks
Someone mentioned earlier that they may just be playing things that they were going to day and date with the Astor Plaza and E-walk. They need to get a more conventional marquee up there, even a flat one against the building.
A correction to my above posting. The Bijou opened as a first run theatre on 8/10/89 with Lock Up starring Sylvester Stallone. Here is more of the theatres bookings.
8/10 Lock Up
8/18 Casualties of War
9/8 Relentless & Turner & Hooch (matinees)
9/15 Sea of Love
10/27 Worth Winning
11/3 Fabulous Baker Boys
12/1 Staying Together
12/8 War of the Roses
2/16/90 Born on the 4th of July
4/6 Hunt For Red October
4/27 The Guardian
5/11 Hunt For Red October (return)
5/25 I Love You to Death
6/1 Wild Orchid
6/8 Bird On a Wire
6/22 Back to the Future III
Here is a list of films I played at the Cinemart starting 5/5/89. This was an odd time, we were a twin that played alot of first run art films and first run Disney product. In between we would fill in the blanks with moveovers from other theatres. This was around the time the theatre switched from a bargain house to regular prices, although for a short time we used to charge $3 for the moveovers until it all got too confusing.
5/5/89 1- Getting it Right 2- Ny Stories & High Hopes
5/12 1- New York Stories 2- Rescuers (eve) High Hopes
5/19 1- Adventures of Baron Munchausen 2- Cousins
5/26 1- Shes Out of Control & Major Leauge 2- Munchausen & Rainman
6/9 1- Major League & Roadhouse 2- Rainman & Pelle the Conquerer
6/16 1- Say Anything 2- Rainman & Major Leauge
6/23 1 & 2- Honey I Shrunk the Kids
7/14 1- Peter Pan 2- Honey i Shrunk the Kids
7/28 1- Peter Pan (eve) Great Balls O' Fire 2- Honey
8/14 1- Peter Pan (eve) Women on Verge of Nervous Bkdwn 2- Honey
8/18 1- Cheeta (eve) Eddie & Cruisers 2- Honey (eve)Women on Verge
8/25 1- Cheetah (eve) Wired 2- Honey (eve)Women on Verge & Dead Poets Scoiety
9/1 1- Cheeta (eve) Dead Poets Society 2- Honey (eve) Luck Up & Womwn on the Verge
9/8 1- Cheeta (eve) Dead Poets & Women 2- Honey (eve) Millenium
9/15 1- The Abyss 2- Honey (eve) Turner & Hooch
9/22 1- Turner & Hooch & Peter Pan 2- Milo & Otis (eve) Ghostbusters 2 & See No Evil
9/29 1- Lethal Weapon II 2- Turner & Hooch & Milo and otis
10/6 1- Peter Pan (eve) Lethal Weapon ll 2- Milo & Otis (eve)The Package
10/13 1- Lethal Weapon ll 2- Milo & Otis (eve) In Country
10/20 1- Gross Anatomy 2- Milo & Otis (eve) Casualties of War
10/27 1- Gross Anatomy 2- Milo & Otis (eve)Old Gringo & Uncle Buck
11/3 1- Gross Anatomy 2- Sex Lies & Videotape & Old Gringo
11/10 1 Gross Anatomy 2- Drugstore Cowboy (exclusive in Queens)
11/17 1- Little Mermaid (start of a 6 month run) 2- Drugstore Cowboy
11/24 1- Little Mermaid 2- True Love (exclusive)
12/15- 1- Little Mermaid 2- Little Thief & True Love
12/22 2- Prancer (eve) True Love & Crimes and Misdemeanors
1/5/90 2- All Dogs go to Heaven (eve) True Love & Crimes and M
1/12 1- Little Mermaid (eve) Crimes & Mis 2- All Dogs (eve) Blaze & Christmas Vacation
1/19 1- Little Mermaid (eve) Steel Magnolias 2- Henry V & Always
1/26 1- LM (eve) Henry V 2- Steel Magnolias & Always
2/16 1- LM (eve) Steel Magnolias 2- My Left Foot
3/2 1- Mystery Train 2- LM (eve) My Left Foot
3/9 1- My Left Foot 2- LM (eve) Stella
3/16 1- LM & Left Foot 2- The Handmaids Tale
3/23 1- LM & Bad Influence 2- Handmaids & Left Foot
4/6 1- Ernest Goes to Jail 2- LM (eve) Handmaids Tale & Left Foot
4/13 1- Ernest (eve) Blue Steel 2- LM (eve) Left Foot
4/20 1- LM (eve) Left Foot 2- Ernest (eve) Nuns on the Run
4/27 1- LM (eve) Ernest & Left Foot 2- Spaced Invadors
5/4 1- LM (eve) Too Beautiful For You (exclusive) 2- Spaced Invadors
5/11 1- Last Exit to Brooklyn (exclusive) 2- LM (eve)Too Beautiful & Spaced Invadors
5/25 1- Longtime Companion (exclusive) 2- Last Exit, Torn Apart, Space Invadors
6/1 1- Longtime Companion 2- Without You Im Nothing & Last Exit
6/8 1- Longtime Companion 2- Without You, Last Exit, Cook Thief Wife Lover
6/15 1- Longtime Companion & Cook Thief 2- Driving Miss Daisy & Q&A
6/22 1- Betsys Wedding 2- Pretty Woman
Here are a few things The Columbia played in 1989 when it was mainly playing $3 moveovers and an occasional first run.
7/14/89 Star Trek V
7/21 Indian Jones & The Last Crusade
8/4 Field of Dreams
8/11 Friday the 13th VIII
8/18 Eddie & The Cruisers 2
8/25 Milo & Otis (First Run matinees) Eve- Wired (first run lasted a week)
9/1 Milo & Otis (eve) Honey I Shrunk the Kids & Lock Up
9/8 Milo & Otis (eve) Turner & Hooch
9/15 Milo & Otis (eve) Uncle Buck
9/22 Milo & Otis (eve) Dead Poets Society
9/29 Milo & Otis (eve) Batman
10/13 Milo & Otis (eve) Lethal Weapon 2
10/20 Milo & Otis (eve) When Harry Met Sally
10/27 Milo & Otis (eve) Innocent Man
11/3 Milo & Otis (eve) Sea of Love & Halloween V
11/10 Best of the Best
11/17 Prancer
11/24 Prancer (eve) Communion
12/1-12/22 closed for renovations
12/22 All Dogs Go to Heaven (eve) Look Who’s Talking
1/5/90 The Bear (eve) She Devil
1/12 The Bear (eve first run) Leatherface Texas Chainsaw 3
1//19 Texas Chainsaw 3 & Ski Patrol
1/26 Family Business
2/11 Madhouse
2/16 War of the Roses
theatre closed up on 2/22/90
I did some more research on this theatre and found it was Town & Country who made it a six-plex. At that time it was known as Mid Plaza Cinema 6. The last operators after T&C were an independant.
Tell me if this idea holds any water? What about opening drive-ins in the huge parking lots of malls or other buildings that dont have night time crowds? The screen would not really be in the way in the daytime and the back of it could actually be used for advertising, and all you would need is a building that housed the projectors, restrooms and concession stand.
The photos of the renovations on this grand old place are heartbreaking. So sad the theatre gets restored as recently as 1996 and still had that incredible screen and now gone. Something like this can nver be replaced.
The other thing that will disapear is the name Loews off the marquee. It’s strange but when Cineplex took over the 59th Street East from City Cinemas they told the owner they wanted the name D.W. Griffith changed because they felt they did not have the legal right to use it. The original owner Nick Justin gaver it that name when they ran that year long festival.
Its so sickening that when competition opens up they just throw up their arms and stop doing things like cleaning a bathroom. Some of these theatres might survive if they stayed well kept. Not everyone likes mega-plexes.
Yes for about a year and a half the Cinema Village was owned by Richard Schwartz who had the Thalia Soho (which i dont think has a listing on here). He then sold it to the current owner who I used to work for.
This place is a treasure, I am always waiting to hear it’s the next one to go. They could actually build over the theatre like they could have done with the Sutton before they masacred it.
I asked my mother about this incident, since she was a regular customer of the Madison in the 50’s. She remembers Hallooween shows taking place for sure in the late 50’s. She said they very very cheesy like a Coney Island sideshow and would have coffins and sometimes “monsters” running among the audience. Then you would see a grade Z horror flick.
I just came across this flyer from the Fall 92 repertory festival at the 8th St. This was when City Cinemas was booking the theatre. They started with first run and then gave revival a shot.
8/19 La Belle Noiseuse
8/21 Duck Soup & Animal Crackers & Horsefeathers
8/23 Pinocchio & Cyrano De Bergerac
8/26 Via Appia
9/6 2001 & Full Metal Jacket
9/2 La Dolce Vita
9/4 Pink Floyd the Wall & Song Remains the Same
9/6 2001 & Full Metal Jacket
9/9 Slacker & The Graduate
9/11 Wild at Heart & 9 ½ Weeks
9/13 Toto Le Heros & 400 Blows
9/16 Poison & Tongues Untied
9/18 Room With a View & Maurice
9/20 Children of Paradise
9/23 The Vanishing & Wages of Fear
9/25 Shadows of Fog & Kakfa
9/27 Daughters of the Dust & Mississippi Marsala
9/30 Noises Off & This is My Life
10/2 Prosperos Books & Edward 2
10/4 Citizen Kane & King Kong
10/7 Rambling Rose & Poison Ivy
10/9 Brazil
10/11 Cabaret & Something for Everyone
10/14 Last Picture Show & Texasville
10/16 Jules & Jim & Black Orpheus
10/18 Batman Returns & Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
10/21 Road Warrior & Deliverance
10/23 Now Voyager & Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
10/25 The Devils & Women In Love
10/28 Blow Up & Red Dessert
10/30 Performance & The Shining
11/1 Alien & Aliens & Alien 3
11/4 Cannes Festival of Humor
11/8 Rear Window & Vertigo
11/11 Lovers & Basic Instinct
11/13 Fearless Vampire Killers & Freaks
Someone mentioned earlier that they may just be playing things that they were going to day and date with the Astor Plaza and E-walk. They need to get a more conventional marquee up there, even a flat one against the building.
Is anyone going today to see Superman?
The theatre looks so big is it really only 299 seats?
A correction to my above posting. The Bijou opened as a first run theatre on 8/10/89 with Lock Up starring Sylvester Stallone. Here is more of the theatres bookings.
8/10 Lock Up
8/18 Casualties of War
9/8 Relentless & Turner & Hooch (matinees)
9/15 Sea of Love
10/27 Worth Winning
11/3 Fabulous Baker Boys
12/1 Staying Together
12/8 War of the Roses
2/16/90 Born on the 4th of July
4/6 Hunt For Red October
4/27 The Guardian
5/11 Hunt For Red October (return)
5/25 I Love You to Death
6/1 Wild Orchid
6/8 Bird On a Wire
6/22 Back to the Future III
Here is a list of films I played at the Cinemart starting 5/5/89. This was an odd time, we were a twin that played alot of first run art films and first run Disney product. In between we would fill in the blanks with moveovers from other theatres. This was around the time the theatre switched from a bargain house to regular prices, although for a short time we used to charge $3 for the moveovers until it all got too confusing.
5/5/89 1- Getting it Right 2- Ny Stories & High Hopes
5/12 1- New York Stories 2- Rescuers (eve) High Hopes
5/19 1- Adventures of Baron Munchausen 2- Cousins
5/26 1- Shes Out of Control & Major Leauge 2- Munchausen & Rainman
6/9 1- Major League & Roadhouse 2- Rainman & Pelle the Conquerer
6/16 1- Say Anything 2- Rainman & Major Leauge
6/23 1 & 2- Honey I Shrunk the Kids
7/14 1- Peter Pan 2- Honey i Shrunk the Kids
7/28 1- Peter Pan (eve) Great Balls O' Fire 2- Honey
8/14 1- Peter Pan (eve) Women on Verge of Nervous Bkdwn 2- Honey
8/18 1- Cheeta (eve) Eddie & Cruisers 2- Honey (eve)Women on Verge
8/25 1- Cheetah (eve) Wired 2- Honey (eve)Women on Verge & Dead Poets Scoiety
9/1 1- Cheeta (eve) Dead Poets Society 2- Honey (eve) Luck Up & Womwn on the Verge
9/8 1- Cheeta (eve) Dead Poets & Women 2- Honey (eve) Millenium
9/15 1- The Abyss 2- Honey (eve) Turner & Hooch
9/22 1- Turner & Hooch & Peter Pan 2- Milo & Otis (eve) Ghostbusters 2 & See No Evil
9/29 1- Lethal Weapon II 2- Turner & Hooch & Milo and otis
10/6 1- Peter Pan (eve) Lethal Weapon ll 2- Milo & Otis (eve)The Package
10/13 1- Lethal Weapon ll 2- Milo & Otis (eve) In Country
10/20 1- Gross Anatomy 2- Milo & Otis (eve) Casualties of War
10/27 1- Gross Anatomy 2- Milo & Otis (eve)Old Gringo & Uncle Buck
11/3 1- Gross Anatomy 2- Sex Lies & Videotape & Old Gringo
11/10 1 Gross Anatomy 2- Drugstore Cowboy (exclusive in Queens)
11/17 1- Little Mermaid (start of a 6 month run) 2- Drugstore Cowboy
11/24 1- Little Mermaid 2- True Love (exclusive)
12/15- 1- Little Mermaid 2- Little Thief & True Love
12/22 2- Prancer (eve) True Love & Crimes and Misdemeanors
1/5/90 2- All Dogs go to Heaven (eve) True Love & Crimes and M
1/12 1- Little Mermaid (eve) Crimes & Mis 2- All Dogs (eve) Blaze & Christmas Vacation
1/19 1- Little Mermaid (eve) Steel Magnolias 2- Henry V & Always
1/26 1- LM (eve) Henry V 2- Steel Magnolias & Always
2/16 1- LM (eve) Steel Magnolias 2- My Left Foot
3/2 1- Mystery Train 2- LM (eve) My Left Foot
3/9 1- My Left Foot 2- LM (eve) Stella
3/16 1- LM & Left Foot 2- The Handmaids Tale
3/23 1- LM & Bad Influence 2- Handmaids & Left Foot
4/6 1- Ernest Goes to Jail 2- LM (eve) Handmaids Tale & Left Foot
4/13 1- Ernest (eve) Blue Steel 2- LM (eve) Left Foot
4/20 1- LM (eve) Left Foot 2- Ernest (eve) Nuns on the Run
4/27 1- LM (eve) Ernest & Left Foot 2- Spaced Invadors
5/4 1- LM (eve) Too Beautiful For You (exclusive) 2- Spaced Invadors
5/11 1- Last Exit to Brooklyn (exclusive) 2- LM (eve)Too Beautiful & Spaced Invadors
5/25 1- Longtime Companion (exclusive) 2- Last Exit, Torn Apart, Space Invadors
6/1 1- Longtime Companion 2- Without You Im Nothing & Last Exit
6/8 1- Longtime Companion 2- Without You, Last Exit, Cook Thief Wife Lover
6/15 1- Longtime Companion & Cook Thief 2- Driving Miss Daisy & Q&A
6/22 1- Betsys Wedding 2- Pretty Woman
Here are a few things The Columbia played in 1989 when it was mainly playing $3 moveovers and an occasional first run.
7/14/89 Star Trek V
7/21 Indian Jones & The Last Crusade
8/4 Field of Dreams
8/11 Friday the 13th VIII
8/18 Eddie & The Cruisers 2
8/25 Milo & Otis (First Run matinees) Eve- Wired (first run lasted a week)
9/1 Milo & Otis (eve) Honey I Shrunk the Kids & Lock Up
9/8 Milo & Otis (eve) Turner & Hooch
9/15 Milo & Otis (eve) Uncle Buck
9/22 Milo & Otis (eve) Dead Poets Society
9/29 Milo & Otis (eve) Batman
10/13 Milo & Otis (eve) Lethal Weapon 2
10/20 Milo & Otis (eve) When Harry Met Sally
10/27 Milo & Otis (eve) Innocent Man
11/3 Milo & Otis (eve) Sea of Love & Halloween V
11/10 Best of the Best
11/17 Prancer
11/24 Prancer (eve) Communion
12/1-12/22 closed for renovations
12/22 All Dogs Go to Heaven (eve) Look Who’s Talking
1/5/90 The Bear (eve) She Devil
1/12 The Bear (eve first run) Leatherface Texas Chainsaw 3
1//19 Texas Chainsaw 3 & Ski Patrol
1/26 Family Business
2/11 Madhouse
2/16 War of the Roses
theatre closed up on 2/22/90
I did some more research on this theatre and found it was Town & Country who made it a six-plex. At that time it was known as Mid Plaza Cinema 6. The last operators after T&C were an independant.
Being the only theatre on the peninsula, I thought this place would have thrived.
Orlando
I will look for you by the left staircase. I will have on a Navy Blue US Open Jacket.
JKane
Yes I have a few old movie pages from the Long Island Press and got the information there.
Before this became the Warner Twin, RKO had dropped the Penthouse name and called it Cinerama 1 & 2.
Tell me if this idea holds any water? What about opening drive-ins in the huge parking lots of malls or other buildings that dont have night time crowds? The screen would not really be in the way in the daytime and the back of it could actually be used for advertising, and all you would need is a building that housed the projectors, restrooms and concession stand.
That was still a nice windfall back then. As a matter of fact i bet people would still be happy to win $25.
I too remember that clock in the auditorium. Thanks for jogging my memory.
Was this a sub-run house?
The photos of the renovations on this grand old place are heartbreaking. So sad the theatre gets restored as recently as 1996 and still had that incredible screen and now gone. Something like this can nver be replaced.
The other thing that will disapear is the name Loews off the marquee. It’s strange but when Cineplex took over the 59th Street East from City Cinemas they told the owner they wanted the name D.W. Griffith changed because they felt they did not have the legal right to use it. The original owner Nick Justin gaver it that name when they ran that year long festival.
Wow this is the first I ever heard of “Screeno”.
Its so sickening that when competition opens up they just throw up their arms and stop doing things like cleaning a bathroom. Some of these theatres might survive if they stayed well kept. Not everyone likes mega-plexes.
Yes for about a year and a half the Cinema Village was owned by Richard Schwartz who had the Thalia Soho (which i dont think has a listing on here). He then sold it to the current owner who I used to work for.
Were the two owners present?
This place is a treasure, I am always waiting to hear it’s the next one to go. They could actually build over the theatre like they could have done with the Sutton before they masacred it.
Is this theatre still open?