The United Cinemas Toshimaen opened its doors on July 1, 2004 with 9 screens and a seating capacity of 1,907 seats (now 1,744 seats) running both first-run and foreign features, and has installations of both IMAX and 4DX inside a couple of screens.
On December 1, 1956, two movie theaters opened on the site of the Shinjuku Tokyo Milano Entertainment Center on the same day. The Shinjuku Milano Theatre is located on the first floor of the Shinjuku Tokyo Milano Entertainment Center and the Shibuya Tokyu Bunka Kaikan is located on the basement section of the center.
The Milano opened with Walter Hampden in “The Vagabond King” with a capacity of 1,500 seats, while the Bunka Kaikan’s grand opening attraction was not known at this time with a capacity of 1,000 seats. Both theaters eventually became a twin (doesn’t mean it counts as a early twin, its just that both theaters opened at the same site that same day).
A third screen with 209 seats was added on the fourth floor of the same complex on November 30, 1971 under the name “Meigaza Milano” which was officially renamed “Cinema Milano” in September 1987, and a fourth screen with 224 seats was added on December 11, 1981 under the name “Cinema Tokyo Milano” located on the third floor.
Some notable films the Milano ran throughout the years include “The Ten Commandments”, “The Sting”, and “Jaws”, but it wasn’t until December 4, 1982 when “ET” hit the screens in Tokyo, and it officially became the biggest smash-hit throughout the Milano Theater’s history, running and stunting the movie for a year-and-a-half throughout the rest of 1982, all of 1983, and a good chunk of 1984.
During its final days of operation, Screen 1 has a capacity of 1,064 seats (the largest screen in Tokyo), while Screen 2 has 588 seats, Screen 3 having 209, and Screen 4 having 224.
On May 13, 2014, Tokyu Recreation announced that all directly managed offices in the main building (Shinjuku Milano + Cinema Square Tokyu 1-4, Shinjuku Milano Bowl, FamilyMart Seibu Shinjuku Ekimae store) will close for the final time. The reason for this is because of the decrease in the number of mobilizations due to the rise of cinema complexes and the aging of buildings.
A special celebration was held under the name “With Love From Shinjuku Milano” from December 20, 2014 until closure on December 31, 2014, screening a mixture of both Japanese and American classics including family films and films that previously ran at the theater.
Screens 3 and 4 closed for the final time on December 30, 2014 with the two-part Japanese “Neon Genesis Evangelion” theatrical film of Episodes 25 and 26 at Screen 3, and the 1974 Steve McQueen classic “The Towering Inferno” at Screen 4.
Screens 1 and 2 held on for one more day with the 1960 Steve McQueen classic “The Magnificent Seven” at Screen 1, and the 1982 classic that once topped the history of the Shinjuku Milano Theatre, “E.T.”, at Screen 2. The entire theater closed for the final time on December 31, 2014.
This started life as the “O.S. Theater” opening on July 31, 1947. On January 15, 1955, it was renamed “O.S. Cinerama” after the installations of Cinerama.
Throughout time, a lot of notable American films such as “Ben-Hur”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Star Wars”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, “Apocalypse Now”, “Willow”, “Robocop 2”, “Ghost”, and “Dick Tracy” were screened at the O.S. Cinerama.
The Geneva closed as a second-run quad in late-2007. It reopened a short time later as a special events, community arts, and live performance theater which also sometimes screen movies. On May 6, 2020, it was renamed Geneva Stage.
On July 16, 1981, an Anderson 25-year-old man filed a suit in Blackford County Small Claims Court alleging that employees at the theater assaulted his ex-wife and damaged his 1966 unknown-modeled car back in June 1981. According to the police report released by Blackford County Sheriff, he drove into a mini-screen and knocked over several speaker poles when he and his former wife were exiting the theater to escape resulting extensive damage. The sheriff said that his vehicle’s windshield was shattered while he and two employees were attempting to stop the victim. His girl was allegedly thrown out of the car and onto the pavement by a drive-in employee. He stole police that his car struck the poles but did not seriously damage them. He said that he gave the victim $50 to pay for the poles but that the theater owner returned the money and demanded a larger sum. No criminal charges were filed at the time of the hearing.
After 16 long years as an adult theater, the Blackford Drive-in closed for the final time after the 1986 season for good due to an April 16, 1987 agreement that adult films won’t be shown at the theater anymore due to previous incidents involving police raids throughout March 1986 when it seized two adult films. Unfortunately the theater never reopened for the 1987 season and beyond.
On October 5, 1961, the Iao Theatre also hosted the world premiere of Frank Sinatra’s “The Devil At 4 O'clock”.
Throughout the late-1960s and much of the 1970s, the Iao suffered from lack of use and maintenance.
On December 27, 1974, five people were injured after a dispute over a damaged motorcycle parked next to the Iao Theatre turned into a shooting. One of the victims was a Maui teen who was shot in the knee, and another victim was an officer for the Maui Police Department. Police said that a small-caliber pistol was fired during the melee and was recovered to the station for questioning.
The Iao Theatre became statewide headlines throughout much of mid-1978 following a major raid over the theater running “Deep Throat” on August 15, 1978. Theater co-owners 26-year-old Robert MacKenzie and 29-year-old Ran Bir Khalsea (both from Kihei who lived on the same street at the time) were arrested by the MPD following warrants charging them with a single count of promotion of pornography. A short time later, 32-year-old Francis Katrus of Kihei was arrested with the same charge. Shortly after their arrest, all three were released on bail with $50 each. The affidavit said that back on August 10, 1978, five days before the raid, Deputy Police Chief Joseph Cravalho had assigned a sergeant to investigate the film at the Iao. He paid a total of $3 and watched the film, and shortly afterward, a search warrant was issued and the theater was raided. This is not the first time Hawaii witnessed an incident like this, but it was the Aquaris Theater in Honolulu who started a similar incident two months prior for the seizure of both “Deep Throat” and “Behind The Green Door” where search warrants were found after test-screening by the Honolulu Police Department. At the time, the manager at the King Theater in Wailuku said that he stopped running X-rated films for really good reasons several weeks prior when he heard that they might be raided. At the time, the Iao has shown 6 X-rated films since both Khalsa and MacKenzie both bought the theater in 1977.
A couple of months later, “Tokyo Throat” and “Loincloth Geisha” were shown at the nearby King Theatre. The two films were advertised at the theater by posters featuring toplessness. The Maui Police Department reviewed two more films that were played there but found out that they were not mature enough at all according to Maui County Prosecutor Boyd Mossman on October 25, 1978. Unlike its previous incident, Mossman said that the films themselves were “nothing like “Deep Throat” in that there were no explicit scenes of sexual activity”. He expects Maui officers prepare to check listings across Maui.
Unfortunately, the raid of “Deep Throat” caused the Iao Theatre to close as a longtime movie house due to concerns. The nearby King Theatre located a block away from the Iao Theater managed to continue running movies until it suffered damaged from a storm on January 8, 1980.
On August 9, 1979, it was announced that the Iao Theater will be converting into a $1M project as both an boutique and office complex known as the Iao Square, housing up to 26 tenants led by Victor K.B. Young of Honolulu but it never happened at the theater site. The Iao Theatre building sat vacant for years until it reopened as a special events and live performance house during the weekend of June 23, 1984. Some movies would later present as special showings.
The Maui Theatre actually continued operating in and after January 1992, despite the later announcement of Consolidated’s Kihei’s Kukui Mall 4-Plex in June 1992 (which opened later that November). The Maui Theatre continued to run first-run movies (including some special events) as normal until a couple of years later when it closed for the final time in 1994.
Manager W.F. Wallace and Proprietor H.B. Weller opened the Kahuluki Theater on May 17, 1918 with Geraldine Farrar in “The Woman God Forgot” featuring an original capacity of 750 seats and an original installation of a nitro-silver patent sheet screen. The theater was erected by the Kahuluki Railroad Company with an estimate $20,000, and it replaced the short-lived Lyceum Theater (which has the same amount of seats) after the Lyceum was destroyed by a fire caused by the projector during a packed showing of Jack Pickford’s “Freckles” on November 17, 1917. The fire caused the former Lyceum Theater to close after a little over five years of operation.
It was still open in the early-1960s, but its closing date was not known at this time.
Opened on January 23, 1976. It is last operated by Kerasotes Theatres.
Nice!
Closed on January 3, 1984 with “Uncommon Valor” and “Some Kind Of Hero”.
The United Cinemas Toshimaen opened its doors on July 1, 2004 with 9 screens and a seating capacity of 1,907 seats (now 1,744 seats) running both first-run and foreign features, and has installations of both IMAX and 4DX inside a couple of screens.
Opened on December 28, 1925 with “Don Q, Son Of Zorro”, and closed on September 4, 1986 with “My Beautiful Launderette”.
On December 1, 1956, two movie theaters opened on the site of the Shinjuku Tokyo Milano Entertainment Center on the same day. The Shinjuku Milano Theatre is located on the first floor of the Shinjuku Tokyo Milano Entertainment Center and the Shibuya Tokyu Bunka Kaikan is located on the basement section of the center.
The Milano opened with Walter Hampden in “The Vagabond King” with a capacity of 1,500 seats, while the Bunka Kaikan’s grand opening attraction was not known at this time with a capacity of 1,000 seats. Both theaters eventually became a twin (doesn’t mean it counts as a early twin, its just that both theaters opened at the same site that same day).
A third screen with 209 seats was added on the fourth floor of the same complex on November 30, 1971 under the name “Meigaza Milano” which was officially renamed “Cinema Milano” in September 1987, and a fourth screen with 224 seats was added on December 11, 1981 under the name “Cinema Tokyo Milano” located on the third floor.
Some notable films the Milano ran throughout the years include “The Ten Commandments”, “The Sting”, and “Jaws”, but it wasn’t until December 4, 1982 when “ET” hit the screens in Tokyo, and it officially became the biggest smash-hit throughout the Milano Theater’s history, running and stunting the movie for a year-and-a-half throughout the rest of 1982, all of 1983, and a good chunk of 1984.
During its final days of operation, Screen 1 has a capacity of 1,064 seats (the largest screen in Tokyo), while Screen 2 has 588 seats, Screen 3 having 209, and Screen 4 having 224.
On May 13, 2014, Tokyu Recreation announced that all directly managed offices in the main building (Shinjuku Milano + Cinema Square Tokyu 1-4, Shinjuku Milano Bowl, FamilyMart Seibu Shinjuku Ekimae store) will close for the final time. The reason for this is because of the decrease in the number of mobilizations due to the rise of cinema complexes and the aging of buildings.
A special celebration was held under the name “With Love From Shinjuku Milano” from December 20, 2014 until closure on December 31, 2014, screening a mixture of both Japanese and American classics including family films and films that previously ran at the theater.
Screens 3 and 4 closed for the final time on December 30, 2014 with the two-part Japanese “Neon Genesis Evangelion” theatrical film of Episodes 25 and 26 at Screen 3, and the 1974 Steve McQueen classic “The Towering Inferno” at Screen 4.
Screens 1 and 2 held on for one more day with the 1960 Steve McQueen classic “The Magnificent Seven” at Screen 1, and the 1982 classic that once topped the history of the Shinjuku Milano Theatre, “E.T.”, at Screen 2. The entire theater closed for the final time on December 31, 2014.
Closed on November 21, 2007.
This started life as the “O.S. Theater” opening on July 31, 1947. On January 15, 1955, it was renamed “O.S. Cinerama” after the installations of Cinerama.
Throughout time, a lot of notable American films such as “Ben-Hur”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Star Wars”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, “Apocalypse Now”, “Willow”, “Robocop 2”, “Ghost”, and “Dick Tracy” were screened at the O.S. Cinerama.
Closed on September 19, 1982 with “Some Kind Of Hero”.
The theater opened on October 10, 2002.
The Geneva closed as a second-run quad in late-2007. It reopened a short time later as a special events, community arts, and live performance theater which also sometimes screen movies. On May 6, 2020, it was renamed Geneva Stage.
The Blackford Drive-In opened its gates in 1952.
On July 16, 1981, an Anderson 25-year-old man filed a suit in Blackford County Small Claims Court alleging that employees at the theater assaulted his ex-wife and damaged his 1966 unknown-modeled car back in June 1981. According to the police report released by Blackford County Sheriff, he drove into a mini-screen and knocked over several speaker poles when he and his former wife were exiting the theater to escape resulting extensive damage. The sheriff said that his vehicle’s windshield was shattered while he and two employees were attempting to stop the victim. His girl was allegedly thrown out of the car and onto the pavement by a drive-in employee. He stole police that his car struck the poles but did not seriously damage them. He said that he gave the victim $50 to pay for the poles but that the theater owner returned the money and demanded a larger sum. No criminal charges were filed at the time of the hearing.
After 16 long years as an adult theater, the Blackford Drive-in closed for the final time after the 1986 season for good due to an April 16, 1987 agreement that adult films won’t be shown at the theater anymore due to previous incidents involving police raids throughout March 1986 when it seized two adult films. Unfortunately the theater never reopened for the 1987 season and beyond.
Opened on November 4, 1994.
Closed as a first-run movie house in August 1981.
Opened in September 2016.
First operated by local native Raymond Cornes, who previously operated a theater in McKinney. He suddenly passed away on October 22, 1951.
Actually, it closed in March 2017. The site is now U-Haul.
This is a short-lived COVID drive-in, which I believe it only operated for two seasons.
Opened on May 16, 1979.
Located on Mission Rd, cannot find the address yet.
The Lyric continued operating in and after 1952. It was still in operation as late as the early-1970s.
On October 5, 1961, the Iao Theatre also hosted the world premiere of Frank Sinatra’s “The Devil At 4 O'clock”.
Throughout the late-1960s and much of the 1970s, the Iao suffered from lack of use and maintenance.
On December 27, 1974, five people were injured after a dispute over a damaged motorcycle parked next to the Iao Theatre turned into a shooting. One of the victims was a Maui teen who was shot in the knee, and another victim was an officer for the Maui Police Department. Police said that a small-caliber pistol was fired during the melee and was recovered to the station for questioning.
The Iao Theatre became statewide headlines throughout much of mid-1978 following a major raid over the theater running “Deep Throat” on August 15, 1978. Theater co-owners 26-year-old Robert MacKenzie and 29-year-old Ran Bir Khalsea (both from Kihei who lived on the same street at the time) were arrested by the MPD following warrants charging them with a single count of promotion of pornography. A short time later, 32-year-old Francis Katrus of Kihei was arrested with the same charge. Shortly after their arrest, all three were released on bail with $50 each. The affidavit said that back on August 10, 1978, five days before the raid, Deputy Police Chief Joseph Cravalho had assigned a sergeant to investigate the film at the Iao. He paid a total of $3 and watched the film, and shortly afterward, a search warrant was issued and the theater was raided. This is not the first time Hawaii witnessed an incident like this, but it was the Aquaris Theater in Honolulu who started a similar incident two months prior for the seizure of both “Deep Throat” and “Behind The Green Door” where search warrants were found after test-screening by the Honolulu Police Department. At the time, the manager at the King Theater in Wailuku said that he stopped running X-rated films for really good reasons several weeks prior when he heard that they might be raided. At the time, the Iao has shown 6 X-rated films since both Khalsa and MacKenzie both bought the theater in 1977.
A couple of months later, “Tokyo Throat” and “Loincloth Geisha” were shown at the nearby King Theatre. The two films were advertised at the theater by posters featuring toplessness. The Maui Police Department reviewed two more films that were played there but found out that they were not mature enough at all according to Maui County Prosecutor Boyd Mossman on October 25, 1978. Unlike its previous incident, Mossman said that the films themselves were “nothing like “Deep Throat” in that there were no explicit scenes of sexual activity”. He expects Maui officers prepare to check listings across Maui.
Unfortunately, the raid of “Deep Throat” caused the Iao Theatre to close as a longtime movie house due to concerns. The nearby King Theatre located a block away from the Iao Theater managed to continue running movies until it suffered damaged from a storm on January 8, 1980.
On August 9, 1979, it was announced that the Iao Theater will be converting into a $1M project as both an boutique and office complex known as the Iao Square, housing up to 26 tenants led by Victor K.B. Young of Honolulu but it never happened at the theater site. The Iao Theatre building sat vacant for years until it reopened as a special events and live performance house during the weekend of June 23, 1984. Some movies would later present as special showings.
The Maui Theatre actually continued operating in and after January 1992, despite the later announcement of Consolidated’s Kihei’s Kukui Mall 4-Plex in June 1992 (which opened later that November). The Maui Theatre continued to run first-run movies (including some special events) as normal until a couple of years later when it closed for the final time in 1994.
Opened on May 14, 1999. Grand Opening ad posted.
Manager W.F. Wallace and Proprietor H.B. Weller opened the Kahuluki Theater on May 17, 1918 with Geraldine Farrar in “The Woman God Forgot” featuring an original capacity of 750 seats and an original installation of a nitro-silver patent sheet screen. The theater was erected by the Kahuluki Railroad Company with an estimate $20,000, and it replaced the short-lived Lyceum Theater (which has the same amount of seats) after the Lyceum was destroyed by a fire caused by the projector during a packed showing of Jack Pickford’s “Freckles” on November 17, 1917. The fire caused the former Lyceum Theater to close after a little over five years of operation.
It was still open in the early-1960s, but its closing date was not known at this time.