bigjoe, Kennedy’s focus was more on the expensive Roadshows that tried to mimic “THE SOUND OF MUSIC” elements and failed. Movies like “STAR!”, “DOCTOR DOLITTLE” and “SONG OF NORWAY” from 1965 to 1972.
The whole slant of the Kennedy book is that Studios were failing to replicate the box office success of “THE SOUND OF MUSIC” by repeating that standard of sweet corn. In that, he is right.
NY Times, December 28, 1917;
MISHAP DELAYS THE RIVOLI’S OPENING.
A postponement of the opening of the new Rivoli Theatre, at Broadway and Forty-ninth Street, was made necessary yesterday afternoon by the collapse of a portion of the stage as it was being put into place.
On the following day, a review of the opening night says that “the theatre has a platform rather than a stage”.
Kennedy’s book is only wrong if you consider what has happened since. His quotes are legitimate from the film’s bad reviews back then. Fair or not, Barbra Streisand was seen as too young for the role and the film’s musical numbers were often reviewed as being severly over-produced.
David, the original HOBO TYPE on the OLYMPIA marquee was the ABC Florida State Theatres' trademark. Just look at the ads from the sixties and seventies.
Thanks to Facebook contributor Steve Abraham.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/nyregion/new-plaza-cinema-uws.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_191215&fbclid=IwAR1M93M8zH45JrXxe9xWbg4QsSFtmNKj36cL-MSJjYieidUaNo_fxk7xJc0
Actually, this happened once before and this space came back as a cinema.
bigjoe, Kennedy’s focus was more on the expensive Roadshows that tried to mimic “THE SOUND OF MUSIC” elements and failed. Movies like “STAR!”, “DOCTOR DOLITTLE” and “SONG OF NORWAY” from 1965 to 1972.
The whole slant of the Kennedy book is that Studios were failing to replicate the box office success of “THE SOUND OF MUSIC” by repeating that standard of sweet corn. In that, he is right.
NY Times, December 28, 1917; MISHAP DELAYS THE RIVOLI’S OPENING. A postponement of the opening of the new Rivoli Theatre, at Broadway and Forty-ninth Street, was made necessary yesterday afternoon by the collapse of a portion of the stage as it was being put into place.
On the following day, a review of the opening night says that “the theatre has a platform rather than a stage”.
The book is about “THE FALL OF THE FILM MUSICALS IN THE 1960’s”, so it makes a negative argument from the start.
The “BEN-HUR” 1969 re-release at the Palace ran for a mere nine weeks.
Currently closed for renovations.
This has returned to being the Roxy Cinema again.
Kennedy’s book is only wrong if you consider what has happened since. His quotes are legitimate from the film’s bad reviews back then. Fair or not, Barbra Streisand was seen as too young for the role and the film’s musical numbers were often reviewed as being severly over-produced.
It was in 1976.
ridethectrain, have you found any pics of the marquee as the Mark Triplex?
David, the real cinema rarity in those pics is the Cine Lido marquee shot on the second pic. Please post this there.
This opened in 1989. The UA Movies at Pembroke Pines opened in 1986.
This location was a General Cinema house.
I worked in the cinema industry in Miami from 1974 to 1990 and I never heard of them. Hornstein was the name I remember for all projection products.
David, the original HOBO TYPE on the OLYMPIA marquee was the ABC Florida State Theatres' trademark. Just look at the ads from the sixties and seventies.
Thanks to Facebook contributor Steve Abraham. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/nyregion/new-plaza-cinema-uws.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_191215&fbclid=IwAR1M93M8zH45JrXxe9xWbg4QsSFtmNKj36cL-MSJjYieidUaNo_fxk7xJc0
It closed in 1992.
https://www.facebook.com/picturehouses/videos/1049749945357841/UzpfSTY5NzEyODMzNToxMDE1Nzk2ODM5Mzc1MzMzNg/
Cineworld Picturehouse restore in place.
I think Disney has their eye on AMC. https://variety.com/2019/film/news/paramount-antitrust-consent-decrees-movie-business-analysis-1203409589/
According to the Sunday NY Times, the next Netflix film (“ATLANTICS”) will open at MOMA.
So, no one who sat in the tiny uncomfortable seat of a Broadway theatre for a three hour and 29 minute movie has any comments?
That’s a good question for any Hollywood studio ever.
Netflix' PR guy said that quick service to their subscribers was more important than boxoffice revenue even on a national level.