This article reports that the Joyce’s current principal tenant may have to leave due to proposed rent increases though apparently the name of the theater would remain the same: View link
It is possible that the pit elevator and the pneumatic lifts for the stage lifts were made by different companies. Those stage lifts were undoubtedly custom jobs. But as many theaters have and have had pit elevators, it would not surprise me if the pit elevator was manufactured by Otis or Westinghouse.
It is not a question of aging the glass; Vitrolite is a pigmented glass and there are no known manufacturers of it anymore.
Tim Dunn, cited in the article above, has an interesting website: http://www.vitrolitespecialist.com/intro/intro.htm that discusses the history and use of Vitrolite and the pages have pictures of the work he has done in reusing Vitrolite, including a number of movie theater restorations.
Perhaps another auditorium was added, but based on the pictures of the marquee above and the one of it in this article, the theater appears to be a twin. B&B Theatres is closing this theater in Augist, 2010: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1652138.html
It won’t be closed for long though; Phoenix Big Cinemas of Knoxville, Tennesee is reopening it next week as the Dos Lagos Stadium 15, and plans upgrades: View link
Re: The J. Evans Miller Collection of Cinerama Theater Plans: the collection includes plans for a number of theaters that were designed but never built; it is one of the interesting things about that collection because it reveals some aspects of Cinerama history that otherwise would not be known. For example, there are plans for the Vogue Theater in Cleveland (which would have been a conversion) but what actually happened was that Stanley-Warner decided not to convert the Vogue but build a new, purpose-built Cinerama house, which was built and called the Great Northern. I would bet that though the plans were drawn up to build the Eastland for Cinerama, they were not executed. Roland Lataille’s list of Cinerama theaters, which I have found to be very accurate, does not list the Eastland, so it is highly unlikely that it ever advertised any film shown there as being “in Cinerama,” though it might have shown a 70mm print of some the single strip titles.
This article about the ongoing restoration work and the official website both indicate that this theater is again being referred to as the Lerner Theater: View link
This theater shall be reopening before the end of the month under the management of Phoenix Big Cities, based in Knoxville, TN; upgrades are planned. It will be now known as the Dos Lagos Stadium 15: View link
Joseph Musil, who passed away recently, was consulted for a time by Pacific Theatres when they first considered renovating the Dome. Apparently, he envisioned a more elegant design concept, even for the new theaters that would be built adjacent to the Dome. A sketch of his proposed curtain design for the Dome is on this webpage, along with some additional commentary about his concept for the revamping of the theater (scroll down the page to see the sketch): View link
As of June 24, 2010, this became the Alberta Rose Theatre, a three hundred seat venue for primarily live music: View link. The official website is: http://www.albertarosetheatre.com/
Yes, indeed; you can bet that 20th Century-Fox and Cameron will milk this cash cow dry and follow the path blazed by Lucas (and even Spielberg on occasion) – I expect that in the years to come, we will see “Avatar – the Special Edition” and “Avatar – the Director’s Cut”.
Any re-release is a good thing? Hmm. Perhaps we could talk Hollywood into re-releasing “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” “Battlefield Earth,”“Gigli,” and “Can’t Stop the Music.”
This theater’s current owner, Sun Basin Theatres, plans to close it at the end of 2010. Sun Basin plans to sell it soon, lease it back until the end of the year, and use the sale proceeds and equipment from the theater in a new fourteen-screen multiplex that it is building by converting a former Kmart. This theater then would be demolished. The theater opened in 1977 as triplex; two more screens were added in 1984. Story here: View link
According to this article, 2010 will most likely be the last year for this nearly sixty-year-old theater. Its owner, Sun Basin Theatres, is signaling that it plans to close it, along with another theater in East Wenatchee, and open a new megaplex in a converted former Kmart by May of 2011: View link
This article reports that the Joyce’s current principal tenant may have to leave due to proposed rent increases though apparently the name of the theater would remain the same: View link
It is possible that the pit elevator and the pneumatic lifts for the stage lifts were made by different companies. Those stage lifts were undoubtedly custom jobs. But as many theaters have and have had pit elevators, it would not surprise me if the pit elevator was manufactured by Otis or Westinghouse.
Only one that I know of: the 1921 Rapp & Rapp Tivoli: /theaters/944/
It is not a question of aging the glass; Vitrolite is a pigmented glass and there are no known manufacturers of it anymore.
Tim Dunn, cited in the article above, has an interesting website: http://www.vitrolitespecialist.com/intro/intro.htm that discusses the history and use of Vitrolite and the pages have pictures of the work he has done in reusing Vitrolite, including a number of movie theater restorations.
Perhaps another auditorium was added, but based on the pictures of the marquee above and the one of it in this article, the theater appears to be a twin. B&B Theatres is closing this theater in Augist, 2010: http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1652138.html
It won’t be closed for long though; Phoenix Big Cinemas of Knoxville, Tennesee is reopening it next week as the Dos Lagos Stadium 15, and plans upgrades: View link
Fridley Theatres will be closing the Spencer 3 in August of 2010; according to this article about the closing, it became a triplex in 1979: View link
Re: The J. Evans Miller Collection of Cinerama Theater Plans: the collection includes plans for a number of theaters that were designed but never built; it is one of the interesting things about that collection because it reveals some aspects of Cinerama history that otherwise would not be known. For example, there are plans for the Vogue Theater in Cleveland (which would have been a conversion) but what actually happened was that Stanley-Warner decided not to convert the Vogue but build a new, purpose-built Cinerama house, which was built and called the Great Northern. I would bet that though the plans were drawn up to build the Eastland for Cinerama, they were not executed. Roland Lataille’s list of Cinerama theaters, which I have found to be very accurate, does not list the Eastland, so it is highly unlikely that it ever advertised any film shown there as being “in Cinerama,” though it might have shown a 70mm print of some the single strip titles.
This article about the ongoing restoration work and the official website both indicate that this theater is again being referred to as the Lerner Theater: View link
This theater shall be reopening before the end of the month under the management of Phoenix Big Cities, based in Knoxville, TN; upgrades are planned. It will be now known as the Dos Lagos Stadium 15: View link
The operator of the Rotunda theater now wants to be considered as the operator of the Senator: View link
The Rotunda’s operator now wants to be considered as the operator of the Senator: View link
Thee Vitrolite exterior, though, has been cleaned and restored: View link
An article about the theater and the restoration of its original Vitrolite exterior: View link
Joseph Musil, who passed away recently, was consulted for a time by Pacific Theatres when they first considered renovating the Dome. Apparently, he envisioned a more elegant design concept, even for the new theaters that would be built adjacent to the Dome. A sketch of his proposed curtain design for the Dome is on this webpage, along with some additional commentary about his concept for the revamping of the theater (scroll down the page to see the sketch): View link
Yes; this article about the building mentions that fact: View link
As of June 24, 2010, this became the Alberta Rose Theatre, a three hundred seat venue for primarily live music: View link. The official website is: http://www.albertarosetheatre.com/
An article about Mr. Musil’s passing that first appeared in the LA Times: View link
Mr. Kiefaber weighs in on the situation: View link
Yes, indeed; you can bet that 20th Century-Fox and Cameron will milk this cash cow dry and follow the path blazed by Lucas (and even Spielberg on occasion) – I expect that in the years to come, we will see “Avatar – the Special Edition” and “Avatar – the Director’s Cut”.
Any re-release is a good thing? Hmm. Perhaps we could talk Hollywood into re-releasing “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” “Battlefield Earth,”“Gigli,” and “Can’t Stop the Music.”
According to this article, the theater is not doing well financially: View link
This article about the theater contains a picture: http://www.shortnorth.com/ArenaTheatre.html
This theater’s current owner, Sun Basin Theatres, plans to close it at the end of 2010. Sun Basin plans to sell it soon, lease it back until the end of the year, and use the sale proceeds and equipment from the theater in a new fourteen-screen multiplex that it is building by converting a former Kmart. This theater then would be demolished. The theater opened in 1977 as triplex; two more screens were added in 1984. Story here: View link
According to this article, 2010 will most likely be the last year for this nearly sixty-year-old theater. Its owner, Sun Basin Theatres, is signaling that it plans to close it, along with another theater in East Wenatchee, and open a new megaplex in a converted former Kmart by May of 2011: View link
An interesting website about the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra: http://www.mont-alto.com/