What's the latest theatre to close or open you have heard about?

[Scott Jentsch]

Updates since my last report on Dec 4, 2023:

Openings

• Rochester, NY: Apple Cinemas - Pittsford Cinema Opens
• Dallas, TX: EVO Entertainment - Prestonwood Now Open
• Greensboro, NC: Golden Ticket Cinemas - Ale House + Elite Now Open
• Norman, OK: Regal Spotlight Reopens

Closings

• Brooklyn, NY: Linden Boulevard Multiplex Cinemas Closing in January
• Columbus, GA: AMC Classic Peachtree 8 Closed
• Plainview, TX: Cinemark Town Centre Cinema 6 Closed
• Enfield, CT: Cinemark Enfield 12 Closed
• Elkhart, IN: AMC Classic Elkhart 14 Closed
• Cincinnati, OH: Xscape Theatres - Northgate 14 Closed
• Mankato, MN: AMC Classic Mankato 6 Closed
• Oklahoma City, OK: AMC Classic Crossroads Mall 16 Closed

[Martin Brooks]

The National Amusements Showcase Jamaica 15 is Queens, NY is closing in June.

And it's probable that the National Amusements Showcase College Point 12 will also close sometime this year. A developer wants to turn the building into a distribution center, but this is also about Shari Redstone dumping everything she can.

She wants to sell or joint venture Paramount Global (which includes CBS and Viacom) because she's over $15 billion in debt. Paramount tried to sell Simon & Schuster to Pearson-Random House but the Feds killed the deal, so investment firm KKR bought it instead.

If both theaters close, that will leave Queens, NY with 9 theaters and 63 screens for 2.3 million people.

[William Kucharski]

Cinemark Enfield Square, Enfield, CT closing December 8, 2023.

https://www.wfsb.com/2023/12/08/movi...s-down-friday/

[Tim Androes]

Seattle, WA: Was headed over to the U-district today and was surprised to see that they have demolished the Guild 45th #1...probably happened during the summer when there was nice weather...so sad.

[Chris Haller]

According to Apple Cinemas' website, Apple Cinemas Pittsford in Pittsford, NY, is due to open on Friday, December 8th. This marks the reopening of the former site of the Pittsford Cinemas 9 after it closed in fall of 2022. It is now a dine-in cinema, and is supposedly more of an upscale experience compared to its previous presence as a limping along former General Cinemas build from the 90s.

[Scott Jentsch]

The Colonial Theatre in Belfast, Maine has reopened.

The B & B Portland Northshore 8 in Portland, Texas has reopened.

The AMC Causeway 13 in Boston, Massachusetts reopened Nov 16.

The former Regal UA Parkway Place in Flowood, Mississippi has reopened as the Legacy Theaters - Parkway.

The former Kerasotes Boston Showplace ICON at Seaport has reopened as the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Seaport in Boston, Massachusetts.


The Cinemark Monroe Cinema 10 in Monroe, Louisiana has closed.

The New Main in Ephrata, Pennsylvania has closed.

The Cinemark North Brownsville Dollar Movies 10 in Brownsville, Texas has closed.

The Cinema Cafe - Riverdale Hampton in Hampton, Virginia has closed.

The AMC Classic Dyersburg 9 in Dyersburg, Tennessee has closed.

The AMC Classic Durham 15 in Durham, North Carolina has closed.

The AMC Classic Tifton 6 in Tifton, Georgia has closed.

[William Kucharski]

Regency 6, San Rafael, CA closed November 26:

After decades of entertaining families and cinema buffs, the Regency 6 in San Rafael has closed.

Cinemark, the Texas parent company of the Regency theater chain, shuttered the venue on Sunday. A company spokesperson said in an email that the theater was closed at the conclusion of its lease.

“This closure is normal course of business and the result of the careful and ongoing review of our theater fleet,” the statement said.

[Martin Brooks]

The property was purchased in July by Food Bazaar Supermarkets for $40M.

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$40 million?? No wonder groceries are so expensive. That's not even a great neighborhood.

[William Kucharski]

"Cinemark Monroe Cinema 10 in Pecanland Mall will be permanently closing.

A sign is currently posted in the lobby of the theatre, announcing its impending closure.

"THAT'S A WRAP," the sign reads. "Thank you for your business over the past 38 years. While this theatre is permanently closed, we look forward to serving you at our West Monroe (LA) location.""

[William Kucharski]

The property was purchased in July by Food Bazaar Supermarkets for $40M.

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[William Kucharski]

AMC closes 16-screen movie theater in Johnston (Iowa)

"Since November 2022, AMC has closed the Cobblestone 9 in Urbandale and the Southridge 12 in Des Moines. The only remaining AMC locations in Iowa are in Council Bluffs, Dubuque and Sioux City."

https://www.kcci.com/article/amc-clo...nston/45961614

[William Kucharski]

From AMC to KP: New owners breathe fresh life into the downtown Kalamazoo theater

https://wwmt.com/news/local/kp-cinem...ection-screens

[William Kucharski]

"The University of Colorado Boulder has contracted to acquire the Regal Cinebarre theater in Louisville for use as a transit-oriented development to house faculty and students.

The 8.85-acre property at 1164 W. Dillon Road, near the interchange of U.S. Highway 36 and McCaslin Boulevard, will be acquired for $10 million. The purchase was approved by the CU Board of Regents, Nov. 7, but still must be approved by the Capital Development Committee of the Colorado General Assembly.

The acquisition is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2024."

https://bizwest.com/2023/11/13/cu-pl...in-louisville/

[William Kucharski]

We had a similar situation here in San Francisco when the historic/iconic Cliff House Restaurant was sold. The owners
apparently had trademarked the phrase "Cliff House" as it applies to this location in San Francisco, and so when it closed
the sign came down, and the new owners cannot use the phrase "Cliff House" Restaurant when it re-opens.

Makes sense.

The trademark owners can now legally sell the rights to "as served at the Cliff House™" recipes or sauces or whatever they like.

Likewise Cinerama™ can sell merchandise rights; I still have a fair amount of swag I bought at the Cinerama™ Dome, which, though closed, retains the name.

[Ed Gordon]

Related to Ed's porn theater pic, my favorite "porno pun" title was of a James Bond-inspired masterpiece, The Man With the Golden Bum. It was shipped by mistake to a theater I once worked at that was doing a Bond retrospective: the print distribution depot in West London that, at that time, handled pretty much every print that went to and from every cinema in the UK had obviously gotten the titles mixed up. I knew something was wrong when a case containing only three reels arrived. At first, I thought that the second case had been lost in transit, but then I looked twice at one of the cans, and saw the title. I so wish I'd taken a pic, but this was in the mid-1990s, before the days of even standalone digital cameras, let alone cameras in phones.,,,

Apparently you were not the only projectionist that has encountered this. Some did not catch the error until it was too late:

https://www.ranker.com/list/movie-th...akes/anncasano