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

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Cinepoint Six on 12th St in Ogden, Utah is definitely a goner. Word is the owners are going to tear it down and built an apartment tower in it's place. All six booths, TMS and the recliners are for sale...

Magic Lantern in Ketchum, ID lost two of their six screens due to the building owner wanting that space to put in a restaurant.

The Twin Cinema in Jackson Hole was sold and the property which is a really cherry spot in Jackson will be put to other use.. I believe they may add two screens to Movieworks to replace them.

[Mike Croaro]

https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramen...er-closes.html

UA Sunrise Mall 4 in Sacramento, CA area to remain closed. An older 4 plex that opened in the early 1970's.

Mike C.

[Kenneth Wuepper]

Geoff,

The point is that you can get these titles off the WEB and at home you can tweak the picture and screw with the sound all you like.

Little screen size for the room and calibrated sound system...Blah!

This is our competition folks.

[Geoff Jones]

The Alamo Drafthouse in Westminster, Colorado reopens tomorrow after a C1-9 hiatus.

They are showing The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard on their 60 foot "Big Show" Atmos-equipped screen. So far, they've sold 17 tickets across 14 different showtimes over the next week.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is showing on little (constant width, I think) screens that are perceptibly no bigger than my home theater. So far, they've sold 44 tickets across 8 different showtimes.


So disappointing.

[Steve Guttag]

The County Theatre in Doylestown, PA is reopening after renovating their two existing auditoriums and adding a new one (it has been shut down due to both the pandemic and construction). The new auditorium is significantly larger than the original two and features 4K RGB laser projection (Barco SP4K series with high-contrast lens) and 7.1 (QSYS) audio via QSC speakers (SC-424 4-way stage channels).

For more details see: https://countytheater.org/

[Mike Rivest]

The monsterplex is back. Cineworld’s Regal opened the Regal Benders Landing ScreenX, RX, 4DX, RPX & VIP today is the Houston area

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/65379

[Eric Thuemmel]

The Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak, MI (suburb of Detroit) is closing after 80 years. A vicim of Covid and rent.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ng/7667560002/

[Leo Enticknap]

In 1998 Cinemark tried to enter England at Liverpool, the Movies 12 - Liverpool. Never happened

Interesting - the late '90s was a time of explosive growth and restructuring for movie theaters (cinemas) in the UK. The company that I worked for at that time (City Screen) went from being a two-site arthouse/mainstream crossover startup to having around 20 screens, plus a distribution arm, within the space of about five years. It was gobbled by Cineworld shortly after I moved on, who essentially rebranded it as their arthouse label. Two of the big multiplex chains, UCI and Odeon, merged, and a huge amount of money was sunk into refurbishing the hundreds of two- and three-screen high street (main street) fleapits that had started life as 1930s picture palaces, were twinned and tripled in the '60s and '70s, and by the late '80s had become mainly cold, damp, threadbare, infested places that one would not really want to see a movie in.

I'm guessing that by the time Cinemark tried to arrive on the scene, the market was already saturated and they found themselves having to claw away share from their competitors, customer by customer. Same thing in reverse when Tesco (one of Britain's biggest supermarket chains), tried to move into America with their "Fresh and Easy" brand. They were up against bigger, better established competitors (though importing one of Britain's worst inventions - the self-service checkout machine - also played a big role in sinking them), and simply could not claw any market share away from them, nor grow the overall size of the market.

[Frank Cox]

My understanding of Cineplex (which may be wrong) is that all or most of their theatres are multiplexes in larger cities. Landmark's closures all seem to be their smaller theatres in smaller locations.

Has Cineplex announced any permanent closures? I haven't heard of any so far.

[Allan Barnes]

CINEPLEX CANADA.... WAIT UNTIL IT FALLS APART, STARTING IN ONTARIO, TOO MANY SCREENS FOR CURRENT MARKET SITUATION. IN ONTARIO, ALL CINEMAS and DRIVE-IN THEATRES ARE STILL CLOSED BECAUSE..... (add excuse here)

[Frank Cox]

Some more of Landmark Cinemas of Canada's theatres are permanently closed: Selkirk Manitoba, Dawson Creek BC, Airdrie Alberta. And Yorkton Sask previously mentioned here.

I think that all of these are single screen theatres except for Airdrie which is (was) a two-screen.

[Terry Monohan]

Brand New Regal Stonestown 12 Galleria opened last week in San Francisco CA. Will replace the small UA Stonestown Twin next door to be torn down soon.

Regal has a first for SF a 4DX® auditorium in Theatre #1 with 140 seats and a first also for SF ScreenX® in Theatre #9 at 204 seats and the so called Regal RPX® large screen in Theatre #12 at 296 seats the largest in the new cinema. They have great looking orange/red glow hallo dim lights around the surround speakers and ceiling speakers but when the movie starts everything is turned off too bad.

Nice color lights in the lobby and hall but they skimped on the full recliner seats. Just a few of the spaces have them. You would think in the extra 3 money fee spaces they would have the deluxe Regal orange/pink big electric full leg recliners. Only just the back head part goes back manually in the fancy deluxe 3 spots. What was so strange the large RPX® auditorium I did not think the sound was that good. Century Theatres in SF at their XD large curved screen house has better base sound and surround sound. Same with the AMC Metreon Dolby Cinema® way better sound and a larger true scope curved screen. In fact some of the smaller 130 and 106 seated new Regal 12 rooms had better base sound then the fancy RPX® house did.

.The new Regal 12 screens are not that curved almost flat. I have no idea if Dolby Atmos® was put into the RPX® Theatre #12 as I did see speakers on the ceiling but no Dolby Atmos® logo was shown before the movie Quite Place 2 was shown. No Dolby Atmos® signs outside Theatre #12 entrance. Klisph® speakers are on the side and back walls. So so sound I thought. The manager David told me that the Dolby® tech guys were coming in Tuesday June 1 to set up and tune Theatre #12 what ever that means.

Like so many new theatres no boxoffice. Many of the local older people coming opening week don't even have a computer as they usually buy tickets at the boxoffice from a live person. Many missed the first part of a movie while trying to buy a ticket and look for a seat from few lobby machines. They did have a helper to show how to purchase seats. Next time I hope they come early or buy online Fango someway..

All 12 of the screens looked very sharp and in focus as they have laser projectors I was told. No masking or curtains mostly square type 1.85 screens. All the cinemas just have boring black walls no nice color scone lights. They do have a red LED light aisle railing strip light but It goes off when the movie starts. The rugs are so flat and the same Regal dull pattern that all their theatres have. No glow look with the nice blue lights in the halls. Time for the Cineworld Regal to bring in better rug people DSCN1745.JPG DSCN1762.JPG DSCN1795.JPG DSCN1847.JPG DSCN1814.JPG DSCN1853.JPG image_1030.jpg DSCN1774.JPG DSCN1950.JPG DSCN2001.JPG The worst for me was the bright green two exit signs that were way too bright in each cinema very distracting, shined on the screen during a dark scene in a movie. On a brand new build you would think this would not happen. One good thing no sound leaking they did a good job with the sound walls!

One of the best features at the brand new Regal Stonestown 12 Galleria is the free parking. Not like downtown SF that can be a challenge to park.

Will try to check out the 4DX® & ScreenX® soon. I think this new cinema will do very well in It's location in San Francisco. check the new place out If you are in SF. Our first new movie theatre in many years.

[Mike Rivest]

In Atlanta, the Silverspot - The Battery opens today (May 28th, 2021) with 10 screens.

[William Kucharski]

The AMC 9+CO 10 at an infill urban site in Denver opened in March at 9th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver.

• AMC Signature plush, power recliners.
• Heated seating.
• Online ticketing, reserved seating and ticketless entry.
• Dolby Cinema at AMC.
• AMC Feature Fare menu.
• AMC MacGuffins adult beverage concept.
• Mobile Food & Beverage Ordering.
• Private Theatre Rentals at AMC.
• AMC Safe & Clean policies and protocols.

https://www.9news.com/article/entert...6-2e5a3783c0cf

[Mike Rivest]

In 1998 Cinemark tried to enter England at Liverpool, the Movies 12 - Liverpool. Never happened