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

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Typical mid to late 1970's Showcase. They were always a schlocky chain, perhaps one notch above Carmike. Buildings like that get torn down and replaced because they can never operate efficiently.

[Marcel Birgelen]

Looks like your garden-variety abandoned multiplex to me.
Even though the building is of type "shoebox-deluxe", it still makes me sad to see those places like this.

[Carsten Kurz]

What an ugly building for a cinema. Well, a primary school is a much better outcome for this place I guess.
I hope the locals have other choices.

[Mike Rivest]

Looks like Showcase cinemas are also taking the money and running in England.

[Martin McCaffery]

Looks like the new and improved Eastdale Cinemas (Montgomery, AL) will really open tomorrow, May 21. They have missed several announce opening dates, but their web page is up and running.
https://www.gqtmovies.com/alabama/ea...mas-montgomery
It, too, will be a discount house, so I guess it will be going head to head with AMC for the first run cheap ticket experience.

[Steve Guttag]

The Ventnor Square theatre in Ventnor City, NJ is set to open this Saturday 5/22/21. 5211 Ventnor Avenue Ventnor City, NJ 08406

It brings back an existing site but now a 3-screen theatre, retaining the front half of the original theatre with an impressive looking, historical, decorations/lighting. It also features NEC Laser projection (NC-3541L), Dolby Atmos/QSC Q-SYS sound (SC-424 stage speakers, QSC and Dolby surround speakers, JBL subwoofers). The back two theatres also feature NEC laser projection (NC-1201L) with QSC/Q-SYS 7.1 audio. The back two theatres also feature VIP balconies.

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[Frank Cox]

Tower Theatre, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada -- permanently closed effective May 19, 2021.

https://www.facebook.com/LandmarkCinemasTowerYorkton/

This theatre is (was) owned by Landmark Cinemas of Canada, the second largest chain in Canada. (Cineplex is the largest.)

Along with all other theatres in Saskatchewan, the Tower Theatre was temporarily closed in March of 2020, then it re-opened for about three weeks in mid-July, after which they stopped playing movies and were just selling popcorn one or two nights per week. And now that's the end of the Yorkton Tower Theatre.

The Tower is the "next theatre down the road" from mine, so maybe more people from Yorkton will start coming to the show here. Yay for me, I suppose, but it's still sad to see a theatre closing down.

[Martin Brooks]

Much to my surprise, just about every NYC movie theater has reopened (or will by 5/28).
The only theaters still closed are:

Manhattan:
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan 12 (new theater that hasn't opened yet)
Cinemart Cinema Village 12th St 3

Queens:
Cinemart 5 Forest Hills
Brielle North Shore Towers
Regal Tangram 4DX Flushing 7 (new theater that hasn't opened yet)

Brooklyn:
BAM Rose Cinema 4

Bronx:
National Amusements Concourse Plaza 10

Staten Island:
Alamo Drafthouse 10 (new theater that hasn't opened yet)

Permanently closed:
CMX East 62nd Street 6

[Mike Croaro]

(CA ) Cinearts @ Palo Alto closed permanently.

Per Google and Century Theatres website, the aforementioned arthouse has closed permanently. I truly hope Landmark will go into this mint condition cinema. They had operated it from circa 1980-2008. They vacated only because lease negotiations had broken down, and the landlord gave the facility to Century.

[Mike Rivest]

Jackson Hole Cinema from March 30th, 1977

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Jackson Hole Cinema, a twin screen, has closed and the land has been sold off for other development. No doubt this land being in a prime spot, filedata/fetch?id=10753&d=1620314181&type=thumb is worth millions. I serviced this place for many years and did the digital conversions there. Jackson Hole Cinemas will continue at The Movieworks a short distance away from, this site. Movieworks is a four screen complex.

[Martin McCaffery]

The Prattville (AL) Cinema 12 (O'Neil's>Carmike>AMC>New Vision). It has been closed since last March and appears AMC has reclaimed it from the ruins of New Visions, but have not opened it yet. Got whacked by a storm front that came through on Tuesday (and took out two trees in my yard). Video footage:

[Leo Enticknap]

Studio Movie Grill has finalized a deal to exit bankruptcy. Out of their pre-pandemic 33 locations, 17 will reopen. I can't find a complete list of the sites that will and will not reopen, but per this story, Downey, Monrovia, Glendale, and Redlands in Southern California are gone. Interestingly, all are to the east of LA, and apart from Glendale, are in the Inland Empire. Sad and a bit surprised that Redlands will not reopen: it's the geographically closest movie theater to me, and after SMG took it over from Krikorian about five years ago, they sunk a lot of money into refurbishing it.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Cinepoint 6 on 12th St in Ogden, Utah is the only permanent theater closure out of everyone I service. I originally equipped this theater in 1999 for Reel Theaters. Reel went under and the current owners are the third ones. Since the current owners have had it the location has been second run.

[Leo Enticknap]

Not sure that I'd describe Montclair as "Greater Los Angeles": it's about 35 miles due east of downtown LA (about halfway between LA and the city I live in), and is generally thought of as being IE (Inland Empire - the exurbia that stretches for 70-80 miles along the 10 freeway) rather than LA. It's just over the border into San Bernardino County. The IE has seen an economic boom over the last year, fueled by an increase in logistics activity (the area's biggest industry) caused by everyone buying their crud online rather than going to stores, and by work-from-homers in the LA metro seeking out larger apartments and houses further east. Interesting, and encouraging, that a new theater is opening up. Plans to build one in Banning were axed around this time last year.