Boston.com yesterday reported that AMC has sold the Harvard Square Theatre for $6.5 million to Cambridge-based Carpenter & Company, who own the Charles Hotel several blocks away.
“Richard Friedman, the president and chief operating officer of Carpenter & Company, said the company bought the building last week and he expects a plan will be place for the future of the property within two months.” He said that re-using the building as a theater is one of many options that will be considered.
Rocky Horror Picture Show (with Full Body Cast) will move to Loews Boston Common, effective August 4. The last shows at Harvard Square will be tomorrow night, July 7, 9:30 pm and 12:30 am.
The Charles had a huge screen upstairs and two small screens downstairs. When Walter Reade still owned it, those were called the Charles East and Charles West.
The Capitol and Somerville are both converting to digital (while retaining the ability to project 35mm), but I don’t know what’s happening with the Lexington Venue and the other theatres you listed here.
I’d hope they are headed for another theatre and not a scrapyard!
How will the Drexel ever show old movies if they no longer have any projectors?
What are the two shows? Are they a joint venture between ArtsEmerson and the Wang Center?
Maybe you are thinking of “Hail Mary”, another film that attracted Catholic protesters.
I thought the 70mm Master was going to Coolidge Corner, not here?
This place is gorgeous! Quite an unexpected find in an otherwise pretty depressing city center.
Does it still look like a movie or stage theatre inside, with the original raked seating? What sort of events will it host once it is restored?
Yes, 70mm at Coolidge Corner theatre in Brookline (next to Boston).
The Somerville Theatre also has 70mm projectors, and plans a 70mm festival next year, but they didn’t get this one.
MPol, the Somerville Theatre has 70mm projectors and plans to hold a 70mm festival next year.
Boston.com yesterday reported that AMC has sold the Harvard Square Theatre for $6.5 million to Cambridge-based Carpenter & Company, who own the Charles Hotel several blocks away.
“Richard Friedman, the president and chief operating officer of Carpenter & Company, said the company bought the building last week and he expects a plan will be place for the future of the property within two months.” He said that re-using the building as a theater is one of many options that will be considered.
I never heard of it, but their web site is http://www.lpfstudio.com/cinema/
Rocky Horror Picture Show (with Full Body Cast) will move to Loews Boston Common, effective August 4. The last shows at Harvard Square will be tomorrow night, July 7, 9:30 pm and 12:30 am.
Rocky Horror Picture Show with Full Body Cast will be moving here from the (closing) Harvard Square theatre, effective August 4.
That new National Amusements multiplex will be small by current standards — just 6 screens. It will be a ‘Cinema de Lux’.
This is a very sad day for Harvard Square, for Cambridge, and for film exhbition throughout the Boston area.
I believe Harvard Square is the last remaining theatre from the old USACinemas chain to survive through merger first with Loews and then with AMC.
That would be sad. It would leave only the very specialized Brattle Theatre as the only cinema in all of Harvard Square.
Will this be actual film projection, as opposed to DVD?
I recall “King of Hearts” playing “forever” at the Central Square Cinema across the river — not here at the Exeter.
But I saw Gettysburg at the Charles. Maybe it opened simultaneously at Coolidge?
The Charles had a huge screen upstairs and two small screens downstairs. When Walter Reade still owned it, those were called the Charles East and Charles West.
By the late 1970s and early 80s, the Music Hall was almost exclusively a live stage and rarely showed films.
The address is correct. There is more than one Cambridge Street in Boston, and the map is showing the wrong one.
what is The Cleve?
Is there another still-operating Paris Cinema (perhaps the one in NYC) who could use the sign?
Can you create a page here for the In-Town? It is before my time in Columbus.
The Capitol and Somerville are both converting to digital (while retaining the ability to project 35mm), but I don’t know what’s happening with the Lexington Venue and the other theatres you listed here.