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July 25, 2008
Uptown Theater to be auctioned
CHICAGO, IL — It has come to the attention of the Balaban and Katz Historical Foundation that the Uptown Theater building at 4816 North Broadway in Chicago will be auctioned publicly on July 29th at 10:30 am at the offices of the Judicial Sales Corporation. The address is 1 South Wacker Drive (24th floor) in Chicago.
The Judicial Sales Corporation has a website. The law firm involved in the case is Noonan and Lieberman LTD. located at 105 West Adams Street Chicago. The Balaban and Katz Historical Foundation’s website is here. Our email is The most recent interior pictures of the theater may be viewed at http://www.balabanandkatzmagazine.com.
(Thanks to chrisjuno for providing the photo.)
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Box Office Preview: X-Files Debut vs. The Dark Knight
Fox and Fox Mulder will duke it out with Warner Bros. and The Dark Knight this weekend for box office supremacy. If the previous week’s tallies for TDK are any indication, though, it may not be a close race with the Christopher Nolan-directed film aiming to cross the $300 million mark this weekend, according to Variety.
Sony’s comedy Step Brothers will also bow this weekend, while Universal’s Mamma Mia looks to grab additional counter programming dollars after its $27.7 million opening last weekend, the highest grossing opening ever for a musical. According to Variety, Step Brothers will open in 3,094 theaters, while “X-Files” gets a slightly larger launch in 3,185 houses.
Good luck to Mulder and Scully and Farrell and Reilly … and to anyone looking for The Dark Knight IMAX tickets.
Will The Dark Knight break $300 million this weekend?
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State Theate expansion may begin soon
CULPEPER, VA — After being announced almost two years ago, the expansion plans for the State Theatre might finally come to fruition. Following that, it would become a mixed-use entertainment venue.
In the planning, design and fundraising phases for several years, rehab of the 70-year-old movie house on Main Street is about to get physical.
The State Theatre Foundation comes before the Town Architectural Review Board today for approval to begin the estimated $10 million rehab.
“We are getting very close,” said Chris Hamilton, chairman of the foundation’s building committee. “We are actually in negotiations with our contractor and when that is complete it won’t be long” before construction begins, he said.
Read the full story in the Culpeper Star-Exponent.
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Special “Mamma Mia!” screenings
After testing it out in some markets last weekend, Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres are rolling out a special add-on to some screenings of “Mamma Mia!” in more markets.
Universal Pictures and AMC Theatres are planning to add a little “festive enhancement” to the ending of MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE in selected cities across the United States. If you liked the way the finale is done in the stage version of MAMMA MIA!, you should enjoy this chance to have a little extra fun at the movies. The special ending will enhance evening screenings at the locations listed here…
Read more details about this special opportunity along with the list of theaters at Cinema Sightlines.
(Picture courtesy of Littlestar/Universal)
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Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention this September
Aberdeen, Maryland will play host for the third-annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention. Three day, non-profit event features vintage films of the Golden Age, including a few “lost” gems and rare classics. Movie stars Edd Byrnes (77 Sunset Strip), Margaret Kerry (Our Gang shorts), Kathleen Hughes (It Came From Outer Space), Jon Provost (Timmy on Lassie), Micket Freeman (Sgt. Bilko), Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) and Larry Storch (F-Troop). Authors offer presentations about the drive-ins, P.G. Wodehouse, old-time radio and more. September 18 – 20, 2008. The Clarion Hotel, Aberdeen, Maryland. 443-286-6821
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Warner Bros. westerns project
Seeking an expert who can review over 200 hour-long telefilms which contains stock footage and give details about what movie the stock footage originated.
Book is due for publication in two years. Studio archives provided everything except the stock footage origination. Warner Bros. westerns.
E-mail for more information.
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WANTED!!! Vintage Theatre Equipment
Wanted: Vintage theatre sound equipment. Speakers, amplifiers, cabinets, crossovers and vacuum tubes manufactured by Altec Lansing, RCA, Western Electric, etc. and any and all parts or pieces thereof (horns, woofers, etc. working or not). Will pay cash! Also willing to trade new and used audio and digital equipment. We have stage speakers, subwoofers, surrounds, processors, amplifiers, and complete sound racks available.
Premium Performance Sound
913-362-3762
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July 24, 2008
Royal Oak Music Theatre celebrates 80th!
ROYAL OAK, MI — The Royal Oak Music Theatre will celebrate its 80th Anniversary with a showing of the Chaplin classic, “The Circus”, also a product of 1928.
When Kunsky Theatre first opened its doors on Fourth Street on March 6, 1928, the demand to get inside was so great, more people were turned away than were able to get inside the 1,700-seat movie theater.
A little more than 80 years later, owners of what’s still a local hot spot — now named the Royal Oak Music Theatre — want to re-create that night with a special anniversary event.
Read more at C&G.
(Thanks to annethelibrarian for providing the photo.)
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Another new theater in the works in the Bronx
BRONX, NY — Here we go again…Monday’s NY Daily News reported that a 14 screen theater is planned for a mixed use development in “The HUB” shopping area on a vacant lot located at East 149th Street at Brook and Bergen Avenues.
The theater chain was not revealed, but I am hoping for somebody other then National Amusements or Regal. Nothing against either of those two chains. It would just be refreshing for another chain not in this area to open up. The developer is Related Properties who have also announced a theater for their Kingsbridge Armory development site on Jerome Avenue, just above Fordham Road.
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A look back at Lubbock theater history
LUBBOCK, TX — One man takes a look back in time at some of the forgotten cinemas in Lubbock like the Winchester and the Lindsey.
I arrived in Lubbock in the fall of 1970. One of the first things I did was buy a newspaper and search out the movie ads, at which point I was astonished to find an old Italian western double feature booked at a theater called the State, located on Texas Avenue.
That would become my first movie experience in Lubbock.
Weeks would pass before I found the Winchester on 50th Street, by far Lubbock’s most impressive modern theater.
Read more at Lubbock Online.