From our family to your family, we would first like to say thank you to our loyal patrons and to the community of Marysville for 10 years of doing business together. We regret that we have come to the decision that we have, but after discussing the over all business plan with my wife, praying together about it, and talking to our immediate family, we have made the decision that the best thing to do for our family at this time is to close Marysville Cinemas down effective immediately. As you may suspect this was not an easy decision for us to make, but one that had to be made.
Over this last year, as a family, we have invested everything we had to try and maintain the level of service that came to be expected of us by the community at the cinema, but in the end it was not enough. While our loyal patrons have continued to support us over the last few years, and we thank you for that, the general admission patronage has dropped to levels that will not sustain the business any longer.
We have tried our best over the years to play first run movies and to always have at least two of the top five films in the nation at any one time. But the strain on the theater to play first run movies has become to great. Though the demand from the community for first run features remains high, the attendance levels have been at an all time low and continue to drop. Coupled together with today’s current economic situation, we have not been able to procure the funds needed to continue to operate. More over, due to the high operating cost and lack of customer turn out, much needed cosmetic repair to the cinema has been delayed or has been stopped all together. It seems that the support from the community to keep the cinema open over the last few years has been slipping away and while the support from our local patrons has been there, it has not been enough to keep us in business with the cost burden the theater was under.
To give example and add explanation to our decision to close the cinema, we were already running in the red going into the month of November. Our hope was that the spending confidence within our community would increase based on the film title release dates and our November business sales model that we had used in the past would bring the cinema back to with in a manageable margin. We have always used the month of November for our business model for the winter months, which is notoriously our largest grossing month of the year. Roughly 5-10% of our yearly gross income is obtained in the month of November. In November of 2007 the cinema had approximately 2500-3000 patrons in attendance. In 2008 the cinema had approximately 3000-3500 patrons in attendance. This year, in 2009, the cinema had its lowest grossing November in the last ten years with just over 1000 patrons in attendance. This combined with a huge decline in the amount of gift certificate sales and coupon redemptions along with stagnant concession sales made the inevitable decision to close the theater very obvious.
In conclusion, while it was not an easy decision to close the theater, it was a decision that had to be made for our family. My wife and I can’t express enough, the gratitude to all the families that allowed us to be part of their lives over the last ten years. It has been very humbling to us that the community we have been a part of for over 30 years and that we love, took us in and gave us their support. We want to thank everyone for this, we will miss you.. As always, our hope is for the future and for our great community and that some day we might cross paths again.
There was an EXPO 67 rash of new cinemas downtown, all in the Underground city
March 31st, Place Du Canada (Odeon)
April 18th, Place Bonaventure
April 20th, Atwater
December 22nd, The Cinema at Westmount Square.
Timeline for this cinema
1964 opened by Lathrop as a single screen cinema with Mary Poppins
1971 taken over by Womecto, which has theatres in Florida and the WHT Pay-TV channel in New York City and split into two cinemas
1980 Three cinemas
1984 taken over by Luxury Theatres
1986 expanded to seven cinemas
1989 taken over by ACT III
1998 taken over by Regal Cinemas.
This was never listed in any newspaper nor movie theatre almanacs, including those published in French in Quebec. I think Chad’s infomation is false.
Closed:
from http://www.marysvillecinema.com/
Dear Marysville:
From our family to your family, we would first like to say thank you to our loyal patrons and to the community of Marysville for 10 years of doing business together. We regret that we have come to the decision that we have, but after discussing the over all business plan with my wife, praying together about it, and talking to our immediate family, we have made the decision that the best thing to do for our family at this time is to close Marysville Cinemas down effective immediately. As you may suspect this was not an easy decision for us to make, but one that had to be made.
Over this last year, as a family, we have invested everything we had to try and maintain the level of service that came to be expected of us by the community at the cinema, but in the end it was not enough. While our loyal patrons have continued to support us over the last few years, and we thank you for that, the general admission patronage has dropped to levels that will not sustain the business any longer.
We have tried our best over the years to play first run movies and to always have at least two of the top five films in the nation at any one time. But the strain on the theater to play first run movies has become to great. Though the demand from the community for first run features remains high, the attendance levels have been at an all time low and continue to drop. Coupled together with today’s current economic situation, we have not been able to procure the funds needed to continue to operate. More over, due to the high operating cost and lack of customer turn out, much needed cosmetic repair to the cinema has been delayed or has been stopped all together. It seems that the support from the community to keep the cinema open over the last few years has been slipping away and while the support from our local patrons has been there, it has not been enough to keep us in business with the cost burden the theater was under.
To give example and add explanation to our decision to close the cinema, we were already running in the red going into the month of November. Our hope was that the spending confidence within our community would increase based on the film title release dates and our November business sales model that we had used in the past would bring the cinema back to with in a manageable margin. We have always used the month of November for our business model for the winter months, which is notoriously our largest grossing month of the year. Roughly 5-10% of our yearly gross income is obtained in the month of November. In November of 2007 the cinema had approximately 2500-3000 patrons in attendance. In 2008 the cinema had approximately 3000-3500 patrons in attendance. This year, in 2009, the cinema had its lowest grossing November in the last ten years with just over 1000 patrons in attendance. This combined with a huge decline in the amount of gift certificate sales and coupon redemptions along with stagnant concession sales made the inevitable decision to close the theater very obvious.
In conclusion, while it was not an easy decision to close the theater, it was a decision that had to be made for our family. My wife and I can’t express enough, the gratitude to all the families that allowed us to be part of their lives over the last ten years. It has been very humbling to us that the community we have been a part of for over 30 years and that we love, took us in and gave us their support. We want to thank everyone for this, we will miss you.. As always, our hope is for the future and for our great community and that some day we might cross paths again.
Sincerely,
The Weikle’s
This theatre has no showtimes online. it is open?
No showtimes posted as of December, 2009. Is this still open?
No showtime or website for this cinema as of December 30th, 2009. Is this cinema still active?
loub, I moved the link on May 30th, to http://movie-theatre.org/usa/ny/ny.htm third frame page 35
Website is closed, is the theatre also closed?
Princess grand opening ad from October 3rd, 1908 is at View link
Grand opening ad from the Gazette View link
This theatre has closed by the time the Googlemobile passed by.
Still no showtimes, should be marked as closed.
No website or showtimes in 2009. Is this closed?
Is this closed? http://www.kassontheatre.com/PHP/home.php has no events or movies planned.
Is this still open, no website or showtimes online.
Website is closed, and there are no showtimes for this theatre. Is this closed?
Is this still open? I am unable to find showtimes for this.
Grand opening ad for the mall from October 1st, 1966 (opened as West Island Mall)at View link
Lost Memory, Happy Holidays, The grand opening from the Montreal Gazette from October 29th, 1971 is at View link
Also look at my posts for Place Du Canada and Bonaventure of Montreal.
Look like it closed by the time the Googlemoble passed by.
View link
has a picture.
Kerasotes made a new website for its ICON-branded theatre
http://showplaceicon.com/
There was an EXPO 67 rash of new cinemas downtown, all in the Underground city
March 31st, Place Du Canada (Odeon)
April 18th, Place Bonaventure
April 20th, Atwater
December 22nd, The Cinema at Westmount Square.
All are gone now.
1967 article (lots about the mall on these pages)
View link
Peter Lawford imprinted his hands and name in the cement of this cinema in 1965. View link
I never have seen it.
This opened on July 22nd, 1971 as a twin and a third cinema in 1982. It closed in 1994
Timeline for this cinema
1964 opened by Lathrop as a single screen cinema with Mary Poppins
1971 taken over by Womecto, which has theatres in Florida and the WHT Pay-TV channel in New York City and split into two cinemas
1980 Three cinemas
1984 taken over by Luxury Theatres
1986 expanded to seven cinemas
1989 taken over by ACT III
1998 taken over by Regal Cinemas.