This theater is still closed as a result of flooding in May. Regal had purchased it (it had been previously been leased to Regal prior to the flooding) and had planned a major set of upgrades and renovations. Now Regal is being non-committal about the future of this theater and its other flood-closed theater in Nashville, the Regal Opry Mills 20 & IMAX: View link
According to this article, the theater is still closed because of the May flooding and Regal is not saying anything about if or when it may ever reopen: View link
According to this article, the theater closed in August, 2010, when the lease held by Starplex ran out. It will be reopening as the Waco Square Premiere Cinema 6 under the management of Premiere Cinemas; it will remain, however, a discount house: View link
The Reuters link about the bust appears to be broken, but the one I posted above from the Winnipeg Free Press seems to be working as does this one: View link
The city is apparently entering into negotiations with Regal to reopen the theater: View link
There are many pictures of this theater accompanying its entry at CinemaTour; it appears to have had at least some stadium seating before Maya’s abortive attempt to remodel it: http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/12360.html
Indeed; this is the fourth time this posting has appeared since June, the last barely two weeks ago. I really doubt that many CT readers have these sound systems and parts just lying around. The poster would probably have better luck contacting companies about to wreck old theaters or the owners of long-closed theaters.
It is now an AMC operation. The City of Princeton is offering another theater operator $200,000 in incentives to build another theater as the city is fearful that AMC will close this theater in about a year: View link
“Green, purple, and blue motif” ? Apparently then Loew’s used this bilious color scheme for more than one of their theaters then. Loew’s East in the Cleveland suburb of Richmond Heights had the same decor, and if memory serves, the green was more like chartreuse and purple more like lavender. I guess it was “mod” when these color scheme was used, but boy, did it quickly look dated and dumb.
I walked by this theater the other day, and it is in a severely dilapidated condition. The brick veneer facade, a later addition, that extends from the sidewalk up to the marquee level is deteriorating and if tuckpointing does not occur, bricks will start falling soon. The half hoarding, visible in the in the photo posted on August 23, 2009, is missing some of the plywood sections and probably would not protect anyone if the marquee collapses. The roof is in terrible shape; one can only imagine what a mess the interior must be. Two small side windows, partially boarded up from the inside, clearly must admit wind and rain. I hate to see any old theater demolished, but I would doubt very much if anyone is going rescue this one.
No doubt something could be done, but, sadly I doubt if anything will. Much as I dearly love San Francisco, there seems to so little interest in or resources made available there for the preservation of their classic theaters. The City essentially signed the death warrant for the St. Francis theaters last week. It was not that long ago that the Coronet bit the dust. The Clay is on life support. Various projects are threatening the New Mission and the Divisadero. It is really a depressing situation there.
If you can set the show up under the auspices of a school, college, university, library, museum, or a similar institution, the institution or you may be able to license the showing through Swank Motion Pictures http://www.swank.com/ which handles the public exhibition of showing movies on DVD for many institutions as they act as licensing agent for many studios.
Apparently, according to this article (with a picture), a charter school is going to purchase this theater and turn it into a new home for the school and hopes to do so around the end of the year or in early next: View link
It looks to me to possibly be the Loew’s Paradise in the Bronx.
This theater is still closed as a result of flooding in May. Regal had purchased it (it had been previously been leased to Regal prior to the flooding) and had planned a major set of upgrades and renovations. Now Regal is being non-committal about the future of this theater and its other flood-closed theater in Nashville, the Regal Opry Mills 20 & IMAX: View link
According to this article, the theater is still closed because of the May flooding and Regal is not saying anything about if or when it may ever reopen: View link
According to this article, the theater closed in August, 2010, when the lease held by Starplex ran out. It will be reopening as the Waco Square Premiere Cinema 6 under the management of Premiere Cinemas; it will remain, however, a discount house: View link
The Reuters link about the bust appears to be broken, but the one I posted above from the Winnipeg Free Press seems to be working as does this one: View link
The city is apparently entering into negotiations with Regal to reopen the theater: View link
There are many pictures of this theater accompanying its entry at CinemaTour; it appears to have had at least some stadium seating before Maya’s abortive attempt to remodel it: http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/12360.html
Indeed; this is the fourth time this posting has appeared since June, the last barely two weeks ago. I really doubt that many CT readers have these sound systems and parts just lying around. The poster would probably have better luck contacting companies about to wreck old theaters or the owners of long-closed theaters.
It is now an AMC operation. The City of Princeton is offering another theater operator $200,000 in incentives to build another theater as the city is fearful that AMC will close this theater in about a year: View link
The theater will be getting a million dollars in renovations: View link
Subsequent published stories (such as this one, with a picture) about the raid confirmed that the theater was the former Windsor: View link
A picture of the theater from the theater’s website: http://www.jordans.com/en/Imax/Directions.aspx
A picture of the theater from the theater’s website: http://www.jordans.com/en/Imax/Directions.aspx
This news item about the closing and planned renovation includes a short video of the theater’s marquee (after the ad): View link
Status should now be Closed/Demolished. Two demolition photos:
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“Green, purple, and blue motif” ? Apparently then Loew’s used this bilious color scheme for more than one of their theaters then. Loew’s East in the Cleveland suburb of Richmond Heights had the same decor, and if memory serves, the green was more like chartreuse and purple more like lavender. I guess it was “mod” when these color scheme was used, but boy, did it quickly look dated and dumb.
Strangely, though, the photos are captioned as “Former Wayne Theatre…” The films on the marquee are current, so it appears to be very much open.
I walked by this theater the other day, and it is in a severely dilapidated condition. The brick veneer facade, a later addition, that extends from the sidewalk up to the marquee level is deteriorating and if tuckpointing does not occur, bricks will start falling soon. The half hoarding, visible in the in the photo posted on August 23, 2009, is missing some of the plywood sections and probably would not protect anyone if the marquee collapses. The roof is in terrible shape; one can only imagine what a mess the interior must be. Two small side windows, partially boarded up from the inside, clearly must admit wind and rain. I hate to see any old theater demolished, but I would doubt very much if anyone is going rescue this one.
A recent block party was recently thrown to raise funds and give tours of the theater prior to its renovation into a performing arts center: View link
No doubt something could be done, but, sadly I doubt if anything will. Much as I dearly love San Francisco, there seems to so little interest in or resources made available there for the preservation of their classic theaters. The City essentially signed the death warrant for the St. Francis theaters last week. It was not that long ago that the Coronet bit the dust. The Clay is on life support. Various projects are threatening the New Mission and the Divisadero. It is really a depressing situation there.
An agreement has been reached between the city and a developer and the theater is expected to re-open by the end of the year: View link
If you can set the show up under the auspices of a school, college, university, library, museum, or a similar institution, the institution or you may be able to license the showing through Swank Motion Pictures http://www.swank.com/ which handles the public exhibition of showing movies on DVD for many institutions as they act as licensing agent for many studios.
This 2009 article from the BBC has an undated interior picture within it (scroll down): View link
It is in the US, not in the UK.
Apparently, according to this article (with a picture), a charter school is going to purchase this theater and turn it into a new home for the school and hopes to do so around the end of the year or in early next: View link
There is another picture of the former cinema’s facade on this webpage: http://www.faraestates.co.uk/fe/project1.asp