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Roger Katz
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- posted January 22, 2004 07:22 PM      Profile for Roger Katz   Email Roger Katz   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
In Connecticut I know of four proposed new cinemas that are already under construction or should begin soon:

Wallingford, CT: 12 screens planned for the former KMart building on Colony Road. Zoning approval has been given and negotiations are underway for a theatre operator. Holiday Cinemas which currently runs multiplexes in Waterbury and Meriden is vying for this one.

Lisbon, CT: 12 screen new build planned at Lisbon Landing shopping plaza. Northeast CT is woefully underscreened (3 screens for about 250,000 people) and this should help that situation. O'Neil Theatres is the operator here.

New Haven, CT: 5 screen art theatre to be put in the former United Illuminating building on Temple Street. Cinema will be known as the Criterion Five. Site work is underway.

West Hartford, CT: 6 screen art theatre proposed for new Blue Back Square district in trendy West Hartford Center. Board of Education building (former Town Hall) would be demolished except for the facade and this theatre would be built that site.

Does anybody know any details of any other proposed cinemas around the country?

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Jeff Arellano
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- posted January 23, 2004 10:05 PM      Profile for Jeff Arellano   Email Jeff Arellano   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Los Angeles / San Bernadino Area:
1. AMC Santa Anita 16 - Opening Fall 2004
This theatre is in a mall expansion.

2. AMC Victoria Gardens 16 (Rancho Cucamonga) - Opening 2005
This theatre is being built in the Victoria Gardens district about 3 miles north of the AMC Ontario Mills 30 and Edwards 22. Interesting to see as this theatre AMC Wants to be an overflow for Ontario.

3. Krikorian Pico Rivera - Planned, nothing set in stone.

4. Time Square 12, Monterey Park - Planned, looks to fizzle out soon however.
Monterey Park's idea to an entertainment centre to compete with Alhambra.

Thats about all in Los Angeles, not much construction. I know th

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Mike Rivest
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- posted February 23, 2004 05:38 PM      Profile for Mike Rivest   Author's Homepage   Email Mike Rivest   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
In The Montreal Region
Le Cinemas Guzzo's Gigantus 20
In Laval Autoroute 13/St. Martin

Sign on site reads "Ouverture Decembre 2004"

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Adam Martin
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- posted February 23, 2004 09:06 PM      Profile for Adam Martin   Author's Homepage   Email Adam Martin       Edit/Delete Post 
"Gigantus"?! Are you serious?

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Mike Rivest
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- posted February 24, 2004 03:45 AM      Profile for Mike Rivest   Author's Homepage   Email Mike Rivest   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Press Release reads (see bottom of Release)

A l'attention du directeur de l'information/Cinéma:

Cinémas Guzzo : un MEGA-PLEX pour la nouvelle méga ville de Terrebonne
TERREBONNE, Québec, le 17 oct. /CNW/ - Dans la foulée de l'immense succès
que connaît son concept de MEGA-PLEX(MD), Cinémas Guzzo procédera aujourd'hui,
en la présence de monsieur Jean-Marc Robitaille maire de Terrebonne, à une
visite guidée du chantier de construction de son projet d'agrandissement du
cinéma Terrebonne 8 : MEGA-PLEX(MD) TERREBONNE 14.
MEGA-PLEX(MD) TERREBONNE 14, qui représente un investissement de quelques
9 millions $, sera le seul complexe cinématographique du genre dans la région.
On y retrouvera 14 salles munies des populaires sièges "Club Guzzo 23". Le
complexe abritera 3700 places disposées en gradins, des écrans incurvés, des
équipements sonores Dolby Digital EX, DTS (digital theatre system) et SDDS
(Sony dynamic digital system) ainsi que des projecteurs d'une puissance de
plus 4000 watts de luminosité.
MEGA-PLEX(MD) TERREBONNE 14 sera un immense centre de divertissement
mesurant près de 70 000 pieds carrés. En plus de ses 14 salles, on y
retrouvera un parc d'amusement avec autos tamponneuses, des allées de quilles
et une arcade avec jeux non violents.
Le maire de Terrebonne, M. Jean-Marc Robitaille, se dit très heureux de
l'agrandissement du MEGA-PLEX(MD) TERREBONNE 14 : "La croissance de Cinémas
Guzzo est en quelque sorte le reflet de la croissance de notre municipalité.
Pouvoir offrir des services toujours plus variés nous garantit une continuité
dans notre recherche de l'excellence et de l'amélioration de notre qualité de
vie. Bref, c'est avec enthousiasme que nous accueillons ce partenaire
d'envergure chez nous."
Avec son MEGA-PLEX(MD) TERREBONNE 14, Cinémas Guzzo poursuit sa tradition
d'excellence : la qualité, le confort et l'innovation au service des
cinéphiles. Mais l'aventure ne s'arrête pas là, Cinémas Guzzo prévoit lancer
un nouveau concept avec l'ouverture de son GIGANTUS(MD) à Laval, coin
autoroute 13 et boulevard St-Martin, pour l'an 2003. A suivre...

Renseignements: James H. E. Dambreville, Communications & Promotions,
Cinémas Guzzo, (450) 961-2945; Source : Cinémas Guzzo

Construction has been delayed for one year, the land had to be cleaned up of toxic waste, opening Dec 2004

I have newspapers with the Gigantus logo

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Roger Katz
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- posted February 24, 2004 12:27 PM      Profile for Roger Katz   Email Roger Katz   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Wow, that press release clears up everything for me. [Roll Eyes]

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Adam Martin
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- posted February 24, 2004 12:33 PM      Profile for Adam Martin   Author's Homepage   Email Adam Martin       Edit/Delete Post 
That's hilarious! I can't believe they would actually call it that! It's like saying "It's entirely too much cinema for any human being to handle, and we're okay with that." [Rolling on Floor Laughing]

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Mike Rivest
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- posted February 24, 2004 06:16 PM      Profile for Mike Rivest   Author's Homepage   Email Mike Rivest   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
You must remember that in Laval, Famous Players has a huge (Biggest in Quebec) Flying Saucer cinema complex called Colossus Laval, and Guzzo wants to out outdo Famous.

Will see this christmas.

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Mike Rivest
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- posted February 24, 2004 06:18 PM      Profile for Mike Rivest   Author's Homepage   Email Mike Rivest   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
You must remember that in Laval, Famous Players has a huge (Biggest in Quebec) Flying Saucer cinema complex called Colossus Laval, and Guzzo wants to out outdo Famous.

Will see this christmas.

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Roger Katz
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- posted March 17, 2004 05:36 PM      Profile for Roger Katz   Email Roger Katz   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
A new 8-screen theatre is going to open near the main UConn campus in Mansfield, CT. It will be run by Cinema North. It will be the first indoor cinema in the Tolland County since a twin cinema in Vernon closed about 8 years ago.

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Scott D. Neff
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- posted April 07, 2004 12:29 PM      Profile for Scott D. Neff   Email Scott D. Neff   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I was reading the articles passed around my office about theatre related stuff and I was shocked to find that AMC is building a 16 Screener at the Eastridge Mall in San Jose, CA.

San Jose is an area that has GOT to be overscreened by now, and any further developments are just going to eat into the profitability of EVERYBODY'S business.

And I'm pissed cause I don't get in free to AMC.

Somebody from AMC, please be my friend. [Razz]

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Jeff Arellano
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- posted April 07, 2004 05:53 PM      Profile for Jeff Arellano   Email Jeff Arellano   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I like how most new theatres being built are within the 12-16 range. No more 20, 24, or 30 monstrosities. Have 16 quality big theatres instead of 22 small and 8 large auditoriums.

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The Evil Sam Graham
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- posted April 07, 2004 06:39 PM      Profile for The Evil Sam Graham   Author's Homepage   Email The Evil Sam Graham       Edit/Delete Post 
Just because they're building 12-16 screens instead of 20-30 doesn't mean they're making the auditoriums any bigger.

We're actually getting a 20-plex this year (Century). Stacked up against the local competition, I'd charge $10 for tickets Fri-Sat, and probably have no problem.

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Tom Mundell
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- posted April 09, 2004 07:09 AM      Profile for Tom Mundell   Author's Homepage   Email Tom Mundell   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Perhaps they'll leave out those extra small ~50 seat auditoriums the godzilla plexes always seem to have. 10-16 screens seems to be a decent size for a theatre, IMO, 20 something screens is too many!

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Dan Akers
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- posted April 17, 2004 04:47 AM      Profile for Dan Akers   Email Dan Akers   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
St. Louis, AMC are planning to build a new 14 screen at the Westfield Shoppingtown Chesterfield (what was Chesterfield Mall). They say it should be open in 2005. I find this interesting since there was a 4 plex that was there has been closed for a while. I'm guessing since Westfield rebuilt the West County mall with sucess, Chesterfield might run the same course.

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