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The turnaround began in 1997 when developers revealed plans to turn the Cinerama into a dinner theater or a rock-climbing club. This sparked a grassroots effort to save the historic venue, with local film buffs circulating petitions and issuing an urgent cry for help, which was answered by multi-billionaire Paul Allen, himself a movie fan and patron of the theater during its 1960s heyday.
The Grand Illusion Cinema is the longest running independent cinema in the city of Seattle, Washington, and has become a landmark of the film community. Opened as The Movie House in 1970, the cinema became the city's first intimate arthouse and showcased foreign and revival films. The Grand Illusion is located in Seattle's University District.
Landmark continued to operate the Egyptian Theater until June 27, 2013, after the company declined to renew its lease with Seattle Central College. [5] SIFF took over the lease in May 2014 and raised $340,000 from crowdsourced donations to repair and reopen the theater. [6] The SIFF Egyptian Theater reopened on October 3, 2014. [7]
Malco Theatres, Inc. is a family owned and operated movie theater chain that has been in business for over one hundred years. [1] It has been led by four generations of the Lightman family. Malco Theatres features 34 theatre locations with over 345 screens in six states ( Arkansas , Kentucky , Louisiana , Mississippi , Missouri and Tennessee ).
The Harvard Exit Theatre was a cinema located in Seattle, Washington. It was housed in a building built in 1925 by the Woman's Century Club , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which still meets there at midday on the third Friday of the month. [ 3 ]
Seattle resident B. Marcus Priteca, an established architect of movie palaces in the 1920s, designed the building's adjacent apartments and office suites. Interior and balcony of Paramount Theatre. The Paramount Theatre is the first venue in the United States to have a convertible floor system, which converts the theater to a ballroom ...
Highland Theatre, a historic movie theater in Highland Park, has closed after 100 years. The theater struggled to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. Highland Theatre, a historic movie theater ...
Interior of the Moore Theatre on the occasion of its 100th anniversary celebration in 2007 Moore Theatre program cover after 1907. Moore Theatre is an 1,800-seat performing arts venue in Seattle, Washington, United States, located two blocks away from Pike Place Market at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street. It opened in 1907 and is ...