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Discount theaters, also known as dollar theaters, dollar movies, second-run theaters, and sub-run theaters, are movie theaters that show motion pictures for reduced prices after those films depart first-run theaters. [1] [2] Originally, they would receive release prints of 35 mm films after those prints had been shown already at first-run ...
Laurelhurst Theater is a movie theater located in the Kerns neighborhood in northeast Portland, Oregon. Known for showing first [ 1 ] and second-run films and for serving food and beer , [ 2 ] the theater was constructed in 1923 with an Art Deco design.
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In the 1960s, some of the city's older venues turned toward screening pornographic films, and became adult movie theaters; among these were the Paris Theatre, which screened adult films from 1963 into the 1980s, [22] and the Star Theatre, which operated primarily as an adult theater from the 1960s until 1983. [28]
That’s why the biggest theater chains in the United States and Canada have a $2.2 billion plan to bring them back. With movies hitting streaming services faster than ever and consumers cutting ...
The former AMC discount or dollar theater on Mapleleaf Drive is coming down this fall for new luxury apartment complex called Indigo. The movie theater was built in 1995 for Carmike and shuttered ...
The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.
The million dollar Mark Strand Theatre at 47th Street and Broadway in New York City opened in 1914 by Mitchell Mark was the archetypical movie palace. The ornate Al. Ringling Theatre was built in Baraboo, WI by Al Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Bros. Circus, for the then-incredible sum of $100,000.