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The State was designed as a movie theater, with a small stage and no dressing rooms. The Butterfield circuit continued to use the nearby Michigan for live shows, with both theaters showing first-run movies. [2] The State opened to great fanfare on March 18, 1942, showing The Fleet's In. [2]
The Michigan Theater opened on January 5, 1928, and was at the time the finest theater in Ann Arbor. The theater not only showed movies, but also hosted vaudeville acts, live concerts, and touring stage plays. Over the years, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Barrymore all appeared at the theater. [3]
Set in Detroit, but mountains in the trailer background reveal the movie was filmed partially in Vancouver. The Rosary Murders, Fred Walton. 1987. Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning. Scarecrow, Jerry Schatzberg. 1973. Gene Hackman, Al Pacino. Scream 4 2011. Scenes shot in Ann Arbor, Plymouth and Northville; also Woodworth Middle School in Dearborn.
The story of this special man and his iconic music is told in “Luther: Never Too Much,” a new documentary screening in its Michigan premiere Sunday, April 14 as part of the Freep Film Festival.
W. S. Butterfield Theatres, Inc. was an American operator of vaudeville theaters and later movie theaters in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.Beginning in the early 1900s, "Colonel" Walter Scott Butterfield expanded his business from one vaudeville house in Battle Creek in 1906 to 114 cinemas across Michigan in 1942. [1]
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Ann Arbor is the setting for much of the film The Four Corners of Nowhere (1995), as well as The Five-Year Engagement (2012). Parts of the film Jumper (2008) are set in Ann Arbor, using both footage shot locally and footage using Peterborough, Ontario as an Ann Arbor stand-in. Ann Arbor is also frequently mentioned in the television series Lost.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival was founded in 1963 by University of Michigan professor George Manupelli. [2] Manupelli originally screened only films in the 16 mm format, and thus the festival was called the 16 mm Film Festival. The festival gained prominence quickly, as it was one of the few outlets for experimental filmmakers to screen their ...