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The Fox Theatre, facing northwest. The Fox is now the only remaining movie palace in Atlanta. The Loew's Grand, Martin Cinerama, Georgia Cinerama, Paramount Theater, and the Roxy Theater, all once-famous Atlanta movie palaces, are gone, and others that opened in the 1960s have since been converted to multiplexes.
The theater was built as a cinema by Lucas and Jenkins Theatres, [1] a company which operated other Georgia theaters at the time [2] including the Fox in Atlanta. [3] The Euclid was among three theaters built by L&J in Atlanta in 1940, another was the Gordon Theatre in the West End (now used as a church). [ 4 ]
Movie Premiere at the Rialto - 1940. In the fall of 1916, [2] a 925-seat theater, the Southeast's largest movie house, opened in the Central Business District (and the original theater district) of Atlanta. The theater was named the "Rialto," which is defined as an exchange or a marketplace.
In the mid-1980s, it was called Buckhead Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, [5] until it was converted into the Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre. [ 7 ] A significant Atlanta concert venue in the 1990s and most of the 2000s, the Roxy finally closed after Live Nation and Clear Channel ended their lease in 2008.
Fox Theatre in Oakland Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California. Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. [2]
In 1983, movie theatre entrepreneur George LeFont bought the theatre and renovated the 1000-seat space by converting the balcony area into a second auditorium. [3] The LeFont era witnessed an influx of independent, foreign, and art-house movies that would become the norm from 1983 to the present.
Bell Theater opens with a new rock musical, "East Carson Street," which runs from May 3 to 12 and stars Constantine Maroulis ("Rock of Ages") and Teal Wicks ("The Cher Show," "Wicked").
The theater became part of the local Lefont theater group in the 1980s. At the end of that decade, United Artists Theaters bought the Tara and used part of the building as a regional corporate office until United Artists, along with Edwards Theatres, was merged into the new parent company Regal Entertainment Group in 2002, but was still ...