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This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1979 per Variety. The data was based on grosses from 20 to 22 key cities and therefore, the gross quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
ABBA: The Movie Warner Bros. / Polar Music / Reg Grundy Productions Lasse Hallström (director/screenplay); Robert Caswell (screenplay); Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus , Agnetha Fältskog , Robert Hughes , Tom Oliver , Stig Anderson , Richard Norton , Bruce Barry
The Ohio Theatre is a performing arts center and former movie palace on Capitol Square in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. Known as the "Official Theatre of the State of Ohio", the 1928 building was saved from demolition in 1969 and was later completely restored. [3] [4] The theater was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. [3] [5]
In the 1910s and 1920s the theater, now called the Southern, featured first run silent films and live vaudeville. From the 1930s on, the Southern was a popular home for second-run double features. In the 1970s the theater briefly returned to first run fare as the Towne Cinema, showing black exploitation movies.
June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. June 27 – 20th Century Fox Pictures president Alan Ladd Jr. and vice-presidents Jay Kanter and Gareth Wigan agree to leave Fox.
Most of these theaters now operate as AMC Classic as of July 2017. On March 3, 2016, AMC announced its intent to acquire Carmike Cinemas in a $1.1 billion deal, pending regulatory and shareholder approval, which would allow it to overtake Regal as the United States' largest movie theater chain. [143] The merger officially closed in December ...
Read CNN’s Colorado Theater Shooting Fast Facts to learn more about the Aurora, Colorado, tragedy and the trial of James Holmes.
The Los Angeles Theatre is a 2,000-seat historic movie palace at 615 S. Broadway in the Jewelry District and Broadway Theater District in the historic core of Downtown Los Angeles. History [ edit ]