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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.
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 Coliseum continued as a first-run theater into the late 1970s, [5] and continued to show films until 1990. [3] It closed on March 11, 1990, after showing the film Tremors ; [ 6 ] the building was renovated into a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2 ) Banana Republic clothing store that opened in 1994. [ 7 ]
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 ...
Bad Attitude (1983) (TV movie) Bad Seed (2000) (a.k.a. Preston Tylk) Barefoot in the Park (1982) (TV movie) Battle in Seattle (2007) Before and After (1970s) directed by Barbet Schroeder; Beta Test (2015) Better Off Dead directed by Neema Barnette (1993) Birthright (filmed 1988) Black Circle Boys (1997) Black Sheep (1996) Black Widow (1987 ...
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]
A 27-year old man has been arrested in Florida for brutally beating a man following a dispute over seats in a movie theatre.. Jesse Montez Thorton allegedly “became hostile” after being asked ...
The Majestic Bay Theater, built in 1914 in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, was the oldest continuously operating movie theater in the United States prior to its closure in 1997. [1] In 1998, it was renovated and transformed from a bargain single-screen theater to a well-appointed triplex. [2] The theater opened as The Majestic ...