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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.
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 ...
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]
Film history timeline, City of Seattle Office of Film and Music, 2014 "Seattle Film History". seattle.gov. 2014; Vanessa Ho (July 17, 2014), "Movies made in Seattle and Washington", Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Feliks Banel (March 4, 2010), "The Best Movies Made in Seattle (an Oscar Preview)", Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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 ]
The theatre was owned by O'Steen & Harvard Investments [7] and operated by Landmark Theaters [8] until 2015, when developer Scott Shapiro purchased the building for conversion to an office and restaurant space. [9] The Consulate of Mexico planned to move into leased space in the building, [10] and the consulate opened circa July 2018. [11] [12]
Landmark lost its lease in 2010 to the Seattle Theatre Group, a non-profit organization that also operates the Moore Theatre and Paramount Theatre. [15] The Neptune was closed for a $700,000 renovation in January 2011 and re-opened on September 25, 2011, becoming a performing arts and music venue in addition to a movie theater. [16] [17] [18]