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Star Cinema was a movie theater chain owned by AGT Enterprises, Inc., of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, with nine locations in the states of Iowa and Wisconsin in the United States of America. Altogether, the chain's nine locations included 95 total movie screens, including Wisconsin's only IMAX theater at the Fitchburg location.
The Barrymore Theatre is a 971-capacity live music venue on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin.Originally built as the Eastwood Theater in 1929, the Barrymore was founded by Richard "Sich" Slone and Tom Peterson in 1987 in an attempt to revive Madison's declining Schenk-Atwood neighborhood.
Some of the old Capitol Theater survives within the Overture Center. [6] Next year (1929) the Eastwood Theater opened on Madison's near east side. It was a movie palace, but less elaborate than the Orpheum and Capitol, and has since been reworked into the Barrymore Theater. [3] Theater attendance peaked around 1946, then began to decline.
List of drive-in theatres in the United States Name City State Founded Defunct Remarks Reference 66 Drive-In: Carthage on U.S. Route 66: Missouri: 1949 [3] [4] 88 Drive-In: Commerce City: Colorado: 1971 [5] 56 Auto Drive-In Theater: Massena: New York: 1955: 99W Drive-In Theater: Newberg: Oregon: 1953: Bengies Drive-In Theatre: Middle River ...
While Magic Theatres are patterned after the Loews Cineplex Entertainment model, they focus on urban markets. Each complex is around 60,000 square feet (5,600 m 2 ) with multiple concession areas, 10 to 15 screens with SDDS stereo sound, stadium seating and a capacity of 3,200 to 5,000.
During Overture construction, the Oscar Mayer Theater (originally the 1928 Capitol Theater and movie palace) was restored, downsized, and re-christened the Capitol Theater. The theater's inaugural performance, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, upon reopening took place in November 2005. The theater seats up to 1089 people on the main floor and balcony.
A movie theater (American English) [1] or cinema (Commonwealth English), [2] also known as a movie house, cinema hall, picture house, picture theater, the pictures, or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoriums for viewing films for public entertainment.
In the 1990s, Cinemark Theatres was one of the first chains to incorporate stadium-style seating into their theatres. [25] In 1997, several disabled individuals filed a lawsuit against Cinemark, alleging that their stadium style seats forced patrons who used wheelchairs to sit in the front row of the theatre, effectively rendering them unable to see the screen without assuming a horizontal ...