BigScreen Journal

The costs of the industry conversion to Digital Cinema Projection systems have led many small theaters to close their doors permanently, but the Plaza Theater in Burlington, Wisconsin has made the...

The Cinemark Mall St. Matthews & XD in Louisville, Kentucky opens today with showings of new releases, such as Star Trek Into Darkness, The Great Gatsby, and Iron Man 3. The 10-screen theater...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the schedule and lineup for their 2013 Oscars Outdoors summer movie season. The season begins June 5, 2013 and goes through August 24,...

Regal Cinemas will open a 12-screen movie theater in the Three Rivers Mall in Kelso, Washington, according to a press release issued recently by the owner of the mall property, Rouse Properties, Inc....

The Des Moines Register is reporting that the Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines, Iowa has plans to replace the Merle Hay Mall Cinema with a new eight-screen dine-in theater and brewery on the mall's upper...

The Coyote Drive-In in Fort Worth, Texas opened Friday, May 10, 2013. It's the only drive-in located in Fort Worth, and the urban location provides the screens with the skyline as a backdrop. It sits...

The domed CineArts @ Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Hill, California has been demolished, according to a story on the SFGate web site: The Dome is done. Despite impassioned pleas from about 150...

The Regal LaGrange Oldham 8 in La Grange, Kentucky is closed. Calls to the theater's showtimes line results in showtimes for May 7th, and fans on their inactive Facebook page report seeing a closed...

It appears that the Rave Motion Pictures Berlin 12 in Kensington, Connecticut has been sold to Starplex Cinemas. The last showtimes we had for the theater were from yesterday, and Rave Cinemas' web...

The Smitty's Windham Cinema & Pub in Windham, Maine has opened in the space formerly occupied by the Windham Five Star Cinema 7, which closed January 5, 2013. The theater closed because its owner...

If you've been wanting to see a movie at the Showplace Cinemas South in Evansville, Indiana, don't wait very long to do so. We've heard reports that signs are up in front of the theater offering the...

The Fridley - Palms Theatre in Muscatine, Iowa opened on March 14, 2013, and as was planned, the Fridley - Plaza 4 Theatres has closed its doors. Instead of the four screens in the Plaza 4,...

Bow Tie Cinemas and Cablevision announced this week that Bow Tie will acquire nearly every movie theater in the Clearview Cinemas chain from parent company Cablevision. The press release states that...

The Mercury News is reporting that a redevelopment plan in San Jose, California may be numbering the days of the iconic domed movie theaters, the Winchester 21, Winchester 22, and Winchester 23: ...

The Soundview Cinemas in Port Washington, New York will reopen on April 26, 2013. It has been closed since September 2010 when then-owner Clearview Cinemas could not come to a rent agreement with the...

The Santikos Palladium 22 is holding a job fair for waitstaff, bartenders, and cooks at the theater on Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, 2013. The theater is scheduled to open May 16, 2013. For...

Well, that was quick! The Nugget Theatre in Telluride, Colorado closed earlier this month, but as we reported, the Telluride Film Festival intended to reopen the theater in time for the summer movie...

The Santa Fe New Mexican published an article last week reporting that author George R.R. Martin has purchased the Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Martin's "Game of Thrones" series of...

The theater formerly known as the Marquee Cinemas - Fort Henry Mall 11 in Kingsport, Tennessee will be re-opening May 17, 2013, according to an article published in the Kingsport Times News last...

The days seem to be numbered for the CineArts @ Pleasant Hill in Pleasant Hill, California. Despite citizen opposition efforts, the developer's desire to demolish the building and put up a sporting...