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Drama, inaction, and politics continue to plague San Clemente’s Miramar Theatre. This past week, the city notified the long dormant venue’s current owner that he was in violation of city codes, due to a host of ongoing maintenance shortcommings. Naturally, this resulted in a round of finger pointing between the city and current owner, Marc Spizzurri; [...]

A few interesting news bits on Regency Theatres (operators of several notable Orange County venues, such as the Laguna South Coast, Lido, and South Coast Village): This weekend Regency takes over operation of Westwood’s historic Village and Bruin theatres in L.A. County. The two sites, which date back to the 1930′s, had been facing an [...]

The Cinemark 22, in Lancaster, experienced a new low in movie going decorum recently. From the Associated Press: LANCASTER, Calif. — Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film “Shutter Island” at a Southern California movie [...]

A couple of quick updates   Regency Theatres has pushed back the Franciscan Plaza reopening to March; the theatre had previously been earmarked for a November 2009, then January 2010, opening date. According to one of the contractors involved in the remodel, the theatre has undergone a drastic upgrade and will bare little resemblance to the [...]

This past Saturday, Irvine’s Woodbridge Theatre held a celebration in recognition of the venue’s 30th anniversary. Roughly 2,400 people turned out for a day of giveaways, contests, and festivities. .                .           .   In addition to being Irvine’s first theatre, the Woodbridge currently stands as Orange County’s seventh oldest operating cinema; an [...]

Seems my lack of faith in the long dormant Brea Plaza 5 was unwarranted. Passing by the Brea Town Center this afternoon, I noticed “Brea Plaza Cinemas 5″ listed as one of the future tenants for the soon to be remodeled center. I’ll post more information as it becomes available. For now, a pleasant turn [...]

  Gardenwalk Cinemas LLC, the operators of Anaheim’s Cinema Fusion theatre, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A venture of Sanborn Theatres/The Movie Experience, the filing came after the theatre amassed some $3.6 million in debt, having failed to pay rent, insurance, and miscellaneous construction costs, since opening in the summer of 2008. Those close to the matter [...]

For the second year in a row, the Brea Plaza theatre will host a Halloween haunted attraction. Unfortunately, this also appears to be the long forgotten venue’s ”last hurrah”. After surviving for thirty-two years, the aging Brea Plaza Center is promoting a redevelopment that will see existing structures razed for a new “big box” retail park. [...]

After a near two month delay, the Brookhurst Theatre has finally set a re opening date of Friday, 8/28/09. This will mark the forty-eight year old theatre’s third reopening and fifth operator (possibly sixth). The Brookhurst had been sittng dormant for three and a half years, since the previous operator, Starplex Cinemas, closed the venue in January [...]

This week, Cinemerica (the co venture of Warner Brothers and Viacom, which owns Mann Theatres) officially announced intentions to sell off Mann sites piecemeal, including the legendry Grauman’s Chinese. While the company had been quietly shopping the dying chain for a number of years, this public acknowledgement, that they have decided to sell off remaining theatres as individual lots, surely marks [...]