After five years of vacancy and sporadic use as a horror theme attraction, the Brea Plaza 5 has reopened as a cinema.
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I stopped bye the Brea 5 this past week and was pleased to see that the new operators, Tristone Cinemas, have placed a great deal of work in to refurbishing the thirty three year old venue. The black color scheme and haphazard work from the Captain’s Family Theatres era is long gone, as are the few dated Mann/Edwards flourishes which survived the Captain’s millennium “remodel”. Aside from utilizing older seating fixtures, just about everything has been replaced, creating a fresh and modern look. The cinema just completed a week of free movies and begins running as a $3.00/$3.75 discount priced house today (8/6).
Having written about the theatre’s impending doom for the past two years, I’m relieved to report that the Brea 5 looks to have found a new life.
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