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At 12:29 PM, on February 8, 1980, Mann’s Woodbridge 5 sat ready to open, as the city of Irvine’s first movie theatre. At 12:30 PM, the theatre opened it’s doors, as Edwards’ latest entry in the Orange County market. A cinema changing operators is normally a matter of little note. Be it a merger, buyout, […]

 This week marks the thirty-ninth anniversary of the world’s first free standing four-plex, the Fashion Square 4, in La Habra, CA. Built by AMC, the venue was an early entry in the company’s emergence as a national powerhouse and a precursor to the “mulit-plex era”. While not having invented the multi-plex (depending on your definition of “multi-plex”, that honor goes to either […]

Every country has it’s own take on movie ratings. However, I find Iceland’s ratings system one of the most unique. Interesting, that there is such a specific age breakdown; 7, 12, 16, and 18. I’m assuming the pictograms are violence, sex, drug use, fright, and language. The meaning of the pictogram with three people is […]

Twenty four years ago today, United Artists opened the Buena Park 8, in the lower level of the, then highly popular, Buena Park Mall. Long since closed and gutted, this venue had a brief “hot” run, but quickly fell victim to the fragile dynamics of mall life cycles. By the mid 90’s the Buena Park […]