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  With surprisingly little fanfare, Edwards Big Newport turned forty this month. Opened on 2/11/69, as Edwards Newport Cinema, the theatre has withstood the multiplex era, megaplex era, millennium industry collapse, Edwards’ bankruptcy, and some four decades of economic fluctuation. While the complex has gone through three separate expansions and a host of upgrades/remodels, the original, “Big Newport” auditorium, has survived […]

This past year, Corona Del Mar’s long dormant Port Theatre was saved from the wrecking ball and plans were announced for an extensive remodel; promising to re launch the theatre as an upscale, lounge style, cinema. While work on the theatre began almost immediately, it soon became apparent that the building was in need of a […]

This past week, a rumor surfaced that Seal Beach’s historic Bay Theatre is up for sale. Built in 1947, this former Fox West Coast Theatre has managed to survive, virtually unchanged, for some sixty-two years. Having focused on art and classic bookings, since the late 1970’s, the Bay has carved out a stable niche in the Orange […]

Earlier this month, five Hollywood studios agreed to a deal with Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, a consortium of  the “big three” cinema chains (AMC, Cinemark, and Regal Entertainment Group),  to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital projection on roughly 20,000 movie screens in North America. The remaining major studios and a deal for smaller cinema operators are still […]

Reflecting on the Buena Park Mall/theatre proved to be rather timely. On Monday, the Krikorian Metroplex 18 fell victim to a rather well planned robbery. According to the Los Angeles Times: A man who robbed a Buena Park theater this week took the time and care to convince his victims that he was a police detective […]