{"id":180,"date":"2009-05-08T19:12:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2009-05-08T19:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:12:50","slug":"new-life-for-the-franciscan-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/05\/08\/new-life-for-the-franciscan-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life For The Franciscan Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After\u00a0nearly a decade\u00a0of sitting vacant and partially gutted, San Juan Capistrano&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/franciscan-plaza\/#more-168\" target=\"_blank\">Franciscan Plaza theatre <\/a>has finally found a suitable operator. Last week, Regency Theatres formally signed on to reopen the theatre by Thanksgiving of 2009.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplaza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-181\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Franciscan Plaza Theatre 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplaza-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplaza-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplaza-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplaza.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>A former Edwards, the Franciscan Plaza was operated, as a five\u00a0screen cinema, from late 1989, until 2000, when Edwards pulled out, shortly before the company&#8217;s 2001\u00a0bankruptcy filing.\u00a0While the theatre had never managed to pull in adequate business, a\u00a0new\u00a0suitor took over, shortly after Edwards&#8217; departure, promising to reopen the theatre as a luxury cinema and dining venue. Unfortunately, this venture never managed to gain any significant momentum, falling in to a series of broken promises,\u00a0unfinished work, and lawsuits. Coupled with the theatre&#8217;s demise, the entire Franciscan Plaza complex had languished under unsteady finances and management, for the better part of a decade.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplazaexterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-182\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Franciscan Plaza Entrance 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplazaexterior-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplazaexterior-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplazaexterior-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/franciscanplazaexterior.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Now, with Regency stepping in, having secured a $450,000 loan and the full backing of\u00a0the\u00a0city, plans are underway to remodel the theatre as a three screen cinema, with an upstairs bar. Considering the company&#8217;s successful\u00a0track record of refurbishing older theatres, not to mention that the city is currently lacking a\u00a0local movie going\u00a0destination, one has to remain optimistic about the Franciscan Plaza&#8217;s future as a cinema.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After\u00a0nearly a decade\u00a0of sitting vacant and partially gutted, San Juan Capistrano&#8217;s Franciscan Plaza theatre has finally found a suitable operator. Last week, Regency Theatres formally signed on to reopen the theatre by Thanksgiving of 2009. . \u00a0 A former Edwards, the Franciscan Plaza was operated, as a five\u00a0screen cinema, from late 1989, until 2000, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}