{"id":192,"date":"2009-05-25T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2009-05-26T10:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T10:09:03","slug":"twenty-years-of-cinemapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/05\/25\/twenty-years-of-cinemapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years of Cinemapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Yet another anniversary, with <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/cinemapolis\/#more-63\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Hills&#8217; Cinemapolis <\/a>celebrating twenty years of operation. These days, the theatre is independently owned and known as &#8220;Cinema City&#8221;, but, back in May of 1989, &#8220;Cinemapolis&#8221;\u00a0opened as So Cal Cinemas&#8217; cutting edge flagship venue.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cinemapolisopeningad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-193\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Cinemapolis Grand Opening\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cinemapolisopeningad-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cinemapolisopeningad-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cinemapolisopeningad-137x150.jpg 137w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cinemapolisopeningad.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>The first theatre built in the burgeoning Anaheim Hills area, Cinemapolis was an early\u00a0flag bearer\u00a0for the rebirth of cinema &#8220;showmanship&#8221;.\u00a0Opened at the tail end of the multiplex era, which was defined by generic,\u00a0&#8220;function over experience&#8221;\u00a0cinemas, So Cal&#8217;s Cinemapolis offered movie goers something a bit different. Featuring\u00a0large auditoriums,\u00a0thematic decor (styled after classic movie palaces So Cal&#8217;s Sanborn family had previously operated), high end sound\/projection, and\u00a0unique marketing, the theatre was a daring step forward,\u00a0during an otherwise\u00a0bland era of exhibition. The venue&#8217;s efforts were such that the cinema industry&#8217;s trade group, NATO, recognized Cinemapolis with a string of showmanship awards. Equally notable, the theatre was well known for regularly upgrading with the latest industry technologies and repeatedly winning marketing awards for\u00a0various film promotions, throughout the 90&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>By the\u00a0new millennium, Cinemapolis had slipped from being a county frontrunner and was somewhat lost, amidst the\u00a0onslaught of\u00a0megaplexes. Changing ownership, the theatre\u00a0began to fall\u00a0in to disrepair, under the operation of Galaxy Theatres, and seemed heading\u00a0towards an unavoidable decline in to obscurity. Fortunately, in 2005, a new operator stepped in, remodeled the\u00a0venue\u00a0(including the addition of stadium seating), and re instituted the theatre&#8217;s legacy of excellence. In addition to cosmetic and operational upgrades,\u00a0the\u00a0re christened\u00a0&#8220;Cinema City&#8221; became the first county theatre to feature all digital projection and first to experiment with an exclusively automated box office. While no longer one of the county&#8217;s premiere\u00a0cinema destinations, Cinema City managed to reestablish itself as one of the more unique movie going choices in Orange County.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another anniversary, with Anaheim Hills&#8217; Cinemapolis celebrating twenty years of operation. These days, the theatre is independently owned and known as &#8220;Cinema City&#8221;, but, back in May of 1989, &#8220;Cinemapolis&#8221;\u00a0opened as So Cal Cinemas&#8217; cutting edge flagship venue. . \u00a0 . The first theatre built in the burgeoning Anaheim Hills area, Cinemapolis was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}