{"id":441,"date":"2010-04-02T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:11:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T07:11:53","slug":"news-updates-regency-makes-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/04\/02\/news-updates-regency-makes-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"News Updates: Regency Makes Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting news bits on Regency Theatres (operators of several notable Orange County venues, such as the Laguna South Coast, <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/lido\/#more-144\" target=\"_blank\">Lido<\/a>, and South Coast Village):<\/p>\n<p>This weekend Regency takes over operation of Westwood&#8217;s historic Village and Bruin theatres in L.A. County. The two sites, which date back to the 1930&#8217;s, had been facing an uncertain future, as recent operator, Mann Theatres, announced plans to withdraw from the area. While this move is yet <a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/08\/18\/the-rise-an-fall-of-mann-theatres\/\" target=\"_blank\">another sign of the once formidable Mann chain&#8217;s ongoing collapse<\/a>, Regency&#8217;s acquisition provides a welcome reprieve for Westwood&#8217;s struggling cinema scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RegencyPrintAd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446 aligncenter\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Regency Print Ad\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RegencyPrintAd-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"Regency Print Ad\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RegencyPrintAd-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RegencyPrintAd-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RegencyPrintAd.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/12\/19\/flashback-photo-newports-lido-theatre\/\" target=\"_blank\">historic Lido Theatre<\/a>, in Newport Beach, is joining the &#8220;3D era&#8221;. In a surprising move, &#8220;Clash of the Titans&#8221; will screen in digital 3D (utilizing the RealD brand) at the seventy two year old cinema this week. The Lido, Orange County&#8217;s second oldest operating cinema, had been focused on art and special event bookings for well over a decade, allowing the near bye <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/big-newport\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edwards Big Newport <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/island-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Island Cinemas <\/a>free run of the latest film tittles. Now, being the first to add 3D in Newport Beach, the Lido has, at least temporarily, gained the upper hand in booking some blockbuster tittles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few interesting news bits on Regency Theatres (operators of several notable Orange County venues, such as the Laguna South Coast, Lido, and South Coast Village): This weekend Regency takes over operation of Westwood&#8217;s historic Village and Bruin theatres in L.A. County. The two sites, which date back to the 1930&#8217;s, had been facing 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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}