{"id":482,"date":"2010-06-09T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-06-09T12:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:12:50","slug":"a-change-of-fortune-for-edwards-island-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/06\/09\/a-change-of-fortune-for-edwards-island-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change of Fortune For Edwards Island 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/island-7\/#more-143\" target=\"_blank\">Edwards Island 7 Cinemas<\/a>, located in Newport Beach&#8217;s Fashion Island shopping center, could be\u00a0recieving a luxury upgrade soon.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>This past week, I spoke with an individual who works for the Irvine Company (owners of Fashion Island) and he mentioned that they are currently in the planning stages for a significant remodel\/upgrade\u00a0to the center&#8217;s\u00a0 theatre. In addition to adding stadium seating and digital projection, they are apparently looking to include food\/alcohol and &#8220;further luxury services&#8221;.\u00a0If everything goes as planned, work would commence in the next phase of the center&#8217;s remodeling program (Fashion Island\u00a0is currently undergoing renovation).\u00a0My source\u00a0wasn&#8217;t aware if Edwards (REG) would continue as the operator or if the plan involved another chain taking over.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EdwardsIsland7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-483\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Edwards Island 7\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EdwardsIsland7-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EdwardsIsland7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EdwardsIsland7-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EdwardsIsland7.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The Island 7 has always struggled with it&#8217;s hidden location (adjacent to the second floor food court, which is buried\u00a0in the outdoor shopping center) and played second fiddle to the\u00a0near bye, high profile,\u00a0Edwards Big Newport. So, this might be exactly what the theatre needs to finally carve out a successful niche for itself.\u00a0The affluent Newport Beach crowd would also serve as an ideal clientele for such a venue. The only down side to this proposed new cinema would be the potential for overshadowing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/port\/#more-78\" target=\"_blank\">Corona Del Mar&#8217;s Port Theatre<\/a>; which is currently undergoing a luxury conversion of it&#8217;s own. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwards Island 7 Cinemas, located in Newport Beach&#8217;s Fashion Island shopping center, could be\u00a0recieving a luxury upgrade soon. \u00a0 This past week, I spoke with an individual who works for the Irvine Company (owners of Fashion Island) and he mentioned that they are currently in the planning stages for a significant remodel\/upgrade\u00a0to the center&#8217;s\u00a0 theatre. [&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-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}