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It's like the big issue currently in Oakville where the town has tried to designate a Golf Course as heritage.. You can't designate a use as heritage, only structures.
TIFF does cut it. All five cinemas are fine, two are just smaller. The smallest, #5, which started with crappy chairs, was upgraded a few years ago. The projection and sound in all of the cinemas is top notch. First run can go for months at the Lightbox, depending upon how many people are showing up, (Moonlight and Call Me By Your Name both had five month runs, for example) although weeks is more typical. Repertory can run for an extended period too, if, again, the film is a big draw, as was the case with 2001: A Space Odyssey last year on its 60th anniversary.Edit to add: The City really needs a new dedicated Art House Cinema. Tiff doesn't cut it because they have only 3 good quality screens; and because, by and large, they don't run a full schedule of any one film for any length of time.
TIFF does cut it. All five cinemas are fine, two are just smaller. The smallest, #5, which started with crappy chairs, was upgraded a few years ago. The projection and sound in all of the cinemas is top notch. First run can go for months at the Lightbox, depending upon how many people are showing up, (Moonlight and Call Me By Your Name both had five month runs, for example) although weeks is more typical. Repertory can run for an extended period too, if, again, the film is a big draw, as was the case with 2001: A Space Odyssey last year on its 60th anniversary.
Once it's safe to reopen the cinemas again, you can add the Paradise on Bloor at Dovercourt to your list as another art film house, and occasionally the theatre at the AGO is used for art house flickery too… but no cinema is going to run art films for extended runs if audiences don't show up for the films. If you care enough, you have to show up for one of the few screenings there are, and bring two friends, and have them bring two friends, and have them bring two friends, and have them bring two friends, and have them bring two friends,…
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Article on the financial difficulties of the movie theatre industry during these times. I'll definitely miss the Scotia Bank theatre, as it remains my main go-to choice for watching movies. But if there were to be a time to fast track this development, then it would be now.
AMC Theatres has 'substantial doubt' it can remain in business
AMC Theatres, the world's biggest movie theater chain, said on Wednesday that it has "substantial doubt" it can remain in business after closing locations across the globe during the coronavirus pandemic.www.cnn.com
Yet I preferred their theatres and customer service over Cineplex. Wish they were still around.AMC was never profitable in Canada as indicated by the closing of their Kennedy Commons and 10 Dundas Theatres. They only had a handful of theaters but are an afterthought now.
Who knows where that's heading over the next while…
I see it a bit different because book stores and record stores are a place to buy a medium that you then bring home to enjoy but you go to the movie theatre because they have a superior audio and video. A book is the same whether you read it at the store or at home.Theatres are probably going the way of book stores and record stores. There will be some but not like it used to be. Home streaming is the choice of more and more people.