Cinema Paradiso (1895-2020); Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (2021-??)

The main one I go to is an "AMC Classic."

There's a more fancy AMC with recliner seats and all the new acoutrements about 20-25 minutes away from where I live, but it's part of a popular mall and parking is usually a pain in the ass.  The AMC Classic I go to is closer/more convenient.  Though if push comes to shove...  Though there IS another fancier one about 15-20 minutes away that's not an AMC but offers the same improved seating and stuff.  I'm already planning possibly having to join that one's reward program, just in case.

Yikes

As theatres begin to re-open, studios offering exhibitors their classics such as Jaws, Back to the Future and all 8 Harry Potters.

www.wsj.com/articles/coming-soon-theaters-go-back-to-the-future-with-2-retro-blockbusters-11589284811

Apparently Amazon was circling the channel AMC not the theater chain.

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As of tonight, 150 drive-in’s are open and 50 brick-and-morter theatres.

variety.com/2020/film/box-office/theaters-reopening-200-locations-1234608453/

... New Yorkers don't have cars.

Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho moves to April 23, 2021

Anyone else work at a Blockbuster back in their youth?  I worked at one for a couple months in the summer of 2002.  I was almost fired for stealing my manager's password to rent extra movies to myself.  I remember telling a woman about faint rumors of 'an extended cut to Fellowship of the Ring which was supposed to come out in a few months so maybe hold off on buying the standard DVD for now' then when she couldn't find anything online about it she came back and yelled at me for being a liar.  It was a fun, easy job at a shitty company that screwed people in late fees any chance they could get.  Fond memories and good riddance.

I never liked Blockbuster.  They drove all my favorite rental stores out of business.  They charged too much money for older movies.  There were never any specials.  They would stock a hundred copies of Johnny Mnemonic, and not order a single copy of Police Story.  They would stock only partial collections of a series, and then say they couldn't justify stocking the entire series because not enough people rented their incomplete set.  If you asked them if they'd considered that perhaps the reason people weren't renting the series is precisely because it was incomplete, they still didn't get it.  

Finally a place where we can see Bright 2 on the big screen.