Redstone agrees partial sale of 1,500 cinemas
Media mogul Sumner Redstone has reached agreement with his daughter, Shari, to put some of National Amusement?s 1,500 cinemas on the block rather than the entire division, as part of debt-restructuring discussions to avoid selling more shares of Viacom and CBS , according to people familiar with the matter.

New movie theater opens next week
The curtain will soon go up on a big player at the Shops at Lake Havasu Regional Lifestyle Center. UltraStar Cinemas announced Thursday that the company?s second Arizona operation ? UltraStar Lake Havasu 10 Cinemas ? will open to the public a week from today.

Chandler Cinemas shows 'REPO! The Genetic Opera' Dec. 4
Think the mortgage crisis is out of hand? Imagine a future in which an all-powerful biotech corporation sells replacement organs to desperately ill Americans, only to dispatch scalpel-wielding ?repo men? to retrieve the merchandise when the buyers fail to make their loan payments?

Get first glimpse of PSA
The Ventura County Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children Inc. will hold a premiere social for its violence prevention and awareness public service announcement "Teen Murder Prevention" at 7 p.m. Mon., Dec. 8 at Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 W. Fifth St., Oxnard.

Tickets are in hot demand for lavish epic
Australia will screen at an exclusive New Zealand premiere at the brand new SKYCITY Cinemas complex at Manukau City on Monday 15 December from 6.30pm, with all proceeds to Variety -The Children?s Charity.

Muppet Christmas to be shown at Charlestowne 18
ST. CHARLES ? Classic Cinemas' Charlestowne 18 Theatre will host a free showing of "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie" at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13. The theater is at 3740 E. Main St. (Route 64) in the Charlestowne Mall.

Henry Barnes: How Hollywood grew up about teen sex
Parents! Do you know what your teenage son has got himself into? The answer, according to the people behind such films as new teen comedy Sex Drive , which swings into UK cinemas in January, is socks, apple pies, soft fruit and his friends' mums. If it's inanimate or inappropriate, he's been there. Apologies for crassness, but that's exactly the kind of humour regularly employed by ...

Digital Imax cinema first in Europe
A digital Imax auditorium, the first of its kind in Europe, has been previewed in Britain, paving the way for a new generation of cinemas. Odeon has splashed out £1.5 million on two new digital Imax auditoriums at cinemas in Wimbledon and Greenwich.

Redstone, Daughter Agree to Seek Sale of Some Theaters, FT Says
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Sumner Redstone and his daughter, Shari, have agreed to seek a buyer for some of the 1,500 cinemas owned by their family holding company, National Amusements Inc., the Financial Times reported.

Bruce Campbell enthralls Madison fans with My Name Is Bruce at Sundance
A Winter Weather Advisory would keep most people in their homes, and would likewise keep most out-of-towners from venturing into Madison. That was not the case on Wednesday night for fans of B-movie icon Bruce Campbell, nor for the man himself, as he hosted four spirited screenings of his new film at Sundance Cinemas.

The Ticker
Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari agreed to seek a buyer for some of the 1,500 cinemas owned by their family holding company, Dedham-based National Amusements, the Financial...

'My Name Is Bruce': a C movie that could have been a B
"My Name Is Bruce" isn't a great movie. It's too self-conscious to be good in that bad, guilty pleasure way, and too hackneyed to be good any other way. Needless to say, that's completely irrelevant. For the crowds that turned out to four sold-out screenings at Sundance Cinemas Wednesday night, it was yet another delicious offering from their B-movie icon, Bruce Campbell, as well as a chance to ...

Being there
The global popularity of the live, high-definition broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York astonished even the Met officials who were willing to experiment with beaming live transmissions to outlying cinemas.

Today: H -1 /L -6
Two new movies open on the big screens in Canada this week, Cadillac Records and Punisher: War Zone. The Princess Cinemas in Waterloo opens I've Loved You So Long and brings back Synecdoche, New York. The Bookshelf in Guelph opens JCVD (Jean Claude Van Damme) and brings back Passchendaele.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-12-04 09:44 Redstone agrees partial sale of theatre chain - FT
Dec 4 (Reuters) - Media mogul Sumner Redstone has agreed with his daughter, Shari Redstone, to sell some of National Amusements' 1,500 cinemas rather than the entire division, the Financial Times said citing people familiar with the matter. If lenders agree, part of the group and 19 theatres in the UK could be sold as part of a debt-restructuring to avoid selling more shares in CBS Corp and ...

Man charged with robbing Premiere Cinemas
A Gadsden man remains in jail, charged with the June robbery at Premiere Cinemas in the Gadsden Mall.

Redstone agrees partial sale of theatre chain - FT
Dec 4 (Reuters) - Media mogul Sumner Redstone has agreed with his daughter, Shari Redstone, to sell some of National Amusements' 1,500 cinemas rather than the entire division, the Financial Times said citing people familiar with the matter.

The Library Of The Future
While municipal spending on libraries (along with everything else) is down these days, spending on CDs and DVDs is rising. Rem Koolhaas's new Seattle Public Library "showed that good design and new services could make the library an attraction to rival galleries and cinemas."

Free canned drinks for movie-goers
Staying awake through a long movie at TGV cinemas in the country is now an easier task as movie-goers can now savour the tastes of chilled, canned Nescafe and Milo while there.

Film factbook: Argentine cinema
A blossoming of cinematic creativity has swept Argentina in recent years, bringing about a second golden age of film.