Motion Picture Management, a partnership between local movie mavens Butch Rigby and John Shipp, are bringing film exhibition back to Crown Center in Kansas City.
The pair currently manage the PLAZA 8 THEATRE, a discount movie operation in St. Joseph, Missouri.
To be known as SCREENLAND CROWN CENTER, Kansas City’s newest movieplex will take over the two remaining auditoriums of Crown Center’s previous six-plex located on the 3rd floor of Crown Center Shops.
The main auditorium will seat 175 while the second seats 125.
The other four auditoriums were converted into the OFF CENTER THEATRE—a live entertainment venue.
So what will be the booking policy for SCREENLAND CROWN CENTER?
“Middle Art—somewhere between
ron
Good luck to Butch. Wish he would transfer those plush overstuffed chairs from Crossroads to Crown Center though.
smartman
The little Tupac and Lil’ Kim wanna be’s will have this thing shut down faster than Pier 31 during a longshoreman’s strike. It will make the KCK Granada experience look outrageously successful.
jon snyder
Wrong smartman. Granada was a totally different deal. Butch owned it. The Crown Center is strictly a management deal. No way the boys can lose on this one.
gene
Has anyone heard how Rigby’s theatre in NKC is doing? Been hearing that it’s barely hanging in there.
jojo
This could become Butch’s Hallmark Hall of Fame.
Not really.