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New Jack City: Harry Potter IMAX Debut Delayed
A Clash of Titans is brewing and the fallout is affecting every IMAX theater in the country.
It involves two of the biggest studios–Paramount/DreamWorks versus Warner Brothers and two of this summer Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Taking of Pelham 123; Subway Caper Stays on Track
Director Tony Scott Continue reading
NEW JACK CITY: Movie Mom on Sex, Nudity, Vulgar Humor & Child in Comic Peril
Jack Goes Confidential: What Happens in Vegas Will Totally Disgust You
All eyes this first weekend of June are on frat boy Continue reading
New Jack City: Boulevard Drive In 60th Year Under the Stars!
Not only is Kansas City one of the top rated movie going cities in the country on a per capita basis, it’s also home to one of the oldest continuously operating Drive-In Theatres in the entire nation.
The Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: PIXAR scores 10th Round 3-D Knockout
It may not seem like it but UP marks PIXAR’s 10th computer animated feature film….and not a single bomb in its 14 year remarkable existence.
DISNEY bought the company 3 years ago for buckets of money. (USA TODAY reported the purchase price at $ 7.4 Billion.) Good investment!
And now Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Night of the Living Dead at the Smithsonian!
After sharing my disappointment over TERMINATOR SALVATION with you, I’m here to report that this holiday weekend’s other major entry NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN exceeds expectations!
Jack Goes Confidential Terminates Terminator Salvation
Jack Goes Confidential: Hanks Delivers Vatican
It’s only the third week of the summer movie season, yet here we are with a third TENT POLE blockbuster!
THE DA VINCI CODE’S 2006 production partnership of director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer reunite with Tom Hanks who returns as Professor Robert Langdon in ANGELS AND DEMONS.This time Hanks is summoned by the Vatican to assist its police force, as well as the Pope’s Swiss Guard with a deadly terrorist threat against Vatican City.
All this in the midst of the death of the Pope and the selection process of a new head of the Church known as CONCLAVE.
The Crime?
Four leading Cardinals have been kidnapped and one of them will be executed every hour with it all ending at midnight with the powerful explosion of a container holding a newly produced energy source hidden somewhere within the Vatican compound.
New Jack City: 7 Deadly Movie Sins Plus Contest!
I spend a lot of time in dark auditoriums… but don’t take that the wrong way, mostly attending preview screenings. More than half are at nighttime with recruited audiences. (Daytime screenings are usually critics only.) And there are 7 DEADLY … Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Unite, Star Trek Virgins!
“STAR TREK” DELIVERS BEYOND EXPECTATIONS!
After last week’s mighty Summer-Movie Jump Start with Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: Roger Ebert Quote Whore? No Way!
Jack Goes Confidential: What to Pay, How to Park at AMC’s new Mainstreet
HANG ON TO YOUR STUBS: Jack Goes Confidential!
If you saw the earlier story on AMC’s new Continue reading
Jack Goes Confidential: No Reservation, No Seat at AMC’s Mainstreet. Need a Parking spot? Good luck!
Jack Goes Confidential: Take Your Tent Poles to the Movies Month
TENT POLES Ready for May Rumble! For the past several years, Hollywood has declared May its
Jack Goes Confidential: Screenland Armour Noses AMC, Earth Sells Out
SCREENLAND Grows on Armour Road-
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Independent movie and real estate mogul Butch Rigby has expanded his local exhibition empire by adding a second, smaller auditorium to his main SCREENLAND ARMOUR theatre which was reborn just last year in North Kansas City.
 “It’s trimmed out in solid oak paneling like a studio mogul’s private theater,” Rigby says.
The new theater shares the lobby with the main theatre.
And with this past weekend’s opening of his “just under 100 seat auditorium,” Rigby gets a two week jump on his new competitor, AMC’s MAINSTREET THEATRE in nearby downtown K.C. It’s poised to open on May 1 and Rigby admits, could effect his cinematic biz just north of the river on Armour Road…
Rigby plans to use the second auditorium primarily for what in the industry are called “move-overs” from the main auditorium (like in a film’s third week at the complex when a hot new title becomes available for the No. 1 screen.)
Currently the SCREENLAND ARMOUR’s’ main screen is showing STATE OF PLAY with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck, while the second Continue reading
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