Arts & Entertainment Vogue Theater Got Its Neon Sign Fully Restored, Public Lighting Ceremony Is Next Week Presidio Heights’ 119-year-old Vogue Theater has just had its marquee neon sign fully restored to its former glory, and will have a public lighting ceremony next Wednesday, December 3, followed by a free screening of the 1936 gem “San Francisco.”
Business & Tech Apple Sues the New Apple Cinemas at 1000 Van Ness, Claiming Trademark Infringement Not even one month after the movie theater chain Apple Cinemas took over the vacant 1000 Van News theater, the computer company Apple, Inc. is suing them over their name, saying that it’s meant to deceive consumers.
Arts & Entertainment Former AMC Van Ness 1000 Movie Theater Reopens This Weekend as ‘Apple Cinemas Van Ness’ The movie theater chain Apple Cinemas has nothing to do with the Cupertino tech company Apple, but now they're in charge of resurrecting the old AMC 1000 Van Ness theater, and the movies start playing there Thursday.
Business & Tech The Sad Saga of How New Operators of the AMC 1000 Van Ness Theater Blew $54 Million In Just 18 Months We always figured that the former AMC Van Ness movie theater went under because of how the pandemic wrecked movie theaters. But court filings show a behind-the-scenes battle after new operators managed to burn $54 million on the place in a year and a half.
Arts & Entertainment Sony Just Bought the Alamo Drafthouse Theater Chain, Including the SF Location Sony Pictures Entertainment just bought up all 35 locations of the boozy and boutique movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, including the New Mission theater on Mission Street, after the chain had previously declared bankruptcy in 2021.
Arts & Entertainment Another Movie Theater Bites the Dust: The Regency 6 Cinema In San Rafael More tragic endings for Bay Area film fans, as San Rafael’s Regency 6 Cinema apparently closed permanently on Sunday, as the sluggish rebound from COVID claims another longtime Bay Area movie house.
Arts & Entertainment SF Movie Theater Owners Fear Writers' and Actors' Strikes Could Wreck the Rest of Their 2023 Movie theater operators are projecting a debilitating post-Barbenheimer hangover, as the twin strikes by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA threaten to erase upcoming blockbusters and Oscar-season prestige films from the 2023 film release calendar.
SF News Another Bay Area Movie Theater Closes, This Time the 88-Year-Old Albany Twin We’ve seen this movie many times before as theaters try to emerge from the pandemic slump, but this one's truly the end of an era, as the 88-year-old Albany Twin theater on Solano Avenue suddenly closed permanently on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment Our Old Trekkie Friend Zennie Finally Gets To See <i>Star Trek</i>, Questions the Film's Diversity Quotient You may recall Zennie from his complaints about the "outsized" proportions of the futuristic San Francisco shown in the trailer for J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek film. Well, the movie's out, and
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Group and Twitter Feed Starts for Oaklanders to Save Parkway Theater As SFist reported yesterday, a sad press release went out from the owners of the Parkway Speakeasy Theater in Oakland saying that they would be closing their doors after Sunday's screenings. A Facebook
SF News Parkway Speakeasy Theater Shutters this Sunday Now for some truly sad news,.Catherine and Kyle Fischer's Parkway Speakeasy Theater in Oakland is closing its door for good after 12 years. Here's the missive sent out today to fans of
