Arts & Entertainment AMC Theatres In Danger of Complete Financial Collapse In a regulatory filing today, AMC Theatres says that it has "substantial doubt" it will be able to continue operations this year even after sheltering restrictions are lifted and cinemas are allowed to reopen.
Arts & Entertainment Historic Clay Theatre in Pacific Heights To Close on January 26 After 110 Years One of San Francisco's last standing neighborhood movie houses, the Clay Theatre on upper Fillmore, is reportedly screening its final film on Sunday, January 26 after 110 years in Pacific Heights.
Arts & Entertainment Moviegoers Revolt As Local Century and Cinemark Theaters Crack Down On No-Backpack Policy A backpack and large bag ban that's been officially in place for almost two years at the Cinemark/Century cinema chain has apparently been getting enforced more vigorously in the Bay Area in recent months according to various reports from disgruntled theater-goers.
Arts & Entertainment Local Theater Report: Balboa Cuts Programming, 4-Star Marketed As 'Available,' Harding Returns As Arcade Bar Between the proliferation of sleek multiplexes, the overall decline in movie theater attendance, and options like the near-heavenly Alamo Drafthouse, it's surprising that any of San Francisco's classic cinema houses manage to hang
SF News Netflix Guy Wants To Give You All The Movie Theater Tickets You Want For $10 A Month A cineplex subscription service dropped the price of a monthly MoviePass to $10. Will you please now leave the house and go to an actual movie theater? Bloomberg brings us news of Mitch
Arts & Entertainment Opera Plaza Cinema Possibly Getting Shut Down, Replaced With Retail Another independent movie house may be biting the dust. The bedraggled yet still appreciated Opera Plaza Cinema appreciated for its programming and location if not its interior is allegedly set to be replaced
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Do You Miss The Most? In these Troubled San Francisco Times, there is a lot of talk about who was here when, and what that does (or doesn't) mean. In an effort to both assist newcomers and take
Arts & Entertainment The 15 Best Movie Theaters In The Bay Area More and more it seems going to the movies has become a special-occasion thing for a lot of people, and Hollywood obviously struggles every year to come up with reasons to get us
SF News Future Unclear For Sundance Kabuki Theater As Megachain AMC Approved To Buy Its Owner Sundance Kabuki Theater and its pleasant moviegoing experience — aided by the beer, wine, and cocktails available at certain of its screens — is potentially due for changes as the owner of the Sundance mini-chain,
Arts & Entertainment Historic Clay Theatre Readies For Renovation, Could Add Dining And Drinks The Clay Theatre (2261 Fillmore at Clay) was built in 1910 as one of the first picture palaces in San Francisco. In 1972, the first midnight showing in the city was hosted here:
Arts & Entertainment Hooray! Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Open In December With <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i> Excellent news, kids: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is on target to be open on December 17 in the historic, totally refurbished New Mission Theater, right on schedule. And, as a release tells us, the
Arts & Entertainment The Richmond's 4-Star Theatre Now Endangered Outer Richmond fans of the scrappy little 4-Star Theatre at 23rd and Clement are going to be sad about this: The Richmond District Blog is reporting that the 4-Star, which has been a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Metreon Is (Hopefully) Getting Booze Photo by Demetrios Lyras Excellent news on the boozy movie theater front: Along with the Sundance Kabuki, the AMC Bay Street (Emeryville), and the upcoming Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the New Mission, the
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Finally Open This Fall In The Mission The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema project that promised to open by late 2014 is finally taking shape in the old New Mission Theater at Mission and 22nd. They've got a big "COMING 2015" banner
Arts & Entertainment Where To See 'The Interview' In The Bay Area On Christmas Day Over a dozen independent cinemas around the Bay Area have leapt at the chance to screen the new James Franco/Seth Rogan satire The Interview just a day after Sony Pictures decided to
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 5 Best Movie Theatres Yes, it's true, between internet skullduggery and On Demand, you can see an awful lot of movies without ever leaving your couch (or bed). But you've got to admit, in the right circumstances
Arts & Entertainment 'On the Road' Debuts In Wide Release; Why Did It Take So Long? Yesterday we showed you the trailer for Big Sur, but there were actually two films made in the last two years of Jack Kerouac novels, the other of course being director Walter Salles
Arts & Entertainment Best San Francisco Movie Theaters San Francisco movie audiences are arguably the worst in the entire country. They like to arrive late in typical flakey fashion, they hiss at the screen (please stop doing that), and, far worse,
SF News Indie Cinema The Lumiere Will Close Sunday After 45 Years Lower Nob Hill indie cinema the Lumiere, which has been a movie theater since 1967 and has been under the operation of Landmark Cinemas since 1991, is shutting its doors Sunday after Landmark
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie, Balboa Theatre Lead Nationwide Trend in Small Cinemas Turning Not-for-Profit Every couple of years some new alarmist story appears about the Castro Theatre closing down, and each time it gets debunked. But the panic comes from the nationwide death knell for small, single-screen,
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Will Beef Up Theater Security After 'Dark Knight' Shooting In the wake of the tragedy at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" Aurora, Colorado, San Francisco Police announced the department will be focusing on movie theaters screening the Summer blockbuster
SF News Cow Hollow's Historic Metro Cinema To Become Equinox Gym A plan to convert Cow Hollow's historic Metro movie theater (2055 Union) to an Equinox gymnasium went before the Planning Commission yesterday, and SFist learns today that it was approved. Alas, another historic
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre to Stop Regular Movie Screenings? [Updated] Hold the phone! According to a local film industry source (via Michael Petrelis) the venerable and universally adored Castro Theatre is allegedly going to cease to be a movie house in January, and
Arts & Entertainment Mister Lew's Win Win Bar & Grand Sazerac Emporium: Now With Wednesday Double Features For those who like a little lowbrow visual stimulation while they tipple their highbrow cocktails, the tenderloin bar with the lengthy name has started regular Wednesday night movie screenings. Via the bar's Facebook
SF News Red Vic Set to Close This Summer The Red Vic Movie House will be holding their final screening this summer unless some generous patron of neighborhood theaters steps in to save the venerable Upper Haight institution. KQED reports that recent
