Category: Theaters
Megaplex's birthday party
November 3rd, 2009Thursday will mark 10 years since Larry H. Miller — car salesman extraordinaire and owner of the Utah Jazz — opened up his first movie theater, the Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons. The Megaplex Theatres chain now encompasses 70 screens at five Utah locat… more »
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Tower gets its projector
October 7th, 2009Salt Lake City's venerable Tower Theatre had a problem — last month, the theater's nine-year-old DVD projector gave up the ghost. Just shorted out before a 4:30 p.m. screening of the documentary "Afghan Star."
The Salt Lake Film Society, the nonprofit… more »
Rolling up the Red Carpet
August 13th, 2009Tonight's the last night for Utah's Red Carpet Cinemas chain, which is going out of business. Red Carpet runs four theaters in Utah (clockwise from top left): The 5 Star Cinemas in Magna, the Gateway Cinemas 8 in Bountiful, the Spanish 8 in Spanish Fork… more »
Cinema interruptus
July 29th, 2009At 9:18 p.m. Tuesday night, in a screening of Judd Apatow's new movie "Funny People" at the Megaplex 12 at The Gateway, in one of the climactic dramatic scenes, the unthinkable happened: The projector shut down and everything went dark for a m… more »
Never mind the Muggles
July 28th, 2009What do theater employees do in their down time? Why, play a pickup game of Quidditch, of course. That's what some folks at the Megaplex 17 at Jordan Commons were doing Monday night in the theater's parking lot. Only a churlish Muggle would point out th… more »
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