Word: multiplex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hewitt is professing comfort at the thought that movies don't last at the multiplex forever. 60 Minutes, he says, "has been around for, like, 30 years. A movie, if it's lucky, is around for maybe a week." Or is it? There's already talk of possible Oscar nominations for Russell Crowe, Pacino or Plummer. That would keep the film alive well into next year. And then there's the video release. All that could mean a long stretch ahead for 60 Minutes. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...
...first drive-in theaters in the country in the 1930s. Redstone had the same scrappiness and a Harvard education, and turned a drive-in into a bustling movie-house company called National Amusements, which grew to 1,200 theaters. He is often credited with inventing the concept of the multiplex. Something of a late bloomer, Redstone didn't hit the big time until 1987, when at age 64 he put virtually all the assets of his company at risk in a bidding war that won Viacom, then a cable company, for $3.4 billion. Ironically, Viacom had been split off from...
...place to change the way films are made, sold and shared. Thanks to computers, digital cameras and the Internet, many independent filmmakers can afford to make, market and distribute their own work. Perhaps the immense pool of film talent that has lurked just beyond our local multiplex movie theaters has a better shot at the big screen now that it's armed with the resources to create a blockbuster of a different flavor. The savvy directors of The Blair Witch Project are pioneers in what is destined to be a new era in film. ADRIEN GLOVER, CO-FOUNDER Undergroundfilm.com...
...Bose speakers and plugged them in. Instead of putting them on my desk as I would have with traditional PC speakers, I dropped them in the corners of my office. Then I fired up a movie. With the audio clarity, I felt as if I were at the multiplex...
DIED. STAN DURWOOD, 78, ebullient creator of the now ubiquitous multiplex movie theater; of esophageal cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. Durwood opened his first fully planned multiplex in 1962--with The Great Escape playing on both screens. Now the company he ran, AMC Entertainment, operates 218 theaters (and 2,729 screens) in 23 states and several countries including Spain and Japan. "Our goal is to say to the customer, 'We love ya,' " he said in 1996. "We want to make your stay pleasant...