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And that’s why films like Hamnet deserve a theatrical release — not just releasing it into the world with clusters of five or six people sitting around a living room watching television, but altogether in the great unknown of a dark movie house.
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Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
The show is fittingly given a live theater setting, with the characters working in a Depression-era movie house.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
By 2023, Berkeley’s last downtown movie house, the 90-year-old United Artists Theater shuttered its doors for good as part of a series of closures by Cineworld, a company with theaters across the world.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
Come for the movies, get bumped into by the several ghosts who are said to inhabit the Art Deco movie house that was built in 1937.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
The ghosts of the Federal Theatre still haunt the 102-year-old movie house, and David Lindoerfer has seen them.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
In downtown Dolton was the Dolton Theatre, a movie house that showed first-run films and also cartoons and special features.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
Hollywood stars living in the exclusive seaside enclave soon followed, including Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Carey Grant, Robert Redford and Martin Sheen, who would rub shoulders with locals who flocked to the single-screen movie house that Betty and David O’Meara owned from 1972 to 1991.
—Scott Schwebke, Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
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Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026
The show is fittingly given a live theater setting, with the characters working in a Depression-era movie house.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2026
The Lyric Theater, which was built in the 1920s as a silent movie house, regularly hosts plays, musicals, and performances from big-name talent in its grand, 500-seat theater.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
By 2023, Berkeley’s last downtown movie house, the 90-year-old United Artists Theater shuttered its doors for good as part of a series of closures by Cineworld, a company with theaters across the world.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025
Come for the movies, get bumped into by the several ghosts who are said to inhabit the Art Deco movie house that was built in 1937.
—Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Oct. 2025
The ghosts of the Federal Theatre still haunt the 102-year-old movie house, and David Lindoerfer has seen them.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
In downtown Dolton was the Dolton Theatre, a movie house that showed first-run films and also cartoons and special features.
—Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
Hollywood stars living in the exclusive seaside enclave soon followed, including Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman, Carey Grant, Robert Redford and Martin Sheen, who would rub shoulders with locals who flocked to the single-screen movie house that Betty and David O’Meara owned from 1972 to 1991.
—Scott Schwebke, Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025
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