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Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern & Jeff Goldblum, the “dinosaurs run amok” adventure debuted at number one on over 2,400 screens grossing a then-record $50 million its opening weekend. these poor kids have never seen the true effect film can have in these poor mulitplex theaters.Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning 1993 adaptation of Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” opened at the Big Newport 30 years ago today (June 11, 1993). i took my son to see the new Indiana jones movie (he is 27) last year at a theatre which has the big screen. People are really missing a lot by not seeing films on the old 70mm screens. i had to be away for an extended time once or twice, and I had to quit but he was kind enough to say he would rehire me, (and he did), when I returned. We had a lot of fun, and saw great films. Tickets were $2.50 for regular, and $3.00 for the loge seats in the back. the customers did not notice, but as we saw the show over and over again, we sure did! “Le Mans” with Steve Mcqueen had so little dialogue we could memorize it. One time, during the ‘Out of Towners" with Jack lemmon and Sandy Dennis, the projectionist somehow missed a whole reel. One time he was upset that I sold a ticket to Andy Devine, who came as a regular customer just to see the movie…he came over to get the $3.00 back to return to him. Motion Picture Academy members would come in to review movies, show their cards, and get in free.
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We used to play tag on the ceiling of the theater with our usher flashilights. We had to disturb people who were making out in the back rows.shine the flashlight on them. his night off was Thurs., and those were the evening we would let our friends come in. He made jewelry, and would give us small items as gifts. He told us how as a young man he had worked at the Chicago theatre during a time when Mary Pickford was an active star. He was avery kind man, but quite professional. We were paid $1.35 an hour, 30 cents below minimum wage as it was called a student wage, but the benefits were great! passes to other Edward’s Cinema’s, popcorn and soda to drink, and got to see the same movie many many times… i learned to appreciate just about all genres for something: the cinematography, direction, acting, music, or action. I worked at the Edward’s on Adams in 19, as an usher, concessions girl, and then in the box office. The lobby of the building was demolished in 2013/2014. The renovated building became home to a Paul Mitchell cosmetology academy which closed around 2007. The remaining theatres are now part of Regal Entertainment Group. The original Edwards Cinema Theatre closed in 2000 because of Edwards' bankruptcy and the fact that the single-screen theatre had become outdated. Edwards, who lived until the age of 90, “We’re not really in the movie business, we’re in the popcorn business” The chain would go on to have at its peak in 2000, according to Boxoffice Magazine, 850 screens at 90 locations making it the 11 largest chain in the United States. Edwards seemed to stay one step ahead of them, sometimes even buying up their locations when they called it quits.īut to paraphrase the modest Mr. Soon other chains such as United Artists, General Cinemas and Mann Theatres took notice and begin to encroach but Mr. Zhivago” at the same time as Los Angeles. The Orange County Register reported that he guaranteed $75,000 to MGM in 1965 to screen “Dr. He convinced the film distributors that a growing Orange County could compete with Los Angeles for first-run movies. It was the first theatre in his modern-day empire. Edwards came out of retirement in 1963 to open Edwards Cinema Theatre on Decemwith Doris Day in “Move Over Darling”. James Edwards II retired to Newport Beach, California in the early-1960’s after building up a chain of theaters around Los Angeles beginning in 1930.