Lorain/Elyria, OH
Midway Mall cinema to reopen Friday
ELYRIA — Beginning Friday, movie fans will once again be able to check out first-run movies in Elyria.
Atlas Cinemas has announced the re-opening of Midway Mall Cinemas under the name Atlas Cinemas Midway Mall 8.
Crews are sprucing up the theater, which has been dark about six months, and there have been upgrades in sound, said Christopher Ross, an Atlas operations manager at another location.
Atlas Cinemas is owned by Al Saluan, who currently operates 39 all-digital screens at locations in Euclid and Mentor, Ross said. The Elyria theater is not digital; movies will be shown in film format for the time being, Ross said.
A manager has been hired and the company plans to do some additional hiring, Ross said. The company is taking applications in person at the theater. Applications can be downloaded at www.atlascinemas.net.
Adult admission will be $5.75 during the day and $8.25 at night, Ross said. Children ages 3 to 11 and seniors 62 and older will pay $5 during the day and $5.75 at night, he said.
The first movies to be shown at the theater are “Body of Lies,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” “Max Payne,” “Saw V,” “W,” “The Haunting of Mary Hartley,” “High School Musical 3” and “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.”
Formerly operated first by the now-defunct General Cinemas, then by an out-of-town independent, the Midway Mall theater stopped showing films in May.
At the time, Susan Godorov, vice president of marketing for the mall’s owner, Centro Properties Group, said the theater closed after owners failed to meet their lease agreement.
Centro filed a lawsuit against Midway Cinemas 8 in October 2007, claiming the theaters’ owners failed to pay more than $50,000 in back rent. Centro accused the owners of not having made a payment in months.
Contact Cindy Leise at 329-7245 or cleise@chroniclet.com.
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It will fail! The prices are to high for that area.
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prices are to high? i think that is relatively cheap,i went to the regal cinemas for high school musical 3 and it was 6.75 for adults and 6.25 for kids during the day and at night it is 9 so no thats not high prices at all!!!! i hope it stays open.
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Man I’d kill to be able to see a first run movie for that price! Good luck guys glad to see that location coming back!
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I hope it works out for them. I’d take the bus to the mall and go to the shows and make a day of it.
Now I can go see the remake of “The Day The Earth Stood Still” with Keanu Reeves.
The trailers hint that the World gets destroyed this time.
Release date 12.12.08
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/
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More great news. It will be a success. People are tired of being jacked at Regal.
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You want cheap first run movies ? Go to the Apollo in Oberlin. You can see the movie, get a large popcorn and large drink for no more then $8 all together. The crowd is also better as well !! check it out …
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GOOD LUCK! PRICE HIGH FOR ELYRIA. I WOULD RATHER STADUIM SEATING
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What kills me is people always complain that businesses don’t come to Elyria…everything closes. Here we have someone attempting to re-open a movie theatre and at prices that are lower than the other local theatre in Sheffield and people are complaining about it! “I want stadium seating!” “The prices still aren’t low enough!” Quit your whining! If you want stadium seating, go pay for it at Cobblestone. If you want lower prices, come to the Elyria theatres!
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I used to be a manager there when it was General Cinema and Talbout. I knew Talbout would last long because the owners from Florida were too cheap. No advertising was done and the floors still looked like crap. In order to stay open and make money you have to spend money. If this place lets people know they are there and they fix things it could last. I wish it luck. Plus getting in and out of Cobblestone on a Friday/Sat nights sucks.
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Sparky, stay away from Croker Park then. It’s a total nightmare.
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AMHERST and OBERLIN, Best deals around, and the old time theater atmosphere!!!
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NEW OWNERS TAKE NOTE….THE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS IS NOT THAT HARD. KEEP IT CLEAN, FIX BROKEN SEATS, MAKE IT LIVELY INSIDE. TOWARDS THE END OF THE LAST REGIME IT SIMPLY LOOKED LIKE A PLACE THAT WAS GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. I GO TO ABOUT 3 MOVIES PER MONTH WITH A FEW BUDDIES AND WE WOULD CERTAINLY PREFER TO GO TO THIS THEATER RATHER THAN REGAL. GOOD LUCK IN BRINGING THIS BACK TO LIFE…YOU WILL HAVE MY BUSINESS.
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I will only go if there are 2 armed security gaurds in every theatre at all times. I can guarantee you there will be about 25 hood rats in every movie, theyll probably sneak in, and all theyll be doing is talking on their cell phones and making out with their boyfriends. Maybe worse.
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Methods & Ben hit it right… The Apollo in Oberlin is the best value around. $3 admission for adults, $2 for kids and $2 for everyone on Tuesday and Thursday can’t be beat. I think a large soda (maybe 24oz.) is only $1.50, the tub of popcorn is $2.10, and candy is around a dollar, plus or minus 50 cents (working from memory).
And what do you give up for this savings? Well, it is not what you would exactly call MODERN (originally built in 1914), but it is well-maintained. They don’t have THX or Dolby Digital, but we don’t have to sit through 45 minutes of Pepsi and Lexus commercials as pre-film “entertainment”. They don’t have the big blockbusters on opening weekend, but usually get them within a few weeks. They only offer 1 film at a time, with 2 showings per day (occassionally a weekend matinee for kids films), but the theater seats 850, so any performance is rarely “sold-out”. Just remember, once the house lights go down and you are enjoying the film, everything else sort of fades away…
I started going to movies at the Apollo for over 30 years with my parents, and am now sharing that experience with my kids. I encourage EVERYONE to take the trip to Oberlin and see a movie at the Apollo.
BTW - I know the theater is Amherst is VERY similar, so patronize them, too! Without our business, theaters like these will be closed forever and then we will be totally at the mercy of the Multi-plex!
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JayM,
Hoods? Come on grow up. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE.
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and don’t forget the Lorain Palace theater. Also $3 and fair priced food.
Hoods? No way I’d ever let a few punk kids EVER ruin my evening out but I’m not afraid to stand up to them. I know they are just wussy kids acting out.
Why would you need armed guards for kids talking and kissing during a movie?
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Hahaha, because its dark, and Im not allowed to bring my sidearm inside. Legally, that is.
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