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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