Our Town Cinemas chief Curtis Fainn (left) and marketing director Jan Black sit in one of the Davidson site's four screening rooms Tuesday. (David Boraks photo)
Our Town Cinemas opened its doors to DavidsonNews.net for a Christmas Eve peek at what movie-goers will get to see for themselves beginning Christmas night – 4 spacious screening rooms with cafe tables and comfortable swivel chairs.
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The new theater, built over the past four months in a row of former storefronts in Sadler Square shopping center off Griffith Street, includes two 40-seat rooms and two 80-seat rooms. Besides several tiers of cabaret tables and rolling swivel chairs, the rooms also have rows of conventional movie theater seats.
The theater will show a variety of first-run and art films, as well as host film festivals and special events.
The concession stand in the front lobby is stocked with the usual candy, chips and snacks as well as a by-the-cup coffee and tea maker, a convection oven for baking pizzas from the nearby Brick House, a popcorn machine and fountain drinks. They’ll also serve White Castle burgers and Nathan’s hot dogs, and they have a separate air popper for those want a healthier popcorn option, according to spokeswoman Jan Black.
Our Town Cinemas also has applied for an alcoholic beverages permit.
As with ticket prices, which are a dollar or so cheaper than other area cinemas, the concession stand also plans to charge slightly less for its fare. Ms. Black said theater-goers should be able to get a drink and a snack for less than $5.
The theater box office opens Friday (Christmas Day) at 3 p.m., selling tickets for shows Christmas night through Christmas Eve. The first set of four films to be shown are “Invictus,” “The Princess & the Frog,” “Sherlock Holmes,” and “It’s Complicated.” For descriptions and Christmas Eve show times, see our post from earlier today, “Our Town Cinemas to open Christmas Day.”
Meanwhile, the theaters will be available for rental to private parties for special events, movie screenings, and private viewings of sports events and other video programming.
More about the theater: www.ourtowncinemas.com
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- Our Town Cinemas chief Curtis Fainn (left) and marketing director Jan Black sit in one of the four screening rooms. (David Boraks photo)
Our Town Cinemas chief Curtis Fainn (left) and marketing director Jan Black sit in one of the Davidson site's four screening rooms Tuesday. (David Boraks photo)
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- Marketing director Jan Black shows off the "beefed up" concession area. (David Boraks photo)
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- View from the back row of bistro seats. (David Boraks photo)
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- The cinema is in Sadler Square, off Griffith Street, which has gotten a facelift of is own, including new green awnings. (David Boraks photo)
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- Curtis Fainn is managing director of Our Town Cinemas.
We took the family to Princess and the Frog over the weekend, and will definitely return. Prices are slightly lower, love that it’s in town, and the size of the theaters and screens was not an issue for us at all. The screen in the theater we were in (I’m assuming it’s one of the smaller “studios”) was proportional to the room, and the sound was good too. Only issue some of us ran into was the chairs, they are high quality office chairs, but got a bit uncomfortable about an hour in. I will say the row of permanent theater chairs up front seemed very comfortable, much better than Birkdale. Congrats to Curtis, Jan and the staff on a good opening, looking forward to when the taps open!