Loews recently said it would close 112 aging theaters across the country.
On Monday, Loews reported a third-quarter net loss of $185.9 million and said it would close 112 aging theaters with 675 screens, nearly a quarter of the company's total screens.
Aging theaters are a problem on London's West End, where many of the famous venues were constructed before World War II. .
The film producers organized two screenings of the movie at the Vine Theater, an aging independent theater in Hollywood, on June 30, according to a flier promoting the event, which featured a photograph of Osama bin Laden.
"We have this aging movie theater that's surrounded by acres of surface parking," Mr. Connolly said.
FOR years, performers like Bruce Springsteen, George Carlin and Whoopi Goldberg took the stage at the aging Count Basie Theater amid decaying plaster and leaking ceilings.
The Bridge, in Los Angeles, is a widely acclaimed space-age theater where the movie itself is almost an afterthought; customers get cushy leather seats, reserved seating, live performances onstage before a film begins and an "elite services" desk akin to a concierge desk in a posh hotel.
The Bridge in Los Angeles is a widely acclaimed, space-age theater where the movie itself is almost an afterthought; customers get reserved seating in cushy leather seats, live performances onstage before a film begins and an "elite services" desk akin to a concierge desk in a posh hotel.
One such place was the Palace in Hollywood, a Jazz Age theater that had shuttered in the early 70s.
Last month, Loews Cineplex announced that it would close 112 aging movie theaters nationally.
