Bruno Frydman had few illusions when he set up shop in Paris in 1993 to build the kind of multiplex theaters that helped revolutionize moviegoing in the United States.
I saw Jurassic Park eleven times in the three multiplex theaters that existed at the time.
It was around that time that Mr. Giuliani opposed an important project, a 24-screen multiplex movie theater, that Mr. Ratner wanted to build in Forest Hills, Queens.
Specifically, I wanted to convince one of the companies we owned, the Loews theater group, to build this new type of multiplex theater in a city that many felt was overbuilt already — Manhattan.
But his space is needed by a developer who is building a Costco, a Stop 'N' Shop and a multiplex theater, creating a riverfront shopping plaza that will displace much of downtown Port Chester, Mr. Vallejo included.
The property is owned by Forest City Ratner, which several years ago had intended to build a multiplex theater on the site, a project that was vigorously opposed by neighborhood residents and ultimately by the Giuliani administration.
The solution is to establish a not-for-profit film distribution association -- a national organization with local affiliates -- that would lease screens in multiplex theaters to show films that are deemed unsuitable for commercial distribution.
THE developers of the Hollywood Market, in fact, originally planned a project similar to the Cinerama Dome that combined a multiplex theater and shopping.
It seems that they inhabit a new multiplex theater, and start chasing one another from screen to screen, and then...
To him, that usually means combining specialty retailers with a multiplex theater, as well as a series of upscale restaurants.
