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Springfield, Mass.
The venerable 2400-seat Paramount Theatre
in downtown Springfield, long recognized as
the flagship of the old Western Massachusetts
Theatres chain, was sold by Donald E-
Campion to retailer/entertainment promoter
Brian Alden for an undisclosed amount. Alden
says he intends to spend upwards of
$100,000 to remodel the structure into a performing
arts venue.
Pittsburgh, Penn.
The 187-screen Pittsburgh-based Cinemette
Corp, has been sold to Cinema World,
a group headed by Matthew Bronfman, Jeffrey
Lewine, and New York-based investment
banker Robert Malina. The circuit,
which is run by Ernest Stern with his cousin,
George, and son, Richard, holds 78 locations
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
Harrisburg, Penn.
AMC Theatres has scheduled a February
opening for its new Sporting Hill eight-plex,
which will bring the total of first-run screens
on the West Shore to 16. It is expected that at
least one of the new screens will offer occasional
foreign language or independent films.
Harrisburg Patriot News motion picture
editor Sharon lohnson, in her recent "Survivor's
Guide" for filmgoers, asked readers not
to blame house managers for the "generally
shabby look of the Eric theatres" operated by
the Philadelphia-based Sameric Theatres
chain. She charged that Sameric "doesn't
believe in squandering profits on frills like
maintenance of their properties" The exception,
she said, is Eric's Colonial Park: "It hasn't
had time to get run down yet, but wait'"
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