Loeks Theatres, Inc., (also known as
Celebration! Cinema) is a
movie theaterA movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
chain with headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Its theatres serve the cities and surrounding areas of Grand Rapids,
LansingLansing is the capital city of the U.S. state of Michigan, and the state's sixth largest city. It is located about 80 miles west-northwest of Detroit and is mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County...
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MuskegonMuskegon is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 40,105. The city is the county seat of Muskegon County...
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Benton Harbor/St. JosephBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan southwest from Kalamazoo. The population was 11,182 at the 2000 census. It is the lesser populated of the two principal cities included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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Portage/KalamazooKalamazoo is the largest city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 76,145...
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Mount PleasantMount Pleasant is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Isabella County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 25,946. The 2008 census estimate places the population at 26,675....
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The Grand Rapids North and Lansing Locations feature
IMAXIMAX is a motion picture film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
Theatres,
RiverTown CrossingsRiverTown Crossings is a two story shopping mall in Grandville, Michigan in the Grand Rapids area. It is owned and operated by General Growth Properties.-History:...
and Lansing feature MOPIX
Rear Window TechnologyThe Rear Window captioning system is a method for presenting, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a film in theatres for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The system was co-developed by WGBH and Rufus Butler Seder....
for the hearing impaired, and most locations feature DLP
Digital cinemaDigital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to distribute and project motion pictures. A movie can be distributed via hard drives, optical disks or satellite and projected using a digital projector instead of a conventional film projector...
by
ChristieChristie Digital Systems, Inc. is a privately held company that manufactures projectors, most notably LCD and DLP digital cinema projectors. , Christie's projectors are used on more digital screens worldwide than any other licensee...
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Recently, Loeks Theatres, Inc.
Loeks Theatres, Inc., (also known as
Celebration! Cinema) is a
movie theaterA movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
chain with headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Its theatres serve the cities and surrounding areas of Grand Rapids,
LansingLansing is the capital city of the U.S. state of Michigan, and the state's sixth largest city. It is located about 80 miles west-northwest of Detroit and is mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County...
,
MuskegonMuskegon is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 40,105. The city is the county seat of Muskegon County...
,
Benton Harbor/St. JosephBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan southwest from Kalamazoo. The population was 11,182 at the 2000 census. It is the lesser populated of the two principal cities included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area...
,
Portage/KalamazooKalamazoo is the largest city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 76,145...
, and
Mount PleasantMount Pleasant is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Isabella County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 25,946. The 2008 census estimate places the population at 26,675....
.
The Grand Rapids North and Lansing Locations feature
IMAXIMAX is a motion picture film format and projection standard created by Canada's IMAX Corporation. The traditional version of IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...
Theatres,
RiverTown CrossingsRiverTown Crossings is a two story shopping mall in Grandville, Michigan in the Grand Rapids area. It is owned and operated by General Growth Properties.-History:...
and Lansing feature MOPIX
Rear Window TechnologyThe Rear Window captioning system is a method for presenting, through captions, a transcript of the audio portion of a film in theatres for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. The system was co-developed by WGBH and Rufus Butler Seder....
for the hearing impaired, and most locations feature DLP
Digital cinemaDigital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to distribute and project motion pictures. A movie can be distributed via hard drives, optical disks or satellite and projected using a digital projector instead of a conventional film projector...
by
ChristieChristie Digital Systems, Inc. is a privately held company that manufactures projectors, most notably LCD and DLP digital cinema projectors. , Christie's projectors are used on more digital screens worldwide than any other licensee...
.
Recently, Loeks Theatres, Inc. purchased two theaters from Plano, TX based Cinemark. The theaters are located in
RiverTown CrossingsRiverTown Crossings is a two story shopping mall in Grandville, Michigan in the Grand Rapids area. It is owned and operated by General Growth Properties.-History:...
in Grandville, MI and the
Woodland MallWoodland Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall located just outside the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It comprises over 100 tenants in of retail space, with four anchor stores and a movie theater...
in Kentwood, MI. The 20 screen theater will be renamed Celebration! Rivertown and the 14 screen theater will be renamed Celebration! Woodland after their respective malls. The purchase is an effort of Loeks Theatres to continue expansion in the West Michigan area.
On November 14, 2008, Celebration! Cinema announced that
Studio 28Studio 28 was a movie theatre located in Wyoming, Michigan, the first megaplex and once largest theatre in the world, opening on Christmas Day, 1965, and closing November 23, 2008....
would close on November 23.
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=101472 Studio 28 opened in 1965 with just one screen. It quickly expanded and in 1988 it became the largest movie theater in the world with 20 screens. It remained the largest theater until 1995.
http://www.mlive.com/grandrapids/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-44/12267333353750.xml&coll=6&thispage=2 At one point the theater brought in 1.7 million visitors per year. Lately, however, it has been about 25% of that amount.
External links
http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/15849.html Celebration! North images on Cinematour