Sun-Ray Cinema Opening
The
Florida Times-Union has an article up about the opening of Sun-Ray
Cinema this week in Jacksonville. Tim Massett – a Jacksonville native – and Shana
David-Massett are behind the new theatre, which will feature a new screen, a
kitchen, and other improvements in general.
I’m
immensely excited about the new theater opening this week, especially with the
potential lineup of initial films we’d get – Melancholia, Martha Marcy May
Marlene, The Descendants, The Human Centipede 2 (probably be
skipping that one – I got enough centipede shenanigans from the first one), and
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
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The
theater space used to be home to the 5 Points Theatre, which was a great place
for indie movie and film event lovers (which definitely included us – two of
our posts about films at 5 Points are here and here). The theater has been closed since Halloween,
so I’ve definitely been jonesing for independent cinema. I’ve got high hopes
for Sun-Ray, especially for their special events, like screenings of The Walking Dead on Sundays.
Check out Sun-Ray's blog right here.
Check out Sun-Ray's blog right here.
Farewell, Jaws Ride: Part 1
On that
note, I probably won’t even be able to check out the theater until early next
week. Sun-Ray isn’t really scheduled to open until Friday, and I’ll be out of
town. And even if it opens on Thursday (the article mentions the theater could
open “a day or two earlier if renovations go well”) I can’t attend, as it’s my
birthday and I’ve already got plans. Although that would be an awesome birthday
present. I guess there’s always tomorrow.
Anyway,
the reason I’ll be out of town is that I’m going to Orlando to visit Universal
Studios for my aforementioned birthday. Normally I probably wouldn’t blog about
visiting a theme park – even one that revolves around movies – but I figured
this was a special occasion since THEJAWSRIDEISCLOSING!!??
The news comes from JoBlo (can you tell I get most of my movie news from them?) via the Universal Orlando Resort Facebook page, and their post explains that the 20+ year-old ride is getting the axe because Universal is putting in something “new, innovative & amazing”.
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I’ll post something next week about my last experience with the ride.
The Cabin in the
Woods Trailer
In other
news, courtesy of – wait for it…JoBlo (via Yahoo!
Movies), we finally have a trailer for The Cabin
in the Woods, a horror/sci-fi flick directed by Drew Goddard (writer of
Cloverfield) produced by Joss Whedon, and co-written by both of them. According
to Wikipedia, Cabin has been delayed for about two years now. It was filmed before Chris Hemsworth did Thor, look at how puny he looks!
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To tell
you the truth, I’m puzzled by this trailer. I was expecting an Evil Dead knockoff and I got…well I
don’t even know. Check it out:
the cabin in the woods is far from an evil dead rip-off indeed, and it looks to be a highlight of next year. In Whedon We Trust
ReplyDelete@rodders - I can't help but agree. Between this and The Avengers, it looks like Whedon is going to have a hell of a good year. Thanks for reading!
ReplyDeleteI don't even know about The Cabin in the Wood trailer. Interesting to say the least - quite a good horror......
ReplyDelete.....I'm scared!
@ruth I'm pretty excited for it now. What's up with the forcefield???
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading!
I'm glad I got to experience the Jaws ride as a kid even though I was ultimately disappointed by how cheesy the shark looked. I wish they would just refurbish the ride and make it more scary. It's almost as if they're putting the film out to pasture as well....sad really.
ReplyDelete@markuswelby1 - Agreed. It would probably be pretty easy to just fix it up. Sounds like they want to put more Harry Potter stuff in there, though, so it probably wouldn't matter what was there to begin with.
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