The plan became open a newer cinemaplex (the northstar 14), make the cinema 6 a dollar house, and close the other theaters. The eastgage, the northpark twin and the mall 5 were all under hollywood with cinema 6. When Hollywood bought crown, they also bought all of the dickenson theaters in joplin as well. If that name sounds familiar, that’s because his son is the CEO of Regal, Greg Dunn. I served as a theater manager from about 1990 until I left the theater business in 2000. Richard did not want his son to take over and sold to the man who owned Hollywood Theaters, a new outfit out of Texas in 1997. After that, the owner of AMC (stanley durwood) had a brother (Richard Durwood) who split off from him and started Crown Cinema Corporation. AMC purchased us in 1988 and we were AMC theaters for about 2 years. We were direct competition for bookings with Dickinson Theaters at the time. We opened with Crocodile Dundee and Star Trek IV, didn’t get decent bookings until summer with Robocop, etc.
I started as an usher before the theater opened. They used the old battle star galactica theme as their “now for our feature presentation” music. Cinema 6 was opened in the spring of 1987 by an outfit out of KC called MidAmerica cinema. I worked before the opening and for the theaters at those times.
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