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Mat! Hage/WewS'Minefputs down the finalHIGH GLOSS—Mark Christoffersen, of Christoffersen and Sons of coat of wax in the entrance of the new Regal 16 Theater on ThursdayvenueGoldstream, he said. The old theater will be tom down and the space used for parking.More screens will mean more movies but not necessarily more art films or thoseby small, independent producers, Arrington said, unless they do well in speciality markets and are more widely released, such as “The Blair Witch Project.”“We’ll get some of those films, but this is not an art house,’’ he said. “There are 16 mainstream films out there.”Regardless of what’s on the screens, the new seats are impressive. Arrington pointed out the 14-inch risers beneath the rows of seats, just like at theKing Dome in Seattle.“No matter how short acost $4.75, and an adult ticket for an evening show will cost$7.75.While the price of a movie isn’t changing a lot, the rest of the Fairbanks mainstream movie experience is going to change a great deal when the $10.5 million complex opens today: More screens, bigger screens, comfortable high-backed chairs and the much-touted “stadium seating.”Six of the new auditoriums seat 280 people each, and 10 smaller ones have seating for 187 each. All are equipped with digital sound and listening devices for hearing impairedBy MARTHA BRISTOWStaff WriterWhen a store clerk learned that Robbie Arrington was in Fairbanks to help open the new Goldstream 16 theater, her first question was,“Why are ticket pnces going up to $10?”His answer: “They’re NOT.” Anticipation in recent months about the opening of the new, bigger, more modem theater has inflated the details a bit, said Arrington, marketing coordinator for Knoxville-based Regal Cinemas Ticket prices will in fact rise, by 25 cents, Arrington said. A matinee willAlthough Arrington wasn’t sure about the dimensions of the screens, all of them are larger than those in the old
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Fri, Dec 17, 1999
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