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Team Behind The Rio Set to Reopen Vancouver’s Park Theatre by Year’s End
The Rio Theatre team, backed by notable filmmakers, will independently operate Vancouver's Park Theatre after Cineplex closure, preserving a historic cinema landmark.
- The Park Theatre on Cambie Street will be revived by a Rio Theatre-led ownership team after Cineplex halted operations, with its final projection on October 26.
- When Cineplex announced the shutdown, the Rio Theatre team mobilized and approached Vancouver-based producer Chris Ferguson to rally filmmakers and industry professionals to finance the takeover.
- A group of filmmakers including Perkins, Flanagan and Baker financed the deal, with investors like Sean Baker, Zach Lipovsky, Finn Wolfhard and financiers Graham Fortin, Eugenio Battaglia, Andy Levine, Jill Orsten and Christina Bulbrook.
- The ownership team cites prior success keeping the Rio alive as a model for the Park Theatre, sharing Corinne Lea’s commitment to save the 84-year-old venue after her 2018 fundraising rescue.
- Built in 1941, the Park Theatre’s revival aims to restore the art-deco venue to Cambie Village as a cultural hub, the new team led by the Rio Theatre said, though no reopening date is set.
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Team behind The Rio set to reopen Vancouver’s Park Theatre by year’s end
It had seemed like the end of an era on Sunday afternoon, as the credits to The Park Theatre’s final film rolled and the establishment’s only screen faded to black, but, in true cinematic style, the show wasn’t yet over.
·Canada
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The film park on Cambie Street in Vancouver will soon resume its activities thanks to a group of investors from the Vancouver film industry and the Rio Theatre.
·Montreal, Canada
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Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard among investors to rescue Vancouver’s art-deco Park Theatre
VANCOUVER - A beloved Vancouver movie theatre has been rescued from closure by an investment team including film directors Sean Baker and Mike Flanagan and “Stranger Things” star Finn Wolfhard.
·Welland, Canada
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Sean Baker, Finn Wolfhard among investors to rescue Vancouver's art-deco Park Theatre
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