CURTAIN GOING UP ON SIMI CINEMA.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Staff Writer Workers scrambled Wednesday afternoon to put finishing touches finishing touches finish npl the finishing touches → der letzte Schliff finishing touches npl → ultimi ritocchi mpl on Regal Cinema's 16-screen megaplex, which will become the city's largest movie facility when it opens Friday. Officials with the chain were hesitant to indicate if the Civic Center 16 would be ready for Wednesday night's VIP party, but were confident it would be fully functional for its public debut. ``We've seen them in worse shape,'' Jennifer Harris Jennifer Harris is a former player of the Pennsylvania State University Lady Lions basketball team. In 2006, she accused Rene Portland the coach of of Lady Lions of removing her from the team because of her perceived sexual orientation. , director of marketing for Regal, said over the din of electricians and clean-up crews. ``They always come around.'' The 2,800-seat complex is one of the final projects in Simi Valley's newest shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . It follows grand openings of several eateries, a Bed Bath and Beyond outlet and the city's first Starbuck's. The facility, located at Tapo Canyon Road and Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. Street, joins the growing numbers of complexes in the region with stadium-style seating and digital sound auditoriums. Although the megaplex - featuring massive snack bars, staggered start times and large seats with cup holders - debuted only four years ago in Dallas with a 24-screen theater, it has become an industry standard for multiplex See multiplexing. theaters. City Councilwoman Barbra Williamson said no one is looking forward to Regal's stadium seating more than she is. ``Wego to the movies two or three times a week,'' she said. ``I really like stadium seating, so we normally go out to the (San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. ) Valley to go to the movies. I'd love to stay here and now this will afford me to do that.'' Simi Valley's other theaters are Mann's Sycamore sycamore: see plane tree. sycamore Any of several distinct trees called by the same name though in different genera and families. In the U.S. the term refers to the American plane tree or buttonwood (Platanus occidentalis), a hardy street tree. 6, Edwards' Plaza 10 and Edwards' Mountain Gate Plaza 7. When the doors open Friday, the Civic Center 16 will be playing ``Pokemon: The First Movie,'' which stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. Hollywood by grossing $50 million in its first five days, and two new films expected to perform well - ``Sleepy Hollow'' and ``The World is Not Enough,'' the 19th James Bond movie. Also screening will be a variety of holdovers, including ``The Bachelor,'' ``The Bone Collector,'' ``The House on Haunted Hill,'' ``Anywhere but Here,'' and ``Fight Club.'' Officials with Knoxville, Tenn.-based Regal, the nation's largest theater chain, said they were looking to open for business before Thanksgiving to take advantage of the major holiday-season releases. Harris said she expected about 1,000 people at the Wednesday night party, an additional 2,000 to an invitation-only screening tonight and more than 8,000 over three days this weekend. CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO Workers ready the Civic Center 16 for Wednesday's VIP party. The megaplex features stadium-style seating and digital sound. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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