Thursday is the last night you'll be able to catch a movie at the Carmike Cinema 10 by the Mall of Acadiana. The Advocate reports that it was the last cinema in Louisiana for the Georgia-based company, which maintains some 250 theaters in 30 states. The 10-screen movie theater was retrofitted with stadium-style seating, perhaps in response to the encroaching Grand Theatres in Lafayette — with 14 screens on Johnston Street and another 10 on Kaliste Saloom — but to little effect. As late as a year ago, the little theater usually looked like a vacant building, even on weekend nights.
... written by Jason Faulk , March 26, 2009 - 09:28 pm
Too bad, maybe they can sell those Digital projectors to the Grand or to UL, or the ACA, for a song. It's a far more flexible projection technology and they were the only ones in this area to have them.
Otherwise, my opinion is that this cinema failed because it's location was poor to begin with, and now obsolete with the Grand's competition. I hope the prices for a film viewing don't rise further beyond the current $8.00 rate. Also, we will have fewer showings of small release independent and local films as a result.
This closure is also indicative of an end to mall-car-based suburbia style development. No one wants to hang out there, except bored kids engaging in chicanery. In any other place, they'd probably be drinking and getting high. At least, Lafayette is more enlivening place than that. What adaptive reuse is there for a defunct cinema?
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It's a far more flexible projection technology and they were the only ones in this area to have them.
Otherwise, my opinion is that this cinema failed because it's location was poor to begin with, and now obsolete with the Grand's competition. I hope the prices for a film viewing don't rise further beyond the current $8.00 rate. Also, we will have fewer showings of small release independent and local films as a result.
This closure is also indicative of an end to mall-car-based suburbia style development. No one wants to hang out there, except bored kids engaging in chicanery. In any other place, they'd probably be drinking and getting high. At least, Lafayette is more enlivening place than that.
What adaptive reuse is there for a defunct cinema?