Orem movie theater reopens years, he has been in the By SCARLETT M. BARGER movie business since. Utah Valley Staff ever When Clifton heard the mall theater was vacant, he For the first time in the said he couldn't resist. The last couple of years, Orem popcorn butter starting boilwill en have two movie theaters ing inside him open again - the SCERA Although Clifton will again. con-* Theater and University Mall tinue to live in Spokane, he Cinemas. has hired full-time manager According to Rob Kallas, Mike Grotegut to run the University Mall general theater, along with 13 other closed manager, about the mall theater employees. two years ago According to Clifton, the when its owners, Cineplex The- movie theater will charge $1 Odeon Corp. and Plitt for matinees and $1.50 for atres Inc., went bankrupt. shows after 6 p.m. Students However, Don Clifton, of can be admitted for $1 by Spokane, Wash., agreed two showing student ID cards, months ago to reopen the and all shows on Tuesdays showhouse as a discount cin- will be 50 cents. The snack bar ema. It will open today and will also have specials like show free movies to the pub- unlimited refills of a large lic today and Saturday start- popcorn on Monday nights ing at noon. The cinema will generally According to Clifton, most show the same films as preparations to open were fin- Movies 8, a discount theater ished by the end of last week. in Provo. Clifton said it will He said everything in the the- also show classic movies like ater is in great condition. "Casablanca" on a quarterly The idea is to make cus- basis and midnight movies. tomers feel like they have In the summer, he would like entered a $7-a-ticket theater to start showing 3-D movies for only $1 or $1.50, he said. and kids' matinees for free at The four screen theater will 9:30 a.m. on weekdays. have stereo sound; clean, com- Kallas said he believes fortable showhouses; a' rea- Clifton has a great chance of sonably priced snack bar; and succeeding. "He's an expertseveral special events, he said. enced operator," Kallas said. Clifton opened his first "I think there is a real movie theater in 1988. With demand in this area for this the exception of the last three kind of theater."
