The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 48

Entertainment D-10 Tacoma Sun July 25 1982 The News Tribune Thinking small is strategy at new moviehouses here The latest example of that philosophy at the Village Cinemas is Du Boot a gripping West German-made World War II movie that Ironically enough one critic calls most emotionally compelling and intellectually satisfy-Ing war ipovId since Soldier of Badnews tor McCoy right? Actually Das Boot is drawing much better than we'd McCoy said McCoy and Finley also expect to bring Street Musk to Tacoma An appealing independently-produced Jilm about "street In San Francisco It has received strong reviews Seven Gables happens to own the distribution rights it's another Finley find that allow viewers watching one movie to hear another showing next door poor camera equipment and crowded cheap seats the new theaters were carefully soundproofed and equipped with comfortable plush seats and soothing decor As for film selection McCoy said trying to show only good films I hate to say 'art films' because that has the wrong connotation It mean we show commercial films Some so-called commercial films are very good I think ELT is a wonderful film "But the overhead on most commercial films is so high we can't afford them looking for a broad spectrum of Dutch war film that had done fairly well in Seattle when he brought it to the Lakewood spent 94000 on advertising Soldier of Orange" he recalled "I didn't even gross that McCoy persevered however and went on to open the first two South Tacoma Village Cinemas He has done well with more mainstream commercial movies such as Absence of Malice and especially Chariots of Fire He even managed to sneak in My Dinner with Andre just the sort of film an extended philosophical conversation between two men at dinner you'd expect to bomb in Tacoma didn't do badly" McCoy said although he left the impression it make him a pot of Ill y'yrV iHiywiiro! inwmr If SCO ThE ATMS rntuMi mcmakw It CitiilM ANO Jt OltCOVNtt At Alt Ito tMlAfill ACOMA WEST CINEMA 1802 Mildred 565-6100 SECRET: money either Now Finley and McCoy have merged their theater operations with McCoy as president of Seven Gables and Finley as executive vice president are the titles for this year McCoy said McCoy Is to manage the business end and Finley is to continue scouting films And the opening of the two new screens at the Village Cinemas their first combined venture represents a distinct new philosophy in attracting Tacoma moviegoers The new theaters are small McCoy Is reluctant to say how small in terms of seats but suffice it to say they are very Intimate To avoid the dread "multiplex paper thin walls lib ii-'i 'A Thru July 2S Joon Rnrora Prod Ttovalana July 79 thru Aug II Aug 12 Ihru 25 Aug 26 thru Son I LoroHoLynn Sept 2 Ihru 15 PaXXj a oawaaoay WNVBQII Sept 16 thru 2B Come to the ultimate entertainment experience Come to Harrah TWo of Nevada highest rated hotels Thirteen superb restaurants Sizzling Cabaret revues Nonstop excitement in the casinos And the greatest names in show business every night 1 IKXK By DAVID SKAGO Can high-quality film that tend to draw imaller audiences than man-appeal movies like say Cannonball Run consistently make a go of it in Tacoma? Steve McCoy and Kandy Finley aim to find out The two independent theater owners opened two new screens South Tacoma Village Cinemas III and IV Friday at the South Tacoma Village Shopping Center The new theaters now showing The World According to Carp are housed a couple doors down from Village Cinemas I and II in a space remodeled within the shopping renter If McCoy and Finley succeed in their venture that part of the Tacoma moviegoing audience accustomed to driving to Seattle to see foreign films and other commercially "small" movies may get a break Finley is the Seattle theater entrepreneur who specializes in films that are often critical successes but lark the commercial appeal to play big chain-owned movie houses His Seven Gables Corporation ran Seattle's Crest and Seven Gables theaters among others in Seattle and in several other cities around the Northwest Tickets available Tickets are still available for a Seattle performance Saturday of the Pacific Lutheran University production of La The opera production which was performed earlier this month in Tacoma will be performed at 8 pm in the Seattle Center Play- Film clips The Pirates of will be given a sneak preview on pay television concurrent with its national release to mution picture theaters next February The premiere which will be on a pay-per-view basis (viewers are charged on the basis of how much they watch) will be the first time a first-run movie has been released simultaneously on pay television The movie from Universal is based on Joseph Papp's hit New York Shakespeare Festival stage production of Gilbert and Sullivan's 100-year-old operetta The film stars Kevin Kline Linda Ron-stadt Rex Smith George Rose and Tony Azito Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the shower Universal is filming I'sycho II a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Gothic thriller Anthony Perkins and Vera WIN A TRIP FOR 2 TO MEXICO 4 MVS Ml) I MONTI AT DC CMMO SEAL HUAIUN I TMMKOTAIKM MWD YMBKMMMUC mmxicmna 49 EACH TACOS BEAN SUMBTOS TOBTAOAS PINOLES AND MEM HSES EVBW WEDNESDAY ANO SUNDAY NEOMYEN NOW FON ADDITIONAL WEEKLY PN2E ONAWMOS NO PURCHASE NECEtSANY MECCA mx-ratedmBH AIIMiee Simmy DamaJt liwu Aug 4 it unit July 6 791 Paler Paula Mary July 4 4 Aug Itiru 11 TAny Orlando Thy Smethon Bremen Aug 17 Ihiu 7b JahnOavidaon Jan SlaHord Aug 21 Ihru SnX 7 tammy OavnJr Saul 3 Ihru swytw Nwwion Saul 9lhiu 14 MCetby The TampUNana Sam lb Ihru Mickey Johnny Gay Loo Oil 1 Ihru Anno Murray (XI thru 14 RcstnuliH MrvKl Oragon 800 648 3773 Ht 'msm KUS "BAKER'S HAWK" Finley is noted for ferreting out obscure but well-made movies and boasting them to at least a modest level of box-office success His strategy using small Intimate theaters with low overhead coats Finley's first notable success in this vein was King of Hearts a charming poignant and all-but-ignored antiwar movie starring Alan Bates He bought the distribution rights nurtured it in one of his Seattle houses and won an appreciative following for the movie that spread elsewhere More recently Finley did the same thing with The Stunt Man a brilliantly clever movie that was going nowhere until he picked it up Eventually Stunt Man won national critical notice if not commercial success outside Seattle Unfortunately such films have rarely done well in Tacoma The usual explanation is that Tacoma is too small and too much a blue-collar town Finley tried his formula at the Lakewood Theater a few years back but after disappointing results sold the house to Steve McCoy of Cascade Cinemas a tough town to play" McCoy a Federal Way resident observed last week He still bears scars from his experience with Soldier of Orange a powerful for house Tickets may be obtained by calling 447-4764 The production was produced by retired PLU music professor Ted Karl and directed and conducted by Hans Wolf Seattle Opera's associate conductor and chorusmaster Miles who starred in the original version star in the new feature Australian filmmaker Richard Franklin is directing from a screenplay by Tom Holland Eight more performers have gotten tickets for Airplane II: The Sequel Paramount Pictures' follow-up to its hit screwball comedy Peter Graves will be back as the pilot this time commanding the world's first commercial lunar shuttle Lloyd Bridges also returns as the air controller pulled out of a retirement home to guide the spacecraft to a safe landing Raymond Burr plays a judge John Vernon is a psychiatrist Laurence Landon and Kent McCord are crewmen aboard the shuttle James Noble plays an excitable priest and Oliver Robins is a youngster determined that his dog will be the first canine on the moon Burt Reynolds Loni Anderson Jim Nabors and Ned Beatty star in Stand on It a Yahi Production for Universal and Warner Bros It will be filmed on location starting Aug 2 in Alabama Georgia and North Carolina Hal Needham will direct from a screenplay he wrote with Hugh Wilson OALAWY TNEATHm NINNY FONDA 2 ISajttiJoiW Season 2:30 4: SO 740 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