This past Friday evening, well over 100 people gathered at St. Teresa’s Catholic Church banquet hall for a meal, silent auction, and supportive gathering for the purpose of saving the Cinema North movie theater in Phillips from closing its doors.
As a result of changing technology in film industry, theaters across the country over the past several years have been required to update their projection equipment and the area where it is housed. The total package has a price tag of about $50,000. With about 75 percent of what you and I pay at the movie box office going back to the movie industry and their distributors, that leaves very little for updating of equipment in these denominations.
The owners of Cinema North, Kathy and Jim Billek, have exhausted just about every resource available to them to raise the needed funds for this equipment update. They are firmly committed to keeping the movie theater a viable business for our community with the best the movie industry provides in the coming years, providing this required equipment update funding can be resolved.
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