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AMC Dine-In Fashion District 8, opens for business
PhillyVoice toured the new theater Wednesday, and spoke with an AMC representative about what moviegoers can expect. “The (Fashion District) development had a lot to do with it,” Ryan Noonan, AMC’s director of corporate communications said, explaining why AMC is entering the Center City market now. “We don’t build that many new (buildings) anymore … we’ve been really focused on renovating the existing theaters in our circuit, including in the Philadelphia area… The theater has eight screens, two of which – the Prime and Dolby theaters – are “premium” experiences with larger auditoriums and screens. The Dolby theater features state-of-the-art projection and sound, as well as seats that pulsate. A…
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HARRIET Kasi Lemmons Interview Philadelphia
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Harriet Tubman, the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad as a superhero. Not in a Marvel sense of course, however an intention to show a woman of extraordinary courage & heroism is behind director Kasi Lemmons and Gregory Allen Howard’s script – as we see Tubman jump off a bridge to elude captors, travel hundreds of miles alone on foot to free herself, then risking that freedom to return again and again to free others, brandishing pistols, wading through deep waters and basically exhibiting the kind of physical & mental strength usually reserved for male super or action heroes. We begin on a plantation,…