Cinemark at Highbury Centre

The walls are rising on West Valley City's newest movie theater, the 10-screen Cinemark at Highbury Center.  Although it has fewer screens than other new multiplexes, it will likely include one of Cinemark's premium XD auditoriums.  The entrance and lobby are at the southwest corner of the building, with the XD auditorium occupying the southeast corner.  A central hallway will provide access to the remaining theaters, with the larger auditoriums on the east side.  The theater is located directly east of Target, near 2700 South and 5600 West.

West Valley gained a new 15-screen Megaplex Theatre at Valley Fair Mall about this time last year.  Combine that with the 15 screens at the Carmike Ritz, four at the Redwood Drive-In (two didn't make the upgrade to digital projection), and the Cinemark Valley Fair Movies 9, and we could 53 movie screens in West Valley by next summer.

More construction photos.

Casino Star Theatre

The Casino Star Theatre in Gunnision, Utah turned 100 years old on 13 January 2013.  This may be the best-preserved small-town theater in Utah, and they're still showing movies.  The lobby and auditorium are just beautiful and the facade has been mostly restored.

Auditorium of the Casino Star Theatre

The Lobby of the Casino Star Theatre.

On 19 January 2013, I spent three hours touring the Casino Star.  Diana Spencer, with the Casino Star Theatre Foundation, took me from the basement to the upstairs rooms, explaining the theater's history and showing me some of its relics from days gone by.

A restored attraction board, now on display in the lobby.	An old poster case, stored in the basement under the auditorium.

During my three hours in the theater, I took five panoramas and 237 photos.  I spent 15 hours over the next week sorting through the photos and selecting those to use on my utahtheaters.info web site.  I added 14 photo pages to accommodate them.  As is typical on these photos trips, once I got home and started looking over the photos, I found things that I could have done better.  I will have to go back.

These are the first panoramas I've made with my new Panosaurus panorama head.

This piece of equipment keeps the focal point of my fisheye lens over the exact center of my tripod as I take the several photos that later get blended together to form the panorama.  With my old camera, a Nikon Coolpix 4500, I built my own panorama head using inexpensive parts from the hardware store.  I spent several hours on each panorama, manually blending the images together so the seams would not be visible.  With the new panorama head, camera (a Sony Nex-5N), and PTGui Pro panorama software, I was able to complete my five panoramas of the Casino Star in just three hours.

See all the photos of the Casino Star Theatre.