It’s truly heartwarming,” Blonshteyn said in a May article in The Register-Guard. “There is so much love for the Bijou from the community. Other options small theaters have tried, such as offering private screenings, would have cost more to turn on the projector and lights than the projected income, she said.ĭuring the pandemic, Blonshteyn said she and her business partner Catherine Moraetis made efforts to pay partial rent each month despite no revenue coming in and to find possible grants for affected businesses.īack in May, even though the Bijou was not generating revenue, Blonshteyn maintained the cinema would make it through the tough time as she was encouraged by the outpouring of regional support. As you can imagine, that’s not going to pay our rent.”
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“When we tried the same series as a streaming event, we made $40. “We had a series the previous few summers of an exhibition on screen famous artwork and documentaries about going through museums, and every one sold out,” she said, adding that a sold-out theater would net $1,000. The theater held virtual screenings as a COVID-safe option, but Blonshteyn said Wednesday it did not make enough money to pay the bills.
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13th Ave., had been showing movies on its two screens since 1981. It closed a year ago because of COVID-19 and has not reopened.īecause of the financial challenges caused by the pandemic, Blonshteyn said she questioned whether the business would survive until movie theaters reopened. The Bijou, an independent movie theater in the Wilcox Building at 492 E. Stone and the Jennings Group said they received a notice from Blonshteyn's lawyer in November saying Blonshteyn wished to terminate her lease. “It’s going to go into litigation, because I don’t believe it’s legal to just shut someone out of their premises like that without any notice,” Blonshteyn said in an interview with The Register-Guard this week. She contends that the management illegally locked the operators out without a formal notice. More:Bijou Art Cinemas closes, building owners seeking new operatorĪfter visiting the theater in December to check her mail, Blonshteyn said she discovered that the locks were changed and that she couldn’t get in. The property manager for the Bijou Art Cinemas announced last week that the theater was permanently closed, that building owners had taken control of the property, and advertised that they are looking for someone new to run it.īy Thursday, Darren Stone, a co-owner of the Jennings Group which acts as the property manager, reported that he was giving tours to people interested in taking it over.īut news of losing the property came as a surprise to theater operator Julie Blonshteyn, who said she learned about it by reading it in The Register-Guard, adding that she thinks the matter is far from over.
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