DDC Latest: Selling off the Regent in Deal.

• Guest 640

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  7 June 2010     16:0055215
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  DDC Press Release ************
  
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  REGENT IN DEAL
  
  Dover District Council's Cabinet has taken the decision today to sell the Regent in Deal to Silver Screen Cinemas.
  
  The Regent on Deal seafront opened in 1928. It was converted to a bingo hall in 1965, having previously been used as a cinema, but closed in January 2009. Dover District Council has considered a number of options for the site, and has taken all matters of community interest into account. Cabinet has agreed to sell the freehold on the Regent to Silver Screen Cinemas for cinema use only.
  
  Cllr Nigel Collor, DDC Cabinet Member for Access and Property Management said: "We are very aware of the importance of this landmark building to the town and local people, and we have been very careful to come to a balanced decision. This has involved taking account of the merits of each offer received, and taking full account of all representations from community interest groups, including those supporting the development of a cinema in Deal, as well as financial considerations. This decision will enable the building to be brought back into community use as a cinema, and enable the Regent to continue to provide a key function in the town that people can enjoy."
  
  
  
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• Guest 640

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  7 June 2010     16:0255216
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  Interesting 'hot off the press' news there..my thanks to DDC for the info as ever.
  
  Has any one of our Deal guys got a picture of the place in question. Scotchie might even have an old one up his sleeve.
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• Guest 651

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  7 June 2010     17:2355235
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  Great news for Deal, we miss having a cinema in walking distance
  
  

  
  Been nice knowing you :)
• howard mcsweeney1

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  7 June 2010     17:5555248
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  thought that would please our deal posters, silver screen used to own another cinema in the town, i thought that they also owned our cinema.
• Guest 651

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  7 June 2010     17:5855249
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  Yes Howard, they run the Dover and Folkestone Cinema
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 640

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  8 June 2010     06:4455356
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  Well done with the picture Scotchie..thats the one. Yes this news should go down well in Deal. It is hard though for these cinemas to survive in the face of these multi-complex cinemas in the larger locations, very similar to the problems pubs face in a way. People have to get out and support them. But good luck to them.
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• Guest 645

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  8 June 2010     06:5955359
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  Great to read about Deal's cinema. I went to see Robin O'Hood starring Russell O'Crowe at the weekend and noticed that the multi screen cinema here are flogging a months unlimited cinema pass from £13.50pcm including the Monday Classics..next week..John Mills in Great Expectations.Excellent movie and a great offer putting bums on seats and most filmgoers appear to buy vast quantities of popcorn,sweets and drinks from the attractive foyer bringing in further revenue. I took a bag of co-op salted peanuts for 34p to munch on and didn't even finish them!!
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Sid Perkins

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  8 June 2010     16:2555434
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  Marek, eat faster!!!!!
• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  8 June 2010     18:5555461
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  As a resident of Deal I sincerely hope that the cinema is a success although I am at a loss to understand how small cinemas survive nowadays.
  
  With the ownership of widescreen HD TVs becoming ubiquitous and most blockbusters released on DVD within a few months of general release in the cinema there seem few reasons to support the local 'flea pit'.
  
  Twice on recent weekends, wanting a 'night out' we've looked through the local cinemas including Ashford and Westwood and found nothing on that we could be bothered to go and watch.
  
  The last time we went to the cinema must have been two years ago to see Scorcese's 'Shine A Light' which needed to be seen big and with a kick-ass sound system.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  8 June 2010     19:0355464
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  i am much the same as you bob, cannot remember the last time i went to a cinema, i seem to remember the film being one of those new fangled "talkies".
• Guest 653

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  9 June 2010     07:3655551
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  As it was sold on a proper commercial basis, Silver Screen must have done their sums and thought it could pay.
  
  Good Luck to them; I hope they can show some of the block-busters, not just the lesser films.
  
  
  
  
  Roger