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27-586: The Brooklyn Tabernacle was originally established in 1847 as the Central Presbyterian Church, using the facilities of the First Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Willoughby Street and Pearl. In 1966, the church was renamed "Brooklyn Gospel Tabernacle" by the pastor Clair D. Hutchins. By the time Pastor Jim and Carol Cymbala took over the church leadership in the autumn of 1971, the congregation had dwindled to only 40 people who met in

54-902: A Broadway Follies favorite, to star in a Rex Beach production, Laughing Bill Hyde , filmed at the Fort Lee studio for release in September. The company purchased the Triangle Studios in Culver City in 1918. Goldfish then headed west to Culver City, California in 1918; opening operations there also caused an increase in film expenses. Seeing an opportunity in December, Samuel Goldfish then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn . In 1919, Frank Joseph "Joe" Godsol became an investor in Goldwyn Pictures. Since 1912 Godsol had been making deals for

81-644: A Broadway producer, joined the trio as writer and director general. At the beginning, Goldwyn Pictures rented production facilities from Solax Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey . The company's first release was Polly of the Circus , an adaptation of Mayo's 1907 play of the same name , released in September 1917 and starting Mae Marsh . By April 1917, Goldwyn Pictures agreed to rent

108-698: A rundown building on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. In the 1980s, the Brooklyn Tabernacle purchased the former Carlton Theatre at 292 Flatbush Avenue at 7th Avenue, converting the 1383-seat theatre into a church. After many years of decline, the church was revitalized as a non-denominational congregation, and became well-known as the home of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. In 1984, the church took its current name "The Brooklyn Tabernacle". The church remained in this location until 2002 when they moved into

135-684: The Shubert Organization in the U.S. and abroad. Goldwyn began looking to follow other film companies, like Loews Theaters / Metro Pictures and First National , into vertical integration. Goldwyn and the company backers were looking at renting the Astor Theatre for movie premiers. Instead, with the Capitol Theatre 's financial problems in May 1920, the backer purchased a controlling interest in that theater. Shubert and Godsol, however, did not want

162-541: The Universal Pictures studios in Fort Lee, then having the second largest stage, and had two film companies operating at the time with plans for more production companies. The company management planned on having 12 films done by September 1, 1917, without distributing the films so as to be able to show advanced footage to the theaters. Goldfish also associated the company with Columbia University via Professor Victor Freeburg's Photoplay Writing class in 1917 to increase

189-713: The Canadian operations merged with Cineplex Galaxy in 2003. The Loews Theatres name was used until 2017 when AMC simplified their branding to focus on three main lines: AMC, AMC Classic, and AMC Dine-In after their purchase of Carmike Cinemas . Prior to the discontinuation, Loews Cineplex operated its theatres under the Loews Theatres, Cineplex Odeon, Star Theatres , Magic Johnson Theatres , Cinemex and MEGABOX brands. Its corporate offices were located in New York and Toronto. From 1924 to 1959, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM)

216-635: The Lion trademark. Although Metro was the nominal survivor, the merged studio inherited Goldwyn's old facility in Culver City, California , where it would remain until 1986. The merged studio also retained Goldwyn's Leo the Lion logo. Lee Shubert of The Shubert Organization was an investor in the company. Samuel Goldfish had left Lasky's Feature Play Company , of which he was a co-founder, in 1916 when Feature Play merged with Famous Players. Margaret Mayo , Edgar Selwyn's wife and play writer, and Arthur Hopkins ,

243-547: The Loews Theatres name in October 1996. In September 1997, Cineplex Odeon Corporation announced that it would merge with Loews Theatres for $ 1 billion; the merger was later approved by the United States Department of Justice on April 16, 1998 and was later completed that year to form Loews Cineplex Entertainment , thus making it a joint venture between Sony and Universal Studios . The combined company had theatres in

270-774: The U.S. and 25 Cineplex Odeon theatres in Canada. In 2002, Onex Corporation and Oaktree Capital Management acquired Loews Cineplex from Sony and Universal and the company was filed for initial public offering (IPO). In 2004, they sold Loews to a private group of investors which included the Carlyle Group and Bain Capital . Onex retained the Canadian Loews Cineplex and merged it with Galaxy Cinemas to form Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund . In 2005, AMC Theatres announced that it would merge with Loews Cineplex Entertainment and that

297-535: The United States, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and Spain. The company sold off its newly acquired subsidiary, Cineplex Odeon Films , to Alliance Atlantis , which was formed from the merger of Alliance Entertainment Corporation and Atlantis Communications that year. In 2001 the company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Among the changes was the closures of 46 theatres in North America including 21 Loews theatres in

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324-425: The acquisition in December. HBO left Tri-Star, which merged with Columbia Pictures in 1987, resulting in the formation of Columbia Pictures Entertainment . On May 26, 1987, Tri-Star said it planned to double the 300-screen chain's size over the next year and a half through acquisitions and constructing new theaters. On January 25, 1988, Columbia agreed to acquire USA Cinemas Inc., with 325 screens, for $ 165 million;

351-604: The acquisition was closed on March 2. Later in 1988, Loews bought 48 screens in the Washington, D.C. area from Roth Enterprises, M&R Theatres with 70 screens in the Chicago area, and JF Theatres, Inc. with 66 screens in the Baltimore area. Upon the full acquisition of Tri-Star by Columbia Pictures , and when Columbia Pictures Entertainment (now Sony Pictures Entertainment ) was bought from Coca-Cola by Sony in 1989, Sony inherited

378-495: The church had 10,000 members. The current building was completely redone by Kostow Greenwood Architects and Robert Silman Associates by gutting and renovating the old vaudeville theater for modern worship, and with state-of-the-art acoustics and recording equipment. Two adjacent buildings were converted into offices, classrooms, community service areas, and dining facilities. Loews Cineplex Entertainment Loews Cineplex Entertainment , also known as Loews Incorporated ,

405-489: The company opened vaudeville houses and movie palaces . Loew's theaters were found in cities throughout the United States, but primarily in East Coast and Midwest states. To provide films for his theaters, Loew founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1924, by merging the earlier firms Metro Pictures , Goldwyn Pictures , and Louis B. Mayer Productions . Loew's Incorporated served as the distribution arm and parent company for

432-609: The company with Loew's Metro Pictures. Loew agreed to the merger. Louis B. Mayer heard about the pending merger and contacted Loew and Godsol, about adding his Louis B. Mayer Productions into the post merger company, which became the blockbuster Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . A 1965 fire in an MGM storage facility destroyed many negatives and prints, including the best-quality copies of every Goldwyn picture produced prior to 1924; over half of MGM's feature films from before 1930 are completely lost . On March 25, 1986, Ted Turner and his Turner Broadcasting System company purchased

459-610: The company's artistic standings. The company also released other production companies films with Marie Dressler 's Dressler Producing Corporation film, The Scrub Lady , in 1917. The company was forced in October 1917 to switch out The Eternal Magalene for Fighting Odds , both starring Maxine Elliott , after the National Board of Review cleared the Magalene movie while censors in Pennsylvania state and Chicago city did not approve

486-560: The film. Thais starring Mary Garden was released in late 1917 which was a costly loss. In January 1918, Goldfish signed director Raoul Walsh and prematurely announced it as there were two years left on Walsh's contract with Fox. With Thais being the company's second costly loss, Goldfish decreased film budgets partly by not using theater divas to cross over to film and reducing design driven films. Instead, he relied on comedies starring Madge Kennedy and Mabel Normand . In August 1918, Goldwyn Pictures signed Will Rogers , at that time

513-526: The former Loew's Metropolitan Theatre at 17 Smith Street. The sanctuary seats 3,300 people. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has received six Grammy Awards . It is directed by Carol Cymbala , the wife of the main Pastor, Jim Cymbala. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir sang " The Battle Hymn of the Republic " at the 2013 second inauguration of Barack Obama . The church has held three two-hour services weekly. In 2017,

540-405: The major studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . It was founded on November 19, 1916, by Samuel Goldfish (who later changed his name to Goldwyn), an executive at Lasky's Feature Play Company , and Broadway producer brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn , using an amalgamation of both last names to name the company. The studio proved moderately successful, but became most famous due to its iconic Leo

567-508: The merged company would adopt the AMC name. At the time of the merger, Loews operated 198 theaters with 2,235 screens. Many theaters were rebranded as AMC Loews until the Loews name was phased out in 2017. Goldwyn Pictures Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company that operated from 1916 to 1924 when it was merged with two other production companies to form

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594-412: The studio until the two were separated by the 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruling United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. The two companies officially split in 1959. Loews Corporation , the successor company to the original firm founded by Marcus Loew , announced on April 9, 1985 that it was negotiating to sell Loews Theatres to a group headed by A. Jerrold Perenchio. Loews Corporation by this time

621-457: The theater to rely only on Goldwyn films and operated it separately from the company. By 1920 in addition owning its Culver City studio, Goldwyn Pictures was renting two New York studios and operations in Fort Lee. After personality clashes, Samuel Goldwyn left the company in 1922. Godsol became chairman of the board and President of Goldwyn Pictures in 1922. In 1923 Lee Shubert of The Shubert Organization contacted Marcus Loew about merging

648-576: The theaters. On April 19, 1994, Loews announced it would change its name to Sony Theatres . On April 27, Sony partnered with basketball player Magic Johnson to form Magic Johnson Theatres , a mini-chain of theaters specifically geared toward the inner cities , particularly in Los Angeles. A year before, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound was installed in several theatres, since the parent company used it to promote Sony's cinema sound division, which eventually shut down in 2002. Sony Theatres began reverting to

675-498: Was a holding company owned by brothers Robert and Laurence Tisch that specialized in hotels and insurance. Perenchio completed the acquisition for $ 160 million on July 11. On October 20, 1986, when federal regulations had been relaxed, Tri-Star Pictures , then a joint venture co-owned by The Coca-Cola Company (also owners of Columbia Pictures at the time) and Time Inc. 's HBO , entered an agreement to acquire Loews Theatre Management Corporation for $ 300 million; Tri-Star closed

702-567: Was an American theater chain operating in North America . The company was originally called "Loew's," after the name of its founder, Marcus Loew . In 1969, when the Tisch brothers acquired the company, it became known as "Loews." The company merged with Canadian-based Cineplex Odeon Corporation in 1998, only to go bankrupt in 2001 (as did many other large theater chains around this time). The company merged with AMC Theatres on January 26, 2006, while

729-642: Was its parent company until it sold its controlling interest in Loew's Theatres to the Tisch brothers. Later, it was formerly jointly owned by Sony Pictures and Universal Studios and operated theatres in the United States , Canada , South Korea , Spain and Mexico . Loew's Theatres Incorporated was formed in 1904 in Cincinnati, Ohio , by entrepreneur Marcus Loew. Loew founded a chain of nickelodeon theaters which showed short silent films in storefront locations. Soon

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