Rip Screen 1 the savoy

givyjoe · 19-10-2017 09:45PM

Passenger wrote: »

Are they splitting it into two equal sized screens or what, do you know?

That I don't know, yet.

Skerries · 21-10-2017 11:57AM

what has been the screen capacity through the years?
I remember it when it only had 4 or 5 and it seems to have 7 now and could be 9 or 10 after a split?

Skerries · 21-10-2017 12:55PM

petition to save the screen here

givyjoe · 21-10-2017 03:29PM

Skerries wrote: »

what has been the screen capacity through the years?
I remember it when it only had 4 or 5 and it seems to have 7 now and could be 9 or 10 after a split?

Used to have 6, when I worked there 10 years ago. Has 9 now, will either have an extra 1 bringing it to ten or 13 if the rumours are correct. Staff don't even know what the actual plans are.

Outlaw Pete · 24-12-2017 02:56PM

Anyone know when the last screening is?

Be great if they screened a classic as a send off... but I doubt it.

Billy86 · 24-12-2017 03:00PM

Surely screen 1 at the Savoy is too much of a flagpole/status symbol to be worth getting rid of, if they even are? Aren't a fair few high profile premieres held there too? Doubt it's the case to be honest, that they're splitting it.

falinn merking · 24-12-2017 03:47PM

givyjoe wrote: »

Used to have 6, when I worked there 10 years ago. Has 9 now, will either have an extra 1 bringing it to ten or 13 if the rumours are correct. Staff don't even know what the actual plans are.

Yes currently 9 screens and screen nine shows what we can expect.

AMKC · 24-12-2017 11:03PM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Anyone know when the last screening is?

Be great if they screened a classic as a send off... but I doubt it.

Agreed and fill it too. I would want to be a great film.

Billy86 wrote: »

Surely screen 1 at the Savoy is too much of a flagpole/status symbol to be worth getting rid of, if they even are? Aren't a fair few high profile premieres held there too? Doubt it's the case to be honest, that they're splitting it.

There is indeed but there will not be anymore Id say if this happens and maybe they do not want them anymore. Be very sad when/if it does happen.

david75 · 12-01-2018 01:17PM

There it is. Being gutted

saintsaltynuts · 12-01-2018 01:27PM

david75 wrote: »

There it is. Being gutted

Ah balls.

SteM · 12-01-2018 01:55PM

Cinema industry is in a race to the bottom

Arghus · 12-01-2018 04:54PM

david75 wrote: »

There it is. Being gutted

That's a sad sight.

Tar.Aldarion · 12-01-2018 04:57PM

Nobody went there over cineworld unfortunately, I loved screen 1

People I ask about it have never even been in it.

Outlaw Pete · 12-01-2018 06:14PM

Sickening.

AMKC · 12-01-2018 06:23PM

david75 wrote: »

There it is. Being gutted

That's terrible so sad.

SteM wrote: »

Cinema industry is in a race to the bottom

Unfortunately yes it is. The last film I went too see had wait for 38 minutes of advertising before the film even came on and only 8 minutes of that was for trailers. Disgraceful.

Arghus wrote: »

That's a sad sight.

It sure is a very sad sight.

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Nobody went there over cineworld unfortunately, I loved screen 1 People I ask about it have never even been in it.

I liked screen one but loved screen two more but since screen two is gone well screen one was the only one left I liked but with that gone I really can,t think of any reason to go to the Savoy anymore and that's even sadder.

It needed a revamp and some new chairs or better yet just refurbish the old chairs maybe give people more leg and elbow room but to split it up is just wrong. They could have made it a classy luxurious experience like that other new cinema that opened recently but maybe not that posh in between it would have been good.

tony stark · 12-01-2018 06:31PM

Very sad day. Feck it anyway. Looks like I’ll never get to go back to the savoy. Looks like the internet has killed cinema and music now!

Tar.Aldarion · 12-01-2018 08:22PM

AMKC wrote: »

That's terrible so sad.

Unfortunately yes it is. The last film I went too see had wait for 38 minutes of advertising before the film even came on and only 8 minutes of that was for trailers. Disgraceful.

It sure is a very sad sight.

I liked screen one but loved screen two more but since screen two is gone well screen one was the only one left I liked but with that gone I really can,t think of any reason to go to the Savoy anymore and that's even sadder.

It needed a revamp and some new chairs or better yet just refurbish the old chairs maybe give people more leg and elbow room but to split it up is just wrong. They could have made it a classy luxurious experience like that other new cinema that opened recently but maybe not that posh in between it would have been good.

Yeah I agree, it was the only reason I went to that cinema at all, I'll just be in the lighthouse mostly now.

AMKC · 12-01-2018 09:47PM

tony stark wrote: »

Very sad day. Feck it anyway. Looks like I’ll never get to go back to the savoy. Looks like the internet has killed cinema and music now!

Unfortunately it has but I also think some of it is the industry's own doing as its impossible for anyone to see every film that is released in a year now not that everyone wants to see every film but there is over 800 maybe more new films released every year now and they are very rarely in a cinema longer than a month. Some barely make two weeks now and if they do they might just for be on at one 1 time every day for that week.

Sad Professor · 12-01-2018 10:00PM

According to Entertainment.ie, they are splitting it in two, which won't be too bad.

I have good memories of seeing Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Jurassic Park there when I was young, but the place needed a revamp. It was lovely cinema when it was half empty, but close to full I found it quite unpleasant. Heads blocking the screen, taking forever to get out, etc. It's my least favourite cinema for DIFF screenings.

beauf · 12-01-2018 10:12PM

Diff?

Sad Professor · 12-01-2018 10:15PM

beauf wrote: »

Diff?

Dublin film festival.

Decuc500 · 12-01-2018 11:12PM

Like everybody else I saw so many films in screen 1. Recently though it's only Dublin Film Festival screenings that bring me back to the Savoy.

Seeing the surprise film in that auditorium added to the shared experience and the buzz of the occasion. This year the surprise film will be shown simultaneously in three screens in the Odeon Point cinema which is a bit crap really.

Sad Professor · 12-01-2018 11:23PM

Decuc500 wrote: »

Like everybody else I saw so many films in screen 1. Recently though it's only Dublin Film Festival screenings that bring me back to the Savoy.

Seeing the surprise film in that auditorium added to the shared experience and the buzz of the occasion. This year the surprise film will be shown simultaneously in three screens in the Odeon Point cinema which is a bit crap really.

I'd imagine the surprise film is a great money spinner for them. With the Savoy One gone they would have lost a lot of ticket sales.

AMKC · 22-01-2018 07:24PM

Anymore on this?
I was there Friday just had a look in was not going to see a film and there did not seem to be much happening but maybe there was work going on inside.
Anyone know if it is going to be two screens now and when it opens?

givyjoe · 22-01-2018 08:56PM

AMKC wrote: »

Anymore on this?
I was there Friday just had a look in was not going to see a film and there did not seem to be much happening but maybe there was work going on inside.
Anyone know if it is going to be two screens now and when it opens?

It's going to be five, not 2. The biggest screen will now only hold 130 something. I'm really not sure who their target audience is now, horrible pokey screens aren't going to generate many return customers, although I hear cineworld has turned into an even bigger dump.

Sad Professor · 22-01-2018 08:59PM

givyjoe wrote: »

It's going to be five, not 2.

Is there a source for this? According to the Ent.ie link I posted a week ago it’s going to be two.

falinn merking · 23-01-2018 02:34AM

Sad Professor wrote: »

Is there a source for this? According to the Ent.ie link I posted a week ago it’s going to be two.

Changes to the famous Savoy One theatre will make it “a large popcorn machine” with screens at the back, the Dublin film festival director has said.

Work has begun to divide Ireland’s oldest and biggest auditorium into a number of smaller screening rooms. The 760-seater Savoy One used to host film premieres but will be separated into five separate screens, The Times has learnt.

Gráinne Humphreys, director of the Audi Dublin International Film Festival, said that the space would be badly missed. “With red curtains, extra large screen and the largest auditorium in Ireland, Screen One epitomises the place to premiere a new film,” she said.

“Daniel Day Lewis, Danny DeVito, Al Pacino, Julie Andrews, Glenn Close and many, many more have walked those long steps to the front to standing ovations and cheers. The former palace of dreams [will be] reduced to a large popcorn machine with screens out the back.”

When work on the Savoy, on O’Connell Street, finishes next month it will have 13 auditoriums, up from nine at present. Irish Multiplex Cinemas, which owns the Savoy and 20 cinemas around Ireland, declined to comment.

From the times.com story behind a paywall.

Sad Professor · 23-01-2018 02:44AM

There seems to be a lot of conflicting stories. I guess we'll find out when they are finished.

givyjoe · 23-01-2018 09:39AM

Sad Professor wrote: »

Is there a source for this? According to the Ent.ie link I posted a week ago it’s going to be two.

I know people who work there, used to work there myself. They were told 5. They also gave me the figure on their future biggest screen, which is way way below what half of screen 1 would have been.

alzer100 · 23-01-2018 02:17PM

Unfortunately, regardless of early reports from Entertainment.ie I do not think that Ward and Co are going to subdivide the auditorium into just 2 screens.
The Ward's have not invested in screen 1 since they took full ownership of it in 2012. They were either going to close the cinema or do what they are doing now - subdivision (more screens and reduced capacity)
By reducing the capacity of screen 1, the auditorium will lose it's theatrical and acoustic characteristics irrespective of screen size change. It will now be prone to sound leakage from the other auditoriums (if you want to call them that). Unfortunately the experience of screen 1 is gone forever. When the work is completed I think whatever is left of screen 1 will be a poor shadow of it's former self.
The Ward's (IMC) have had very little engagement with their customers regarding their concerns since news of this reached the public domain. I as a Savoy screen 1 patron and customer of IMC am quite disgusted with the company's approach to this change. I believe that they view cinema purely as a business and emotional connection holds no value, although I think they could have explored different avenues with regards to increasing revenue for screen 1. What they are doing is a quick, cheap and easy way of increasing profits.
I am no longer an IMC customer and Savoy cinema patron and I have no intentions of going back there after the work is completed. IMC made their decision, now I have made mine and you people as customers can make yours.
There are other cinemas in Dublin although none of them could ever touch screen 1 in my view, but screen 1 is gone and there is no reason to go back there. I believe in time the real losers of this terrible change will be the staff of the Savoy, some of which are the best.

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