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Month: November 2022

Vacant Birkenhead building could become wellbeing centre

Place North West

Plans have been lodged to transform the Treasury Annex Building by Hamilton Square into a health and cultural facility known as Joy. Joy is the creation of Open Door Charity, a Merseyside-based organisation that uses art and talking therapies to help treat and support those struggling with mental health. Open Door has received support from Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust on the Joy project, which was also part of Wirral Council’s successful £25m Town Deal award. If approved, Joy will call the Treasury Annex Building home. The…

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‘Glass Onion’ Box Office: How the ‘Knives Out’ Sequel Left Tens of Millions on the Table

The Hollywood Reporter

Rian Johnson’s film could have grossed $40 million to $50 million at the Thanksgiving box office had Netflix given it a traditional theatrical release, versus having it go out in roughly 700 theaters. Talk about a whodunit. Rian Johnson’s sequel Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was the most popular new film opening at the otherwise troubled Thanksgiving box office — at least for adults — but Netflix brass would only allow the sequel to be booked in fewer than 700 North American theaters for one week. (Ted Sarandos has made it clear he’s…

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Iconic Drive-In Theatre Gives In to Shed Shortage

The Urban Developer

Australia’s biggest drive-in theatre has gone on sale 66 years after it opened with the US cold war film noir Assignment—Paris starring Dana Andrews. The Associated Press said at the time “as a screen adventure it is middling good … but too many questions are left unanswered.” Victorians didn’t care. Television was still six months away and hundreds of cars queued for the 650 spaces in front of the single wooden screen of the Dandenong Panoramic Drive-in Theatre on that May evening. Today, the Lunar Dandenong has four giant screens, huge 6500-watt…

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