

Harkins Theatres recently announced that it has purchased the Olde Town 14 theater in Arvada and plans to renovate it with leather reclining seats, a full bar, laser projection systems and wall-to-wall curved screens.
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In a separate case, Long before then, Cinemark will also certainly appeal this latest development in the victims’ case.DENVER – If you’ve been to the movies lately, you might have noticed that movie theaters seem to be getting nicer and are offering more amenities than ever before. The bloody rampage left 12 people dead and 70 wounded.

The Aurora manager did not deploy extra security but 80 other Cinemark theaters hired off-duty cops or other extra security for the film’s opening night.Īll of the original lawsuits blame the lack of proper security at the Aurora Century 16 multiplex as a cause for the shooting. The judge also wrote that while Cinemark apparently left to local managers whether to bring extra security into their cinemas for the DKR screenings, the chain could not have known there were concerns. “One might reasonably believe that a mass shooting incident in a theater was likely enough (that is, not just a possibility) to be a foreseeable next step in the history of such acts by deranged individuals.” “Although theaters had theretofore been spared a mass shooting incident, the patrons of a movie theater are, perhaps even more than students in a school or shoppers in a mall, ‘sitting ducks,’” he wrote.

This week, Jackson said that was just not enough in the America of 2012.
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He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.)Īnthony Rapp Testifies About "Alarming" Sexual Misconduct By Kevin Spacey When Rapp Was 14 - Update (James Holmes is scheduled to be tried in December for the shootings, which killed 12 and wounded 70 more. Since the suits first started being filed in late September 2012, Cinemark has argued over and over that it could not have known “a madman’s mass murder”could occur on their property. “I hold only that a court cannot grant summary judgment on what is normally a question of fact under Colorado law unless the facts so overwhelmingly and inarguably point in Cinemark’s favor that it cannot be said that a reasonable jury could possibly side with the plaintiffs on that question.” He added in the 17-page document denying Cinemark’s motion for summary judgement that, “I am not convinced.” A civil trial over 20 consolidated lawsuits is scheduled to start in February. ‘This Court is in no way holding as a matter of law that Cinemark should have known of the danger of someone entering one of its theaters through the back door and randomly shooting innocent patrons,” said Judge R.

Cinemark increasingly looks like it will have to face a jury over liability for t he Jfatal shooting rampage at the Aurora, Colo., midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. For the second time in a year and a half, a federal judge in Colorado has refused Texas-based Cinemark’s legal efforts to end the lawsuit by victims and their families that blames a lack of adequate security at the venue for contributing to the deaths of their loved ones.
