The previews for eighty years that contributed to the Gran Vía

Madrid's Gran Vía street, artery leisure city, a symbol of modernity and bustle, the culture center of the metropolis, should one of its main attractions at its cinemas. At least, that was until a few years ago, now it is producing a deep decline that, if no remedy, could lead to close its doors and disappear from the urban landscape that for so long defined.
One of the largest halls of the capital, 1 Palace of Music, with a capacity of 1750 spectators, often recorded a shy 7% occupancy, prompting its closure in June 2008. And after several years closed last November Caja Madrid went on sale the iconic building to the "modest" price of 50 million. (Of course the major textile companies were quick to echo the news showing great interest in purchasing). Something similar happened in the cinema hall 2 Avenue, with more than 800 seats (recently converted into a shopping center) or 1 of the Capitol room theaters (one of the few survivors at the moment), created to provide shelter for 1,367 people .
The Society of Entrepreneurs Film Spain (SECIE) has said that the number of people on the Gran Via has fallen about 85% since the mid-90s. This disproportionate decrease in the number of viewers has removed the long lines folded corners weekends and establishments engaged in the advance ticket sales, where moviegoers buy a food truck flocked to secure buy a food truck a seat in the most anticipated releases of the season.
The crisis affecting the sector can be explained taking into account the economic decline of Spain together with the increase of downloads, both legal and illegal, of movies over the Internet, and the significant reduction in the time between buy a food truck a film is marketed in theaters and DVD release.
Osés Elena, 28, a former buy a food truck worker at the producer and distributor Alta Films SA and BA in Communication Studies, says: "This is a consequence of the change of habit in viewers now prefer multiplexes the periphery, with its giant screens , their digital projections and thundering to the ancient halls of the center sound. "
The shopping centers over the past decades have proliferated in Madrid, offer great appeal to the public; attached to clothing stores, department stores, franchises and parking areas appear cinemas with more than twenty rooms. This explains why 25 Kinépolis room, with a capacity of 996 seats is the highest grossing of Spain, according to data provided by the Ministry of Culture. buy a food truck
In recent years they have gone over 40 cinemas in the center of Madrid. In the Gran Vía, some cinemas are missing the "Imperial", turned into a clothing store for a famous brand, the "Rex", where a beggar has set up his home, "Lope de Vega" and "Coliseum buy a food truck "now a theater. But are not the only ones, old movies "Blue", has become a burger, film "Pompeii", become a café, or Luchana cinemas, which, so far, have been the last to disappear (the last June).
The same fate befell the film "Avenue" Bautista SOLERY Property Group whose occupation in recent times did not exceed 10%. This property, built in 1926, housed in the basement since 1942 Pasapoga room frequented by Ava Gardner or Gary Cooper in the fifties and where Frank Sinatra came to act. The hall, closed for more than four years ago, will soon be attached to the film transformed into a department store. The facade, foyer and main staircase, classified as protected are preserved.
The previews for eighty years that contributed to the Gran Vía "glamor" and elegance to match the interior luxury of being abandoned cinemas, gradually, the center of town on the periphery of the complex.
The commercial side of the Gran Vía is what ultimately won the battle for supremacy, which will make the locals should get used to that in the coming years, the avenue will present a very different aspect to that to which they were always used: more modern, but less edgy, more suited to business and new consumer habits, full franchise of all types, of all sizes and for all tastes but certainly less iconic.
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