The Last Picture House: Creating a movie community in QC

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• Movie and TV star Kiefer Sutherland visited various Davenport businesses
• Beck & Woods discuss their dream movie palace
• Davenport planning application for Destination Iowa tourism grant for new riverfront park
• Day of Caring: 1,600 volunteers tackle host of QC projects
• Our Quad Cities News Update for April 29

It was the perfect way to celebrate the official ribbon-cutting of the new theater. The year-old music education academy is plans to preserve the building's history. This story originally appeared on Casino Bonus Canada and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio. By May 2004, actor Sarah Michelle Gellar had wrapped up her seven-season run on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"—and with the release of "The Grudge" five months later, she traded immortal blood drinkers for supernatural curses. In the original, the guests vie to win $10,000—while in the remake, the stakes are $1 million.

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Movie and TV star Kiefer Sutherland visited various Davenport businesses

The well liquor comes from pricier name brands, and the bar will have fresh-pressed juices and house-made syrups, too. "Once you leave the theater, you can sit down, have a cocktail and talk about the movie you just saw, which is missing a lot of times from (the typical) experience," Allison said. Outside, the building's mural of its gold logo went up in early November, courtesy of local artists Heidi Sallows and Sarah Robb. The largest auditorium has a unique split-level setup, with an overhanging balcony adding three rows of seating.

Beck & Woods discuss their dream movie palace

"We're kind of dotting the I's and crossing the T's with everything, and making sure everything is beautiful and ready as a premier place for people to come and experience film," Allison said. Those first three titles will be part of a "Last" series, as a play on the theater's name, with showings of "The Last Dragon," "The Last Supper" and "The Last Detail" lined up through the rest of the week. Memorabilia connected to the films Beck and Woods have made will also be on display, including the costume worn by Adam Driver in their latest film, 65. Beck said anyone interested in securing tickets to the advanced screening should sign up for their Autograph Club membership to receive early access.

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Along with Beck and Woods, the theater’s ownership team includes Pete Stopulos, Jens Baker, Julia Glausi and Christy Beck. “We're very excited with the history that lives both here in Davenport and in Iowa — and finding little ways that we can bring that to life,” Beck said. Beck said the response to that screening was exactly what they were hoping for.

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"I think it goes to show the continued confidence in that corridor in particular," Carter said. "After 2019, there were a lot of people who wondered if we'd ever see any kind of life down there, and it is in fact one of the most energized corners of downtown, so that's really nice to see." Beck and Woods, Quad-Cities natives and University of Iowa alums, co-wrote 2018 horror blockbuster "A Quiet Place." Their next two projects, "65" and "The Boogeyman," will premiere next year. With their vast connections and new cinema palace, Beck and Woods are hoping to inspire and create opportunities for local, aspiring artists. The bar at The Last Picture House on Thursday, Dec. 7, in downtown Davenport.

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Twin Shores, a construction and development company out of East Moline that specializes in complex entertainment projects, is overseeing the renovation of the building. The "A Quiet Place" writers and Quad-Cities natives grew up making movies in the area, and previously told The Quad-City Times they always wanted to bring a premiere theater like the ones they've seen around the world to Davenport. With a sneak preview of “The Iron Claw,” movies came back to downtown Davenport – the dream of two Bettendorf filmmakers.

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Filmmakers Bryan Woods and Scott Beck give a tour of The Last Picture House on Thursday, Dec. 7, in downtown Davenport. These terrifying horror monsters are as mysterious as they are dangerous. For this list, we’ll be looking at all the spine-chilling details that’ve been confirmed concerning the mysterious creatures from this horror franchise. Everything at The Last Picture House seems to wink back at Beck and Woods' local roots. Each film opens with a montage of Quad-Cities mentions in film, featuring scenes from “Promised Land," “Dumb and Dumber," “Hard Eight" and “Road to Perdition." Their vast film collection includes a crew shirt from the set of "Pulp Fiction," a clapboard from "Unbreakable" signed by Bruce Willis and M.

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The theater will show everything from summer blockbusters to cult classics and foreign films, and 35mm projection of old productions that can't be seen any other way. The rooftop will offer chances for outdoor screenings when weather allows. The theater will include two state-of-the-art viewing screens, a cocktail bar and social lounge, and a rooftop bar that will have an additional screen for outdoor viewings when the weather allows. By the time "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was released in theaters in 1997, co-writer Kevin Williamson had already made a name for himself in the horror genre—having penned the wildly successful "Scream" franchise in 1996.

Reed starred alongside Jimmy Stewart in the holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life, while Seberg is best known for her role in the landmark French New Wave film Breathless. Located along the Mississippi River in Davenport’s Motor Row District, The Last Picture House offers audiences a curated movie-going experience, as well as a place to gather with fellow patrons at the bar and lounge area. Franklin Police Department officials said Monday that no foul play is suspected in the death of Christian singer Mandisa — four days after she was found dead in her home. While Mr. Fetterman may have been in the minority among his political peers, with most of whom following the president’s example and opting for a traditional tux, creative black tie proved a talking point. See Billy Porter in a black sequin caftan over a classic white shirt; Questlove, in an artistically paint-splattered jacket; and Fran Drescher, the SAG-AFTRA president, in a white brocade pantsuit.

They filmed movies with their family and friends playing roles, and soon, they were casting people from beyond their close network. Owners Pete Stopulos, Bryan Woods and Scott Beck give a tour of The Last Picture House on Thursday, Dec. 7, in downtown Davenport. The newest theater in the Quad-Cities consists of a bar, two indoor theaters and a rooftop theater. It was announced in October that the development received a Destination Iowa grant of $600,000, making up 16% of the total project investment of $3,719,075. Beck and Woods said after the initial announcement that the theater would be ready to open by this spring, but construction schedules forced them to push back the timeline. 2nd Street in Davenport the new movie theater and event space owned by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

The movie puts audiences in the position of flies on the wall when things start to turn supernatural with the two lead characters, Katie and Micah (portrayed by relatively unknown actors Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, using their real first names). "Paranormal Activity 2" was the sequel to the extremely successful, low-budget 2007 film "Paranormal Activity"—but it couldn't quite outdo the original's performance at the box office. Both films used the same found-footage convention that transformed the horror genre when it was used to great effect in "The Blair Witch Project" in 1999. In what one Hollywood Reporter critic called a "horror-of-personality" movie, the spurned lover takes her pursuit further than audiences expected—by (now infamously) boiling a pet rabbit in a pot in just one of the film's horrifying moments.

The first film was shot primarily on the set of a locked bathroom over just 18 days, helping to stick to the tight budget. The storyline of the second volume overlaps with that of the first, although the whole connection between the two isn't revealed until the film approaches its scream-inducing finale. The stop-motion animation feature film by Tim Burton leveraged its spookiness rather than its Christmas charm to bring moviegoers into theaters during the Halloween season of 1993. Allison is optimistic about the hunger for film in the Quad-Cities, where residents have had just one major movie theater — the Cinemark Davenport 18 — since the Regal Cinema in Moline closed its doors in July. The theater’s general manager, Jameson Ritter, said he hopes The Last Picture House can serve as a hub for both film lovers and the local arts scene as a whole. One such film is The Iron Claw, the new professional wrestling drama from studio A24.

We've got some great opportunities to celebrate your business, from on screen advertising to branded screenings and events. "We were standing right here, which was the drive-thru area of this building," Beck said, sitting in a sleek leather chair in the cinema's pristine, upscale cocktail lounge. "The elitist coasts kind of get these things early, but the middle of America doesn't get that opportunity," Woods said. "That's kind of a big mission for us, too, is getting these movies early and letting this audience in our community be some of the first people in the world to experience a film." Inspired by Nolan's thriller ambition, the two started writing their own scripts.

As the "final touches" of construction wrap up this weekend, Allison said the theater feels fully comfortable bringing customers in on Monday. Going forward, the theater plans to have a blend of blockbusters, repertory cinema and artsy flicks, too. Construction on the building started in April, and Allison said the theater has had Nov. 20 circled on the calendar as an opening day for a while. It’s a tribute to my grandfather, Jim Stopulos, who created unique cinematic experiences in the Quad Cities area for nearly 25 years,” Stopulos said in a press release. Actresses Donna Reed of Denison and Jean Seberg of Marshalltown each have an auditorium in the theater named in their honor.

"At this time, there is no indication the death was the result of suspicious or criminal activity," said police spokesperson Max Winitz. "The Franklin Police Department send its condolences to Hundley’s family, friends, and fans." It’s only fitting, really, given the subtext of journalists being jailed around the world.

The most successful box office hits around that period haven't necessarily offered the biggest chills and thrills. Casino Bonus Canada compiled a ranking of the highest-grossing movies in the U.S. on Halloween weekend from the last 40 years, using data from The Numbers. All films in theaters during the years when Halloween landed between Friday and Sunday were considered.