Nickelodeon Theatre Opens at 1607 Main Street Friday, August 31

COLUMBIA, SC – August 31, 2012 – The Nickelodeon Theatre, South Carolina’s only non-profit art house film theater, which has been renovating a larger, state-of-the-art building with two movie theaters, will move to its new home at 1607 Main Street and begin screening Beasts of the Southern Wild Friday, August 31, 2012.

In addition to screening regularly programmed films, the Nickelodeon Theatre’s staff has planned several events to celebrate the theater’s opening:

• Friday, August 31 – Monday, September 13: The Nickelodeon celebrates its grand opening with Beasts of the Southern Wild.
• Thursday, September 6: Nickelodeon Theatre joins with Historic Columbia Foundation to offer a walking tour of Main Street’s four former movie theater sites, including the Fox Theatre, which is the Nickelodeon’s new home.
• Saturday, September 8: The Nick celebrates the kickoff of its Family Series at its new home.
• Monday, September 10: In collaboration with ETV, the Nickelodeon will preview a new documentary on South Carolinian Benjamin Mays, a mentor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. An audience talkback will follow the screening.
• Saturday, September 22: Join the Nick for a family-friendly film workshop.
• Friday, September 28 – Monday, October 1: Knuckleball follows the 2011 journey of the last professional knuckleball pitchers: Tim Wakefield and R.A. Dickey. Together with just four other living knuckleballers, they shine a light on their remarkable brotherhood.

Stay tuned to www.Nickelodeon.org as the theater adds more special events to its calendar and to see the theater’s regularly scheduled films.

Nearly everything about the movie-going experience at the Nickelodeon Theatre has improved at the theater’s new home at 1607 Main Street. Moviegoers will now find separate, improved ticketing and concessions areas, as well as more seats, a larger screen and state-of-the-art projection equipment.

The new theater will house the organization’s Helen Hill Media Education Center, which will facilitate the Nickelodeon’s film education program. The Nickelodeon also anticipates the larger, upstairs theater opening in 2013, when the theater projects it will welcome at least 60,000 visitors to the theater and Main Street annually.

The Nickelodeon began plotting this move several years ago and has since been an integral part of Main Street revitalization in Columbia. Through its improved facilities and important institutional training through the Kennedy Center’s DeVos Institute for Arts Management, the theater’s move will cement the Nickelodeon’s position as a leader on the Southeastern United States film and cinema scene.

For more information on the Nickelodeon Theatre and the Move the Nick Capital Campaign, visit: www.nickelodeon.org. Follow the Nickelodeon at www.twitter.com/NickTheatre and on Facebook.