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		<title>Lights, Cameras, Williamsburg! New Multiplex Opens for Mainstream Movie Aficionados</title>

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<p>Looks like James Bond will be trading his vodka martinis for PBRs and Gandalf his pipe-weed for, well, regular weed, because the stars of the silver screen are coming to Williamsburg.</p>
<p>The neighborhood’s indie cred took a major hit today, with the opening of the long-awaited Williamsburg Cinemas at Driggs Ave and Grand St. Helmed by Harvey Elgart, who also owns Cobble Hill Cinemas and Kew Garden Cinemas, the new seven-screen, three-story multiplex features Dolby Digital Surround sound, stadium seating and 3D capabilities, with nary an artisanal kale chip or organic microbrew to be found.</p>
<p>Unlike other neighborhood movie houses, like cinephile darling Indiescreen, or quirky restaurant-cum-cinema Nighthawk, Williamsburg Cinemas will offer a more traditional movie watching experience. They will not serve liquor and will stick to standard movie fare like–you guessed it–popcorn. What is this, Union Square or something?</p>
<p>“We are a movie theater, we're not a restaurant. Nitehawk is basically a restaurant that shows movies” Mr. Elgart said in <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/11/15/nycs_new_movie_mecca_williamsburg.php#photo-3">Gothamist.</a> Ouch.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Cinemas will be one of the first places in the neighborhood that people can go to catch a blockbuster flick, filling the void left by the closure of the Commodore Theater in 2002.</p>
<p>Yet as Mr. Elgart told the <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/06/williamsburg_movie_theater_construction.php">Village Voice</a>, perhaps trying to pre-empt some sort of violent hipster uprising, Williamsburg Cinemas “won't be a true multiplex," as it will show blockbusters side by side with foreign films and less mainstream fare.</p>
<p>Although according to their Facebook page, the showings for today will be <i>Life of Pi</i> in 3D, <i>Lincoln, Skyfall</i> and <i>The Hobbit</i>. Err, Middle Earth counts as foreign cinema, right?</p>
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<p>Looks like James Bond will be trading his vodka martinis for PBRs and Gandalf his pipe-weed for, well, regular weed, because the stars of the silver screen are coming to Williamsburg.</p>
<p>The neighborhood’s indie cred took a major hit today, with the opening of the long-awaited Williamsburg Cinemas at Driggs Ave and Grand St. Helmed by Harvey Elgart, who also owns Cobble Hill Cinemas and Kew Garden Cinemas, the new seven-screen, three-story multiplex features Dolby Digital Surround sound, stadium seating and 3D capabilities, with nary an artisanal kale chip or organic microbrew to be found.</p>
<p>Unlike other neighborhood movie houses, like cinephile darling Indiescreen, or quirky restaurant-cum-cinema Nighthawk, Williamsburg Cinemas will offer a more traditional movie watching experience. They will not serve liquor and will stick to standard movie fare like–you guessed it–popcorn. What is this, Union Square or something?</p>
<p>“We are a movie theater, we're not a restaurant. Nitehawk is basically a restaurant that shows movies” Mr. Elgart said in <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/11/15/nycs_new_movie_mecca_williamsburg.php#photo-3">Gothamist.</a> Ouch.</p>
<p>Williamsburg Cinemas will be one of the first places in the neighborhood that people can go to catch a blockbuster flick, filling the void left by the closure of the Commodore Theater in 2002.</p>
<p>Yet as Mr. Elgart told the <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/06/williamsburg_movie_theater_construction.php">Village Voice</a>, perhaps trying to pre-empt some sort of violent hipster uprising, Williamsburg Cinemas “won't be a true multiplex," as it will show blockbusters side by side with foreign films and less mainstream fare.</p>
<p>Although according to their Facebook page, the showings for today will be <i>Life of Pi</i> in 3D, <i>Lincoln, Skyfall</i> and <i>The Hobbit</i>. Err, Middle Earth counts as foreign cinema, right?</p>
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