Violet Crown Charlottesville in Charlottesville, VA

Giles on October 26, 2015 at 8:00 pmreopening as a new theater for this Fall’s Virginia Film Festival “Regal Cinema’s movie theater monopoly in Charlottesville has ended, and the new kid on the block is planning to serve up something sure to have local cinephiles salivating: a Downtown theater that offers upscale food and cocktails along with indie film fare. William S. Banowsky, Jr., owner of Violet Crown Cinema in Austin, is partnering with Downtown Regal building owner Dorothy Batten to open the next in what Banowsky hopes will be a successful chain of arthouse-cum-bar-and-restaurant theaters across the country (another is in the works in Santa Fe)." official reopening Friday Oct. 30th http://charlottesville.violetcrowncinemas.com/