Toronto Star
November 28, 2006

SPOTLIGHT

A refreshed Royal Cinema to reopen on College St.
- first film Monkey Warfare

The Royal will return.

The playhouse at 608 College St., one of three Festival Cinema repertory theatres across Toronto whose future was uncertain following the death of owner Peter McQuillan earlier this year, is scheduled to reopen Dec. 15.

The new owners, Canadian post-production compnay called Theatre D Digital, has made extensive architectural restorations and installed a state-of-the-art digital projector and sound technology, allowing it to screen both high-definition and 35mm films.

It opens with a showing of Monkey Warfare, a film starring Don McKellar and directed by Reginald Harkema that was seen at this year's Toronto film festival.

The 450-seat Art Modern theatre, first opened in 1939, will offer public screnings, live events as well as post-production editing facilities.