PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Robert Redford's planned Sundance Film Center was apparently left on the cutting-room floor. <br><br>General Cinemas, the majority financing party for the venture, recently
Friday, November 17th 2000, 12:00 am
By: News On 6
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Robert Redford's planned Sundance Film Center was apparently left on the cutting-room floor.
General Cinemas, the majority financing party for the venture, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, leaving no funds for the multiscreen cinema, restaurant and retail complex for Portland's downtown mall, according to Stephen Rivers, spokesman for Sundance.
About a dozen Los Angeles-based Sundance employees have been laid off, according to a report in the entertainment trade newspaper Variety. A spokesman for the group said the report was ``essentially accurate.''
Construction of the Portland theater and a sister facility in Philadelphia was suspended last month.
The 30,000-square-foot Sundance center, initially scheduled to open in the spring of 2000, was to include seven screens dedicated to independent, alternative and foreign film.
Sundance continues to seek funding partners for projects in Santa Monica, Calif., and San Francisco.
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