Six months ago Pacific Theatres put all of its San Diego locations up for sale.

Two weeks ago a group of business types toured each location. Both they and the staff were told not to ask any questions of each other, so as to preserve the anonymity of the group. They don't want the staff to know what company is interested, so that they don't get any biased treatment. This plan failed.
Gary, our projection's engineer, recognized one of the men, Craig somethingorother. They both used to work together at Mann Theaters. Last he heard, he was working for Signature Theaters, a now wholly owned subsidiary of Regal Entertainment.

Today, John Siddik (Executive in charge of Light and Sound for Pacific Theatres) and another VP whose name I can't remember went around the theater and took an inventory of all the equipment on the site.

This is bad. If Regal has decided to go ahead and purchase all the San Diego locations, in all likelihood they will only keep two or three of them open (most likely Gaslamp and Town Square, maybe Grossmont). The between UltraStar's Poway location, and the Regal owned Edwards 18 in Mira Mesa, Carmel Mountain is a sinkhole when it comes to mainstream movies. Our only chance of survival is as an indy house (see: Landmark Cinemas), or as a sub-run location (Two Dollar Theater).

Fat chance of that happening, dispite it being a prime spot for it.

I am so screwed.