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Article: U. Penn film studies program hopes for Sundance center replacement
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- February 21, 2001
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Steve Brauntuch
University Wire
02-21-2001
(Daily Pennsylvanian) (U-WIRE) PHILADELPHIA -- For the past three months, the fate of the former Sundance Cinemas project has remained hanging in the balance, and with it, the future of the University of Pennsylvania's Film Studies program.
Even with news that the University is narrowing in on a new potential partner for the deal, it remains unclear what will happen to Film Studies, which was supposed to benefit from some of Sundance's facilities.
General Cinemas, the main financial partner in the former Sundance project, declared bankruptcy in October, and announced it would abandon the 40th Street venture a month later. Sundance Cinemas, headed by ...