When you have an industry like movie theaters that is already experiencing a downturn in attendance, the last thing you need is a worldwide pandemic that makes people fearful to
Apple Cinemas is on the verge of opening its two new locations in Hartford: the Apple Xtreme on New Park Ave. (the former Bowtie Cinemas space) and the Apple Luxury Dine-In on Front Street (formerly a Spotlight cinema). Final inspection are underway, and the venues could be be open in early June.
A Minnesota movie theater manager was giving more than butter with popcorn, according to media reports.
Jamie Lynn Hiniker, 39, who manages a four-screen theater in Spotlight Theatres in Mankato, located 80 miles from Minneapolis, was named in a criminal complaint Thursday with selling cocaine hidden in a bag of popcorn to a police informant, according to The Smoking Gun.
Authorities said Hiniker typically sold the drugs behind the theater in an alley, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the outlet.
The informant, working with a Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force agent, purchased $100 of cocaine from Hiniker in July 2020, the complaint said. She allegedly put the drugs in a popcorn bag and topped it off with popcorn to conceal it.