Landmark hopes liquor license at new theater is a box-office smash - Baltimore Business Journal

Movie lovers will be able to sip a glass of pinot noir while catching the latest independent flick at the new seven-screen art house theater to open Nov. 2 at Harbor East.

The Baltimore location will be the only movie theater in the city to hold a liquor license and one of 11 Landmark theaters to house a full bar. Landmark hopes a lobby bar and lounge appeals to "a more sophisticated audience as opposed to having a bunch of video games," said Bill Banowsky, CEO at Landmark Theatres.

The Los Angeles-based theater chain has hired Daniel Hogan, a former operations manager at Muvico Egyptian Theatre at Arundel Mills mall, as its general manager.

Landmark officials do not know yet what movies will play during opening week. Its 5-year-old theater in Bethesda this month is showing "The Darjeeling Limited," the latest Wes Anderson flick; "Into the Wild," based on the book by Jon Krakauer; and "Milarepa," a movie about an 11th century Tibetan mystic.

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