http://queenannenews.com en-us Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:18:15 GMT Daily feed of articles http://queenannenews.com/Main.asp?SectionID=26&SubSectionID=248&ArticleID=31858 Local officials believe the decision by Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) to lease the Uptown Theater will be a boost for the Queen Anne neighborhood. On August 6, SIFF officials announced that they were taking over the lease on the historic Queen Anne Theater that has been closed since last November. According to The Seattle Times,  SIFF artistic director Carl Spence said that the lease is for the next five years and that the organization is moving its current operations out of a space leased at McCaw Hall and into the Uptown. The theater, which is among Seattle’s oldest movie houses, has three screens. SIFF will begin showing movies in the facility on Oct. 21. The opening will coincide with SIFF opening a theater at the newly opened SIFF Film Center at Seattle Center. Spence told  The Times  that negotiations with AMC, which owned the Uptown, have been underway since last fall and that the national theater chain has been supportive of SIFF’s plans. News Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:28:00 GMT