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Yahoo
18-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
New Jersey's Montclair Film Revives 103-Year-Old Bellevue Theatre
EXCLUSIVE: New Jersey non-profit Montclair Film has signed a multi-year deal to operate the century-old Bellevue Theatre, expanding its footprint in the New York City suburb. Built in 1922, the Tudor-style theater in Upper Montclair has been closed since 2017. When it reopens later this year, its three screens will feature a year-round selection of current releases and repertory titles. More from Deadline A Year Out From 2026 World Cup, Broadcasters, Officials And Marketers Start Blowing Their Vuvuzelas Korea's Lotte & Megabox Cinema Chains Set To Merge Amid Key International Market's Recovery Woes AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron Sees $11 Million Pay Package For 2024 The venue will also be a site for the Montclair Film Festival, which is put on each fall by Montclair Film. The organization also does year-round programming at The Claridge, a restored six-screen arthouse in Montclair. Cinema505, a microcinema, performance and event space, is also run by Montclair Film. Located 20 miles west of New York, Montclair has been home to a number of people in the film industry and the media business. CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evelyn, have championed the film festival as longtime residents of Montclair. This year's festival is slated to run from October 17 to 26. The Bellevue was designed by architect J.H. Phillips. 'We are so excited to be able to bring the movies back to The Bellevue Theatre,' said Evelyn Colbert, President of Montclair Film's Board of Trustees. 'Our community has been clear in sharing their desire to see The Bellevue Theatre thriving again, and we are counting on that passion and enthusiasm to help us re-establish The Bellevue as a destination for new memories and experiences. Without an audience, there is no cinema, and we look forward to this new opportunity to expand upon our mission to transform our community through the power of film.' Montclair Film Artistic Director Tom Hall said operating the Bellevue Theatre will 'allow us to expand and diversify our programs, delivering more opportunity for filmmakers and distributors to share their films, and offering us tremendous new flexibility to grow the impact of cinema in our community.' Best of Deadline The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery Everything We Know About 'Stranger Things' Season 5 So Far
South China Morning Post
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Stephen Colbert's partner Evie McGee Colbert: an actress and producer, she was instrumental in keeping The Late Show running during the Covid-19 pandemic – but she's not an avid watcher
The couple that argue over spoons and pans in the kitchen together, stay together. Or at least that's the case with famous talk show host Stephen Colbert, 60 and his wife of 31 years, Evelyn 'Evie' McGee Colbert. Late last year the couple came out with a cookbook, Does This Taste Funny? Recipes Our Family Loves, which Bon Appétit described as a 'master class in couples therapy'. Stephen Colbert and his wife, Evie McGee Colbert, released a cookbook. Photo: @stephenathome/Instagram In an interview with Bon Appétit, McGee Colbert, 61, opened up about being a 'recovering insecure cook', her husband's culinary ambitiousness, how they began cooking together during the pandemic and 'the spoon story' … the time she almost scraped a metal, non-stick pan with a metal spatula, much to her husband's ire. Advertisement So who is Stephen Colbert's wife and mother of his children, Madeleine, Peter and John? What does she do for work? Stephen Colbert's wife, Evie McGee Colbert, is a producer. Photo: @stephenathome/Instagram McGee Colbert graduated from the University of Virginia and the Circle in the Square Theatre School, New York. She worked briefly as an actress and later as development director at the Drama League of New York and the Remains Theatre of Chicago. She is a founding member of New Jersey's Montclair Film Festival and the president of its board of trustees. Per her IMDb page, she was in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and played Colbert's mother in TV series Strangers with Candy (1999). McGee Colbert is a board member of Charleston's International African American Museum, South Carolina, and the vice-president of Spartina Productions, founded by Stephen, where she is also an independent producer. How did she meet Stephen Colbert? Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert have been married for more than 30 years. Photo: @stephenathome/Instagram The Colberts lived in Charleston and their families were friends, according to People. They even went to the same fraternity party once. But it was when Stephen saw Evie in a theatre lobby at the local Spoleto Festival that he knew she was the one. What caught her eye, meanwhile, was how he looked like he loved his mother, walking arm in arm with her. They started talking at the after-party for the Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg musical-theatre piece Hydrogen Jukebox and sparks flew. The couple married in 1993.
