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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'><img width=447 height=89 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D28D2E.6E897580" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D1C668.61DC48E0"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif"'>WEEK OF FRIDAY, <span style='color:red'>FEB. 24th </span><span style='color:black'>thru</span> THURSDAY, <span style='color:red'>MARCH 3rd </span><span style='color:black'>ONLY!!</span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Papyrus'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'><br>Check out our website at: </span><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="http://www.TheAvon.com">www.TheAvon.com</a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red'>NOTE: PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE <br>ABOVE EFFECTIVE DATES FOR THIS NEWSLETTER!!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:#002060;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Trouble Seeing the Pictures in the Newsletter??<br>Make sure your email browser is set to “html”, not “text only”.</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:maroon'><br> </span></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheAvonTheatre"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=149 height=45 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D28D2E.6E897580" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01D1C668.61DC48E0"></span></b></a><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>CLICK ABOVE TO GO TO OUR FUN FACEBOOK PAGE!!<br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>OUR “QUICK LOOK” SHOWTIME PANEL<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=227 height=406 id="_x0000_i1031" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D28D35.2FCC58B0" alt=MARCHSHOWS.bmp></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>#1 MOVIE IN THE NATION!!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=208 height=347 id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D28D2E.6E897580" alt=LEGOBATMAN.JPG></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(PG) 104 Wonderful Family Minutes</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>In the irreverent spirit of fun that made "The LEGO (R) Movie" a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble - LEGO Batman - stars in his own big-screen adventure: "The LEGO (R) Batman Movie." But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city from The Joker's hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmail-subtle><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>Critics Consensus:</span></i></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> </span></i><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#073763;font-style:normal'>The Lego Batman Movie</span></em><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> continues its block-buster franchise's winning streak with another round of dizzyingly funny -- and beautifully animated -- family-friendly mayhem.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(PG)<br>FRI: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>(*4:00 3D)</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> – 7:00<br>SAT: (1:00) – </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>(*4:00 3D)</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> – 7:00<br>SUN: (1:00) – </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>(*4:00 3D)</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>MON, TUES & WED: 6:30 (NO THURS SHOWING) <br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>*NO EXTRA 3D CHARGES!!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>OSCAR NOMINEE FOR “BEST ACTRESS” (Isabelle Huppert)<br>The ONLY major Oscar nominated film that has not played the Decatur area yet!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=305 height=229 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image012.jpg@01D28D35.2FCC58B0" alt="elle_ver3.jpg"></span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>ELLE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(R) 2 hr 10 min <br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game-a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.<br></span></b><span class=m-419735722015730682gmail-subtle><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>Critics Consensus:</span></i></span><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> </span></i><em><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763;font-style:normal'>Elle</span></em><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> finds director Paul Verhoeven operating at peak power -- and benefiting from a typically outstanding performance from Isabelle Huppert in the central role.<br><br></span></i><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>NOTE: In French with English subtitles</span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'><br></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>ELLE</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(R)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>FRI, SAT & SUN: (5:00) <br>MON thru THURS: 7:15<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>MATT DAMON EPIC ADVENTURE!!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=217 height=329 id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D28D2E.6E897580" alt=GREATWALL.JPG></span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>THE GREAT WALL</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(PG13) 1 hr 44 min <br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>Starring global superstar Matt Damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), Legendary's The Great Wall tells the story of an elite force making a valiant stand for humanity on the world's most iconic structure. The first English-language production for Yimou is the largest film ever shot entirely in China. The Great Wall also stars Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>THE GREAT WALL</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(PG13)<br>FRI: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(4:00) – 7:00</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>SAT: (1:00) – (4:00) – 7:00<br>SUN: (1:00) – (4:00)<br>MON, TUES & WED: 6:30 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'>(ENDS WEDNESDAY)</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>++++++++++++++++++++<br><span style='color:red'>LIMITED ENGAGEMENT!!<br>Robert DeNiro and an astounding cast!!<br><br></span></span></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><img border=0 width=212 height=314 id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image014.jpg@01D28D35.2FCC58B0" alt=comedian.jpg></span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>THE COMEDIAN</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(R) 2 hrs<br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>An aging comic icon, Jackie (Robert De Niro) has seen better days.</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#073763'>Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother (Danny DeVito) and his wife (Patti LuPone), Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony (Leslie Mann), the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul (Harvey Keitel), and the two find inspiration in one another resulting in surprising consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>THE COMEDIAN</span></u></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>(R)<br>FRI: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>8:00</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>SAT: (2:00) – 8:00<br>SUN: (2:00)<br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:60.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'><img border=0 width=46 height=54 id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D28D2E.6E897580" alt="Skip pic.JPG"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'><br></span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>RANTS, RAVES & RAMBLINGS FROM THE HEAD HONCHO<br></span></u><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>As I often tell my film students, many great movies were NOT made in English.<br>I don’t know why so many have a problem with subtitles.<br>When my wife watches TV at home, she always has the closed captions on, and she is not hard of hearing in the least.<br>When I watch a Shakespeare at home, I always turn on the subtitles so I can figure out what the heck they are saying!<br><br>We are showing, starting this weekend, for ONE WEEK ONLY: The French film “ELLE” with Best Actress nominee Isabelle Huppert.<br>This is a powerful film, and Huppert richly deserves the nomination.<br>In fact, she was the favorite to win for several months until “LA LA LAND” became the seemingly unstoppable force, with a mind boggling 14 nominations.<br>Now, its La La’s Emma Stone who is the favorite to win this Sunday, but Isabelle Huppert is still going to be hard to beat.<br><br>“ELLE” is the ONLY major Oscar nominee that has not yet played the Decatur area.<br><br>The Avon has always been a big supporter of Oscar season.<br>Its been a tradition with us since we opened 17 years ago.<br>After Sunday’s awards, all the shouting is over until next October when Awards season starts again.<br><br>Those of you who have been waiting to see “ELLE”, <i>here it is!<br></i>Those of you who are curious and may be thinking of giving it a chance, remember its subtitled, and <u>definitely is an R-rated film</u>.<br><br>The Avon’s art house roots come out every once in awhile, and I, for one, am glad to see we still remember the crowd that established us in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:60.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:normal'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal'>T<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-style:normal'>he Avon Theater has been YOUR locally & </span></em></span><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'>AMERICAN</span></em><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0070C0;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal'> owned, family-operated 'hometown theater' for 100 Years THIS YEAR!!</span></em><span 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