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Eagle Theaters: The Movies Add The Magic. We Add The Fun! Open 365 days a year.
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We're a five screen theater with Sony digital projection and free refills on all sizes of fountain drinks and popcorn.

02/27/2026

The hardest thing to restart isn’t a projector. It’s a habit.

Our screens are dark right now. And while we work on reopening, I keep thinking about what really brings a theater back to life.

It’s not the building.

It’s not the equipment.

It’s the habit of going.

There’s a film coming in March called Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling. It’s big-screen science fiction. Not a sequel. Not a superhero installment. A smart, original-feeling story with a lot of early buzz.

If we want theaters — ours included — to come back strong, movies like this need to succeed on the big screen.

We’ve seen what happens when the right movie hits at the right moment. Barbie and Oppenheimer didn’t just sell tickets. They turned going to the movies into an event again.

Maybe this can be another one of those moments.

So here’s our small request.

Go see Project Hail Mary in a theater. Any theater. Support the experience.

Save your receipt.

If and when we reopen, bring proof that you saw it, and your popcorn is on us.

Not because popcorn changes the world.

But because habits do.

When the movie opens, we’ll host a discussion thread right here so we can talk about it together — like we used to in the lobby.

Because movie culture doesn’t live on a couch.

It lives in a room.

02/14/2026

Dinner and a movie looks a little different this year...

We're still working hard behind the scenes to try to be back long before next Valentine's Day! 🤞❤️😘

01/30/2026

Road trip!

What are YOU doing Saturday morning?

Hey, if we were open we would be flogging a breakfast/movie matinee.

Get out and

Break the fast and help build community. Right?

Are YOU going? Tell them Eagle Theater sent you.

01/22/2026

Thinking about a movie this weekend?

A few of us caught Greenland 2 last night over in a larger market—gotta keep the moviegoing habit limber during our intermission. I can give you a couple of reasons why this movie is worth getting off the couch, but I’m not going to pretend this is a four-quadrant, must-see blockbuster.

That’s actually part of the appeal. This is a solid, grown-up moviegoing choice—the kind of movie people talk about on the way to the car.

Quick take: Greenland 2 continues a global survival story with real stakes, recognizable people, and a pace that trusts the audience. Gerard Butler has quietly become the most dependable, workmanlike leading man in action movies that ask a simple question: what does a decent person do when everything starts to go sideways? His recent run—Olympus Has Fallen (2013), Greenland (2020), Plane (2023)—has been consistently watchable, and this fits right into that lane. It’s also the kind of film where the theater gets quiet in the last act—not because it’s loud, but because people are paying attention.

There’s also a genre reason to show up. Depending on when you came of age, your touchstones might be Planet of the Apes (1968), The Terminator (1984), 28 Days Later (2002), WALL-E (2008), or more recently, Greenland (2020). This sequel lives in that human-scale lineage.

There’s a lot of work happening right now at all three Eagle theaters. The prospects for reopening are more than a wing and a prayer—they’re more like a giant jigsaw puzzle where the corner pieces are already set. No promise of outcome yet, but a total promise of effort.

If you’re interested in your Eagle theaters reopening, the most concrete way to help is simple: take the survey and commit to seeing an average of one movie a month if we can get through this.

We’ll pin the survey link in the comments shortly.

Do yiu have a favorite post-alocalyose film? Tell us about it.

—Eric

PS— Daughter and Regional Manager Kelsa Bowen has insisted that I shorten posts. She’s probably right. 😎

01/20/2026

This is missing some important context, and the distinctions matter.

Newtek did not buy the Eagle Theater. The building was repossessed through foreclosure, culminating in a sheriff’s sale and transfer of the deed. That is a materially different thing than a “sale” in the everyday sense of that word, which implies an unwarranted finality.

Newtek is not redeveloping the theater. They are the interim holder of the real estate. Their role is to control the property long enough to maximize price and exit. They are currently calling the shots on the fate of the site.

If you’ve ever tried to pat your head and rub your belly at the same time, you understand the challenge this creates. Multiple interests, moving parts, and timelines are now layered on top of one another.

What did matter—and still matters—is that roughly 5,000 people across the state said they would see a movie a month if local theaters survived. That signal caused us to take another look, and it caught the attention of two cities and one investor group.

I cannot understate how profoundly this moment has affected me and Kelsa.

My instinct is usually to share progress and details. Today is not the day for that. The situation is fluid.

There is no mandate from heaven that there will be a movie theater on that site.
And there is no mandate that there will not be.

It is a choice.

A few deep breaths are in order.

Optimism fuels creativity. I’m reminded of Jurassic Park, when Jeff Goldblum’s character kept repeating a line about the persistence of life in the face of impossible odds:

“Life will find a way.”

We are looking for that way. I can promise effort, not outcomes.

I understand the pessimism. But my sense of Crawford County was shaped by people who built a community center, navigated generational change in local businesses, built a hospital, developed an extraordinary park system, pumped farm fields through hard years, and built a new high school.

My heroes include the fifteen people who once pooled their resources to start a little movie theater on stony soil—and the more than a million visits that followed before a global pandemic upended everything.

That is the community I know.
That is the audience we’re working for.

—Eric Gubelman

01/18/2026

Have you had your BackPorch fix lately.

While the theater is closed (we are working on it!), the portions, big hearts, and big selections continue from the BackPorch.

While we want to bring big crowds by their front door on the way to or from the theater, that isn’t possible right now.

We’ve just got this silly Zuckerberg megaphone to spread the word about a place that has been a part of theater land almost since we opened in 2004.

01/17/2026

I’ve been quieter than usual here for about a week, and I wanted to acknowledge that.

Efforts to reopen three theater continue hang on to your Annual Buckets Dont trade them in 🙂

The short version is that a lot of work has been happening off-line—calls, documents, meetings, and coordination with people who want to see a future for these theaters and the communities of Robinson, Clinton, and Streator

There are moments when the most responsible thing to do is focus on the work rather than narrate it in real time.

I expect to be able to share a clearer update by end of next week. Thanks for the patience—and for the steady encouragement.

—Eric Gubelman

01/14/2026

Gage reached out ahead of time to float this idea and we appreciate the courtesy.

And whou wouldnt like to go to Paris…

01/11/2026

Out of bed! Out of bed!

When we get out of house and we rediscover how important community is.

Breathe it in. Life together is the best.

01/10/2026

T. Today is the day you can start ordering your Girl Scout cookies online.

Which feels modern, but is really just the latest version of a ritual older than email, Slack, and the office copier.

Ember, one of our local Girl Scouts, starts selling cookies today. If you don’t have a Scout in your life to support, you can order online. It’s the digital version of mom bringing the sign-up sheet to the office and hoping everyone buys at least one box.

Whether you order using Ember’s number or that of your favorite Scout, it’s time to participate in one of America’s most dependable civic traditions: Girl Scout cookies.

Thin Mints remain undefeated.

Somewhere, Shelley Long is nodding approvingly.

👉 https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/ember128112
(Ordering opens on the 10th 😁)

A night at the local movie theater is another civic ritual. While the theater is closed, we can still check in on—and promote—the fun things that help define .

Find your Scout. Get your cookies

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1802 W Main Street
Robinson, IL
62454

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 12am
Tuesday	10am - 12am
Wednesday	10am - 12am
Thursday	10am - 12am
Friday	10am - 1am
Saturday	10am - 1am
Sunday	12pm - 10pm

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http://www.eagletheater.net/

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