Ultimate Picture Palace cinemas of the time. In 1994 Heine closed the Penultimate Picture Palace. For a month that summer it was squatted by the Oxford Freedom Network, which reopened it as Studio 6 Cinema. Then brothers Saied and Zaid Marham bought it and spent £40,000 restoring the neoclassical façade. They reopened it as the Ultimate Picture Palace in June 1996. In the 2000s the cinema got into debt. In July 2009 Saied Marham sold it to Philippa Farrow and Jane Derricott, who installed a small refreshment bar at the west end of the auditorium. In 2011 Farrow and Derricott sold the cinema
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving the day. This made Hallmark Channel rank #6 for the week. This made the film the fifth-highest-rated original movie in the network's history to its date, and its fourth-most-watched original movie among households. It is also the network's most watched and highest-rated November original movie ever. Critics' reviews, however, were mixed. "Star" magazine called the film "stuffy,", while the "TV Examiner" claimed "Hallmark Channel has cranked a sweet, ultimately uplifting old school holiday film" and called it an "old style of made-for-TV film." An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving is a television film based on a short story