Years after a tornado wrecked the Cinema Capitol, the Rome indie movie theater is getting a reboot
Tina Maloney
Tina Maloney
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More from Tina →Sports Reporter · Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM · 1 min read
(WSYR-TV) -- An upstate New York cinema, wrecked by a summer 2024 tornado, is slated to reopen next year in downtown Rome. The ornate movie palace behind the Rome Capitol's marquee survived the tornado, but the two-screen cinema next door, the Cinema Capitol, did not and has been closed ever since. The Capitol's weekly newsletter [...]