United Artists Theatres closed the theatre as 3 screens on June 15, 1999,with Entrapment, Never Been Kissed, Life is Beatiful and The 13th Floor. Article in photos section. It was vacant for a few years until it became a 7 screen complex.
Please update, rename theatre to CineLux Plaza Cafe and Lounge and total screens 5 and total seats 317
The location became 3 screens on November 28, 1985, 4 screens on June 28, 1991 and 5 screens with stadium seating on June 25, 2006 (Grand opening ads in the photos section)
Please update, rename theatre to South Orange Cinemas as per website and don’t know if the seating changed, the operators are doing open seatig, the previous operator Cinema Lab did reserved seating.
Whole Foods Open in Downtown Sunnyvale, AMC Theater Opens Briefly
Erika Towne
POSTED: 05:00 PM, November 18, 2020
A quick reversal of fortune for the brand-new AMC Theater in Downtown Sunnyvale. Just weeks after it opened, COVID-19 restrictions have forced it to close again. Santa Clara County moved back into California’s Purple Tier because of rising COVID-19 cases and that means theaters, including the AMC must close.
The theater opened on Oct. 30 to 25 percent capacity under the state’s Orange Tier guidelines. It did not serve food or beverages, but was showing movies. Now, the reopening is on hold indefinitely.
“The AMC team has been incredibly resilient; the local team has been incredibly resilient. They’ve been working really hard. AMC has specific COVID protocols, obviously, they’re following the shelter in place requirements by the county, but they themselves have incredible cleaning requirements and things,” said Josh Rupert of Hunter Storm Properties, one of two developers involved in the Downtown Sunnyvale redevelopment.
The AMC Theater is expected to be one of the anchor stores in the new Downtown Sunnyvale. Whole Foods Market on the corner of McKinley and Murphy Avenues is another. That opened on Oct. 29 and will be allowed to stay open because it is considered an essential service.
The Whole Foods was also impacted by COVID-19. The March stay at home order delayed its grand opening by more than six months.
“It was merely weeks before the shelter in place that we were preparing and then we were ready to open and then nearly a week after the shelter in place was issued,” said Rupert.
Even though it was delayed, the opening of Whole Foods marks another milestone in the new vision of what Downtown Sunnyvale will soon become.
“Rather than being just another grocery anchored center along El Camino, we feel like having a Whole Foods and an AMC for that matter, kicks off our center in a way that really differentiates us from El Camino and brings that shopper into Downtown Sunnyvale,” said Curtis Leigh of Hunter Storm Properties. “[It] really creates the downtown that we’re trying to give to Sunnyvale that they’ve never really had.”
Other stores will open soon. Xfinity and AT&T are both slated to open in December. Salon Republic was supposed to open before the end of the year, but the county’s return to the Purple Tier may delay the opening.
Developers are also starting the final phase of the project.
“We’re working diligently with city staff and ultimately, the Planning Commission to get the specific projects approved,” said Rupert. “We’re hoping that in January or February [2021], that we’ll start the demolition of the Macy’s building, which is really the precursor to beginning the next phase of Downtown Sunnyvale.”
Whole Foods is open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. It opens an hour early on Fridays for guests 60-plus, at risk or with disabilities.
New $5.6 million cinema in Wine Country set to open in October
By G. Allen Johnson,
Staff Writer
Sep 17, 2025
Wine Country’s newest movie theater finally has an opening date.
The nonprofit True West Film Center announced that its Cinemas at True West in Healdsburg will open Friday, Oct. 17, on the organization’s James Redford Campus. Its first showings will be of Kathryn Bigelow’s action thriller “A House of Dynamite” and Luca Guadagnino’s sexual harassment drama “After the Hunt” as its first movies.
A grand opening celebration, which includes a donor brunch and free community block party, is scheduled for Oct. 25, when Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” opens.
The 8,000-square-foot, $5.6 million facility features a three-screen cinema and educational spaces. Theaters are equipped with Christie Digital Laser Projectors and Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound.
“It’s not just a dream anymore,” Executive Director Kathryn Philip told the Chronicle. “As we’re looking at our community arts institutions and our cultural institutions, I feel like the real sticking point is whether or not the community will rally to make it so, and the community has. Movies are one of the most democratic, accessible art mediums, and to center that in the middle of a small downtown corridor is part of a hopeful world in my mind.”
Although the population of Healdsburg is listed as 11,000, True West expects to serve 45,000 patrons a year and generate $2 million in new economic activity for Sonoma County.
Former Sundance executive John Cooper is the artistic director responsible for programming a mix of current films and classic and repertory fare. Movies in the first month of operation include Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut “Eleanor the Great” and repertory screenings of Pixar’s “Coco,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and Wes Craven’s “Scream.”
“The community is already supporting this,” said Cooper, who served as executive director of the Sundance Film Festival from 2010 to 2020. “We’ve been doing tours, where I talk about possible programming and hear their views. Fifty, 60 people show up at a time, and they leave very excited.”
The project architect is Tom Rael of Rael Architecture, and Eddinger Enterprises of Healdsburg led construction.
The nonprofit’s capital campaign, which continues through next year, has generated $4.75 million so far. Donors have included San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer and his wife Pam, as well as Dolby Laboratories and the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.
Alfonso Felder, senior vice president of administration and facilities for the Giants, also donated and serves as volunteer project manager for the campus.
The True West campus, at 371 Healdsburg Ave., is named after James Redford, the son of late actor-director Robert Redford, who was a documentary filmmaker. James Redford died in October 2020 bile-duct cancer of the liver at the age of 58; his father died on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 89.
The naming of the facility reflects the organization’s alignment with the Redford Center, a nonprofit that uses storytelling to advance environmental solutions.
Tickets for opening weekend go on sale in early October at www.truewestfilmcenter.org.
Please update, theatre expanded to 7 screens on July 26, 2002
Total seats: 463
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 115
Theatre 2 124
Theatre 3 34
Theatre 4 and 5 44
Theatre 6 47
Theatre 7 55
United Artists Theatres closed the theatre as 3 screens on June 15, 1999,with Entrapment, Never Been Kissed, Life is Beatiful and The 13th Floor. Article in photos section. It was vacant for a few years until it became a 7 screen complex.
Please update, total seats 187, this theatre now has new recliners
Theatre 79 with recliners
Theatre 2 108 plush leather seating
Please update, theatre was expanded to 16 screens on July 29, 1994, no grand opening ad.
Total seats: 1,797 (screens 3, 4, 5, 12, 13 and 14 were the additional screens)
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1, 2 and 15 102
Theatre 3, 4, 5, 12, 13 and 14 46
Theatre 5 201
Theatre 7 183 with DBOX
Theatre 8 187 with DBOX
Theatre 9 164 with DBOX
Theatre 10 186
Theatre 11 202
Theatre 16 92
Please update, total seats 1,518
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 and 20 108 (SCREEN X in Theatre 1)
Theatre 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 17, 18 and 19 43
Theatre 6, 7, 14 and 15 58
Theatre 8 and 13 72
Theatre 9 119
Theatre 10 and 11 174 XD and DBOX
Theatre 12 115 with DBOX
Please update, rename theatre to CineLux Morgan Hill and total seats 613
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 and 2 32
Theatre 3 38
Theatre 4 73
Theatre 5 74
Theatre 6 78
Theatre 7 80
Theatre 8 and 9 46
Theatre 10 47 with DBOX
Theatre 11 67
Please update, rename theatre to CineLux Plaza Cafe and Lounge and total screens 5 and total seats 317
The location became 3 screens on November 28, 1985, 4 screens on June 28, 1991 and 5 screens with stadium seating on June 25, 2006 (Grand opening ads in the photos section)
Seating Capacity
Theatre 1 70
Theatre 2 and 3 40
Theatre 4 101
Theatre 5 66
Please update, total seats 282
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 244
Theatre 2 38
Please update, rename theatre to South Orange Cinemas as per website and don’t know if the seating changed, the operators are doing open seatig, the previous operator Cinema Lab did reserved seating.
Please update, total seats 558
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 174 CineLux XPS
Theatre 3 and 4 32
Theatre 5 and 7 47
Theatre 6 48
Please update, rename theatre to AMC Sunnyvale 12 and total seats 1,071
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 121 IMAX with Laser
Theatre 2 160 Dolby Cinema at AMC
Theatre 3, 5 and 7 88
Theatre 6 105
Theatre 8 121
Theatre 9, 10, 11 and 12 47
Whole Foods Open in Downtown Sunnyvale, AMC Theater Opens Briefly Erika Towne POSTED: 05:00 PM, November 18, 2020
A quick reversal of fortune for the brand-new AMC Theater in Downtown Sunnyvale. Just weeks after it opened, COVID-19 restrictions have forced it to close again. Santa Clara County moved back into California’s Purple Tier because of rising COVID-19 cases and that means theaters, including the AMC must close.
The theater opened on Oct. 30 to 25 percent capacity under the state’s Orange Tier guidelines. It did not serve food or beverages, but was showing movies. Now, the reopening is on hold indefinitely.
“The AMC team has been incredibly resilient; the local team has been incredibly resilient. They’ve been working really hard. AMC has specific COVID protocols, obviously, they’re following the shelter in place requirements by the county, but they themselves have incredible cleaning requirements and things,” said Josh Rupert of Hunter Storm Properties, one of two developers involved in the Downtown Sunnyvale redevelopment.
The AMC Theater is expected to be one of the anchor stores in the new Downtown Sunnyvale. Whole Foods Market on the corner of McKinley and Murphy Avenues is another. That opened on Oct. 29 and will be allowed to stay open because it is considered an essential service.
The Whole Foods was also impacted by COVID-19. The March stay at home order delayed its grand opening by more than six months.
“It was merely weeks before the shelter in place that we were preparing and then we were ready to open and then nearly a week after the shelter in place was issued,” said Rupert.
Even though it was delayed, the opening of Whole Foods marks another milestone in the new vision of what Downtown Sunnyvale will soon become.
“Rather than being just another grocery anchored center along El Camino, we feel like having a Whole Foods and an AMC for that matter, kicks off our center in a way that really differentiates us from El Camino and brings that shopper into Downtown Sunnyvale,” said Curtis Leigh of Hunter Storm Properties. “[It] really creates the downtown that we’re trying to give to Sunnyvale that they’ve never really had.”
Other stores will open soon. Xfinity and AT&T are both slated to open in December. Salon Republic was supposed to open before the end of the year, but the county’s return to the Purple Tier may delay the opening.
Developers are also starting the final phase of the project.
“We’re working diligently with city staff and ultimately, the Planning Commission to get the specific projects approved,” said Rupert. “We’re hoping that in January or February [2021], that we’ll start the demolition of the Macy’s building, which is really the precursor to beginning the next phase of Downtown Sunnyvale.”
Whole Foods is open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. It opens an hour early on Fridays for guests 60-plus, at risk or with disabilities.
Please update, total seats 1,843
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1, 2, 3 and 4 45
Theatre 5 91
Theatre 6 and 7 110
Theatre 8 68
Theatre 9 227 Dolby Cinema at AMC
Theatre 10 249 IMAX with Laser
Theatre 11 201 Prime at AMC
Theatre 12 104
Theatre 13 64
Theatre 14 108
Theatre 15 65
Theatre 16 86
Theatre 17 and 18 43
Theatre 19 and 20 47
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 158 with SCREEN X and DBOX
Theatre 2 95 with DBOX
Theatre 3 79
Theatre 4 46
Theatre 5 55
Theatre 6 65
Theatre 7 60
Theatre 8 and 10 39
Theatre 9 59
Theatre 11 89
Theatre 12 91
Theatre 13 221 XD with DBOX
Theatre 14 196 XD with DBOX
Theatre 15 90
Theatre 16 88
Theatre 17 and 19 60
Theatre 18 39
Theatre 20 53
Theatre 21 54
Theatre 22 46
Theatre 23 80
Theatre 24 94 with DBOX
Theatre 25 156 with DBOX
Please update, official name is Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair and total seats is 1484
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 289 The Big Show/Dolby Atmos
Theatre 2 217 The Big Show/Dolby Atmos
Theatre 3 197 The Big SHow/Dolby Atmos
Theatre 4 205 The Big Show/Dolby Atmos
Theatre 5 and 6 108
Theatre 7, 8, 9 and 10 90
Please update, total seats 1,144
Theatre 1 324 The Big Show
Theatre 2 217 The Big Show
Theatre 3 145 The Big Show
theatre 4 65
Theatre 5 71
Theatre 6 75
Theatre 7 and 8 40
Theatre 9 81
Theatre 10 86
Please update, total seating 451
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 49
Theatre 2 123
Theatre 3 and 4 79
Theatre 5 and 6 116
Became 7 screens on January 23, 2015, grand opening ad in the photos section
Became 5 screens on March 20, 1998 plase update, grand opening ad in the photos section
Please update, total seats 1,781
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 and 20 129
Theatre 2 and 19 92
Theatre 3, 4, 5, 6 and 15 47
theatre 7 and 8 85
Theatre 9 150 with DBOX
Theatre 10 197 XD
Theatre 11 169 XD and DBOX
Theatre 12 158 SCREEN X
Theatre 13 and 14 55
Theatre 16, 17 and 18 50
Please update, toal seats 570 and 7 screens
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 160
Theatre 2 126
Theatre 3 67
Theatre 4 86
Theatre 5 47
Theatre 6 45
Theatre 7 40
Please update, total capacity: 2,222
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 114
Theatre 2 113
Theatre 3 88
Theatre 4 93
Theatre 5 249
Theatre 6 296 IMAX with Laser
Theatre 7 321 XL at AMC
Theatre 8 320 XL at AMC
Theatre 9 205 Dolby Cinema at AMC
Theatre 10 241
Theatre 11 85
Theatre 12 82
Theatre 13 and 14 110
Please update, total seats 2,896
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1, 3 and 11 139
Theatre 2 222 Laser with IMAX
Theatre 4 and 6 281
Theatre 5 153 Dolby Cinema at AMC
Theatre 6 281
Theatre 7 and 8 294
Theatre 9 247
Theatre 10 115
Theatre 12, 13, 14 and 15 148
New $5.6 million cinema in Wine Country set to open in October By G. Allen Johnson, Staff Writer Sep 17, 2025
Wine Country’s newest movie theater finally has an opening date.
The nonprofit True West Film Center announced that its Cinemas at True West in Healdsburg will open Friday, Oct. 17, on the organization’s James Redford Campus. Its first showings will be of Kathryn Bigelow’s action thriller “A House of Dynamite” and Luca Guadagnino’s sexual harassment drama “After the Hunt” as its first movies.
A grand opening celebration, which includes a donor brunch and free community block party, is scheduled for Oct. 25, when Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” opens.
The 8,000-square-foot, $5.6 million facility features a three-screen cinema and educational spaces. Theaters are equipped with Christie Digital Laser Projectors and Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound.
“It’s not just a dream anymore,” Executive Director Kathryn Philip told the Chronicle. “As we’re looking at our community arts institutions and our cultural institutions, I feel like the real sticking point is whether or not the community will rally to make it so, and the community has. Movies are one of the most democratic, accessible art mediums, and to center that in the middle of a small downtown corridor is part of a hopeful world in my mind.”
Although the population of Healdsburg is listed as 11,000, True West expects to serve 45,000 patrons a year and generate $2 million in new economic activity for Sonoma County.
Former Sundance executive John Cooper is the artistic director responsible for programming a mix of current films and classic and repertory fare. Movies in the first month of operation include Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut “Eleanor the Great” and repertory screenings of Pixar’s “Coco,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and Wes Craven’s “Scream.”
“The community is already supporting this,” said Cooper, who served as executive director of the Sundance Film Festival from 2010 to 2020. “We’ve been doing tours, where I talk about possible programming and hear their views. Fifty, 60 people show up at a time, and they leave very excited.”
The project architect is Tom Rael of Rael Architecture, and Eddinger Enterprises of Healdsburg led construction.
The nonprofit’s capital campaign, which continues through next year, has generated $4.75 million so far. Donors have included San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer and his wife Pam, as well as Dolby Laboratories and the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.
Alfonso Felder, senior vice president of administration and facilities for the Giants, also donated and serves as volunteer project manager for the campus.
The True West campus, at 371 Healdsburg Ave., is named after James Redford, the son of late actor-director Robert Redford, who was a documentary filmmaker. James Redford died in October 2020 bile-duct cancer of the liver at the age of 58; his father died on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 89.
The naming of the facility reflects the organization’s alignment with the Redford Center, a nonprofit that uses storytelling to advance environmental solutions.
Tickets for opening weekend go on sale in early October at www.truewestfilmcenter.org.
Seating Capacity:
Theatre 1 21
Theatre 2 54
Theatre 3 27