AMC Bay Terrace 6
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
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I don’t know if that’s a record, it’s the longest I know of while I’ve lived here. The theater opened in 1994 and basically I’ve been going since 2002 but for a 6 plex that’s a long time.
16 weeks for Silver Linings Playbook here.
Silver Linings Playbook makes it to 15 weeks the most I’ve seen here. Argo makes it to week 11 and Django Unchained is tossed over in it’s 10th week. We also get Side Effects in its 4th week, another moveover. Amazing to make way for the old stuff we get rid of both Save Haven after 2 weeks and Beautfiul Creatures, also after 2. We also get the Last Exorcism Part II.
After complaining a lot here last week about tyhe moveovers and duds coming in the theater brings in the Korean film plus 3 others, Escape from Planet Earth (which I predicted), Safe Haven and Beautiful Creatures. Got to go back for the last time 4 new films came in. Of course Silver Linings Playbook will be 13 weeks here, 1 short of the longest that I remember, Chicago. My Big Fat Greek Wedding played Fresh Meadows for 18 weeks.
Used to talk to one of their people all the time till he got a new job. He said they (Bay Terrace) were always treated as the forgotten stepchild when it came to movies; Fresh Meadows was the crown jewel. Fresh Meadows always had more showings per day on weekdays then Bay Terrace which may have their last shows say on Thursday commence at 8 pm and Fresh Meadows would have have theirs at say 10 pm. Also Fresh Meadows had more days peer week with their pre noon $6 specials.
I don’t get stressed; just annoyed.
Life of Pi, Argo and Silver Linings Playbook are all hot contenders in the Oscar race and are scrambling to find screens to meet customer interest and demand in the weeks leading up to the ceremony at the Dolby Theater.
As to the other cruddy pictures you mentioned, I guess markp has the only answer — some houses were just meant to be also-rans.
DARCYDT, having been in the industry for over 35 years, as a projectionist, with some management expierience, I can tell you that while you are frustrated, and you have a right to be, there is something either about the theatre or its film grosses on newer movies that AMC sees and just doesnt justify putting in new releases there. This is what we use to call a dump off or move over house. UA had them. GCC had them. Heck even Loews had them. I even worked a few of them here in Jersey. And judging from your posts, the only NEW movies they get are ones that are sure to bomb. In the end AMC’s bean counters will look one day and say, “enough” and just shut it down. I’ve seen it happen, even after a company would spend big bucks to renovate. A year later the doors were padlocked.
That should read that Silver Linings Playbook will be in it’s 12th week here this weekend.
It’s my usual time to vent anger at this theater. So far this year outside of the opening week of Zero Dark Thirty we have gotten 4 films that opened sub 7 million that then were cut to 1 or 2 showings a day the 2nd week and then exit. These were Promised Land, The Last Stand, Movie 43 and Bullet in the Head. We have gotten Fresh Meadows dumpings of This is 40, Jack Reacher, Life of Pi (here 5 weeks after being there 8) and now Mama. Silver Linings Playbook this upcoming weekend will be in its weekend here. The longest I remember playing here was Chicago which clocked in here for 14 weeks. But wait it gets worse. Last week Argo came back for its week 7 here. It played here for the first 6 weeks it was wide and then exited. Last week it alternated showings with Movie 43, but I kid you not in it’s 8th here and 18th overall this weekend it plays all day on 2 screens!!! We couldn’t get a new film. Next week despite 4 major studio wide releases coming out, and we might get 1 they are bringing in another Korean film The Berlin Affair. Fresh Meadows is getting Die Hard. Per Boxoffice.com the only film next week predicted to open under 20 million on President’s Day weekend is Escape from Planet Earth which will probably come here. If you’re opening wide and predicted to do less than 10 million in the next few months, films like Phantom, Dark Skies and Dead Man Down you’ll probably be here. Any film that has a pulse will opened in the greatly reduced seating of Fresh Meadows. Well some will get thrown over after their 4th week or so from Fresh Meadows. Does anyone out their ever get frustrated with this theater, the Cinemart of higher prices in Northeast Queens.
There are no listings for numerous theaaters this weekend? Have these theaters been affected by Hurricane Sandy? It seems like Nassau County has 93% of their customers without electricity and Suffolk has 74% out.
AMC for 2 weeks is using this theater to test only 16 ounce sugary sodas. You can only buy at the moment bigger sodas for diet Coke and Coke Zero. They had people from Edison Research quizzing us as we left the theaters on what we thought of the new law for only small sizes of sugary sodas being sold in cinemas effective in March 2013.
In addition their bathroom at this theater today was pretty bad. One stall had a seat broken in half and another had all the toilet paper all over the floor.
No, Fresh Meadows is closed this weekend, nothing on their marquee and both End of Watch and House at the End of the Street are playing Bay Terrace now, but only this weekend at the moment.
Due to the renovations of the Fresh Meadows theater the theater has both openers (Finding Nemo 3D and Resident Evil: Retribution) but also gets the Possession and the Expendables 2). Now get this both Resident Evil and the Possession are only there Friday and Saturday. Bay Terrace says Fresh Meadows is closed for a week and they’re playing their pictures. Now End of Watch scheduled to open the 21st has its times up on Fandango and the regular early morning shows seem to be back. Originally they said 3 or 4 months. Where do Resident Evil and the Possession go the rest of the week?
Alright,I spoke too fast, we’re now getting Battleship and The Dictator along with Brave and the Amazing Spider-man.
Another big summer start here. Last week the Avengers at night all 6 screens. We’re not getting Dark Shadows, The Dictator, Battleship and Prometheus but hot dang we’re getting a Chinese epic this week.
This may not seem that ridiculous but it does to me. Currently the Avengers is on pace to break the alltime weekend record. If you look at the schedule on Fandango for this evening and considering the theater shows maybe 15 minutes of coming attractions and commercials before the films, at 9:30 pm “Marvel’s The Avengers” will be playing on all 6 screens!!!
Shows starting before noon are $6., as at all (most?) other AMC cinemas coast-to-coast.
The $4 surcharge on 3D films has been reduced back to $3. I don’t how long this has been for since I’ve managed to see 2D showings there of Ghost Rider, The Lorax and John Carter.
On the upcoming schedule for February 24 I noticed that the earliest showings were rather late considering New York public schools are closed that day. For instance the lone opener “Wanderlust” has its first showing is 3 pm. They said whilst I was there attending Ghost Rider that some doctor rented the whole theater and almost 800 guests were coming. He apparently does this once a year. Do they have conferances or do they actually watch some movie like when the schools come for special showings of those Disney Earth day films?
Went by the theater today and they say they are staying open and they gave me a different phone number for the theater which they do answer. Noticed that too,the people selling tickets and concessions holding up the lines pitching the Stubs cards.
Shocking they still change the marquee regularly – I’ve seen many AMC and Regal locations that permanently put up a message saying something like “For tickets and showtimes call … or visit www…..to me this screams cheapness and a lack of showmanship – but I understand the winter months it might be dangerous. Then again AMC Theaters are all about cutting corners and jacking up prices where they can lately, while harassing you about the stubs program at nearly every interaction with an employee (either to join or renew your card).
Now the marquee is just showing a Loews sign (they are AMC now) and it’s blank on the other side. They told me last week that the only guy who was brave enough to go up on the sign had been on vacation but now it’s covered up, if not covered blank.
They added 3 movies this week, Mission Impossible. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and War Horse but have not changed the marquee or I should say sign at the front of the shopping center since any of them open. Driving by you would think no new pictures are playing, none of the new ones listed.
I haven’t been to this theater in at least 5 or 6 years, perhaps longer. Even when I lived in Bayside, I much preferred the stadium seating at the College Point Multiplex.