AMC Lincoln Square 13
1998 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1998 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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This weekend wonder woman 1984 dominated the pandemic box office with a record $16 million, and that’s from nearly 2,500 theatres, mostly in suburbs and not big cities like NYC where lincoln square and its sister busy theater Empire are. HBO Max saw its busiest day as half of all users saw the movie, which i hear is not as good as the first one. Only the beginning and ending are in Imax and the rest is 35mm film upconverted to 4k DI as well as laser and 70mm imax. There is also a Dolby version which i hear doesn’t sound good and the picture quality is nothing to be amazed about. Hopefully NYC will lift restrictions as cases will soon slow down as vaccines become available to those who need it before they get sick. Then big cities such as this one and LA will be normal again and the box office will be back with big grosses like in 2019-early 2020.
and be safe!!!
Thieves stealing bags from moviegoers is unfortunately common worldwide. Watch your bags!
Of this: https://abc7ny.com/movie-theater-theft-amc-lincoln-square-crime-nyc/5809115/
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to digital3d- of what “crime” do you speak?
Even the movie stunk.
It’s not that they had given up it’s just that they’ve always been that way. AMC’s customer service for the most part is atrocious, at least in the NYC locations I’ve been to. Broken projectors, lights, rodent, bed bugs, crime etc.
The second-to-last film I saw here was Rise of Skywalker in IMAX and the whole auditorium smelled like marijuana.
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again thanks the quick reply. whoever designed the notes on the back of the snap case made a mistake since it clearly states the making of doc. is on the Blu-ray disc not the 4K disc.
Yes.
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to moviebuff82- thanks for your reply but I am still perplexed as to where the making of doc is. the snap case says its on the Blu-ray but its not. so is it in fact on the 4K disc?
The tenet bluray also has the teaser trailer in its original aspect ratio as well as other trailers in that ratio. I hear rumors about Cinemark taking over this location as well as the Empire if AMC files for bankruptcy. This will give Cinemark its first entry into the NYC market with two major theaters. Maybe they should also take over the Orpheum as that theater hasn’t been renovated before the Pandemic hit. the closest cinemark where I live is in Wayne where it competes with the AMC and Wayne movietown, which is closed indefintely. For the imax, Cinemark might make it into a giant XD screen therefore ending its run as an IMAX venue, leaving behind the Nature Max as a true imax but they only run nature documentaries.
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since theaters in NYC haven’t been opened since March 16 I just got to see Tenet on blu-ray which was released this past Tues. considering the mixed reviews the film got from what people did get to see it I thought my reaction would be mixed as well but it wasn’t. two questions-
*one complaint some people had was not understanding the dialogue in some scenes. what scenes were being referred to? I had very little problem understanding the dialogue.
*also the back of the case says there’s a making of doc.
not on the 4K but on the blu-ray. but the blu-ray disc
doesn’t have a making of doc. what gives?
the reason that people are not going to the movies that much is that attendance is down because of TV, home media like VHS, cable TV, and streaming.
I would have to disagree that it will have very little impact. I think it will have tremendous impact, although time will tell. Even before COVID, AMC theaters across the chain averaged ticket sales of only 92 tickets per day, per screen. From 2015 to 2019, AMC (which is the largest chain) lost $289 million. During the first two quarters of this year, AMC lost over $563 million and by the end of the year, it will probably be $1 billion.
So theaters are going to have a tough time surviving in any case.
Now throw in day-and-date streaming and a generation of people who are happy streaming on small screens and I personally don’t see how theaters can survive. Personally, I love going to movie theaters, but during the week, before COVID, whenever I went to see a film, there were few people in the theater. That’s not sustainable anywhere, but especially not in such an expensive city like NYC.
I think the only hope for movie theaters is if the studios buy them. But they might not care. Disney+ now has over 80 million subscribers. That will generate $7.68 billion per year and Disney keeps most of that money (no distributor shares). They may decide they don’t need the theaters.
Having said that, theaters could survive if people actually attended, but they don’t. In 2019 there were about 23.9m admissions per week. It was 50-60m in 1950 and 85-90m each year from 1945 to 1948.
Disney also is making their upcoming cartoon next year also available on Disney Plus, Raya and the Dragon, for premium access, simliar to what they did with Mulan although Mulan came out internationally outside the US where Disney Plus wasn’t available. As for Tenet, it’s coming to 4k bluray next tuesday in its imax version and will have subtitles for those who have a hard time hearing what the characters say in the sound mix.
Very little impact.
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a question to my fellow moviegoers especially regulars at this theater. how much impact will the Warner HBO Max deal actually have on theaters?
Tenet will also get it’s deserved IMAX showing in TLC and AMC in LA
Their always the chance it will be shown, movies had played simultaneously as home video. Probably, won’t play in all NYC theatres, but will get 70MM IMAX and 70MM film showing. Theatres like Lincoln Square, Cinema 1, Village East and Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn. Nolan would want New Yorkers to see it in 70MM IMAX.
Looks like Tenet won’t be playing here after all. It’s coming to home video on December 15th.
I don’t know the exact reason why Gov. Murphy allowed the theaters to reopen, but many other states have also reopened their theaters.
All the precautionary measures that you mentioned are in place. The two times I went to a theater since they reopened, there were hardly any people in them. NYC and LA theaters are most likely still closed because of their large populations. I did feel safe in those two theaters, but I have to agree with Al that there is hardly anything out there worth seeing.
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to Bill H.- you obviously live in New Jersey. what was Governor Murphy’s rationale behind letting movie theaters re-open?
Joe, you can take the PATH train to NJ from 14th St. or 23rd St., get off at Newport station, and go see Tenet at the AMC theaters in Newport Mall. There are 4 showings tomorrow.
I would go if there were any films worth bothering to see.