The Movie Tavern, a cinema-eatery, now calls DeKalb County home.
The new business opened May 15 in the old AMC 8 cinema on Northlake Festival shopping center in Tucker.
The Movie Tavern, which shows first-run movies, has eight auditoriums and a full menu and wait staff that takes patrons' orders for everything from pizza to hot sandwiches, which is then delivered to the patrons in the auditorium.
The Dallas, Texas-based chain, which started in 2001, has more than 102 locations across the country. The Tucker location is one of 15 the chain will open in 2008.
It offers a full menu of chef-prepared classic American favorites including hand-tossed pizzas, burgers and sandwiches. It also serves beer, wine and margaritas from its lobby bar.
American Screenworks will be opening its new $10 million cinemas at the Gallery of South DeKalb on April 20, and the Atlanta-based company and mall management are expecting the throngs to come.
Sayed Raza, American Screenwork’s operations manager, said construction crews are working round-the-clock to have the 42,000-square-foot facility at the rear of the mall ready for Opening Night.
“It will be ready,” he said Friday as crews unfurled acres of green, orange and black print carpet and painters added final coats of paint and a slew of women swept and vacuumed construction dust from the cinema’s 12 auditoriums.
The new cinema replaces a smaller old asbestos-laced 24,000-square-foot cinema that closed in the 1990s.
American Screenworks stepped in to build the cinema when a deal with Magic Johnson Cinemas fell through under the mall’s previous owners.
Tene Harris, the mall’s general manager, said that work crew had guttied the old cinema which will be replaced with a12-screen theater with stadium seating.
The new complex will also have a jazz bar and a small arcade inside. She said the bar would be only admit patrons who are 21 years and older.
It will be the second Atlanta cinema for American Screen Works, which also operates a cinema at Memorial Drive and South Hairston Road the former general cinema 8.
The 30-plus year-old mall used to have a cinema but it closed in the mid 1990s because of disrepair.
The new complex comes five years after a deal between the mall’s previous owner, O'Leary Partners, and Magic Johnson Theatres to build a 12-screen cinema at the 800,000 square-foot mall fizzled.
The 40,000 square-foot theatre complex , which will include digital sound in all auditoriums, advanced ticket pick-up and an enhanced food and beverage menu, is part of the mall’s redevelopment program
Atlanta-based American Screen Works, whose parent company is the Restaurant Entertainment Group, has been in the movie business since 1979. It operates 32 cinemas in cities like Orlando, Denver, Washington DC, Seattle, Cincinnati and Minneapolis
Torch Theaters have given new life to the old cinemas in the Covington Square shopping center in Lithonia.
The San Antonio, Texas-based company poured $1 million into renovating the eight-screen cinemas at the intersection of Panola Road and Covington Highway.
It opened Nov. 18 with new screens, state-of-the-art digital sound, a new concession area, triple the number of bathrooms and new carpet and tile. More than 500 people attended a Dec. 5 ribbon cutting attended by county officials.
Tony Overpeck, the company’s CEO, said the overhaul was important to provide a comfortable experience for the patrons he is trying to lure back.
The building seats 1,620 people in its eight auditoriums, seating 114 to 294.
Overpeck, who started as an usher at a Loews cinema in Indianapolis 20 years ago, said he worked his way up to manager and then to the corporate level. Over the years, he worked for six large companies before owning his own theaters.
The Lithonia cinemas, which first opened in 1983, have operated as Spotlight Theaters and Regal Cinemas. Lee May Enterprises last operated them as Cinefe, which closed last December.
Overpeck, who also runs The Main Place cinemas in Dallas, says the Lithonia theater is the first under his newly launched Torch Theaters brand.
He hired T.J. Jarrell from Trademark Cinemas in Savannah to manage it because he is a former Stone Mountain resident who “thinks outside the box.”
Jarrell says the theater will be a fun place for the neighborhood offering reasonable prices.
“When you come through the doors we will treat you like guests in our house,” he said. “My door will always be open.”
Tickets for first-run movies before 6 p.m. are $5.75 for everyone and patrons buys tickets and snacks at one stop at the concession counter instead of waiting in two lines.
Overpeck says his cinemas strive to be part of the communities where they operate by hosting events of interest to them.
“I imagine that there will be high interest in these events,” he said.
Overpeck says they are also reaching out to day-care centers and schools to let them know that if they are reading a book and there is a movie about it, that they can show it for the children. He also wants to host film festivals.
He is also offering auditoriums for business meetings and family reunions weekdays when they are not showing movies. He said they can show PowerPoint presentations and DVDs on the big screens.
“There is a lot of usage for this space and we can customize it,” he said, “and cater everything from coffee and donuts to setting up a carving station.”
This is a newly renovated old school theater. This means that it is now sanitary and has the movie equipment to offer better quality viewing experience. It does not have stadium seating or all the other big stuff but it does have 4.50 matinees!!! Yes! They also host a lot of free community events.
Designed by architect George Harwell Bond, this theatre opened its doors in 1939 as a 1000 seat art deco cinema and live theatre. In the 1970s, the cinema operated as an X-rated adult cinema and live burlesque theatre until the entire shopping center was renovated by current owner Robert Griffith. In 1983, the theatre was purchased by George Lefont who was the first to bring independent cinema to Atlanta. The theatre underwent renovations again when purchased by longtime Atlanta residents Jonathan & Gayle Rej in August of 2006. The Plaza Theatre is the last cinema of its kind in Atlanta, as well as the oldest continously operating cinema in the city. Now with 501c3 non profit status, The Plaza Theatre Foundation hopes to save this theatre, continue to promote independent film, and support the local film comunity.
AMC spokesman Andy DiOrio said the company has closed a handful of theaters nationwide this year as it seeks to upgrade or close aging theaters.
“While we understand and appreciate that community’s affinity with that theater, we also have two others in that vicinity, AMC Parkway Pointe 15 and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24,†he said.
News that the theatre is closing hurt my heart but I understand that business is business. Magic Johnson Theatre at Greenbriar faced stiff competition once the theatres at Camp Creek Marketplace opened it’s doors and it seemingly never recovered. What we all feared would happen is happening. Good news for Camp Creek, but devastating to all around Greenbriar Parkway. After JC Penney left the mall empty for some time and finally Burlington settled in. Circuit City came and went leaving an emptly building and so did Cub Foods. Now this. I’m just hoping that our beloved Greenbriar can recover from this huge blow.
In case you want to visit the theatre one last time, you have until Sunday, October 11th 2009.
It’s been 13 years since Magic Johnson opened the theatre bearing his name at Greenbriar Mall on the southside. THIRTEEN dayum years! Now…after all that time, the 12-screen movie complex is shutting it’s doors for good. I remember when the theatre first opened it’s doors, giving all on the southside hope that it would help bring the ailing mall back to life. It seemed to work for a minute, since the theatre’s location was combined with Magic Johnson’s TGI Fridays. But after a few years, the restaurant disappeared as well. It was boarded up for a while then reappeared as another restaurant and now it’s a club (Pearle Bistro). I don'tno what it is about Greenbriar
but stores/restaurants/grocery stores have all come and gone and it’s still an Atlanta staple.
Moviegoers at AMC Discover Mills 18 will experience the AMC difference in comfort, quality, service and convenience,“ said Phil Singleton, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)
The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of American Multi-Cinema, Inc. “The AMC brand means an inviting atmosphere, industry-leading amenities, and the highest quality film presentation, and it’s a great fit with the exciting and unique shopping and leisure environment at Discover Mills.”
AMC Discover Mills 18 has incorporated the latest innovative features in motion pictures today including: stadium seating, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound and AMC’s exclusive High Impact Theater System with Tours compound-curved screen for maximum picture clarity and brilliance
A 66,319-square-foot MegaStar Cinema opened in May of 2001 at The Mall at Stonecrest. The 16-screen theater has 3,200 seats and two VIP suites. The glass-enclosed suites seat 16 people each, and are rented out. Local restaurants are allowed to cater to private parties.
The 16-screen AMC cinema promises mega comfort; aside from the 16 stadium-seating auditoriums, the theater features two VIP suites. Similar to the skyboxes in sports arenas, patrons can host private screenings and catered parties.
The Movie Tavern, a cinema-eatery, now calls DeKalb County home.
The new business opened May 15 in the old AMC 8 cinema on Northlake Festival shopping center in Tucker.
The Movie Tavern, which shows first-run movies, has eight auditoriums and a full menu and wait staff that takes patrons' orders for everything from pizza to hot sandwiches, which is then delivered to the patrons in the auditorium.
The Dallas, Texas-based chain, which started in 2001, has more than 102 locations across the country. The Tucker location is one of 15 the chain will open in 2008.
It offers a full menu of chef-prepared classic American favorites including hand-tossed pizzas, burgers and sandwiches. It also serves beer, wine and margaritas from its lobby bar.
American Screenworks will be opening its new $10 million cinemas at the Gallery of South DeKalb on April 20, and the Atlanta-based company and mall management are expecting the throngs to come.
Sayed Raza, American Screenwork’s operations manager, said construction crews are working round-the-clock to have the 42,000-square-foot facility at the rear of the mall ready for Opening Night.
“It will be ready,” he said Friday as crews unfurled acres of green, orange and black print carpet and painters added final coats of paint and a slew of women swept and vacuumed construction dust from the cinema’s 12 auditoriums.
The new cinema replaces a smaller old asbestos-laced 24,000-square-foot cinema that closed in the 1990s.
American Screenworks stepped in to build the cinema when a deal with Magic Johnson Cinemas fell through under the mall’s previous owners.
Tene Harris, the mall’s general manager, said that work crew had guttied the old cinema which will be replaced with a12-screen theater with stadium seating.
The new complex will also have a jazz bar and a small arcade inside. She said the bar would be only admit patrons who are 21 years and older.
It will be the second Atlanta cinema for American Screen Works, which also operates a cinema at Memorial Drive and South Hairston Road the former general cinema 8.
The 30-plus year-old mall used to have a cinema but it closed in the mid 1990s because of disrepair.
The new complex comes five years after a deal between the mall’s previous owner, O'Leary Partners, and Magic Johnson Theatres to build a 12-screen cinema at the 800,000 square-foot mall fizzled.
The 40,000 square-foot theatre complex , which will include digital sound in all auditoriums, advanced ticket pick-up and an enhanced food and beverage menu, is part of the mall’s redevelopment program
Atlanta-based American Screen Works, whose parent company is the Restaurant Entertainment Group, has been in the movie business since 1979. It operates 32 cinemas in cities like Orlando, Denver, Washington DC, Seattle, Cincinnati and Minneapolis
The 72,808-square-foot building will house a 12-screen multiplex attached to the mall. It will be triple the size of the mall’s old cinema
The $13 million cinema was made possible when DeKalb County approved a $2.8 million tax package in May 1998 to help seed the project.
South DeKalb Mall has been without a cinema since 1997, when the old cinema was closed. The Theaters will seat 3,600 in stadium-style seats.
Torch Theaters have given new life to the old cinemas in the Covington Square shopping center in Lithonia.
The San Antonio, Texas-based company poured $1 million into renovating the eight-screen cinemas at the intersection of Panola Road and Covington Highway.
It opened Nov. 18 with new screens, state-of-the-art digital sound, a new concession area, triple the number of bathrooms and new carpet and tile. More than 500 people attended a Dec. 5 ribbon cutting attended by county officials.
Tony Overpeck, the company’s CEO, said the overhaul was important to provide a comfortable experience for the patrons he is trying to lure back.
The building seats 1,620 people in its eight auditoriums, seating 114 to 294.
Overpeck, who started as an usher at a Loews cinema in Indianapolis 20 years ago, said he worked his way up to manager and then to the corporate level. Over the years, he worked for six large companies before owning his own theaters.
The Lithonia cinemas, which first opened in 1983, have operated as Spotlight Theaters and Regal Cinemas. Lee May Enterprises last operated them as Cinefe, which closed last December.
Overpeck, who also runs The Main Place cinemas in Dallas, says the Lithonia theater is the first under his newly launched Torch Theaters brand.
He hired T.J. Jarrell from Trademark Cinemas in Savannah to manage it because he is a former Stone Mountain resident who “thinks outside the box.”
Jarrell says the theater will be a fun place for the neighborhood offering reasonable prices.
“When you come through the doors we will treat you like guests in our house,” he said. “My door will always be open.”
Tickets for first-run movies before 6 p.m. are $5.75 for everyone and patrons buys tickets and snacks at one stop at the concession counter instead of waiting in two lines.
Overpeck says his cinemas strive to be part of the communities where they operate by hosting events of interest to them.
“I imagine that there will be high interest in these events,” he said.
Overpeck says they are also reaching out to day-care centers and schools to let them know that if they are reading a book and there is a movie about it, that they can show it for the children. He also wants to host film festivals.
He is also offering auditoriums for business meetings and family reunions weekdays when they are not showing movies. He said they can show PowerPoint presentations and DVDs on the big screens.
“There is a lot of usage for this space and we can customize it,” he said, “and cater everything from coffee and donuts to setting up a carving station.”
This is a newly renovated old school theater. This means that it is now sanitary and has the movie equipment to offer better quality viewing experience. It does not have stadium seating or all the other big stuff but it does have 4.50 matinees!!! Yes! They also host a lot of free community events.
Saving Atlanta’s oldest cinema, Supporting independent film, Serving the Community
Restoring The Plaza Theatre is a rare chance to do something special for this community and gifts of all sizes will make a big difference! The Plaza Foundation is a 501©(3) organization and all gifts are tax deductible. All funds generated will be used toward restoration, furnishings, equipment, operations and community initiatives for The Plaza Theatre.
Designed by architect George Harwell Bond, this theatre opened its doors in 1939 as a 1000 seat art deco cinema and live theatre. In the 1970s, the cinema operated as an X-rated adult cinema and live burlesque theatre until the entire shopping center was renovated by current owner Robert Griffith. In 1983, the theatre was purchased by George Lefont who was the first to bring independent cinema to Atlanta. The theatre underwent renovations again when purchased by longtime Atlanta residents Jonathan & Gayle Rej in August of 2006. The Plaza Theatre is the last cinema of its kind in Atlanta, as well as the oldest continously operating cinema in the city. Now with 501c3 non profit status, The Plaza Theatre Foundation hopes to save this theatre, continue to promote independent film, and support the local film comunity.
Owners:
1987 General Cinemas
2002 Madstone Theatres as “madstone at
Parkside"
2004 Lefort Theatres
Seating:
1-5: 302 171 220 378 302
6-8: 171 220 378
Total 2142 seats
Roswell Mall Cinemas AKA: Roswell Mall Cinema 1,2,3 & 4, Startime 10 608 Holcomb Bridge Rd
? 1980-? 1995
Opened with 4 screens and expanded to 10
screens by 1990.
Owners:
1980 Loew's
1985 others
1990 Hoyt's
1995 United Artists
Southlake Festival 6 1564 Southlake Pky
1987-? 2000
Carmike owned this theatre, it closed when
everyone went to the AMC Southlake 24
instead.
Mall Corners AKA: Mall Corners Quinette 3650 Satellite Blvd
Opened with 5 screens and expanded to 6
screens by 1995.
Owners:
1984 Plitt
1990: Cineplex Odeon
1998 Carmike
1985-2002 AMC
2008- Movie Tavern
AMC owned this theatre
Owners:
1990 Cineplex Odeon
1998 Carmike Cinemas
An typical “Jewel Box” cinema built by
Cineplex Odeon
Owners:
1990 Cineplex Odeon
1998 Carmike Cinemas
2007 Trademark Cinemas
A Cineplex Odeon “Jewelbox” theatre.
Revolution Cinemas will reopen the former AMC Theater.
AMC spokesman Andy DiOrio said the company has closed a handful of theaters nationwide this year as it seeks to upgrade or close aging theaters.
“While we understand and appreciate that community’s affinity with that theater, we also have two others in that vicinity, AMC Parkway Pointe 15 and AMC Southlake Pavilion 24,†he said.
News that the theatre is closing hurt my heart but I understand that business is business. Magic Johnson Theatre at Greenbriar faced stiff competition once the theatres at Camp Creek Marketplace opened it’s doors and it seemingly never recovered. What we all feared would happen is happening. Good news for Camp Creek, but devastating to all around Greenbriar Parkway. After JC Penney left the mall empty for some time and finally Burlington settled in. Circuit City came and went leaving an emptly building and so did Cub Foods. Now this. I’m just hoping that our beloved Greenbriar can recover from this huge blow.
In case you want to visit the theatre one last time, you have until Sunday, October 11th 2009.
It’s been 13 years since Magic Johnson opened the theatre bearing his name at Greenbriar Mall on the southside. THIRTEEN dayum years! Now…after all that time, the 12-screen movie complex is shutting it’s doors for good. I remember when the theatre first opened it’s doors, giving all on the southside hope that it would help bring the ailing mall back to life. It seemed to work for a minute, since the theatre’s location was combined with Magic Johnson’s TGI Fridays. But after a few years, the restaurant disappeared as well. It was boarded up for a while then reappeared as another restaurant and now it’s a club (Pearle Bistro). I don'tno what it is about Greenbriar
but stores/restaurants/grocery stores have all come and gone and it’s still an Atlanta staple.
Moviegoers at AMC Discover Mills 18 will experience the AMC difference in comfort, quality, service and convenience,“ said Phil Singleton, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)
The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of American Multi-Cinema, Inc. “The AMC brand means an inviting atmosphere, industry-leading amenities, and the highest quality film presentation, and it’s a great fit with the exciting and unique shopping and leisure environment at Discover Mills.”
18 theatres with stadium seating (with 18-inch risers for unobstructed viewing).
— AMC’s exclusive LoveSeat-style seating featuring an extra six inches of leg room and armrests that lift up so viewers can “cozy up.”
— Large, efficient concession stand featuring “Combo” offerings that provide top-quality brand selections at a value price.
— Digital sound in all auditoriums.
— Automated Box Office (ABO) for easy purchasing and advance ticket pick-up.
— AMC’s signature “fast and friendly” service throughout the theatre.
AMC has been successful in integrating competitive theater circuits into its family. In March 2002, AMC bought General Cinema Corporation.
AMC Discover Mills 18 has incorporated the latest innovative features in motion pictures today including: stadium seating, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound and AMC’s exclusive High Impact Theater System with Tours compound-curved screen for maximum picture clarity and brilliance
A 66,319-square-foot MegaStar Cinema opened in May of 2001 at The Mall at Stonecrest. The 16-screen theater has 3,200 seats and two VIP suites. The glass-enclosed suites seat 16 people each, and are rented out. Local restaurants are allowed to cater to private parties.
The 16-screen AMC cinema promises mega comfort; aside from the 16 stadium-seating auditoriums, the theater features two VIP suites. Similar to the skyboxes in sports arenas, patrons can host private screenings and catered parties.