AMC Bay Terrace 6
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
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I think this is the strangest thing I’ve seen at this theater while I have been going to it. This beats actually seeing sneak previews here of “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and the “Great Raid” which while sneak previewed here never played regular engagements. Anyway the theater is playing the first Korean disaster movie “Haeundae” which is believe it or not the only cinema in the city playing the film!
Another big night here. Went to see “Taking Woodstock” in theater 6 for the 7:50 showing and they have the picture begin at 7:10 because the projectionist mixed the films up. So I missed the first 20 minutes of the film; at least they gave me a pass for a free showing.
So 2 new films come out this week and we get nada. The cinema has a list of a number of films you can buy a ticket for, though it does not specifically say they will be at this theater. So Bruno is plugged as opening this week but we didn’t get it. Sister theater in Fresh Meadows gets it and I Love You Beth Cooper. What do we get, the return of Taking of Pelham One Two Three which we got rid of last week and now it’s back on a double bill with My Sister’s Keeper.How do they explain this weirdness?
dantop500, thats whats wrong with the entire industry today. Big companies like AMC and Regal are killing it. Give me the good old days, like when I started 34 years ago.
Now we have cancelled $6 matinees today May 24 due to supposedly Con Ed fixing outages that apparently the Con Ed website knows nothing about.
So we have a breakdown in the ads at the 7:40 showing of “Angels and Demons” which results in everything commencing about 15 minutes late. If that wasn’t bad enough the film then breaks down about 10 minutes from the end at a crucial scene. When they resume the film we see the scene and they have Lady Gaga singing “Just Dance', the music coming from the cd’s AMC promotes between shows.
$10.50 now to see a nightime show so I discovered Saturday when I bought a ticket for Star Trek.
Again while we’re get the pic to be presumed to be #1 this week, “Race to Witch Mountain”, our sister theater in Fresh Meadows gets all 3 openers. We hold Fired Up which was 10th on the weekend and made about 2.5 million for a 4th week and that blockbuster “The Reader” which was #12. Douglaston gets 4 films including limited release Two Lovers. Why are we the stepchild cinema?
I notice outside of myself no one else seems to write about this theater, the last comment being from May 7, 2008.
I guess AMC must be upset since Coraline outperformed expectations and Pink Panther 2 underperformed.
Did you ever wonder if the parent company of a chain wants a theater to fail? The AMC Bay Terrace has only 3 showings a day Monday thru Thursday with nothing starting later than say 8 while its sister theater in Fresh Meadows has late showings. This theater also seems in non blockbuster seasons like winter, spring and fall to get the releases that AMC expects to do the worst at the box office. Fresh Meadows gets the expected hits. If Bay Terrace has a hit it’s because of a sleeper film. In the early part of the year the Bay Terrace theater got Gran Torino which is a big hit while Fresh Meadows got Bride Wars and the Unborn. Originally early predictions had Gran Torino making 10 million on the weekend then predictions moved closer to 18, but it actually opened in the upper 20’s. Bride Wars which Fresh Meadows got was expected to make 20 and originally the Unborn was to make more tha Gran Torino. Unfortunately for AMC Gran Torino hit. The following week both theaters got Paul Blart: Mall Cop while Fresh Meadows also got Notorious, My Bloody Valentine and Hotel for Dogs all which made over 20 million on the MLK weekend. Bay Terrace got the expansion of Defiance which made about 10 and currently has 22. Last week Fresh Meadows Got #1 Taken (24 million) and The Uninvited (10 million). Bay Terrace got New in Town, 9th place and 4.479 million. Now this weekend both theaters get 2 more. Fresh Meadows gets both He’s Not That Into You and Pink Panther 2, both expected to make 20+ million this weekend. Bay terrace gets Push, expected 11 and Coraline expected 9. Is this deliberate? Bay Terrace is played off like the 5 plex AMC had down the street from the Fresh Meadows which they tore down because the gas station’s oil tanks underground leaked. That whole block came down a few years ago except for the gas station. You would think the way they run this theater, the one I go to the most, that AMC wants it to fail.
What’s this only 3 films this week on just 3 screens? Both Wall-E and Wanted were on 1 screen last weekend. Now Hancock is there but nothing else came in. You mean to tell me they got rid of Get Smart and Kung Fu Panda already!
Actually prices are currently 10 dollars after 4 pm I think and 8 dollars the rest of the day. On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as part of AMC’s policy all films 1st shows that start before 12 PM are 6 dollars.
Additional retail space was recently added around this theater, effectively sandwiching the building. It looks odd and obscures the theater, but the new retail space does covers up the long drop to the ground below visible from the bridge leading to the ticket booth.
I live right down the block from this theatre. Is this theatre being expanded? I see it being under construction.
Found this small postage-stamp sized image of the theater when it was under the Sony name. I’m guessing this was in the mid ‘90’s (say from '94 or a bit later) not that long after the multiplex opened:
Sony Bay Terrace
Here are some shots of the theater I took a couple of mornings ago. There was a custodial worker inside the theater, so I was also able to make it into the vestibule area between the outer and inner entrance doors and snap a couple of images of the lobby through the glass:
View from 26th Ave parking lot
Looking head-on at main facade from theater parking lot
Main facade from foot bridge
Close up of entrance, canopy and box office windows
Lobby concession stand
Lobby left wall
Lobby towards right wall
Rear view from shopping center parking lot
Pylon sign on 26th Ave near corner of Bell
Here’s a local.live.com view to give some orientation…
View to the north
You can see the theater parking lot to the left of the building (with footbridge to entrance) and the shopping center lot and storefronts to the right of the multiplex. At the far right of the image near the bottom edge you can make out the old stand-alone Loews theater (now retail) that this multiplex replaced in ‘93.
Not at all dave-bronx… I understand your point. I was just going by how the theater is currently listed in the Movie Clocks and newspaper ads. As I said, the two large signs on the building simply read “Loews Theaters” with the familiar spot-light logo. Unlike the former Bay Terrace theater which had a very distinctive 1960’s style sign over its entrance that clearly identified the theater as “Loews Bay Terrace”. I have a number of photos of the Sixplex taken yesterday morning that I need to upload to photobucket and then I’ll post them here.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to sound accusatory, it’s just that the Loews name will disappear soon enough. They may own the place, but the name on the building and the pylon is still Loews.
Dave-bronx…. this is the way the theater is listed in the local newspapers. When you add a theater, the site form asks for “current name”. My intention wasn’t to rush anything. Technically, the only “name” to appear on the actual building and pylon sign is “Loews Theaters”, with no mention of the name “Bay Terrace” or reference to “6” or “Sixplex”. For some period of time in the mid ‘90’s those same signs displayed only the name “Sony Theaters”.
Could we lose the AMC on these theatres until they actually put the Loews name to death, i.e. change the signs? Why rush it?
Lost… I’d like to serialize the introduction in Reader’s Digest one day, if I could ever afford the postage to mail them the original manuscript!
Absolutely, mikemovies. Bayside is a great neighborhood. No worries attending this theater. Ditto the multiplex theaters in not too distant Fresh Meadows, College Point or Douglaston (though I’m not a fan of the facilities at Douglaston’s Movieworld). Mind you, these are all modern multiplexes and certainly made in cookie-cutter fashion. I would also include the Midway Stadium 9 and Cinemart in Forest Hills and, for some less commercial fare, the Kew Gardens Cinemas.
I find the humor on this website makes for a more pleasant atmosphere. I enjoy it very much. I have a question. Is this a safe theatre to take your family to? I was transferred from Indiana to New York City. I have been to New York City many times before on business but never ventured outside of Manhattan. Now that I am living here I would be interested in seeing theatres in the outer boros.
You’re killing me, Lost! That’s ok… breaking them and having them broken is NY way of life! If you know what I mean.
Thanks Lost. That info is buried in my rather verbose introduction somewhere. The larger theaters at either end of the foyer are my favorites. The others in between are pretty small, though it has been a while since I caught a flick here. Perhaps the screen size makes up for the small rooms. I’m hoping someone can comment on the current quality of presentation here.