Coliseum Cinemas

4260-4261 Broadway,
New York, NY 10033

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br91975
br91975 on October 5, 2004 at 1:28 pm

It’s a flat marquee, Robert, about five years old, and on the front of the building, directly above the theatre entrance.

RobertR
RobertR on October 5, 2004 at 12:53 pm

Is the marquee on the front or the side of the building?

jays
jays on October 5, 2004 at 11:05 am

It was a better twin than as a quad. they split the existing twin down the middle. which was already split when making the twin in the first place reducing patrons to seing a movie like they did in the mayfiar theatre downtown(a.ka Embasy 2-3-4) in the balcony theatres through a long tube that rises upward. I don’t know if any of the original remnants of the theatre remain in the other auditoriums I only went to auditorium 2 which is the right half of the old twins theatre 1 the old projection booth remain but was covered up with drapery on the side walls. one good thing they replaced the seats with a more comfortable plush seating. It looked like a patch up job on the ceiling. They also finally removed the big black illuminated sign that read R.K.O. Colisuem sign that hung on the 181st street side

Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on October 3, 2004 at 8:52 am

How is this doing as a quad?

RobertR
RobertR on September 29, 2004 at 9:57 pm

The orchestra part of the theatre has been gone for eons. RKO and then Cineplex were only using the balcony.

br91975
br91975 on September 29, 2004 at 9:53 pm

Under Cineplex Odeon, the Coliseum was a twin. (I’m not sure if that encompassed the balcony being divided in half or an orchestra/balcony split.)

Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on September 29, 2004 at 8:11 pm

It went from Century to almi century to RKO century warner to just RKO to CINEPLEX ODEON

Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on September 29, 2004 at 8:07 pm

Joe show her this list and see if she remembers, my movie history centurys york mgr,rko commack twin mgr, warner twin ast mgr ,art mgr, national twin and new warner mgr both at the same time and then manhattan south dm Cineplex Odeon.We had many a joke and busted chops with each other and Ken N.

joemasher
joemasher on September 29, 2004 at 9:15 am

Yes, I work with her. I showed her your post yesterday, and she was wondering who you were…

joemasher
joemasher on September 29, 2004 at 7:17 am

Rose is boooking Clearview Cinemas now—she handles all of NJ, Westchester & Rockland Counties of NY, all of Long Island, CT, and PA.

RobertR
RobertR on September 28, 2004 at 8:22 am

they still book City Cinemas

dave-bronx™
dave-bronx™ on September 27, 2004 at 11:37 pm

At one point they were (and may still be) booking City Cinemas dwindling empire…

Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on September 27, 2004 at 11:20 pm

i wonder if ROSEY is with him ?

Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on September 27, 2004 at 11:16 pm

Cant believe there still at it all these years.

dave-bronx™
dave-bronx™ on September 27, 2004 at 11:10 pm

Yes – Nick Guadagno and friends…

Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on September 27, 2004 at 10:51 pm

Creative entertainment is old century and rko bookers.

mikehoyts
mikehoyts on July 24, 2004 at 2:28 pm

Warren Mr. Nova who also had the Nova Cinemas owns
New Coliseum he also had the New Coliseum in 2002 but closed it and
tried to make ago of his Nova Cinemas. When Nova cinema rent was raised way to high for Mr. Nova he closed the Nova Cinemas,
he than turned to bring back
New Coliseum and did so. Creative Entertainment books for many independent operators in the state of New York including Queen City who owns Ridgewood and Jackson Triplex.

joemasher
joemasher on July 3, 2004 at 7:42 am

Creative Entertainment is a film booking service, like Lesser Theatres.

EMStheIII
EMStheIII on July 2, 2004 at 2:36 pm

The “New Coliseum” re-opened on June 30th. They are currently showing SPIDER-MAN 2, HARRY POTTER 3, and SHREK 2. Their phone numbers are: 212-740-1545 and 212-740-1541. Welcome back Coliseum !!!

velocity6
velocity6 on July 2, 2004 at 10:46 am

RKO is now open again

aswag74
aswag74 on June 7, 2004 at 1:03 pm

There are upcoming summer movie posters both inside and out on the theatre. Work is being sone and it look like “opening soon” is soon. But you nevr know. The posters make me hopeful, though.

mambo
mambo on May 24, 2004 at 10:43 pm

Rumors about the reopening of the Coliseum have been circulating since October but there was a problem with the installing of the seats. Has anyone actually seen the seats installed?

YMike
YMike on April 26, 2004 at 7:09 am

The old RKO marquee is gone.