Please update and correct, the Cinema City 5 opened on December 17, 1982. In the grand opening ad, it said it had 70MM projection. The theatre only had one screen with Dolby, which was theatre 5. This theatre open 6 months before MovieWorld open. I just posted the grand opening ad.
Please update the description, the theatre was a Century Theatre and became RKO Century Fantasy theatre. Cineplex Odeon did operate the theatre as a single screen when the purchase the RKO Century Warner chain. It closed as a single screen with a balcony on January 28, 1988. The last feature to play a single screen was Three Men And A Baby. It reopened as 5 screens on September 2, 1988. 2 screens on the ground floor and 3 screens on the 2nd floor. The theatre was rebuilt. When the theatre open on September 2, 1988, all screens Dolby Stereo and Theatre 1 had 70MM projection.
Only two films played in 70MM at the Fantasy, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Far And Away.
AMC which merge with Loews Cineplex, renovated the theatre sometime in 2002 and installed AMC Rocking Chairs that don’t recline.
During the RKO Century days, the theatre show a lot of James Bond films and Back To The Future films. Unfortunately, when it was a single screen, it never got Dolby Stereo.
Please update the description, the Lynbrook became a quad on November 18, 1977. Both the downstairs and upstairs was split in half. On April 13, 1990 it open as 6 screens. Theatre 5 was the old stage, with a hallway was created to the left of theatre 1 and theatre 6 took over a store in the front.
Lynbrook final capacity before it was closed and rebuilt was
Theatre 1 312 dts/DS (It got Dolby Stereo in 1980)
Theatre 2 415 dot dts digital sound and Ultra Stereo in the around 2000 when FOX required all theaters showing Star Wars in digital sound.
Theatre 3 240 MONO
Theatre 4 225 MONO
Theatre 5 202 Kintex Stereo
Theatre 6 120 Kintex Stereo
Theatre 2,4,5 and 6 had RealD 3D
Theatre 1 lost about 100 seats to create the hallway to theatre 5.
Each of the downstairs screens lost a few seats due to creating ADA spots for wheelchairs.
The theatre is still under renovations. Presently, only Theatres 1 to 7 are open. Theatre 8 and the upper level is closed. According to a Regal employee, Union Square will be getting RPX.
The usher said the 2nd floor will open next year. Presently, your purchasing tickets from kiosk or at the refreshment stand. The Regal project started last winter, can’t believe it takes a year to renovate a whole level. Posted a couple of photos from the theatre.
Just posted photos of the 19th Street renovations, I also posted from the original design in the photos section.
The only good screens are Theatre 1 and maybe theatre 2. Couldn’t see the theatre 2 renovations due to a private screening and the pre show was on in theatre 3.
The screens are fairly small, no masking like the Village VII and Regal Essex Crossing. The only good thing, scope films are not letterbox.
This is a semi Dine In theatre, if you order in advance, they will deliver your refreshments to your site, but it doesn’t have the full menu like Staten Island or Levittown
It features the Heated recliners like AMC Staten Island 9 with tables. As of today, you won’t be able to order fried foods. It on the AMC App. The AMC Cast member said their waiting for the license.
I was told by a cast member about over a year ago prior to the 19th Street renovation that it was supposed to be a Dine In Theatre, but as of today Limited selection.
It is the first Manhattan location with MacGuffins Bar.
That not true, the AMC Universal in Hollywood is the only complex that has Dolby Atmos in all screens and their some theatres that use Atmos in premium theatres, but it very few
So far, 34th Street still has all 14 screens open. This theatre definitely needs recliners, the Sony/Loews signature seats are outdated.
Once 34th Street is done, the other theatres in Manhattan with Sony/Loews signature seats are the Orpheum, Lincoln Square and Harlem USA in Manhattan and of course AMC Love Seats at the Empire.
Most theatres cut down the 3D shows to bare minimum or limited shows. Since laser came out, AMC doesn’t like to maintain the Dolby glasses that are needed for both IMAX and Dolby CInema.
Disney has cut down on that most IMAX films are standard 2D. I like to see 3D, but it very difficult to see. I’m not seeing 3D films on small screens or non Dolby 5.1 or 7.1 screens. I don’t know if some of the former Loews theatres, if AMC replaced the SDDS processors with Dolby Digital.
When I saw a few films in the AMC Empire small houses, it didn’t sound like Dolby Digital. At least when I saw Once Upon A Time in Hollywood in theatre 7 Paradise, I was surprised it sounded like it was Dolby DIgital for the film.
AMC and the former Loews Theatres, the primary sound in the 1990s and the start of the new millenium, the sound of choice was Sony Dynamic Digital Sound.
QUESTION
Saw Joker in 70MM at the Alamo Drafhouse Downtown Brooklyn. I notice the film was in flat, I thought all 70MM films are widescreen (scope). The sound sounded like 70MM 6 track.
Films like ET or Back To The Future which were FLAT films, did they look like they were FLAT in 70MM or widescreen.
All the 70MM films I saw in the 1980’s and early 1990’s were widescreen.
I would love to see photos of inside the theatre when it converted to seven screens. The basement theatres were lousy and BS Moss had mono system installed in the basement in 1981.
I just posted pictures of the different screens on the main floor. The plaque for the Valencia was missing and AMC removed the LOEWS plaque when they went DOLBY. Unfortunately don’t have them for the downstairs screens.
Don’t like seeing movies downstairs because when AMC went digital, the masking for FLAT films is awful and the manager said they don’t have curtains to cover it. When Loews ran 35MM film downstairs, FLAT films weren’t a problem.
Saw “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” in the Paradise, the masking was no problem and looks like the sound was Dolby Digital. Screens 6 to 12 were originally SDDS and Dolby SR when it open in 1994.
Dolby Digital was in Loews since 1994 and and added to screens 2 and 5 10 years later, hopefully Dolby Digital is now in all.
Does anyone know if any house have Dolby 7.1 in 2 thru 12? Loews was very big at SDDS in 1994. ,
QUESTION, I was on yelp and it look like a auditorium is not stadium seating. Is is possible that 1 or 2 screens are not stadium seating. I almost went their a few years ago on vacation, but went to the Ritz 5 which I wasn’t impressed, it was like a 1980 retro movie place, not modern.
In Brooklyn, NY United Artists converted Sheepshead Bay to Stadium seating with the exception of 2 screens. Did that happen at Riverview also.
research the old Newsday. Was a regular customer of the theatre between 1980 and 2011.
Please update and correct, the Cinema City 5 opened on December 17, 1982. In the grand opening ad, it said it had 70MM projection. The theatre only had one screen with Dolby, which was theatre 5. This theatre open 6 months before MovieWorld open. I just posted the grand opening ad.
ALSO UPDATE, it became a quad on December 16, 1977, month after the Loews Nassau Mall Quad (now known as AMC Levittown) open.
Please update, the drive in became 3 screens on June 15, 1979. Just posted the grand opening ad.
Please update the description, the theatre was a Century Theatre and became RKO Century Fantasy theatre. Cineplex Odeon did operate the theatre as a single screen when the purchase the RKO Century Warner chain. It closed as a single screen with a balcony on January 28, 1988. The last feature to play a single screen was Three Men And A Baby. It reopened as 5 screens on September 2, 1988. 2 screens on the ground floor and 3 screens on the 2nd floor. The theatre was rebuilt. When the theatre open on September 2, 1988, all screens Dolby Stereo and Theatre 1 had 70MM projection.
Only two films played in 70MM at the Fantasy, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Far And Away.
AMC which merge with Loews Cineplex, renovated the theatre sometime in 2002 and installed AMC Rocking Chairs that don’t recline.
During the RKO Century days, the theatre show a lot of James Bond films and Back To The Future films. Unfortunately, when it was a single screen, it never got Dolby Stereo.
June 22, 1988 with Who Frammed Roger Rabit. Theatre 4, 5 and 6 a month later
Please update the description, the Lynbrook became a quad on November 18, 1977. Both the downstairs and upstairs was split in half. On April 13, 1990 it open as 6 screens. Theatre 5 was the old stage, with a hallway was created to the left of theatre 1 and theatre 6 took over a store in the front.
Lynbrook final capacity before it was closed and rebuilt was Theatre 1 312 dts/DS (It got Dolby Stereo in 1980) Theatre 2 415 dot dts digital sound and Ultra Stereo in the around 2000 when FOX required all theaters showing Star Wars in digital sound. Theatre 3 240 MONO Theatre 4 225 MONO Theatre 5 202 Kintex Stereo Theatre 6 120 Kintex Stereo Theatre 2,4,5 and 6 had RealD 3D
Theatre 1 lost about 100 seats to create the hallway to theatre 5. Each of the downstairs screens lost a few seats due to creating ADA spots for wheelchairs.
Uploaded a grand opening ad as six screens, Screens 5 and 6 open in June 1990
Please update, National Amusements took over the Green Acres from Cineplex Odeon on June 15, 1990. Just update the display ads
Just uploaded the Cineplex Odeon display ad, first weekend of Soundview
Advance Tickets now on sale for Marriage Story. Cost $18. for all shows, $10. for the 10AM show.
ALL TICKETS ARE GENERAL ADMISSION. Netflix is not doing Reserved Seating.
The theatre is still under renovations. Presently, only Theatres 1 to 7 are open. Theatre 8 and the upper level is closed. According to a Regal employee, Union Square will be getting RPX.
The usher said the 2nd floor will open next year. Presently, your purchasing tickets from kiosk or at the refreshment stand. The Regal project started last winter, can’t believe it takes a year to renovate a whole level. Posted a couple of photos from the theatre.
Just posted photos of the 19th Street renovations, I also posted from the original design in the photos section.
The only good screens are Theatre 1 and maybe theatre 2. Couldn’t see the theatre 2 renovations due to a private screening and the pre show was on in theatre 3.
The screens are fairly small, no masking like the Village VII and Regal Essex Crossing. The only good thing, scope films are not letterbox.
This is a semi Dine In theatre, if you order in advance, they will deliver your refreshments to your site, but it doesn’t have the full menu like Staten Island or Levittown
It features the Heated recliners like AMC Staten Island 9 with tables. As of today, you won’t be able to order fried foods. It on the AMC App. The AMC Cast member said their waiting for the license.
I was told by a cast member about over a year ago prior to the 19th Street renovation that it was supposed to be a Dine In Theatre, but as of today Limited selection.
It is the first Manhattan location with MacGuffins Bar.
That not true, the AMC Universal in Hollywood is the only complex that has Dolby Atmos in all screens and their some theatres that use Atmos in premium theatres, but it very few
So far, 34th Street still has all 14 screens open. This theatre definitely needs recliners, the Sony/Loews signature seats are outdated.
Once 34th Street is done, the other theatres in Manhattan with Sony/Loews signature seats are the Orpheum, Lincoln Square and Harlem USA in Manhattan and of course AMC Love Seats at the Empire.
Most theatres cut down the 3D shows to bare minimum or limited shows. Since laser came out, AMC doesn’t like to maintain the Dolby glasses that are needed for both IMAX and Dolby CInema.
Disney has cut down on that most IMAX films are standard 2D. I like to see 3D, but it very difficult to see. I’m not seeing 3D films on small screens or non Dolby 5.1 or 7.1 screens. I don’t know if some of the former Loews theatres, if AMC replaced the SDDS processors with Dolby Digital.
When I saw a few films in the AMC Empire small houses, it didn’t sound like Dolby Digital. At least when I saw Once Upon A Time in Hollywood in theatre 7 Paradise, I was surprised it sounded like it was Dolby DIgital for the film.
AMC and the former Loews Theatres, the primary sound in the 1990s and the start of the new millenium, the sound of choice was Sony Dynamic Digital Sound.
Star Wars is meant to be seen in IMAX laser 3D. I Don’t understand why 3D shows are very limited
cost savings for AMC
QUESTION Saw Joker in 70MM at the Alamo Drafhouse Downtown Brooklyn. I notice the film was in flat, I thought all 70MM films are widescreen (scope). The sound sounded like 70MM 6 track.
Films like ET or Back To The Future which were FLAT films, did they look like they were FLAT in 70MM or widescreen.
All the 70MM films I saw in the 1980’s and early 1990’s were widescreen.
I would love to see photos of inside the theatre when it converted to seven screens. The basement theatres were lousy and BS Moss had mono system installed in the basement in 1981.
I just posted pictures of the different screens on the main floor. The plaque for the Valencia was missing and AMC removed the LOEWS plaque when they went DOLBY. Unfortunately don’t have them for the downstairs screens.
Don’t like seeing movies downstairs because when AMC went digital, the masking for FLAT films is awful and the manager said they don’t have curtains to cover it. When Loews ran 35MM film downstairs, FLAT films weren’t a problem.
Saw “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” in the Paradise, the masking was no problem and looks like the sound was Dolby Digital. Screens 6 to 12 were originally SDDS and Dolby SR when it open in 1994.
Dolby Digital was in Loews since 1994 and and added to screens 2 and 5 10 years later, hopefully Dolby Digital is now in all.
Does anyone know if any house have Dolby 7.1 in 2 thru 12? Loews was very big at SDDS in 1994. ,
KINGS
Latest seating capacity at Lincoln Square (Based on Cast Members schedule) 1. 291 DOLBY CINEMA AT AMC (former Loews)and AMC Signature Recliners 2.345 (Kings) 3. 317 (State) 4. 299 (Olympia) 5. 335 (Valencia) 6. 172 (Capital) 7. 169 (Paradise) 8. 169 (Avalon) 9. 214 (Majestic) 10. 126 (Canal) 11. 146 (Palace) 12. 187 (Jersey) 13. 472 LASER AT AMC with AMC Signature Plush Rockers
ALL OTHER SCREENS HAS SONY/LOEWS ROCKERS (Not very comfortable for a 3 hour film)
QUESTION, I was on yelp and it look like a auditorium is not stadium seating. Is is possible that 1 or 2 screens are not stadium seating. I almost went their a few years ago on vacation, but went to the Ritz 5 which I wasn’t impressed, it was like a 1980 retro movie place, not modern.
In Brooklyn, NY United Artists converted Sheepshead Bay to Stadium seating with the exception of 2 screens. Did that happen at Riverview also.
Please update, the additional 6 screens opened on August 28, 1998