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ridethectrain commented about UA East Hampton 5 on May 18, 2021 at 10:36 pm

Please update, it was triplex on May 26, 1976, became a quad in May 18, 1979, 5th screen added May 22,1981 and eventually a six in the lates 1990s, within the last few years back to 5 screens.

Also, total seats 1080 and rename UA East Hampton 5

Also, added in the photos section first day display ads when each screen open

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ridethectrain commented about Regal UA Grant Plaza 9 on May 18, 2021 at 5:32 pm

Please update, total seats 850 with recliner seating.

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ridethectrain commented about Regal UA Hampton Bays 5 Theatre on May 18, 2021 at 12:53 pm

Please update, total seats 979 based on Regal/Fandango ticketing websites.

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ridethectrain commented about Southampton Playhouse on May 18, 2021 at 10:22 am

from the south hampton press and the theatre been remove from Regal website: Kitty Merrill on Feb 23, 2021          Ken Karlin, owner of the Hill Street building once home to the Southampton movie theater, says he hasn’t been paid rent in a year. The COVID-19 pandemic hit cinemas across the country hard, prompting wholesale closures in the ailing industry. In the spring of 2020, the Regal movie chain shut down all 536 of its movie theaters, including the one in Southampton and the one in East Hampton. The theater in Hampton Bays had closed earlier, before the coronavirus crisis, and may be turned into a CVS drug store. The Southampton theater owner, a North Fork resident, said his family has owned the site for 40 years and it’s been for sale “for some time,” with an asking price of $8.9 million. “I’m bleeding money,” he said, adding, “it’s time to move on.”

Though the property has been up for sale for a while, community curiosity was piqued when, during the last several weeks, fresh “for sale” signs appeared on the building’s doors. Mr. Karlin said he’d been in contract to sell the building “many times,” but the contracts fall through in the face of village bureaucracy. He stopped short of elucidating the nature of the governmental impediments to successful sales, but was emphatic that his building’s zoning means “I can put anything in there.” He said officials are adamant about having a movie theater at the site. His response? “Then you buy it and operate it.” Village Board member Mark Parash wandered the rooms of that theater in his youth growing up in the village. “I grew up going in and out of all those rooms,” he recalled. A movie theater is one of the primary assets a vibrant village or hamlet has, the lawmaker pointed out. “I’d love to see someone come in with a vision,” he said, offering his “dream” of a performing arts center similar to Bay Street in Sag Harbor or the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center being established in Southampton. That type of a destination use is “a huge draw,” Mr. Parash observed. At this point, Mr. Karlin said, it doesn’t matter to him whether the buyer chooses to use the building for a theater or not. “I don’t really care who does what with it, not my concern anymore. Pay me my money, I walk away, it’s all yours. Have fun.” He acknowledged some companies are trying to find ways to draw people into theaters, with food and alcohol a potential. “God bless them, do whatever you want. Just not on my dime.” According to the website Cinema Treasures, the Colonial-style movie house was opened by Glynn Theatres in 1932 as the 1,000-seat Southampton Theatre. It was operated by Prudential Circuit in the 1940s. It was split into a fourplex in the 1990s and operated by United Artists, then as a Regal UA cinema more recently. Regal reopened some of the theaters that had been closed due to COVID-19 at the end of the summer, only to close them again in October, citing the lack of business.

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ridethectrain commented about Southampton Playhouse on May 18, 2021 at 10:17 am

please update, closed permanently. Landlord sold the building

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ridethectrain commented about Stonestown Twin on May 18, 2021 at 10:02 am

Please update, closed new new theatre opens Friday

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ridethectrain commented about Regal Stonestown Galleria 12 Theatre on May 18, 2021 at 10:01 am

Please update open

From datebook.comRegal announces grand opening of new Stonestown movie theater in S.F. G. Allen Johnson May 18, 2021Updated: May 18, 2021, 8:53 am

The outside of the new 12-screen Regal Stonestown Galleria ScreenX, 4DX & RPX in San Francisco. The new movie theater is set to open to the public Friday, May 21. It will offer $3 movie tickets through May 26. Photo: G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle Movie theaters are not only reopening in San Francisco during the pandemic, new ones are opening.

Regal announced that the long-awaited debut of its newest state-of-the-art theater, the 12-screen Regal Stonestown Galleria ScreenX, 4DX and RPX, will happen Friday, May 21, with a slate of current films including “Spiral: Saw.”

To celebrate the opening, movie tickets will be $3 for all shows through Wednesday, May 26. “A Quiet Place Part II” and “Cruella” open on Thursday, May 27.

“Regal is redefining the moviegoing experience at Stonestown Galleria where guests will enjoy the latest in technology and amenities, including three premium format auditoriums,” said Richard Grover, vice president of communications at Regal, in a statement released Tuesday, May 18. “We always strive to be ‘the best place to watch a movie’ and are excited to provide San Francisco moviegoers a new theatre with top-of-line technology, delicious concessions and memorable experiences.”

It should be a moving experience — literally. The 4DX experience includes enhanced special effects including motion-synchronized seats. The theater’s ScreenX auditorium offers a 270-degree panoramic screen. Also, the Regal Premium Experience (RPX) auditorium features uncompressed surround sound and “bright eye-popping images in a custom-built premium environment,” according to Regal.

The Stonestown theater, which has been under construction for more than two years, replaces the mall’s Macy’s department store that closed in March 2018. The opening could be good timing for Regal: Brookfield Properties, the owner of Stonestown Galleria, announced plans this March to transform the suburban-style mall into a neighborhood with nearly 3,000 housing units, six acres of green spaces and a new 20th Avenue that would become a “main street” lined with shops and residential buildings.

Regal, the Knoxville, Tenn.-based theater chain, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group, operates five other movie theaters in the Bay Area. Regal’s Jack London in Oakland and Regal UA Berkeley reopened on Friday, May 14, joining the previously reopened Hacienda Crossings in Dublin.

Regal’s Crow Canyon in San Ramon still has not reopened. Also unclear is the status of Regal’s UA Stonestown, which opened on Nov. 10, 1970, with the Barbra Streisand film “The Owl and the Pussycat.”

Unlike other chains, Regal did not reopen theaters at all during 2020 after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown in March, not even during a period in the fall when coronavirus cases were lower and as some theaters reopened before another shutdown in December.

Regal operates 519 theaters — for a total of 6,914 screens — in 42 states along with the District of Columbia and Guam. Cineworld is the second-largest theater chain in the world and in the U.S., behind AMC Theatres.

  1. Allen Johnson
  2. Allen Johnson is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: Twitter: @BRfilmsAllen
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ridethectrain commented about Regal Atlas Park Stadium 8 on May 17, 2021 at 5:52 pm

Basic Regal theatre, all screens has masking. jUst posted updated photos of the theatre in the photos section

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ridethectrain commented about Harbor Square Theatre on May 15, 2021 at 7:53 pm

Please update, 495 seats.

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ridethectrain commented about Tilton Square Theatre on May 15, 2021 at 2:21 pm

Please update grand reopening under current owenrs April 23, 2019 Grand Opening ad posted

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ridethectrain commented about Manhasset Cinemas on May 13, 2021 at 8:47 pm

PLEASE update open, and it became a triplex on February 15,1980

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ridethectrain commented about Manhasset Cinemas on May 13, 2021 at 8:07 pm

Malverne, Bellmore and NorthShore is reopening. Their was a newspaper article about Franklin Square closed permently and Grand Avenue had for rent signs posted.

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ridethectrain commented about Bellmore Movies & the Showplace on May 13, 2021 at 8:06 pm

The theatre is reopening in a few weeks, recently got an email, on the stamfels mailing list.

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ridethectrain commented about Grand Avenue Cinemas on May 13, 2021 at 8:05 pm

When did Manhasset reopen, don’t see a website at robboehm. It hard keeping up with some theatres, showtimes not on fandango and newspapers don’t put showclocks in. does Manhasset have a website.

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ridethectrain commented about Bloomington 13 at Mall of America on May 13, 2021 at 5:03 pm

read full story at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftcbmag.com%2Fmall-of-america-movie-theater-to-reopen-as-bb-theatres%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cdbc26dee98764bd734a108d91631b1ef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637565224952296576%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=BUssAFMqHhqbmN71oAylbcb0ileWRdvNd2yYtLQqZgQ%3D&reserved=0

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ridethectrain commented about Bloomington 13 at Mall of America on May 13, 2021 at 5:02 pm

Please update, theatre reopening May 27 under B and B Theatres, the new name is Bloomington 13 at Mall of America

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ridethectrain commented about Regal Pohatcong Cinema 12 on May 12, 2021 at 4:25 pm

Please update, total seats 2036 Only 7 of the 12 are stadium seating based on Regal seating charts.

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ridethectrain commented about Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn on May 11, 2021 at 8:04 pm

Are they still expanding to 14 screens, only 7 open last Friday. Very disappointed they are closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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ridethectrain commented about Landmark Westwood Theatre on May 11, 2021 at 2:42 pm

Please update, total seats 168 based on landmark ticketing system. New leather seats were installed.

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ridethectrain commented about Tinker Street Cinema on May 8, 2021 at 6:03 pm

Please update closed

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ridethectrain commented about Cinedome Theatres on May 8, 2021 at 3:21 pm

Please update, theatre closed January 6, 1999. It the later years it was discount theatre. Final display ad posted. It became a discount theatre November 21, 1997 when the Stadium 25 opened by Angels Stadium.

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ridethectrain commented about College Plaza Twin Cinemas on May 3, 2021 at 11:55 am

grand opening ad in photos section from Newsday

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ridethectrain commented about Regal Union Square Stadium 17 on May 1, 2021 at 11:10 am

At TheHorror13, did yo look at theatre 11, the screen is scope, not flat

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ridethectrain commented about Regal Union Square Stadium 17 on Apr 30, 2021 at 11:23 pm

thehorror13. Did you look inside theatre 4, 5 and 9. Like to see photos of those houses. Theatre 17 wasn’t bad. I wish Regal left those 2 balcony screens as is. Since covid-19 haven’t got to Union Square yet, very poor selection of new movies to see

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ridethectrain commented about Township Theatre on Apr 25, 2021 at 10:20 am

Please update, total seats 454 Theatre 1 120, Theatre 2 225 and Theatre 3 109