Regal UA Hampton Bays 5 Theatre

robboehm on June 2, 2021 at 11:03 pm

Did reopen after Covid. During Covid there had been discussion about the theatre becoming a CVS. Heard nothing lately. When CVS was going to acquire the Lindenhurst Theatre site it took a couple of years. Will history repeat itself?

robboehm on February 15, 2023 at 3:32 pm

The CVS takeover is dragging on while studies are being taken about the impact, yada, yada. I was told the owner had offered Regal a new lease at a lesser rate but was turned down. In the meantime they are just operating the theatre on a month to month basis. Regal is in trouble and is closing theatres right and left. I can see why they didn’t want to negotiate a new lease. They were supposed to take over the old Walmart sites in Massapequa Park and Riverhead but backed out of those.

I recall that when CVS wanted to take over the site of the shuttered Lindenhurst Theatre there was also a long period of studies, negotiations, etc.. And that was a free standing building!

ridethectrain on January 29, 2025 at 7:29 pm

Please rename Regal UA Hampton Bays

Seating capacity:

Theatre 1 158 seats

Theatre 2 230 seats

Theatre 3 225 seats

Theatre 4 224 seats

Theatre 5 139 seats

ridethectrain on January 26, 2026 at 11:38 pm

Hampton Bays Movie Theater Will Close Permanently Thursday Michael Wright 5 hrs ago The Hampton Bays movie theater will close for good following it’s final showings this Thursday night, January 29.

According to the Regal UA website the final movies at the theater will be Thursday night’s 7:45 showing of “Greenland 2: Migration” after which no further showings are listed.

The cinema’s manager confirmed that the theater will close this week — a decision made between the theater’s parent company Cineworld and the property’s landlord, WDP Enterprises. The theater was shuttered for more than a year during the coronavirus pandemic and had been on the chopping block as Cineworld went through bankruptcy in the wake of the pandemic.

The property’s owner, Walter Morris, told the press in 2023 that he had been working on retooling the theater building to be taken over by a CVS even before the pandemic and Cineworld’s financial troubles. But the CVS idea had proven too complicated and foundered. The Cineworld shifted gears.

After initially being told by the European theater company — which owns Regal Cinemas, the second largest movie theater chain in the U.S. — that it did not want to renew its lease for the Hampton Bays cinema, the company reconsidered. Having emerged from bankruptcy that spring, and buoyed by the surge in cinema business driven by the “Barbenheimer” double-feature fad that summer, Cineworld told WDP Enterprises that it wished to keep the theater operating and had applied for a license to sell beer and wine at the theater from the New York State Liquor Authority.

The license was granted and remains active — and beer and wine will be sold at this week’s final showings.

Nobody from WDP Enterrises, which owns the entire strip mall that contains the cinema, could be reached for comment about the future of the property’s anchor storefront on Monday afternoon.

ridethectrain on January 31, 2026 at 2:04 pm

please update cliosed