California Club 6 Theater
850 Ives Dairy Road,
North Miami,
FL
33179
850 Ives Dairy Road,
North Miami,
FL
33179
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For 24-plus years this venue was known as the California Club Theatre because of its location in the mall of that same name. The California Club Mall appears to have opened in 1982. Muvico then announced its $2.8 million theater addition to the Mall to be opened in 1987. The plan was delayed but its cost (said to be $1.2 million higher than an average six-plex due to extra equipment and upgraded seating for the technology-centered venue) led to an impressive venue worth waiting for. The California Club 6 Theatre opened on October 6, 1988 with a soft launch featuring “Altered States” in 70mm, “THX 1138,” “Aliens,” “Indiana Jones,” and “Star Trek.” Its Grand Opening celebration continued with normally-priced films and concessions the next day.
For a very brief period, it was known as the Cineluxe 6 Theater beginning on Christmas Day 2012 and closing permanently just 10 months later on October 24, 2013 at the expiry of a 25-year leasing period.
The Muvico California Club 6 opened on October 7th, 1988 as “The Future of Entertainment has Landed”. Grand opening ad posted.
Yes I believe status should be changed to closed.
Google says it is “permanently closed”. No longer listed in Miami Herald movie times. Facebook link mentioned by Al Alvarez no longer available. Couldn’t find movie times online.
closed down. no showtimes anywhere.
No showtimes anywhere, closed down?
Name change to Cineluxe needed here.
https://www.facebook.com/CineluxeTheaters
if you google this location it is showing first run features. This theater is branded under the company CINELUXE not to be confused with CINELUX.
There is only access by a facebook page I can’t find a webpage yet.
As of 12/10, operating as a second-run bargain house by Touchstar Cinemas:
http://www.touchstarcinemas.com/
Thats possible,maybe they can keep going.
As of January 22, California Club’s still open with three new wide release movies. Perhaps they’re riding it out until “Avatar” runs out of steam.
Dennis, does that mean there wasn’t a seventh room for private showings after all? Enjoyed the advance screenings I attended in auditorium 3 myself, when I was in the (home video) industry. I knew of the amphitheater style at the time thanks to Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre — how few of us could predict it would become standard by the late 90s.
I managed this location for Regal Cinemas in 1997. It was one the most well built 6 screen locations I ever managed. Auditorium 3 had stadium seating and was the screening room for the Miami Herald’s critic during the time I was there (a majority of the films Rene watched in this theatre anyway). It sure was a nice theatre (once). When I ran it, it had a lot of problems that the Mall was having. I also opened “Titanic” at this location. When I was there all the auditoriums were THX certifed and sounded great.
Sad to hear about the California Club’s imminent closing. It was certainly a test lab for many of the creature comforts now expected of megaplexes. Add it to the ever-lengthening list of South Florida cinemas not surviving past a couple decades.
(And the Ocean Cinemas link has expired)
In its original Muvico days, a plaque in the California Club’s lobby explained the theater was a spaceship from the future that fell into a time warp (or the like, don’t remember the exact phrasing), and conveniently crash landed without destroying the K-Mart or Winn-Dixie in the same shopping center at the time. A burst of imagination when most new multiplexes were bland boxes, and CC’s location near the Dade/Broward line lured frequent visitors from points north and south (especially when a new Star Trek sequel opened).
Its original seating had the look of chairs installed during one of the Starship Enterprise’s refurbs; speakers were set up right at the screen surfaces (or lit for such effect), adding to the extraterrestrial ambience. Appropriate for the first film I saw there, Cronenberg’s “The Fly.”
Heard there was a nicely appointed screening room apart from the six main auditoriums, never saw it for myself. One auditorium was set up with stadium seating years before the megaplex phenom hit the U.S.
I think I went there once. It was a dollar theatre in the North Miami area in a mall.
I am not sure Maria but it would make sense with all the competition in the area.
I think the Hernandez who owns this may be the same guy behind National Cinemas who ran a number theatres in Miami in the eighties and nineties including the Ambassador, Atlas, America, Garden, Movies of Kendall and Regency.
Hey AA wasn’t the California Club a dollar theatre for awhile?
I just submitted the Le Jeune tonight, LM.
By the way, the city is North Miami and the zip code is 33179.
Currently operated by Ocean Cinemas, (Le Jeune Cinemas 6), this was a Regal Theatre from 1995-1999.
When it originally opened it was a Muvico novelty building featuring a recently crashed rocketship sticking out of the lobby roof, complete with smoke coming from it. It was impossible to drive by and not stare.
If I’m mistaken this was a early Muvico site that was sold off when the company started to focus on megaplexes like Point Orlando. Over at Muvico.com they claim that the California Club garnered national attention for its stadium seating, THX sound, and expanded concession menu, it also informs that the site opened in 1988.