Neonopolis 11
450 E. Fremont Street,
Las Vegas,
NV
89101
450 E. Fremont Street,
Las Vegas,
NV
89101
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Previously operated by: Crown Theatres LLC, Galaxy Theatre Corporation
Previous Names: Crown Neonopolis 14, Galaxy Neonopolis 11
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News About This Theater
- May 13, 2009 — Fremont Street theater closes
The Neonopolis complex was built in 2001, opening on May 3, 2002. It heralded the beginning of the revival of downtown Las Vegas and featured antique neon signs from the city’s past, together with an open-air shopping mall on ground floor, a food court and entertainment centre, which includes the 14-screen Neonopolis Cinema operated by Crown Cinemas were on the upper level. It was built on land (part of) which had contained the 1972 built, Cinema 1-2-3.
There was a free-standing ticket office located on the sidewalk at the Northeast corner of 4th Street and East Fremont Street. It had signage giving the name ‘Neonopolis 14 but soon after opening, 3 screens were closed and converted into a World Poke center. The Crown Neonopolis 11 was taken over by Galaxy Theatres in September 2006. It was closed on May 7, 2009.
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I saw about four, forgettable movies here with my wife. I enjoyed the theater, though, and was wondering what happened to it.
It’s currently being being renovated as “The World’s Largest Gay Nightclub” to be called Krave Massive. It should be open by early January. Construction pics and a floor plan can be seen Krave Massive’s Facebook page.
The gay nightclub will also contain Guest House Theatres – a two screen movie theatre showing gay-themed movies, so it looks like technically this one will reopen – just with a drastically reduced screen count.
I only ever saw one movie here “War of the Worlds” (Tom Cruise version) The people were rude, the concessions were even higher priced than normal for the time. As a lifetime resident of Las Vegas this place just never appealed to me.
The venue will open in mid June. the Guest House Theatres will primarily(sp?)show films from L.A based Guest House Pictures with other,non-porn,LGBT films mixed in.
The venue closed,again,in late August because its owner failed to get a state tax license and because he owes the city and state money. Its sister club,Drink & Drag,located in the same building,has also closed. No word on when either will open.
I’m not sure where the theater was located in this complex, but it is gone now. This directory on the Neonopolis web site shows a number of vacant spaces along with an assortment of shops, restaurants, offices, a brew pub, a nightclub, and even a gallery operated by the Las Vegas Art Museum, but no movie theater. The short-lived Krave Massive is long gone.
This opened on May 3rd, 2002. Grand opening ad posted. Crown theatres opened three downtown theatres in Las Vegas, Minneapolis and in Florida. All failed.
The theatre had 14 screens originally. The closed 1-3 so it could be used for World Poke in an effort to get people to the Neonoplis. The shopping never took over. When it opened only 42% of the spaces were filled. Of those, more when on the lower level. The food court and theatre was on upper levels. The food court only had 2 restaurants being used of 13 spaces when the shopping mall opened. Neonopolis was never called a “ mall ”, nut that is how Neonopolis was marketed. Crown Theatres pulled out and Galaxy Theatres took over Despite poor numbers Galaxy Theatres wanted to remain at Neonopolis. The theatre closed because the air conditioning has been out for over 6 months. Galaxy Theatres believed the Neonopolis management should fix the issues. Neonopolis said Galaxy Theatres has to make repairs and said it as in the NNNN lease they sub-leased from Crown Theatres. When the Galaxy Neonopolis is was originally was to be temporary. Galaxy Theatres went back and fourth and finally closed the theatre permanently. Neonopolis management, Crown , and Galaxy all filed lawsuits against each other. Downtown Las Vegas does not support movie tgeatres. Neonopolis lasted 8 years and Downtown Cinemas lasted exactly 9 years,3 names and 3 owners. Opening as Eclipse Theatres 12-8-16, closing and not reopening due to the 2020 pandemic. Reopened on June 3, 2021 as the Art Houz Theaters. In 2023 it was renamed Downtown Cinemas, and was closed on December 7, 2025. Now with $22 million spent of this failure of a movie theatre, new owners are spending another $5 million to transform it into an arts center.
Wrong theater. Downtown Cinemas was at 3rd Street. The Neonopolis is at, well, Neonopolis. Although they were a few blocks away from each other, they aren’t the same, and the Neonopolis was never named “Downtown Cinemas” and was called “Galaxy Neonopolis 11” until closing in 2009.
Please rename this theater back to “Neonopolis 11” and remove the last paragraph, as that section is for the unrelated former Downtown Cinemas a few blocks away.
Additionally, Galaxy Theatres took over the theater from Crown Theatres in September 2006. Galaxy closed the theater after daily operations on May 7th, 2009. Attempt after attempt to try and reutilize the theater’s space has spectacularly failed.
From what I heard online, it wasn’t the theater itself that was doing poor—it was Neonopolis itself that caused the theater to close. To begin with, Neonopolis never became the popular shopping center it had hoped to be despite being adjacent to the Fremont Street Experience.
Towards the theater’s waning years, Galaxy kept butting heads with Neonopolis. Firstly, to be able to even go see a movie here, you would have to park in the parking garage, which was paid. That was the first nail of the coffin, and it didn’t help that the theater was placed in the third level, making accessibility less than ideal.
The final nail in the coffin was when Neonopolis’ management was unwilling to pay for the A/C system in the theater, which kept shutting off on days, which obviously drove out patrons, because who would want to pay to sit in an auditorium with no A/C? Fed up, Galaxy rightfully left the plaza and closed the theater.
While I do mourn the losses of movie theatres, Downtown Las Vegas was never really kind towards first-run movie theatres. With Downtown Cinemas a few blocks away closing last year, it was clear that there wasn’t really an appetite for mainstream movies. The Beverly Theater cleverly broke that barrier, becoming Vegas’s first indie theater, and it has since been extremely popular.
Movie theatres aren’t dying. They just need to find the audience for it.