Regal Manassas Stadium Cinema

Closed October 17th 2024. The landlord sold the property to Hines Homes who is going to build townhomes as part of a redevelopment of the shopping complex. Demolition started January 21st 2025. This was the last Hoyt’s building in the state of Virginia. Also opening date should be updated to May 1999. This location was one of the last locations built by the Australian based chain Hoyt’s before they divested all assets and left the US market.

Let’s just say… …this theater is pretty lousy. The last two movies I saw in this theater were “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” and “Zootopia”(my personal favorite movie).(I saw them in LIMAX AND LIMAX 3D respectively. That is how a normal movie theater installs IMAX equipment in their normal multiplexes not big enough to fit a real IMAX screen.) When I went there both times, the theater was almost empty. And both of them were films that made a lot of money at the box office(especially “Zootopia” and it’s VERY well deserved 1.02 BILLION dollars it made at the worldwide box office). That is definitely due to the age of the theater. It has the same set up as the Regal Bowie Theater(and that can definitely explain since Hoyt’s opened both theaters(back before their USA division was acquired by Regal in the mid 2000s) back when they opened in the late 1990s/early 2000s.), with the uncomfortable seating and poor set up and smell. The IMAX 6.1 sound quality is as AWESOME as usual, but it doesn’t compare to the 12.1 sound that the Airbus IMAX Theater, Universal Cinema, and especially the AMC Lincoln Square IMAX theater has(in fact, all three theaters use the IMAX Laser projection system), but that doesn’t make a poor theater any better. Just like the Regal Bowie theater, this theater is in SERIOUS need of a renovation.