AMC Brunswick Square 13

Starplex Cinemas has taken over operation of the theatre, effective 5/3/12.

In the Star Ledger movie clock on Friday Sept 6th, this theatre is now listed as “Luxury Cinemas 13”

6 screens opened on February 25th and 13 screens on March 17th, 2000.

This theatre was taken over by Howard Grant in 1993. GCC was the operator up until that time. The theatre was operated as a twin until the end of the summer of 1993. This was the last changeover house that I worked in on First Run. It used Century Projectors with Cinemation Pin-board automations. The last films to run as a twin were Rising Sun and Sleepless in Seattle. Earlier that summer was In the Line of Fire. The theatre was closed for conversion to a 5 plex in Sept 1993. The theatres were cut up. The larger theatre to the right was cut into three (larger auditorium in the front and two small theaters in the back) and the smaller theatre was cut into two (back to back). The footprint of the theatre had not changed from the GCC design. They built two single booths inside the front theatres that you had to enter through the auditorium on the right side theatre and from the hall for the left theatre. This new design was to open for Thanksgiving, but it didn’t until Feb 4th 1994. During this time the theatre was mostly finished, but waiting on town approval mostly to do with ADA compliance. This configuration stayed until 2000. Grant took over the McCrorey’s next door to the theatre. Four screens were added in the McCrorey’s and four more were added on the back in an entirely new addition and the 5 original theatres remained. They were converted to all stadium seating and the entire booth was connected on the second floor. The original lobby is still tucked away inside, but the lobby hallway, mall entrance, an outside entrance from McCrorey’s were all altered and do not look anything like the original design. A lot of the original GCC corrugated metal paneling is still inside the original screens and so are the original restrooms. Upstairs is exactly as GCC left it with the exception of the new booth connections through the new addition. In 2013, Starplex took over operation after a dispute with the Mall and original owners. Starplex ran the theatre until AMC bought StarPlex around 2015 in turn making the theatre an AMC Classic Theatre. It still is currently being operated as an AMC in the original configuration from 2000’s renovation. The theatre was never closed except during that first conversion in 1993 and has been in operation in one form or another since 1973.

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