Please update, screens 13 thru 20 is operated by City Church St. Petersburgh, when the church is in operation, AMC opens the doors to that part of the building
From the New York Post on March 22, 2022 article:After a very long intermission, this theater is finally set to return.
For 17 years, Manhattan’s Metro Theater has been collecting dust on the Upper West Side. Since 2005, the 82-year-old Art Deco theater has sat vacant, nearly home to numerous tenants — Urban Outfitters, Planet Fitness, Alamo Drafthouse, an arts education nonprofit — all of which eventually fell through.
Now, though, it’s official: A lease has finally been signed and the historic building will stay a cinema.
“There have been so many false starts and failed plans at The Metro; I think a lot of us started to feel like Charlie Brown with the football and had given up being excited,” Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine told The Post. When he heard yet another potential business was interested in bringing back the Broadway building, “I decided that I wouldn’t celebrate until I heard it directly from a tenant that a lease had been signed.”
And now that’s finally happened.
“This is real, I heard it direct from the head of the company: The lease has been signed so there’s no turning back,” he went on. “They’re asking for a bit of anonymity at this point, but I can tell you unambiguously that this is real, it’s happening, and it’s a best case scenario.”
The 10,260-square-foot building will become a “Community Entertainment” and “multi-screen cinema center, with restaurant facilities and community meeting rooms on a rental basis,” longtime owner Albert Bialek told The West Side Rag. Since being built in the 1930s, the two-story building has housed an art house cinema, pornography theater and two national movie chains, and still boasts the same landmarked exterior. Its interior, however, has since been gutted.
“It kind of works for this new format because it’s going to be a large number of smaller screens,” Levine noted optimistically of the blank interior canvas.
The yet unnamed company of “renowned people” from California are refusing to reveal their identity until they “file their plans” in the next few weeks, but they’ll offer movie-goers an alcohol-equipped dine-in film experience, the Rag reported.
In response to The Post’s inquiry, movie chain Alamo Drafthouse — which almost built a five-screen theater in the space before backing out in 2012 — offered no comment regarding if it is the secret new tenant.
The news is a huge boon for the area, which has lost a lot of businesses during the pandemic and is now pockmarked by empty storefronts.
“It’s been a rough two years,” said Levine, who represented part of the Upper West Side during his time on New York City Council from 2014 to 2021. “We had feared this would be a chain clothing store or a pharmacy, although anything would’ve been better than abandonment.”
Its vacancy has indeed been not only sad but also expensive: Bialek has been charged over $840,000 in city property taxes in the time the address has remained vacant, the Real Deal previously reported.
“This is gonna transform that area,” Levine went on enthusiastically. “This is just the boost that the neighborhood needed.”
Please update the theatre opened on August 15,1915 as the Columbia Theater. Currently, the theatre is operating on private events only. Add Columbia Theater as previous names. Source from NewJerseyhills.com/
@robbohm The Lynbrook project was proposed in 1995 by United Artists Theatre Circuit, they were originally going to expand the Marlboro and Bayside locations which never happen. Lynbrook took almost 25 years to finally happen. With all the political bs with the village, it took forever.
Please update, theatre opened August 3, 1933, Clearveiw Cinemas took control of the theatre in September 1997 from United Artists Theatre Circuit and became a triplex on November 20, 1998.
From the theatre owners as of today post on Facebook:
Hi Folks
Just to let all of you know, work is still coming along. The seats have arrived! We are still targeting a late Spring opening in time for the summer releases. To those of you that have been asking questions to us in our mailbox…. Here are some common answers…
1) We will announce about 4-6 weeks before opening when we are looking to interview for staffing
2) There will be online ticket sales
3) There will be birthday party & theater rentals available but we cannot book anything right now till we have a locked in date.
As soon as we have more information, we will pass it along…
See you soon.
AT m00se1111, yes it could, had to move seats at the AMC Village VII in New York City, it’s recliners but if it not real stadium seating, obstruction could be a problem. Best to go when it’s not busy.
Please update, reopening on Friday, February 11, 2022 with Death on a Nile, Parallel Mothers, West Side Story and Belfast and the name of the theatre is The Picture House Bronxvile Theatre
Landmark’s San Francisco Embarcadero Center Cinema to Close
In the latest sign of a challenged art house market, a powerhouse theater location in San Francisco will cease operation Friday.Industry sources confirm that the seven-screen the Landmark Theatre Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco will shut down Friday. The theater’s website has no bookings beyond today, and distributors were informed earlier this week.
Although no reason for the departure has been announced, sources suggest it was the landlord’s decision to not extend the lease after non-payment of rent. Landmark did not responded to press inquiries.
Built in 1995 and completely remodeled in 2014, the theater has been a major Bay Area player in first-run specialized exhibition and one of the most critical national locations. It is currently showing “Parallel Mothers” and “Jockey” (Sony Pictures Classics), “Flee” (Neon), “A Hero” (Amazon), “Belfast” (Focus), “Gamestop: Rise of the Players” (Neon), “Red Rocket” (A24), and “The French Dispatch” (Searchlight).
It’s not the sole A-list specialized location in the city; these include AMC at the Metreon and Kabuki, Cinemark’s Century San Francisco Centre, which played exclusive runs of platform titles, as well as Alamo Drafthouse’s New Mission. Neon confirmed that “The Worst Person In the World” will now open at the Kabuki.
As recently as 2019, the Landmark theaters enjoyed a $67,000 opening weekend on “The Farewell.” It also played initial city runs of “Parasite,” “The Favourite,” and “Belfast.”
Eight markets host Landmark Theatres; this is at least the ninth Landmark theater to be vacated in just over two years. Among these are New York’s 57 West, Washington, D.C.’s West End, Houston’s River Oaks, Minneapolis’ Uptown Edina, St. Louis’ Tivoli, Detroit’s Main Art, and San Diego’s Ken. In 2018, prior to current owner Charles Cohen’s acquisition of the chain, Landmark closed the Sunshine in Manhattan as well.
Landmark retains the four-screen Opera Plaza in San Francisco. The theater had a major remodeling in 2019, but has been secondary to the Embarcadero for top specialized films. It currently is playing “Drive My Car,” “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,” “House of Gucci,” “Rifkin’s Festival,” and “Simple Passion.” They also have three locations in the East Bay and Peninsula.
Please update, theatre opening February 10, 2022. Tickets on sale starting February 1. Revised grand opening ad in photos, this is the 3rd delayed opening
From Alamo Drafthouse Press Release:We haven’t had much news to share with you all about our new theater on Staten Island, but the so-called Forgotten Borough is forgotten no longer. We are excited to announce that construction is wrapping up at our newest New York City outpost at The Boulevard shopping plaza on Hylan Boulevard.
Our last update on our Staten Island theater was – checks notes – 2018 (?!), when we revealed the concept behind our RZA-curated, kung-fu-themed bar The Flying Guillotine (named after the Shaw Bros. classic MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE). Rest assured, though, that our design and construction teams have been hard at work on this action-packed new location.
Like all Alamo Drafthouse cinemas, our Staten Island theater will offer a full food and drink menu with appetizers, entrees, and desserts available, as well as full bar options including innovative cocktails, spirits, award-winning milkshakes, and a huge selection of local draft beers brought right to your seat by our amazing ninja servers. Staten Island will be home to 9 screens ranging in size from 200 seats to 37, with a total of 893 fully-reclining seats for you to enjoy the latest Hollywood blockbusters, indie titles, classics, not-so-classics, foreign films, insane rediscoveries, restorations, rarities, documentaries, cult stuff, music stuff, interactive parties (whew) and lots more. From family-friendly sing-a-longs to B-movie trash, it’s all under one gigantic roof here in Staten Island. And, yes, there will be 35mm!
In addition to a vast menu of beers, wines and cocktails, The Flying Guillotine bar will also feature a video store offering free rentals from an exhaustive collection of titles, including martial arts classics personally curated by RZA. It’ll also have an archive of memorabilia and posters that cover the vast span of kung fu film history.
OK, so your next question is probably going to be, “When do you open?” We don’t have a solid opening date and don’t want to commit to anything just yet, but things are progressing very quickly, so let’s just say it will be sooner rather than later. There still are a few minor things to be finished before we can start showing movies, but below you’ll find a few photos giving you a sneak peek at what all is happening inside the theater. We have a lot of fun stuff planned to celebrate our opening and to stay up to date on an exact opening date and any special events, sign up for Alamo Victory at drafthouse.com/victory.
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A treasured Brooklyn movie theater has closed after serving the community for more than two decades.
The Regal UA Court Street theater shuttered its doors earlier this month, reportedly without warning, taking many by surprise.
Rendy Jones, a 23-year-old Crown Heights resident, described as a “movie buff” by The New York Times, told the outlet he cried when he first heard the news on Twitter that the theater had closed.
“I started going there before I could even walk, either with my mom or dad,” he said. “I still have my ticket stubs. I’m looking at them now.”
Last week, a spokesperson for Madison International Realty, the property owner, said it “shared the community’s disappointment in the sudden closing of the Regal theater. We are in the process of assessing the situation and gathering more information.”
In a statement, Regal Cinemas said that it was forced to make the decision after it failed to reach an agreement with the landlord on a new lease, “reflecting the need for a major and very costly renovation” at the 13-story megaplex.
“Unfortunately, Regal was not able to reach an agreement with the landlord on a fair and sustainable rent that would have allowed for the very significant renovation investment needed,” a company spokesperson said. “Since the term of the lease had ended and the negotiations with the landlord failed, we instead had to close the location.”
1010 WINS reached out to Madison International Realty for comment. By Brian Brant WCBS Newsradio 880
Please correct, it was renamed AMC NewCity 14
Please update, screens 13 thru 20 is operated by City Church St. Petersburgh, when the church is in operation, AMC opens the doors to that part of the building
The 8 screens on the right is operated by St Petersburgh Church
From the New York Post on March 22, 2022 article:After a very long intermission, this theater is finally set to return.
For 17 years, Manhattan’s Metro Theater has been collecting dust on the Upper West Side. Since 2005, the 82-year-old Art Deco theater has sat vacant, nearly home to numerous tenants — Urban Outfitters, Planet Fitness, Alamo Drafthouse, an arts education nonprofit — all of which eventually fell through.
Now, though, it’s official: A lease has finally been signed and the historic building will stay a cinema.
“There have been so many false starts and failed plans at The Metro; I think a lot of us started to feel like Charlie Brown with the football and had given up being excited,” Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine told The Post. When he heard yet another potential business was interested in bringing back the Broadway building, “I decided that I wouldn’t celebrate until I heard it directly from a tenant that a lease had been signed.”
And now that’s finally happened.
“This is real, I heard it direct from the head of the company: The lease has been signed so there’s no turning back,” he went on. “They’re asking for a bit of anonymity at this point, but I can tell you unambiguously that this is real, it’s happening, and it’s a best case scenario.”
The 10,260-square-foot building will become a “Community Entertainment” and “multi-screen cinema center, with restaurant facilities and community meeting rooms on a rental basis,” longtime owner Albert Bialek told The West Side Rag. Since being built in the 1930s, the two-story building has housed an art house cinema, pornography theater and two national movie chains, and still boasts the same landmarked exterior. Its interior, however, has since been gutted. “It kind of works for this new format because it’s going to be a large number of smaller screens,” Levine noted optimistically of the blank interior canvas.
The yet unnamed company of “renowned people” from California are refusing to reveal their identity until they “file their plans” in the next few weeks, but they’ll offer movie-goers an alcohol-equipped dine-in film experience, the Rag reported.
In response to The Post’s inquiry, movie chain Alamo Drafthouse — which almost built a five-screen theater in the space before backing out in 2012 — offered no comment regarding if it is the secret new tenant.
The news is a huge boon for the area, which has lost a lot of businesses during the pandemic and is now pockmarked by empty storefronts.
“It’s been a rough two years,” said Levine, who represented part of the Upper West Side during his time on New York City Council from 2014 to 2021. “We had feared this would be a chain clothing store or a pharmacy, although anything would’ve been better than abandonment.”
Its vacancy has indeed been not only sad but also expensive: Bialek has been charged over $840,000 in city property taxes in the time the address has remained vacant, the Real Deal previously reported.
“This is gonna transform that area,” Levine went on enthusiastically. “This is just the boost that the neighborhood needed.”
Please update the theatre opened on August 15,1915 as the Columbia Theater. Currently, the theatre is operating on private events only. Add Columbia Theater as previous names. Source from NewJerseyhills.com/
@robbohm The Lynbrook project was proposed in 1995 by United Artists Theatre Circuit, they were originally going to expand the Marlboro and Bayside locations which never happen. Lynbrook took almost 25 years to finally happen. With all the political bs with the village, it took forever.
Please update, theatre opened August 3, 1933, Clearveiw Cinemas took control of the theatre in September 1997 from United Artists Theatre Circuit and became a triplex on November 20, 1998.
From the theatre owners as of today post on Facebook: Hi Folks Just to let all of you know, work is still coming along. The seats have arrived! We are still targeting a late Spring opening in time for the summer releases. To those of you that have been asking questions to us in our mailbox…. Here are some common answers… 1) We will announce about 4-6 weeks before opening when we are looking to interview for staffing 2) There will be online ticket sales 3) There will be birthday party & theater rentals available but we cannot book anything right now till we have a locked in date. As soon as we have more information, we will pass it along… See you soon.
AT m00se1111, yes it could, had to move seats at the AMC Village VII in New York City, it’s recliners but if it not real stadium seating, obstruction could be a problem. Best to go when it’s not busy.
Please update, total seats 470 and it became Cinebistro on October 16, 2009
Please update, total seats 2235 and 1 screen has Dolby Cinema
Please update, reopen on February 18, 2022
Please update, total seats 666. Theatre 1 and 2 233 seats and Theatre 3 upstairs 200
Please update, reopening on Friday, February 11, 2022 with Death on a Nile, Parallel Mothers, West Side Story and Belfast and the name of the theatre is The Picture House Bronxvile Theatre
Please update, closed as February 3, 2022
From indiewire by Tom Brueggemann
Landmark’s San Francisco Embarcadero Center Cinema to Close In the latest sign of a challenged art house market, a powerhouse theater location in San Francisco will cease operation Friday.Industry sources confirm that the seven-screen the Landmark Theatre Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco will shut down Friday. The theater’s website has no bookings beyond today, and distributors were informed earlier this week.
Although no reason for the departure has been announced, sources suggest it was the landlord’s decision to not extend the lease after non-payment of rent. Landmark did not responded to press inquiries.
Built in 1995 and completely remodeled in 2014, the theater has been a major Bay Area player in first-run specialized exhibition and one of the most critical national locations. It is currently showing “Parallel Mothers” and “Jockey” (Sony Pictures Classics), “Flee” (Neon), “A Hero” (Amazon), “Belfast” (Focus), “Gamestop: Rise of the Players” (Neon), “Red Rocket” (A24), and “The French Dispatch” (Searchlight).
It’s not the sole A-list specialized location in the city; these include AMC at the Metreon and Kabuki, Cinemark’s Century San Francisco Centre, which played exclusive runs of platform titles, as well as Alamo Drafthouse’s New Mission. Neon confirmed that “The Worst Person In the World” will now open at the Kabuki. As recently as 2019, the Landmark theaters enjoyed a $67,000 opening weekend on “The Farewell.” It also played initial city runs of “Parasite,” “The Favourite,” and “Belfast.”
Eight markets host Landmark Theatres; this is at least the ninth Landmark theater to be vacated in just over two years. Among these are New York’s 57 West, Washington, D.C.’s West End, Houston’s River Oaks, Minneapolis’ Uptown Edina, St. Louis’ Tivoli, Detroit’s Main Art, and San Diego’s Ken. In 2018, prior to current owner Charles Cohen’s acquisition of the chain, Landmark closed the Sunshine in Manhattan as well.
Landmark retains the four-screen Opera Plaza in San Francisco. The theater had a major remodeling in 2019, but has been secondary to the Embarcadero for top specialized films. It currently is playing “Drive My Car,” “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,” “House of Gucci,” “Rifkin’s Festival,” and “Simple Passion.” They also have three locations in the East Bay and Peninsula.
According to the theatre, hopefully they plan to open in April 2022.
Please update, total seats 699. Look must of added seats.
New Capacity based on Look ticketing system 1 and 2 98 seats 3. 109 4. 113 5. 64 6. 65 7 and 8 76 seats
Please update, total seats 309. Theatre 1 155 and Theatre 2 154
Please update, theatre opening February 10, 2022. Tickets on sale starting February 1. Revised grand opening ad in photos, this is the 3rd delayed opening
The only decent auditorium is Screen A(Theatre 1). I just uploaded photos of the large and smaller screens in the photos section from my visit in 2016
From Alamo Drafthouse Press Release:We haven’t had much news to share with you all about our new theater on Staten Island, but the so-called Forgotten Borough is forgotten no longer. We are excited to announce that construction is wrapping up at our newest New York City outpost at The Boulevard shopping plaza on Hylan Boulevard.
Our last update on our Staten Island theater was – checks notes – 2018 (?!), when we revealed the concept behind our RZA-curated, kung-fu-themed bar The Flying Guillotine (named after the Shaw Bros. classic MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE). Rest assured, though, that our design and construction teams have been hard at work on this action-packed new location.
Like all Alamo Drafthouse cinemas, our Staten Island theater will offer a full food and drink menu with appetizers, entrees, and desserts available, as well as full bar options including innovative cocktails, spirits, award-winning milkshakes, and a huge selection of local draft beers brought right to your seat by our amazing ninja servers. Staten Island will be home to 9 screens ranging in size from 200 seats to 37, with a total of 893 fully-reclining seats for you to enjoy the latest Hollywood blockbusters, indie titles, classics, not-so-classics, foreign films, insane rediscoveries, restorations, rarities, documentaries, cult stuff, music stuff, interactive parties (whew) and lots more. From family-friendly sing-a-longs to B-movie trash, it’s all under one gigantic roof here in Staten Island. And, yes, there will be 35mm!
In addition to a vast menu of beers, wines and cocktails, The Flying Guillotine bar will also feature a video store offering free rentals from an exhaustive collection of titles, including martial arts classics personally curated by RZA. It’ll also have an archive of memorabilia and posters that cover the vast span of kung fu film history.
OK, so your next question is probably going to be, “When do you open?” We don’t have a solid opening date and don’t want to commit to anything just yet, but things are progressing very quickly, so let’s just say it will be sooner rather than later. There still are a few minor things to be finished before we can start showing movies, but below you’ll find a few photos giving you a sneak peek at what all is happening inside the theater. We have a lot of fun stuff planned to celebrate our opening and to stay up to date on an exact opening date and any special events, sign up for Alamo Victory at drafthouse.com/victory.
Please correct, it will be 9 screens with a total of 893 seats with one screen equipped with 35MM Film. Location hasn’t open yet, date tba
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A treasured Brooklyn movie theater has closed after serving the community for more than two decades.
The Regal UA Court Street theater shuttered its doors earlier this month, reportedly without warning, taking many by surprise.
Rendy Jones, a 23-year-old Crown Heights resident, described as a “movie buff” by The New York Times, told the outlet he cried when he first heard the news on Twitter that the theater had closed.
“I started going there before I could even walk, either with my mom or dad,” he said. “I still have my ticket stubs. I’m looking at them now.”
Last week, a spokesperson for Madison International Realty, the property owner, said it “shared the community’s disappointment in the sudden closing of the Regal theater. We are in the process of assessing the situation and gathering more information.”
In a statement, Regal Cinemas said that it was forced to make the decision after it failed to reach an agreement with the landlord on a new lease, “reflecting the need for a major and very costly renovation” at the 13-story megaplex.
“Unfortunately, Regal was not able to reach an agreement with the landlord on a fair and sustainable rent that would have allowed for the very significant renovation investment needed,” a company spokesperson said. “Since the term of the lease had ended and the negotiations with the landlord failed, we instead had to close the location.”
1010 WINS reached out to Madison International Realty for comment.
By Brian Brant
WCBS Newsradio 880
Please update, theatre open July 28, 2000