rayman29 Sundance was one of 3 names Carmike used for Dine-in locations. They also had Bogart’s Bar & Grill in Movico theaters and Ovation Cinema Grill.
Carmike acquired the Sundance Cinemas chain from Sundance Group on October 6, 2015 Basically Carmike made it a 4th brand but all the standard consumables were Carmike branded and the locations sold and refilled the Carmike popcorn bucket.
http://deadline.com/2015/10/carmike-buys-sundance-cinemas-1201568351/
carmike had this one restriction from Sundance on the use of the name “Carmike can continue to operate the theaters using the Sundance brand but can’t use it elsewhere.”
AMC corporate is removing them as part of the “new branding alignment” the CEO decided to start after buying Carmike and decided having 7 brand names on the locations was going to get confusing. the main mission is to get every AMC owned theater to get an AMC neon sign installed. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170301005839/en/
they decided to standardize on three brands that act as feature set concepts. Dine-in locations have full commercial kitchens on site, “AMC” locations have the extended hot foods menu and are getting the full location upgrades first. Classic is a discount first run brand for smaller low traffic locations and have more discounts for rewards members mainly reusing the better ideas of Carmike.
it looks like it was 95%done before amc got control of Carmike as it looks like the default carmike theater look was already installed before they could switch it over to the AMC standard look. the inside looks like they got it in time to get the AMC signs up and get the Bar installed with there branding.
AMC has placed this theater under there AMC Classic branding that operates low traffic and smaller locations as first run budget theaters. they are last to get major upgrades but will be getting the Coke freestyle units and be keeping the popcorn bucket and the Tuesday discount for stubs members.
moviebuff82 https://www.amctheatres.com/dolby I assume your talking about this format vs IMAX. Dolby has the advantage of the Video wall entrance and the souround sound being in the recliner as those Auditorums use an Dolby designed seat and not the normal AMC recliners. you cant see it here in dolby though the only open NYC location for Dolby cinema is the AMC Empire 25 with AMC Loews 34th Street 14 listed as coming soon.
RobertR That’s the new standard marquee for all AMC locations after there upgraded. the yellow circle patterned metal plates is what there putting up to cover up the old “flex” sign spaces on the older locations generally to mount the new AMC signage all locations are getting under the new Branding push AMC is doing. having the showing films up on the entrance has been downplayed by internet listings most of my local theaters removed the Auditorium numbers and have the sign give the theater site to get showtimes. the theater was also renamed again to AMC Fresh Meadows 7 as the AMC Loews nameing is being phased out.
http://articles.mcall.com/2002-12-13/news/3428308_1_general-cinema-s-chapter-movie-theaters-general-cinema-theaters
article on the Theater closing it’s final name was “AMC Lehigh Valley Mall 8” AMC only kept it open from March 2002 to December 2002.
Lehigh Valley Mall theater to call it a wrap
December 13, 2002|By Mike Frassinelli Of The Morning Call
4-5 minutes
Manager says 8-screen cinema made “obsolete' by giant complexes.
On Jan. 5, the lights will dim inside the Lehigh Valley Mall movie theaters.
Only this time, they’ll stay dim.
Nearly 26 years after opening with the films “Freaky Friday,” “The Seven Percent Solution” and “The Cassandra Crossing,” the mall’s cinemas will turn off their projectors for good.
Moviegoers dressed in leather and hosiery will have to find another place to swear at silly dialogue and throw rice at fellow patrons during showings of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which has enjoyed a record run of more than 24 years at the mall.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Hope Wesleyan Church will have to find another place to hold its Sunday morning services.
When it opened with three screens on Feb. 6, 1977, the Lehigh Valley Mall General Cinema was the first theater of its kind in the region.
Known since March as AMC Lehigh Valley Mall 8, the eight-screen theater has become a dinosaur in a world of stadium-seating movie theaters with digital sound.
“I’m going to miss it,” said Bruce Copio, general manager of the theater. “It’s the first shopping center theater in the Valley. It’s the end of an era, I guess.”
He said the theater employs between 17 and 20 during this time of the year.
In March, bankruptcy court accepted AMC Entertainment’s plan to buy General Cinema as part of General Cinema’s Chapter 11 reorganization. A spokesman for AMC said at the time that the company would evaluate the performance of all General Cinema theaters.
“It’s an old building, it’s obsolete,” Copio said on Thursday. “They are building all the fancy stuff now, with the stadium seats.”
The theaters are expected to give way to a department store.
Everyone from Hannibal Lecter to Forest Gump, from Luke Skywalker to Charlie’s Angels, from Batman to Spiderman, has been on the theaters' screens.
“Freaky Friday,” starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, was a slapstick Disney comedy about a mother and daughter who switched bodies.
Lehigh Valley Mall opened in 1976. The theater grew from three screens in 1977 to five in 1980 and to eight in 1984.
“You didn’t have the 16- and 14-screen complexes,” Copio said. “Eight was considered huge back in ‘84, monstrous.”
“Rocky Horror” has been shown midnights during weekends since May 26, 1978.
During the cult classic, a line in the movie about making a toast causes patrons to fire bagels into the air.
At least two couples who met during showings of “Rocky Horror” have been married.
But people who dress as Transylvania transvestites are not the only ones who will miss the mall theaters.
The Rev. Dan Hall has grown his congregation since moving Hope Wesleyan Church to the mall theaters on Sept. 24, 2000. The church has attracted more than 120 people during 10 a.m. Sunday services in Theater No. 3.
Hall said that although a church “is not about bricks and mortar, it’s about people,” church members have become attached to the theater.
The theater seats are the pews.
Hall has made good use of the giant screen behind him during services. During a talk about the importance of getting off the sidelines and getting into the game, he showed a clip of Gene Hackman as a coach giving a rousing speech during the basketball movie “Hoosiers.”
“We find that most people get their information visually today,” he said. “To just sit and listen to a talking head gets boring.”
Hall also said the mall provided a visible, central location for members, who drive from Slatington and Phillipsburg and points in between.
The church, which rented the theater for $200 a week, is looking for another location.
Church leaders will hold the first — and only — Christmas Eve service at the church — the movie theater, rather — at 6 p.m. on Dec. 24.
http://articles.mcall.com/1987-01-09/business/2568742_1_amc-entertainment-amc-philadelphia-amc-plans
Article on the plans to open the theatre from the Morning call.
articles.mcall.com City May Get Eight-screen Movie House January 09, 1987|The Morning Call 2-3 minutes
AMC Philadelphia Inc., a new subsidiary of American Multi-Cinema Inc., formed in conjunction with the recent acquisition of Budco Theaters Inc., is planning to open an eight-screen movie theater in Allentown.
The project, part of a major expansion of the company’s theater circuit in the Philadelphia area, was announced yesterday by Ron D. Leslie, president and chief operating officer of AMC Entertainment.
A spokesman for AMC said Earl Voelker, vice president of AMC’s northeast division, declined to comment on where the theater might be located. The spokesman said negotiations to find a site are continuing.
He also said existing Budco theaters will not be affected by the expansion. The firm shows movies at the Budco Plaza on Grape Street in Whitehall, the 25th Street mall in Easton and the Budco Quakertown theaters on Route 309.
AMC Philadelphia, which operates 156 screens in 51 complexes, plans to build seven new complexes and add screens to existing locations, including the Barn 5 in Doylestown.
In all, AMC operates 1,336 screens in 263 complexes located in 27 states.
“The Philadelphia market is underscreened relative to other metropolitan areas of comparable population density,” Leslie said.
AMC plans to develop a 14-screen complex and shopping center on the site of the present Pennsauken Drive-In, at Route 73 and Haddonfield Road in New Jersey. Under construction in Harrisburg is the Sporting Hill 8 complex.
AMC’s Granite Run 8 Theater in Media, Delaware County, is characteristic of the state-of-the-art complexes AMC plans to build. It features fully automated projection equipment and bi-amplified stereo surround-sound systems. Ergonomic seating features beverage-holder armrests, and all sight lines are computer-calculated. The computerized box office serves all theaters and allows for daily advance ticket sales.
AMC Entertainment, based in Kansas City, Mo., pioneered the multiplex cinema concept in 1963, and today more than 70 percent of the company’s screens are located in complexes with six or more auditoriums.
This was a former Budco location according to this article about the “future” Tilighmsn sq 8. http://articles.mcall.com/1987-01-09/business/2568742_1_amc-entertainment-amc-philadelphia-amc-plans
This theater was featured in a episode of undercover boss after it was converted in to a gym they kept some of the screens to project video on for the bikes.
rayman29 Sundance was one of 3 names Carmike used for Dine-in locations. They also had Bogart’s Bar & Grill in Movico theaters and Ovation Cinema Grill.
Carmike acquired the Sundance Cinemas chain from Sundance Group on October 6, 2015 Basically Carmike made it a 4th brand but all the standard consumables were Carmike branded and the locations sold and refilled the Carmike popcorn bucket.
http://deadline.com/2015/10/carmike-buys-sundance-cinemas-1201568351/ carmike had this one restriction from Sundance on the use of the name “Carmike can continue to operate the theaters using the Sundance brand but can’t use it elsewhere.”
now AMC Dine-In Houston 8 https://www.amctheatres.com/movie-theatres/houston/amc-dine-in-houston-8
TYoung that job is usually handled by the box office LCD display menus at the upgraded locations.
AMC corporate is removing them as part of the “new branding alignment” the CEO decided to start after buying Carmike and decided having 7 brand names on the locations was going to get confusing. the main mission is to get every AMC owned theater to get an AMC neon sign installed. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170301005839/en/ they decided to standardize on three brands that act as feature set concepts. Dine-in locations have full commercial kitchens on site, “AMC” locations have the extended hot foods menu and are getting the full location upgrades first. Classic is a discount first run brand for smaller low traffic locations and have more discounts for rewards members mainly reusing the better ideas of Carmike.
just the standard and not the Dine-in version of the sign?
it looks like it was 95%done before amc got control of Carmike as it looks like the default carmike theater look was already installed before they could switch it over to the AMC standard look. the inside looks like they got it in time to get the AMC signs up and get the Bar installed with there branding.
AMC has placed this theater under there AMC Classic branding that operates low traffic and smaller locations as first run budget theaters. they are last to get major upgrades but will be getting the Coke freestyle units and be keeping the popcorn bucket and the Tuesday discount for stubs members.
moviebuff82 https://www.amctheatres.com/dolby I assume your talking about this format vs IMAX. Dolby has the advantage of the Video wall entrance and the souround sound being in the recliner as those Auditorums use an Dolby designed seat and not the normal AMC recliners. you cant see it here in dolby though the only open NYC location for Dolby cinema is the AMC Empire 25 with AMC Loews 34th Street 14 listed as coming soon.
https://www.amctheatres.com/amc-store it looks like this is one of the theaters AMC put a movie collectable store in.
This location has AMC’s new self service concessions stand setup called “The Marketplace”
RobertR That’s the new standard marquee for all AMC locations after there upgraded. the yellow circle patterned metal plates is what there putting up to cover up the old “flex” sign spaces on the older locations generally to mount the new AMC signage all locations are getting under the new Branding push AMC is doing. having the showing films up on the entrance has been downplayed by internet listings most of my local theaters removed the Auditorium numbers and have the sign give the theater site to get showtimes. the theater was also renamed again to AMC Fresh Meadows 7 as the AMC Loews nameing is being phased out.
this theater is the description image for the Wikipedia article on Discount Theaters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discount_theater
it has been re branded as the AMC CLASSIC Worthington 6 according to there site.
I wonder if AMC managed to get there video LCD Screens up at the auditorium doors at this one or if it already had the carmike LED text ones.
AMC is putting that yellow circle paneling up at all the re-branded and remodeled locations to cover up the removed flexible sign hole.
moviebuff82 more than likely yes as AMC is trying to reduce there Brands down to 3 all with AMC signage
Technically AMC Theaters acquired Odeon Cinemas and decided to pull the AMC brand from that market and run all of there locations there as Odeon.
it’s Name under AMC Management was AMC Plaza 2.
http://articles.mcall.com/2002-12-13/news/3428308_1_general-cinema-s-chapter-movie-theaters-general-cinema-theaters article on the Theater closing it’s final name was “AMC Lehigh Valley Mall 8” AMC only kept it open from March 2002 to December 2002.
Lehigh Valley Mall theater to call it a wrap December 13, 2002|By Mike Frassinelli Of The Morning Call 4-5 minutes
Manager says 8-screen cinema made “obsolete' by giant complexes.
On Jan. 5, the lights will dim inside the Lehigh Valley Mall movie theaters.
Only this time, they’ll stay dim.
Nearly 26 years after opening with the films “Freaky Friday,” “The Seven Percent Solution” and “The Cassandra Crossing,” the mall’s cinemas will turn off their projectors for good.
Moviegoers dressed in leather and hosiery will have to find another place to swear at silly dialogue and throw rice at fellow patrons during showings of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which has enjoyed a record run of more than 24 years at the mall.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Hope Wesleyan Church will have to find another place to hold its Sunday morning services.
When it opened with three screens on Feb. 6, 1977, the Lehigh Valley Mall General Cinema was the first theater of its kind in the region.
Known since March as AMC Lehigh Valley Mall 8, the eight-screen theater has become a dinosaur in a world of stadium-seating movie theaters with digital sound.
“I’m going to miss it,” said Bruce Copio, general manager of the theater. “It’s the first shopping center theater in the Valley. It’s the end of an era, I guess.”
He said the theater employs between 17 and 20 during this time of the year.
In March, bankruptcy court accepted AMC Entertainment’s plan to buy General Cinema as part of General Cinema’s Chapter 11 reorganization. A spokesman for AMC said at the time that the company would evaluate the performance of all General Cinema theaters.
“It’s an old building, it’s obsolete,” Copio said on Thursday. “They are building all the fancy stuff now, with the stadium seats.”
The theaters are expected to give way to a department store.
Everyone from Hannibal Lecter to Forest Gump, from Luke Skywalker to Charlie’s Angels, from Batman to Spiderman, has been on the theaters' screens.
“Freaky Friday,” starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, was a slapstick Disney comedy about a mother and daughter who switched bodies.
Lehigh Valley Mall opened in 1976. The theater grew from three screens in 1977 to five in 1980 and to eight in 1984.
“You didn’t have the 16- and 14-screen complexes,” Copio said. “Eight was considered huge back in ‘84, monstrous.”
“Rocky Horror” has been shown midnights during weekends since May 26, 1978.
During the cult classic, a line in the movie about making a toast causes patrons to fire bagels into the air.
At least two couples who met during showings of “Rocky Horror” have been married.
But people who dress as Transylvania transvestites are not the only ones who will miss the mall theaters.
The Rev. Dan Hall has grown his congregation since moving Hope Wesleyan Church to the mall theaters on Sept. 24, 2000. The church has attracted more than 120 people during 10 a.m. Sunday services in Theater No. 3.
Hall said that although a church “is not about bricks and mortar, it’s about people,” church members have become attached to the theater.
The theater seats are the pews.
Hall has made good use of the giant screen behind him during services. During a talk about the importance of getting off the sidelines and getting into the game, he showed a clip of Gene Hackman as a coach giving a rousing speech during the basketball movie “Hoosiers.”
“We find that most people get their information visually today,” he said. “To just sit and listen to a talking head gets boring.”
Hall also said the mall provided a visible, central location for members, who drive from Slatington and Phillipsburg and points in between.
The church, which rented the theater for $200 a week, is looking for another location.
Church leaders will hold the first — and only — Christmas Eve service at the church — the movie theater, rather — at 6 p.m. on Dec. 24.
610-820-6595
The connected Big d closed in Augest. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article169579527.html
it looks like this closed in aug. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/article169579527.html
http://articles.mcall.com/1987-01-09/business/2568742_1_amc-entertainment-amc-philadelphia-amc-plans Article on the plans to open the theatre from the Morning call.
articles.mcall.com
City May Get Eight-screen Movie House
January 09, 1987|The Morning Call
2-3 minutes
AMC Philadelphia Inc., a new subsidiary of American Multi-Cinema Inc., formed in conjunction with the recent acquisition of Budco Theaters Inc., is planning to open an eight-screen movie theater in Allentown.
The project, part of a major expansion of the company’s theater circuit in the Philadelphia area, was announced yesterday by Ron D. Leslie, president and chief operating officer of AMC Entertainment.
A spokesman for AMC said Earl Voelker, vice president of AMC’s northeast division, declined to comment on where the theater might be located. The spokesman said negotiations to find a site are continuing.
He also said existing Budco theaters will not be affected by the expansion. The firm shows movies at the Budco Plaza on Grape Street in Whitehall, the 25th Street mall in Easton and the Budco Quakertown theaters on Route 309.
AMC Philadelphia, which operates 156 screens in 51 complexes, plans to build seven new complexes and add screens to existing locations, including the Barn 5 in Doylestown.
In all, AMC operates 1,336 screens in 263 complexes located in 27 states.
“The Philadelphia market is underscreened relative to other metropolitan areas of comparable population density,” Leslie said.
AMC plans to develop a 14-screen complex and shopping center on the site of the present Pennsauken Drive-In, at Route 73 and Haddonfield Road in New Jersey. Under construction in Harrisburg is the Sporting Hill 8 complex.
AMC’s Granite Run 8 Theater in Media, Delaware County, is characteristic of the state-of-the-art complexes AMC plans to build. It features fully automated projection equipment and bi-amplified stereo surround-sound systems. Ergonomic seating features beverage-holder armrests, and all sight lines are computer-calculated. The computerized box office serves all theaters and allows for daily advance ticket sales.
AMC Entertainment, based in Kansas City, Mo., pioneered the multiplex cinema concept in 1963, and today more than 70 percent of the company’s screens are located in complexes with six or more auditoriums.
This was a former Budco location according to this article about the “future” Tilighmsn sq 8. http://articles.mcall.com/1987-01-09/business/2568742_1_amc-entertainment-amc-philadelphia-amc-plans
This theater was featured in a episode of undercover boss after it was converted in to a gym they kept some of the screens to project video on for the bikes.