https://www.thespotlighttheaters.com/our-locations/ (new owners)
Article about the new owners: https://www.thelcn.com/news/local/federal-pandemic-funding-aids-spotlight-theater-in-warsaw/article_e0203013-da72-5cbd-9804-0577bc29d953.html
The poster is for a French film called “The Conquest”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conquest_(2011_film)
All 4 posters in that main entrance (The Conquest, Largo Winch, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Mesrine) are all for foreign movies that were distributed by Music Box Films in the United States.
The movie on the left is another French film called “The Conquest”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conquest_(2011_film)
All 4 posters in that main entrance (The Conquest, Largo Winch, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Mesrine) are all for foreign movies that were distributed by Music Box Films in the United States.
The owner recently talked about having sold it: https://www.rereleasenews.com/2021/04/09/nick-nicolaou-on-the-alpine-cinema-renovations-selling-brooklyns-last-adult-theater-and-more/
It’s not that they had given up it’s just that they’ve always been that way. AMC’s customer service for the most part is atrocious, at least in the NYC locations I’ve been to. Broken projectors, lights, rodent, bed bugs, crime etc.
The second-to-last film I saw here was Rise of Skywalker in IMAX and the whole auditorium smelled like marijuana.
Very nice! Looks like Regal listened and stopped doing flat floating screens as in Essex and Bricktown. Scope floating screens make a million times more sense given how most movies are scope.
The IMAX with Laser is now open and playing Doctor Sleep. Aspect ratio looks like it stayed the same, as well as seat count. New seats, entrance and obviously IMAX system though.
The Dolby here will have Gemini Man in 120fps 3D with Laser and Atmos, that’s the closest you’ll get. It’ll be one of 14 Dolby locations nationwide to show it that way.
But try to sit in the center due to the 3D and pillarboxing.
This location will receive an IMAX Laser upgrade, being one of the busiest for Regal in the nation.
“The upgraded theatres announced today will include IMAX’s groundbreaking laser technology and 12-channel immersive sound system, as well as enhancements including luxury plush rocker seating, redesigned entryways and in-theatre branding. The theatres span some of Regal and IMAX’s most longstanding and high-performing locations across New York, California, Texas, and Georgia, including the Regal Edwards Irvine Spectrum in Irvine, CA; Regal UA Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, NY; and the Regal Edwards Houston Marq*E.”
https://www.imax.com/content/cineworld-group-and-imax-expand-partnership-agreement-15-new-imax-laser-systems-regal
Theater 13 (RPX) is indeed a flat floating screen now, so it doesn’t have masking. The GM told me that it was 70 foot.
Theater 12 remains a standard wall installed screen, so it has masking. A scope movie won’t have letterboxing here (thank goodness). However a flat movie in theater 12 will have some image cut off due to the masking being weird there for flat movies and not moving all the way to the sides. The staff could probably fix it by adjusting the lens before a flat movie begins playing but of course that is an unreasonable expectation nowadays.
I’d recommend for flat movies here to go to Theater 13 and for scope titles to go to theater 12.
However even scope films in the RPX are alright because the screen is so huge, it’s like an IMAX screen, the letterboxing isn’t as annoying as elsewhere.
1.43:1 is the original ratio for those five scenes. In standard theaters the movie is in 1.85:1, where it is cropped for those sequences. So we’re not losing any width, we have the same plus more footage on the top and bottom.
You can get discounted tickets for Tuesday shows with a free Stubs account. The reason there may not be early morning shows for 3D is because they try to have both IMAX 3D and IMAX 2D showtimes, so they switch around and can’t give both formats a matinee time.
Select musical sequences of the new Lion King are in 1.43:1 and will fill this IMAX Laser screen. One of only 12 U.S. theaters. https://www.imax.com/content/LK-143-preview
Based off the Google Reviews, it looks like this is a “Streams of Joy” Christian church now.
https://www.streamsofjoynewyork.org/locations/
The theater is now under new ownership. The new owners, Scott and Tami Treutlein, also own theaters in Hornell, Hudson and Warsaw.
https://spotlightcinemas.com/corning/ (old owners)
https://www.thespotlighttheaters.com/our-locations/ (new owners)
Article about the new owners: https://www.thelcn.com/news/local/federal-pandemic-funding-aids-spotlight-theater-in-warsaw/article_e0203013-da72-5cbd-9804-0577bc29d953.html
This should be marked as closed: https://www.kcci.com/article/des-moines-iowa-science-center-of-iowa-will-not-reopen-imax-theatre/40995033
The poster is for a French film called “The Conquest”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conquest_(2011_film)
All 4 posters in that main entrance (The Conquest, Largo Winch, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Mesrine) are all for foreign movies that were distributed by Music Box Films in the United States.
The movie on the left is another French film called “The Conquest”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conquest_(2011_film)
All 4 posters in that main entrance (The Conquest, Largo Winch, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Mesrine) are all for foreign movies that were distributed by Music Box Films in the United States.
The poster is the for 2008 French film “Mesrine”.https://www.joblo.com/assets/images/oldsite/posters/images/full/poster-mesrine_thumb.jpg
The poster on the right is a French movie from 2008 called “The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008)”.
This should be changed to “closed”.
The owner recently talked about having sold it: https://www.rereleasenews.com/2021/04/09/nick-nicolaou-on-the-alpine-cinema-renovations-selling-brooklyns-last-adult-theater-and-more/
Of this: https://abc7ny.com/movie-theater-theft-amc-lincoln-square-crime-nyc/5809115/
It’s not that they had given up it’s just that they’ve always been that way. AMC’s customer service for the most part is atrocious, at least in the NYC locations I’ve been to. Broken projectors, lights, rodent, bed bugs, crime etc.
The second-to-last film I saw here was Rise of Skywalker in IMAX and the whole auditorium smelled like marijuana.
@Confortably Cool
Yes, with recliners that sounds about right.
Look a lot like the seats Cineworld has overseas.
Very nice! Looks like Regal listened and stopped doing flat floating screens as in Essex and Bricktown. Scope floating screens make a million times more sense given how most movies are scope.
The IMAX with Laser is now open and playing Doctor Sleep. Aspect ratio looks like it stayed the same, as well as seat count. New seats, entrance and obviously IMAX system though.
Gemini Man might very well be in the 1% given how it was shot.
Many theaters will show it in 60fps 3D, which is not what was shot but still HFR.
2K and pillarboxing suck but the 120fps and Dolby 3D make it worth it to see the movie in the Dolby here.
The Dolby here will have Gemini Man in 120fps 3D with Laser and Atmos, that’s the closest you’ll get. It’ll be one of 14 Dolby locations nationwide to show it that way.
But try to sit in the center due to the 3D and pillarboxing.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/8/20896194/gemini-man-hfr-3d-120-fps-showtimes-movie-theaters
This location is set to be renovated and receive recliners in February 2020, with construction starting this October.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMCsAList/comments/d3u8zm/recliner_seats_coming_to_34th_street_amc_in_nyc/
This location will receive an IMAX Laser upgrade, being one of the busiest for Regal in the nation.
“The upgraded theatres announced today will include IMAX’s groundbreaking laser technology and 12-channel immersive sound system, as well as enhancements including luxury plush rocker seating, redesigned entryways and in-theatre branding. The theatres span some of Regal and IMAX’s most longstanding and high-performing locations across New York, California, Texas, and Georgia, including the Regal Edwards Irvine Spectrum in Irvine, CA; Regal UA Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, NY; and the Regal Edwards Houston Marq*E.” https://www.imax.com/content/cineworld-group-and-imax-expand-partnership-agreement-15-new-imax-laser-systems-regal
Update: IMAX Laser constructions here seems to have finally begun, as the area is now closed off.
Theater 13 (RPX) is indeed a flat floating screen now, so it doesn’t have masking. The GM told me that it was 70 foot.
Theater 12 remains a standard wall installed screen, so it has masking. A scope movie won’t have letterboxing here (thank goodness). However a flat movie in theater 12 will have some image cut off due to the masking being weird there for flat movies and not moving all the way to the sides. The staff could probably fix it by adjusting the lens before a flat movie begins playing but of course that is an unreasonable expectation nowadays.
I’d recommend for flat movies here to go to Theater 13 and for scope titles to go to theater 12.
However even scope films in the RPX are alright because the screen is so huge, it’s like an IMAX screen, the letterboxing isn’t as annoying as elsewhere.
@klstra
1.43:1 is the original ratio for those five scenes. In standard theaters the movie is in 1.85:1, where it is cropped for those sequences. So we’re not losing any width, we have the same plus more footage on the top and bottom.
You can get discounted tickets for Tuesday shows with a free Stubs account. The reason there may not be early morning shows for 3D is because they try to have both IMAX 3D and IMAX 2D showtimes, so they switch around and can’t give both formats a matinee time.
Select musical sequences of the new Lion King are in 1.43:1 and will fill this IMAX Laser screen. One of only 12 U.S. theaters. https://www.imax.com/content/LK-143-preview
Looks like they’re done with their Laser renovation. The website now lists current Far From Home showtimes for IMAX with Laser.
I think that’s because the studio wanted to take advantage of the 4th of July weekend as much as they could.