As of, at least, December 1st 2025, auditorium 8 is back open as a cinema screen. “First” movie back is RENTAL FAMILY.
Seating Capacity: 59 seats & 4 Wheelchair Spots.
As of, at least, October 2025, the gaming in Auditorium 8 is over. On a visit to the theater on October 21st, it appears some work is being done inside theater 8. Door is locked, but if you look through the door window, some construction or something is taking place. Hopefully, they are going to open it up again as a movie screen.
When it first became a gaming area, I had looked inside one day. Most of the auditorium was still intact as it was a movie auditorium. And in fact, no one was playing any games that day.
I was at Essex Crossing yesterday and noticed auditorium 8 had a keypad lock on the outside door and wondered what was up. Then I see the signage around the area touting this new TopMod thing.
I haven’t actually been inside the auditorium, but from pictures online, the two back rows seem intact (where audiences would watch the gaming onscreen) and the gamers are upfront by the screen, backs facing the screen. I hope this doesn’t work out. Hate to lose another movie screen or for it to actually catch on and lose more screens to this. Anyone remember the virtual reality programming a few years back that was in movie theaters lobbies (Regal E-Walk, AMC Kips Bay)? That suddenly disappeared. Never saw anyone using them.
As of around June/July 2025, auditorium 8 has become a large screen gaming room, via TopMod. Auditorium 8 has been retrofitted to have gamers in the back and a couple of rows up front for audiences to watch. No movies.
I haven’t been there for a couple of weeks. Can you tell if they are only just renovating the auditoriums, or are they going full tilt, like Times Square, and upgrading to the new Regal look?
Oceana Theater is an ideal venue for concerts, theatrical performances, comedy shows, as well as corporate events, conferences, political meetings, and so on.
Oceana Theater was opened in 1934. Known later on as the Atlantic Oceana, the Millennium Theater and the Master Theater, in 2022 the theater returned to its historical name.
Now is a modern, excellently equipped 1326-seat venue located in the heart of South Brooklyn’s immensely popular Brighton Beach Area, by the beautiful ocean beaches, near convenient transportation means (subway, easy driving access).
“Oceana Theater” is a household brand name among the fun-loving and diverse crowd of Brooklyn residents. World-famous artists of a great variety, beloved ballet and drama troupes, as well as an endless list of dazzling pop performers from various countries of the world, have honored the stage with their talent and fame.
The theater is outfitted with cutting-edge sound and lighting equipment. It includes an extremely powerful, high-quality surround sound system carefully adjusted to the dimensions of the theater, capable of infinite adjustments to all various kinds of artist line-ups. A multi-dimension, computerized stage lighting system provides dazzling light support to any kind of performance, from classical ballet to pop and rock concerts. The theater is equipped with LED screen that add to the beauty and excitement of any performance. The theater’s professional team of sound, lighting and video engineers competently use wonders of modern technology to greatly enhance the excitement of any performance.
Bring beauty and excitement into your life and business with Oceana Theater, one of New York’s best multi-profile venues.
Please note, that we do not have an elevator or wheelchair ramp.
The Oceana Theater is located on the 2nd floor of the building that is unfortunately not ADA-compliant (it was built in the early 1900s and falls under a “grandfather clause”), so the Oceana Theater does not offer disability services such as wheelchair accessibility. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Please change name back to Oceana Theater! I stopped by today to look inside (mainly a NetCost Supermarket) with lots of interior design of the theater still there (moldings). There is still one theater upstairs, which they are now calling it the Oceana Theater!! Otherwise, all signage of Master Theater is gone!
2024 Update:
Theater doesn’t hit the cleaning lights anymore while people are watching credits, since post covid.
Also post covid, theater no longer masks the screens. All theaters have it set in one position.
Theaters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13 and 14 are all set to scope.
Flat movies will show with bars on the sides.
Theaters 8 and 9 are set to flat. So scope movies will show black bars on top and bottom.
Theater 10 is RPX and has a fixed flat floating screen.
Scope shows with black bars on top and bottom.
Theater 12 is IMAX and has a fixed flat floating screen.
Scope movies will show black bars on top and bottom too.
Theater 6 is supposed to be a flat screen (since they aren’t enabling the masking feature) but they still have the masking on the sides wide open, which makes the flat movies show bars on sides and scope movies show with bars on sides AND on top and bottom!
As for ScreenX, it might come later in the future, along with a bar. Regal spent a lot on this conversion, and I think the budget must have been used up (considering they just came out of bankruptcy protection too).
@ridethectrain Technically, the only “Loews” thing left is the Guest Services desk and sign. And the bathrooms on one side were not redone, but not necessarily “Loews” style. I believe they we’re remodeled once before when Regal first took over.
February 29th 2024
Theater is basically complete.
They may go back in the future and redo the bathrooms on the other side of the complex, put in a bar, and changeover theater 2 to the promised screen x, but the theater is otherwise redone.
As a long time moviegoer to this theater over the years, it really does look AWESOME.
All screens are now fixed with the proper masking again (except for the two largest theaters 12 & 13 which are fixed to scope masking only).
They boast theater 12 as being the world’s largest 4dx auditorium.
RPX Screen is now reconfigured.
So now, scope movies fill the entire screen.
Flat movies are screen centered and fill screen top to bottom with black bars on the sides (no masking).
As far as I can tell like, the 4DX screen in theater 12 is widescreen scope (also no masking for flat features). I believe it fills the entire screen for scope movies.
With the new year upon us, 2024, and construction in its final stages, this theater has changed it’s name for it’s new snazzy look.
As of this weekend, Friday January 5th 2024, the Regal E-Walk will now be named
Regal Times Square!
While the new RPX screen looks like it could have masking (screen is squared off by masking, instead of looking rounded at the ends and “free standing” like the usual
floating screens). The movies playing so far, whether flat or scope, are still not masked.
The advantage of this new screen is that scope movies are now have a better presentation. No longer are there “letterbox” bars at the and bottom. Only slight black on the sides. A more Fuller look. Slightly on the downside is that the old screen for flat movies filled the entire screen, but now is slightly pillarboxed in presentation. But you still have a large image onscreen.
Much better for scope movies now.
34th Street seems to be the current, go to, theater for Midtown at the moment ,between 34th, Empire 25,
and E-Walk.
They were the latest to get upgrades (recliners, more food options, large screens). Much newer looking than fading Empire 25, especially with the bedbugs.
Once E-WALK completes their renovations, we will see how things go.
Theater 1 indeed has no masking ability. Theater 10 and 14 does have masking and should be in working order again. For a time, last year, 10 was out of order.
Theater 8 (Dolby) and Theater 13 (IMAX) has no masking abilities.bWhich is common for those formats.
All other theaters 2 - 7, 9 - 12, and 14 have masking.
I am not yet closing the book on this being the end of this Regal theater. Hopefully a new deal
can be struck with the landlord
for the Union Square. Previously other theaters were listed and then got a reprieval. Maybe here too.
If not, this location is crying out to be the city’s first Cinemark location!
Also, people like having the recliners, and with the remodel they decided to keep regular seats to fit more people. But, the people aren’t coming in for the extra seats, except for the blockbuster titles.
As of, at least, December 1st 2025, auditorium 8 is back open as a cinema screen. “First” movie back is RENTAL FAMILY. Seating Capacity: 59 seats & 4 Wheelchair Spots.
As of Friday November 21st 2025, auditoriums 5 and 7 have reopened with new recliners.
As of, at least, October 2025, the gaming in Auditorium 8 is over. On a visit to the theater on October 21st, it appears some work is being done inside theater 8. Door is locked, but if you look through the door window, some construction or something is taking place. Hopefully, they are going to open it up again as a movie screen. When it first became a gaming area, I had looked inside one day. Most of the auditorium was still intact as it was a movie auditorium. And in fact, no one was playing any games that day.
Theater 2 has now reopened this weekend as a 4DX auditorium. Seats 132, plus 4 wheelchair spots. Opening feature is JAWS 50th Anniversary.
I was at Essex Crossing yesterday and noticed auditorium 8 had a keypad lock on the outside door and wondered what was up. Then I see the signage around the area touting this new TopMod thing.
I haven’t actually been inside the auditorium, but from pictures online, the two back rows seem intact (where audiences would watch the gaming onscreen) and the gamers are upfront by the screen, backs facing the screen. I hope this doesn’t work out. Hate to lose another movie screen or for it to actually catch on and lose more screens to this. Anyone remember the virtual reality programming a few years back that was in movie theaters lobbies (Regal E-Walk, AMC Kips Bay)? That suddenly disappeared. Never saw anyone using them.
As of around June/July 2025, auditorium 8 has become a large screen gaming room, via TopMod. Auditorium 8 has been retrofitted to have gamers in the back and a couple of rows up front for audiences to watch. No movies.
https://topmod.com/venue/
Name of this theater is: Regal UA Sheepshead Bay. Please correct.
@ridethectrain
I haven’t been there for a couple of weeks. Can you tell if they are only just renovating the auditoriums, or are they going full tilt, like Times Square, and upgrading to the new Regal look?
Per it’s NEW website:
Oceana Theater is an ideal venue for concerts, theatrical performances, comedy shows, as well as corporate events, conferences, political meetings, and so on.
Oceana Theater was opened in 1934. Known later on as the Atlantic Oceana, the Millennium Theater and the Master Theater, in 2022 the theater returned to its historical name.
Now is a modern, excellently equipped 1326-seat venue located in the heart of South Brooklyn’s immensely popular Brighton Beach Area, by the beautiful ocean beaches, near convenient transportation means (subway, easy driving access).
“Oceana Theater” is a household brand name among the fun-loving and diverse crowd of Brooklyn residents. World-famous artists of a great variety, beloved ballet and drama troupes, as well as an endless list of dazzling pop performers from various countries of the world, have honored the stage with their talent and fame. The theater is outfitted with cutting-edge sound and lighting equipment. It includes an extremely powerful, high-quality surround sound system carefully adjusted to the dimensions of the theater, capable of infinite adjustments to all various kinds of artist line-ups. A multi-dimension, computerized stage lighting system provides dazzling light support to any kind of performance, from classical ballet to pop and rock concerts. The theater is equipped with LED screen that add to the beauty and excitement of any performance. The theater’s professional team of sound, lighting and video engineers competently use wonders of modern technology to greatly enhance the excitement of any performance.
Bring beauty and excitement into your life and business with Oceana Theater, one of New York’s best multi-profile venues.
Please note, that we do not have an elevator or wheelchair ramp. The Oceana Theater is located on the 2nd floor of the building that is unfortunately not ADA-compliant (it was built in the early 1900s and falls under a “grandfather clause”), so the Oceana Theater does not offer disability services such as wheelchair accessibility. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
The theater website is live at: https://oceanatheater.com
Please change name back to Oceana Theater! I stopped by today to look inside (mainly a NetCost Supermarket) with lots of interior design of the theater still there (moldings). There is still one theater upstairs, which they are now calling it the Oceana Theater!! Otherwise, all signage of Master Theater is gone!
2024 Update: Theater doesn’t hit the cleaning lights anymore while people are watching credits, since post covid. Also post covid, theater no longer masks the screens. All theaters have it set in one position. Theaters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13 and 14 are all set to scope. Flat movies will show with bars on the sides. Theaters 8 and 9 are set to flat. So scope movies will show black bars on top and bottom. Theater 10 is RPX and has a fixed flat floating screen. Scope shows with black bars on top and bottom. Theater 12 is IMAX and has a fixed flat floating screen. Scope movies will show black bars on top and bottom too. Theater 6 is supposed to be a flat screen (since they aren’t enabling the masking feature) but they still have the masking on the sides wide open, which makes the flat movies show bars on sides and scope movies show with bars on sides AND on top and bottom!
As for ScreenX, it might come later in the future, along with a bar. Regal spent a lot on this conversion, and I think the budget must have been used up (considering they just came out of bankruptcy protection too).
@ridethectrain
Technically, the only “Loews” thing left is the Guest Services desk and sign. And the bathrooms on one side were not redone, but not necessarily “Loews” style. I believe they we’re remodeled once before when Regal first took over.
February 29th 2024 Theater is basically complete. They may go back in the future and redo the bathrooms on the other side of the complex, put in a bar, and changeover theater 2 to the promised screen x, but the theater is otherwise redone.
As a long time moviegoer to this theater over the years, it really does look AWESOME.
All screens are now fixed with the proper masking again (except for the two largest theaters 12 & 13 which are fixed to scope masking only).
They boast theater 12 as being the world’s largest 4dx auditorium.
RPX (Theater 13) Update:
01/31/2024
RPX Screen is now reconfigured. So now, scope movies fill the entire screen. Flat movies are screen centered and fill screen top to bottom with black bars on the sides (no masking).
As far as I can tell like, the 4DX screen in theater 12 is widescreen scope (also no masking for flat features). I believe it fills the entire screen for scope movies.
Please change name of this theater’s page to Regal Times Square.
With the new year upon us, 2024, and construction in its final stages, this theater has changed it’s name for it’s new snazzy look. As of this weekend, Friday January 5th 2024, the Regal E-Walk will now be named Regal Times Square!
About the new RPX revamp in theater 13:
While the new RPX screen looks like it could have masking (screen is squared off by masking, instead of looking rounded at the ends and “free standing” like the usual floating screens). The movies playing so far, whether flat or scope, are still not masked. The advantage of this new screen is that scope movies are now have a better presentation. No longer are there “letterbox” bars at the and bottom. Only slight black on the sides. A more Fuller look. Slightly on the downside is that the old screen for flat movies filled the entire screen, but now is slightly pillarboxed in presentation. But you still have a large image onscreen. Much better for scope movies now.
As of Mid-June 2023, construction has indeed resumed. Now, early in early July 2023, its been a slow progression, but its getting there.
34th Street seems to be the current, go to, theater for Midtown at the moment ,between 34th, Empire 25, and E-Walk. They were the latest to get upgrades (recliners, more food options, large screens). Much newer looking than fading Empire 25, especially with the bedbugs. Once E-WALK completes their renovations, we will see how things go.
Replying to MovieguyNYC
Theater 1 indeed has no masking ability.
Theater 10 and 14 does have masking and should be in working order again. For a time, last year, 10 was out of order.
Theater 8 (Dolby) and Theater 13 (IMAX) has no masking abilities.bWhich is common for those formats.
All other theaters 2 - 7, 9 - 12, and 14 have masking.
There’s a very good likelihood that the theater will not close.
I am not yet closing the book on this being the end of this Regal theater. Hopefully a new deal can be struck with the landlord for the Union Square. Previously other theaters were listed and then got a reprieval. Maybe here too.
If not, this location is crying out to be the city’s first Cinemark location!
Also, people like having the recliners, and with the remodel they decided to keep regular seats to fit more people. But, the people aren’t coming in for the extra seats, except for the blockbuster titles.