AMC Loews Meadow 6

800 Plaza Drive,
Secaucus, NJ 07094

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MSC77
MSC77 on June 18, 2024 at 3:12 pm

Digital Cinema was introduced to the public twenty-five years ago today. This cinema was among the four US locales that began screening that day the D-Cinema version of “Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace.”

ridethectrain
ridethectrain on October 28, 2020 at 8:17 pm

The two Loews theatres closed and didn’t get renovated because the Secaucus Kerasotes Showplace Icon 14 open very close in 2009

rivest266
rivest266 on July 17, 2018 at 5:20 pm

This opened on June 25th, 1982. Grand opening ad in the photo section.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on March 1, 2017 at 7:51 pm

Any grand opening ads? I read on new york magazine that this theater showed ET in 35mm during the summer of 1982 along with Tron in Dolby Stereo.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on January 10, 2017 at 7:38 pm

Here’s a link to a test film that projectionists would use to soundcheck auditoriums with SDDS…https://youtu.be/TPT6kLmigik and here’s one for Dolby…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c3NzucN9_g

Charles Garcia Jr.
Charles Garcia Jr. on June 14, 2016 at 10:34 pm

moviebuff82

SDDS was installed back in 1993. I honestly thought it was introduced a couple years later than that, but I went on YouTube and Google that it began its first use before the start of the film “Last Action Hero”.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on June 13, 2016 at 5:13 pm

ET didn’t even play here until February 18 of 1983 in 70mm Dolby Stereo, which was the first movie to be shown that way. When was SDDS installed?

JohnB
JohnB on December 20, 2013 at 2:17 pm

Ah, the memories… I was one of the managers at the Loews Meadow Six. I still have that weird little key that turns on the overhead emergency house lights.

joemasher
joemasher on September 25, 2011 at 3:14 pm

I was there this past week—the Meadow 6 has almost been completely demolished. Only part of the shell of theater #1 was still standing. The facade is covered with a banner announcing a new Marriott hotel. By the end of this month, the Meadow 6 will be no more.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on January 11, 2011 at 3:59 pm

What’s the latest on the building? Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of this theater, which turned around Loews' fortunes and became one of the leaders in building big multiplexes with fewer screens that were big in size and were surrounded by many speakers. The lobby was very spacious for its time.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on April 24, 2010 at 5:52 pm

if no one buys it, then it will be demolished for parking space lol. What movie held the longest run at this theater?

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on April 13, 2010 at 4:34 pm

Here’s the policy trailer that was shown before every movie at this theater…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXO-iKaJ_Y

shany94
shany94 on April 6, 2010 at 11:41 pm

Still sitting there peacefully but empty, not even a sign announcing space available

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on February 18, 2010 at 2:46 pm

are they showing any olympic events on the big screen there? Maybe AMC should do something like that for the next olympics, which will begin by the time the entire AMC chain of existing theaters will have 4k projection (and when NBC is wholly owned by Comcast, whose Universal movie studio will still show movies). Also, 2012 is when Paramount turns 100, so hopefully a new logo will come out for that studio. I remember when Loews changed their name to Sony, they had Sony Playstations at the lobby and Sony tvs showing stuff. Most of Sony’s movies played there, and they had the short lived SDDS sound system.

telliott
telliott on February 17, 2010 at 6:24 pm

Up here in Canada, AMC is the much nicer, more civilized chain. Much less noisy and flashy than those former Famous Players SilverCity and Coliseums and the one in downtown Toronto, the Yonge-Dundas 24, is waaay classier than the loud Scotiabank (formerly Paramount)

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on February 17, 2010 at 6:22 pm

Loews Ridgefield Park doesn’t have 3d, which edgewater has. And Loews Wayne and east hanover have digital 3d.

John Fink
John Fink on February 17, 2010 at 6:19 pm

Loews ran the Loews name into the ground in their last few years of operations – dirty theaters, rude customer service, horrible concessions including those with funky linger odors (Nacho Grande for example), and terrible projection – I was happy to see AMC take over. AMC isn’t my favorite chain but I they were an improvement. As soon as they merged with Cineplex the standards declined, they were actually best run under short lived Sony Theaters banner if you ask me. AMC made a few improvements at the larger plexes and did little at these (knowing the replacement was on the horizon). The ones to look at are Loews Richfield Park which is still in decent condition, and the Loews Village 7 which is clean and well run despite the creepy layout of the place.

Ironically enough AMC has only rebranded the inside signs (ie: snack bar, poster cases, ect) of Loews sites, whereas General Cinema' (a long time rival of theirs) was gone in a matter of months, but unlike Cinemark who has opened new builds with the Century brand, they’ve made sure anything new was AMC.

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on February 17, 2010 at 6:09 pm

Another one gone,looks like AMC is running the LOEWS name into the ground,I do not hear many GOOD comments about AMC.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on November 14, 2009 at 2:51 pm

One of my favorite experiences going to this theater was when I saw “Independence Day” the weekend it first came out. They didn’t show the “Star Wars” special edition trailer (which I saw at the Loews in Wayne with Jingle all the Way) but they showed a few other trailers as well as lots of filmed advertisements (alongside the slides) and then the feature presentation, which was great. Although the film was not mixed in 8-channel SDDS (it was a 5.1 mix, similiar to the Dolby Digital and DTS), it sounded great and the picture was good. After the movie was over, there were lines to go see the movie. After the Loews in Wayne expanded to 14 screens in 1997, I stopped going to this theater, and then Clifton Commons came.

moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on October 15, 2009 at 4:09 pm

Here’s a link to the story…
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The big thing is that this theater will have digital projection in all screens and stadium seating. Digital projection was at the Meadow Six, only for “Star Wars Episode I” and also for the digital pre-show. I think the Wayne theater will survive since it has digital projection in one screen, and another at the smaller theater. The Clifton Commons will outgrow the Allwood since the Allwood lacks digital projection, and hopefully when the economy improves the Fabian 8 will open in Paterson.

fred1
fred1 on October 14, 2009 at 4:17 pm

he is an ad for the New Kerasotes Showplace
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moviebuff82
moviebuff82 on October 14, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Hoboken is opening next week. I don’t know about the Fabian, and Xanadu might open in 2010. The Kerasotes theater will open on friday with a ribbon cutting ceremony and free movies and food.

John Fink
John Fink on October 9, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Kerasotes is opening next week per their website. Now – when the are Clearview Hoboken, City Center Fabien 8, and Xanadu going to open?