Lee Highway Multiplex Cinemas
8223 Lee Highway,
Fairfax,
VA
22031
8223 Lee Highway,
Fairfax,
VA
22031
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: National Amusements
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News About This Theater
- Mar 25, 2012 — Development transforming Merrifield into more walkable community
- Jun 28, 2010 — One theatre gone, another rises up
The Lee Highway Multiplex Cinemas was built on the site of the former Lee Highway Drive-In (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures). It was opened on December 19, 1986. This theater had fourteen screens. Four screens are large, six are small and the rest are medium in size. It had digital sound and played first run movies.
Operated by National Amusements, the theatre was closed on January 11, 2009. It was demolished and the Angelika Film Center was built on the site (it has its own page on Cinema Treasures).
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Competition is good. AMC dominates the DC market now, for better or worse. Babette’s post may be conjecture, at best. Then again, if they open a Cinema deLuxe-style plex with IMAX, a REAL IMAX and not AMC’s IMAX-lite-type auditorium, what better experience would that be to watch movies. Maybe the food court offerings will be better, too, Cheesecake Factory, Maggianos maybe, instead of Sbarros? :) And, yes, I’d be willing to drive across the bridge and pay $13.50 to see a decent IMAX, a real IMAX movie if that is the case.
according to an email I received from National Amusements, they are not remodeling nor are there plans on reopening the Lee Highway Multiplex – oh well.
Film piracy is killing our theaters. Universal Pictures, 20th Century FOX, Disney have leaked their films for hackers/pirates, before they were ever released to theaters. This must stop right now.
I’m going to have to go UM’s comment because all of our memories that were built on Lee Highway are being torn down for urban development so that the drug dealers and Hispanics can live in it. This is very wrong. I’m glad I moved to Georgia and i hope Carmike 8 Dublin doesn’t get converted into a church or something else.
An interesting design and the last of its kind in the metropolitan DC area. Some parting shots from 2008: 1, 2
From today’s Washington Business Journal: “Edens & Avant has begun tearing down the multiplex cinema off of Lee Highway in Merrifield to make way for the first phase of a planned 1.9 million-square-foot mixed-use redevelopment that will replace the theater and parking lots with a new cinema, grocery store, townhouse complex, hotel and office space. Called Mosaic, the $150 million project’s retail portion is two-thirds leased by companies including Target, Mom’s Organic Market and Angelika Film Center.”
Too bad this theater is closing. I actually lived a few miles away in Dunn Loring in the mid 90s and spent a good amount of time here. By today’s standards, it’s pretty marginal… but it was solid back then. I’m pretty sure this is where I first saw Mallrats and Toy Story.
an Angelika theater in Virginia!!! oh now that’s exciting news. Thumbs up!
oh hellz yeah! we have a date or thereabouts for the opening of the Angelika, since the website for Ron Fricke’s ‘Samsara’ will be shown there in 4K digital projection (!) starting September 21st … oh the anticipation!!!!!
Opened December 19th, 1986. Grand opening ad posted.
Not only Angelika Film Center exists at the former Drive-in/Multiplex site, but a mixed use residential community!
I moved to NOVA in 1998 and saw movies at both the Mount Vernon and Lee Highway Multiplexes. Giants like AMC and others have eclipsed their business.
Nice memories.