Regal UA Kaufman Astoria & RPX
35-30 38th Street,
Astoria,
NY
11101
35-30 38th Street,
Astoria,
NY
11101
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Regal recliner update, the following theatres are now open with recliners:
Theatre 2 145 RPX and Dolby Atmos
Theatre 3 145
Theatre 4 143
Theatre 5 111
Theatre 6 107
Theatre 7 110
Theatre 8 and 9 74
Theatres 1, 10 thru 14 are currently closed.
The site where Regal was touted to open a theatre in Sunnyside around a mile from this location hasn’t had so much as a hammer lifted in several years, and the past year or two has had a banner hanging along the fencing that the site is for sale. Even when they were working on the site it was stop and start and slow. So, no, that ain’t happening.
I uploaded some photos from 2013 when I was last their, unfortunately the iphone cameras was not as great as today phones
Honestly, Regal did a port job building screens 5 to 9, 8 and 9 was the worse houses, watching a movie was like being at home. They probadly should build 12 houses instead of 14. Guess Regal abandoned the Regal Sunnyside location.
The recliners help provide a better view from the front rows since you can lean pretty far back and have a way better viewing angle, but they don’t change the forever problem that the auditoria are really badly designed, the front rows still too close, and the stadium seating rows all varying degrees of too far back with meh sight lines.
The box office has been entirely removed. No human oresence and you kind of have ti just know to go to the concession stand to buy a ticket.
Even the new screens they were working on since January there is still a punch list in the lobby area and the entryway areas to the individual screens.
No masking on the screens, but that’s a lot less an issue for me than the still bad sightlines.
Is it a nicer theatre now? Yes. The seats are super comfy and I would say better than what the AMCs and Alamo are giving at at any of their Manhattan locations. Kind of sad that moviegoing has declined to where Regal is happy giving up half the capacity here to put in these snazzy seats, early 2000s it wasn’t a problem to fill up a bunch of 200 seaters here on a busy weekend. But for the 2020s this is more worth leaving the living room for. But such. bad, sightlines.
Starting Friday, the following screens will now have recliner seating, they all been closed since the beginning of the year.
Theatre 5 111
Theatre 6 107
Theatre 7 110
Theatre 8 and 9 74
Theatres 1, 2 (RPX), 3 and 4 will be closed for renavations starting Friday. Theatre 13 and 14 are still closed.
I saw 12 years a slave in theater 8, that screen was small, didn’t think Regal made bad houses.
Stoped in and asked an employee wassup as half the screens have been closed for months. They are getting recliners. The floor plans of the original auditoria are being redone completely, not the number or location of the screens but more than just putting recliners on the same rows. Will be interested to see what exactly, because the current auditoria have a lot of bad sight lines and it would be nice if that will improve. And a 4DX is going into Screen 13. Screens at the far end (5-9) are nearing completion.
Their are showtimes scheduled for January 15 to 15, remember the theatre is probably getting new seating. Theatre 5 to 9 is currently closed.
it is possible Regal is doing some work in the theatre since there are no showtimes being sold from Friday January 10 thru Wed January 15, and then pick back up with advance sales starting January 16.
Movie theatre open October 8, 1999. It was the first Regal in New York City Market. Posted grand opening ad. Please add October 8, 1999 to description.
Seating capacities at this theater (via Fandango’s reserved seating service):
Theater 1 – 250 seats
Theater 2 – 301 seats [RPX]
Theater 3 – 326 seats
Theater 4 – 294 seats
Theater 5 – 242 seats
Theater 6 – 211 seats
Theater 7 – 243 seats
Theater 8 – 156 seats
Theater 9 – 154 seats
Theater 10 – 247 seats
Theaters 11, 12 & 13 – 249 seats
Theater 14 – 198 seats
Can anyone confirm 7.1 on this site? I saw FINDING DORY last night at Auditorium #1 and I could have sworn I’ve heard young, harrowing hellos from the back right surround IMMEDIATELY after the opening title.
Also, #1 isn’t the RPX screen, which has Dolby Atmos. It has a Sony 320 and Klipsch Professional speakers. Image was framed a tad too high with somewhat noticeable trapezoiding on the right hand side.
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Since there’s no site on here for the theater at the Museum of the Moving Image, just blocks from the Kaufman Astoria Cinema 14, I figured I’d post it here. Ran in today’s Daily News.
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BY NICHOLAS HIRSHON
DAILY NEWS WRITER
A potential Oscar-contending film about Idi Amin will be previewed tonight on an Astoria screen, more than a week before its heralded Sept. 27 nationwide release.
Acclaimed actor Forest Whitaker, who plays the infamous Ugandan dictator in “The Last King of Scotland,” will appear at the American Museum of the Moving Image after the critically acclaimed movie is previewed at 7 this evening.
The film’s director, Kevin Macdonald, and co-star James McAvoy who plays Amin’s personal physician, also will be in attendance.
A sellout crowd is expected to pack the museum’s 200-seat theater, and the actors and director will participate in a 30-minute moderated discussion following the movie, said David Schwartz, the museum’s chief curator.
“It’s a gripping film,” Schwartz said. “Forest Whitaker is a shoo-in for [an Oscar] nomination. There’s no way he’s not going to be nominated for that performan
ce.”
In the movie, McAvoy plays a young Scottish doctor named Nicholas Garrigan. Garrigan is sent to Uganda to treat a minor injury suffered by Amin, the mad dictator who ruled over the country in the 1970s.
Amin, obsessed with all things Scottish, hires Garrigan as his personal physician, and the doctor watches as Amin soon orders the torture of thousands of Ugandans.
Garrigan also falls in love with a diplomat’s wife, played by former “X Files” TV star Gillian Anderson.
McAvoy gained fame last year for his role as Mr. Tumnus the faun in “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” This year, he will star alongside Christina Ricci and Reese Witherspoon in “Penelope.”
Macdonald, whose directing credits include a Mick Jagger documentary that aired on ABC in 2001, seemed excited about coming to the museum.
“I’ve heard a lot of good things about the theater and its reputation,” he said. “I’m thrilled it’s going to be there.”
Critics have hailed “The Last King of Scotland” as a masterpiece destined to rack up a number of awards.
Asked if the film could capture any Oscars, Macdonald said that “audiences seem to have loved it so far and I hope … the various organizations agree.”
McAvoy might receive a few nominations, and Whitaker is considered an early favorite to win Best Actor at next year’s Academy Awards, Schwartz said.
Born with a condition called lazy eye, Whitaker has gone on to have a very successful career. He starred in the films “Bird” (1988) and “The Crying Game” (1992), and directed the popular Whitney Houston film “Waiting to Exhale” in 1995.
Whitaker researched his role as Amin so well that he almost perfectly imitated the dictator’s mannerisms and personality, Macdonald said.
“Forest gave a performance of any award going,” he said. “He gave 150% effort.”
Tickets for tonight’s film and discussion are $16 for museum members and $22 for the general public.
Originally published on September 17, 2006
It is amazing the economic engine this 14-‘plex has been. Thirty-Fifth Avenue is filling up with chain stores. Pizza Uno opened first. Then Starbucks. Than “The Cup” a faux-retro restaurant with a cool neon sign. And now Baskin Robbins. Thirty-Five Street was dead prior to opening of the 'plex. It should be good for AMMI to, diagonally across the street.
Boy is this area changing. I was there yesterday for KINGDOM OF HEAVEN and then I snuck into THE HITCH-HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and restaurants and other food & drink establishments are popping up. You know the area has “arrived” when a Starbuck’s comes and there is a Starbuck’s coming on 37th Avenue right across from the theatre.
I attend this theatre frequently, usually going in the afternoons to take advantage of the matinee prices and the relative quiet. I suspect these theatres are doing real well. It has spurred a renaissance in the immediate area. Several restaurants have opened since the megaplex arrived.
UA, which took over in 2001 after Regal’s bankruptcy…
Although I too would love to think that UA took over Regal’s debt but alas that is not true. After acquiring United Artists Theaters in September 2000 and Regal Cinemas, Phillip Anschutz then purchased Edwards Cinemas. In late 2001 all UA theatres began to receive a memo concerning a merger and debt by-out of Regal, UA and Edwards. In the Spring of 2002 it was made offical.
Thus the sad tale of the multimedia merger…
Besides the bookings you also have to take into account the condition the place was in.
One of the best of the stadium-seating theatres in NYC. The Astoria sixplex on Steinway Street, which, for a time after the Kaufman Astoria opened and following the Regal buyout of UA, shared initial-release product, but the Astoria eventually became a mostly move-over house with an occasional exception (i.e., ‘The Wash’ with Snoop Dogg and the Ed Burns film ‘Sidewalks of New York’) and, with a subsequent dramatic drop-off in business, closed for business on December 27, 2001.
UA could have kept both theatres going, they were not that close. I dont know how this looks but Astoria has no repairs or maintainance done to it for years before they closed it.