AMC Loews Paramus Route 4 Tenplex
260 E. Highway 4,
Paramus,
NJ
07652
260 E. Highway 4,
Paramus,
NJ
07652
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Has ownership of the theater recentely changed? Who is the current owner and how long has ownership been in place?
Joe, can you clarify for me a bit?? The old Route 4 Cinema was another theater along with the Stanley Warner…but you say it was theaters 1-5?? That’s the main auditorium with the upstairs theater on the right….I always thought it was theater 6???
I believe you’re talking about the Stanley Warner…I wish I would have got to see the old theater before it was cut up….in the picture in the lobby it seems the original auditorium spread to where theater 2 was…huge….but I always remember it from 77…
Question…the original auditorium was alot bigger in 77 during Star Wars then cut up to include theater 2 and 3, correct?? I always remember the upstairs( balcony) was a single theater before it was split in 2…
I just hope it stays up longer as well, I saw every Star Wars flick in theater#1 and I want to see the new one (part 3) there so I can have a complete viewing memory of everyone of the Star Wars films at Stanley Warner (I still call it that)…wouldn’t it be nice if before they ever close they re-install 70MM equipment and have a Star Wars festival of original prints as a farewell??? Yea, right!!
You think 4100 is a lot? Check out the listing for the Loews Ridgefield Park, this theatre’s ‘competition’ for much of the 1990s. Before its largest auditorium was tripled, taking the screen count from 10 to 12, that theatre accommodated 4802!
4100 seats total for the Paramus theatre complex? That’s an average of 410 seats per screen! Even the megaplexes now average 100-200 seats per screen!!
As of 1988, in its 10 screen configuration, the theater’s total seating capacity was 4100.
The Route 4 theater was one of only 3 in New Jersey, and 32 nationwide, to open “Star Wars” on May 25, 1977.
So what was the layout of the theatre complex? I heard it was like a spaceship?
The Stanley-Warner Route 4 Cinema is now theatres 1 – 5.
At a recent screening as I was leaving the theater I looked in the booth by the entrance (the office) and on the wall were large pictures of when the theater opened featuring shots of the original exterior, interior with the balcony before splitting into a multiscreen, and the interior from the elevators. I meant to ask about them but the people sitting there didn’t notice me or ask me and they seemed aloof but I hope to get copies (although i doubt it) Does anyone have any pics of the previous theaters. or acssess to.
My first time there was in June 77 , waiting in line for Star Wars…it was a grand experience, 20 years later , I waited in line again to see it on the same screen, it was a great trip and nostalgic. In all the years I go there to see alot, I prefer the big theater as that’s the original with screen. I hear it may close if they build a new multiplex down the road. A shame.
Theaters 8 and 9 are to avoid as they are the small theaters with TV size screens. Does anyone remember the Route 4 Cinema?? Is theater 6 and 7 that theater?? or where was the Route 4 Cinema?? Appreciate a little help on this.
Overall, I go there as it’s the last of the classic theaters still going with the original auditorium even though it’s been re-done, but it’s the same as Star Wars 77 as there was no balcony then. A great theater, i hope they don’t close it.
When Cineplex Odeon owned the Route 4 Tenplex in the 80s, did it have a neon-and-art deco-style lobby?
I remember reading about the Route 4 Paramus theatre in the New York Times movie listings since I was a kid. It was originally owned by RKO Stanley Warner. It always played the biggest blockbusters during the 70s and 80s. Some even played in 70mm. What is the architectural design of the theatre? When the theatre was split into three separate ones, what were the seating capacities? When they started adding screens in the 80s, was it next to the existing theatre? How many screens had 70mm capacity?