AMC 34th Street 14
312 W. 34th Street,
New York,
NY
10001
312 W. 34th Street,
New York,
NY
10001
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If AMC and Loews do merge, look for the combined company to divest itself of this turkey. That is if they can find anyone to take it off their hands. Like the decision of Regal to put up that ‘plex in Battery Park City, putting a theatre at this location was a dunderheaded move. What were they thinking?
I am on the e-mail list for this theatre and they now are marketing a singles night at this theatre. For FANTASTIC FOUR they held a screening “just for singles.”
Boy this theater must be doing real well. In June, they’ve booked or rented part of the theater to the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Festival. That fest is also using the Loews State, a theater on its last legs.
I’ve gone to the fan favorites as well, for free you can’t beat it. I think Loews Cineplex does this in other cities like Chicago, Boston & DC.
While there is nothing that grabs me for May, I usually attend the Thursday night film series (called “Fan Favorites”) for the simple reason—its free:
http://www.enjoytheshow.com/favorites/index.cfm
At least I haven’t paid for a ticket yet.
One problem with booking older titles is that there are only used exchange prints available, at this time or not available at all. The studio will have a studio copy of the film most of the times, but they tend to only book them for special event type screening. They also sometimes do not like to send them platter type houses.
To the management of the Loews 34th Street ‘plexes credit, they have a Thursday night series where they show a classic film. Each month there is a different theme. In May they are doing disaster films. I hoped they would screen those Irwin Allen produced schlocky films that haven’t been seen in the big screen in years. Films like “Towering Inferno,” “Earthquake,” “Poseiden Adventure,” et al.
Real banal progamming. The two films in the “disaster” series are “The Perfect Storm” and “Deep Impact.”
C'mon Loews show some more imagination.
Pardon my bluntless, but whatever the hell Loews was thinking when they built this theatre is beyond me. The neighborhood it’s in is hardly one of the more traditional residential ones in Manhattan (perhaps it’ll be more of one if the West Side Stadium plan falls through and Cablevision’s alternate plan to convert the area above the rail yards into a mostly residential stretch of property becomes a reality); the MSG and shopping crowds, for the most part, don’t come into the area to see a movie as well; and, of course, there’s 38 screens eight blocks to the north showing the same exact films. What a wasted idea on Loews' behalf…
One other annoying aspect of this gigantic theatre is the background. The auditoriums are actually on levels two and three with a lobby on the street level. You take two escalators to get to the first level of theatres and a second escalator to get to the second level of theatres.
The problem is that the bathrooms — at least the men’s room — is on the second level of theatres so if nature calls and you are in one of those theatres on the first level, it is a long walk and an escalator ride. I don’t know what the Loews people were thinking when they designed the theatre this way.
The reserved seating concept was actually introduced to the Loews circuit with the opening of the Loews Waterfront Theatre in 1998.
A few other notes on the 34th Street:
Shortly after its opening in the autumn of 2001, the theatre served as the testing ground for the company’s Reel Moms program, which caters to caregivers with infants. The program, brainchild of LCE VP of Marketing John McCauley, proved such a success that it was expanded to twenty cities within two years and spawned imitators throughout the industry.
Within just a year of opening (and presumably because of disappointing attendance), the theatre’s ticket price was reduced to $8.99, a relative bargain in Manhattan.
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