Kerasotes Showplace 14

how did this theater do this weekend? is it better than the amc loews theaters?

This is an article about the Kerasotes Showplace 14.

Not to be nit-picking, but um...it would only make sense that the theatre probably killed amc opening weekend. I mean come on, use your brain. The new kid on the block ALWAYS creates a buzz, and everyone will go there, if for no other reason, just to be nosey.

Just got back from this beautiful new theater. It even smelled new. The staff was exceptionally friendly. The only bad part: the guy who took a cell phone call after the movie began the movie, and in a normal tone of voice too. At least he and his family walked out soon after. They had a little kid with them and the movie was too scary for him or her anyway: "Paranormal Activity". Scariest movie I've seen in decades.

Agreed, saw The Box here last week - nice venue, nearly the same seats as the new AMC builds (GSP and Younge & Dundas in Toronto) but not as wide. I was too surprised by the friendliness of the staff and management they were everywhere you looked adding extra touches to the experience. Lower prices than Edgewater (Edgewater is still hands down the best multiplex in NJ). Also excellent popcorn with Pibb at the concession stand. The design is also pretty interesting, although a bit bland in features the auditorium entrance was a little confusing, a long hallway opens bam into the middle of the theater, no portal in the traditional stadium seating sense (I was in Theatre 3, I assume it's a symmetrical plex and therefore 10 is probably identical).

All digital projection is both a curse and a blessing, they also are keeping the same programing from Loews (minus the Indian flicks which flourish up the street at Columbia Park). Another issue is parking, we got lucky, but with the Loews Meadows building still there (there actually wasn't a lot of parking in Loews' heyday of the early 90's). I do miss the Meadow's huge theaters, especially the two further back, where I saw Titanic. I didn't see an elevator in Kerasotes so I'm not sure if any theaters exceed 299. Anybody got a seat count on the place?

Amazing to think this was planned many years after Muvico (who knows who/when/if the plex will open) at Xanadu, and they beat them to opening day, probably at this point by years. All and all, not a bad plex from a chain with a history of racism.

Is the place well secured? Hopefully it is like the old Loews theaters.

Security didn't seem like a problem - a lot of staff around. Loews was dead in its later years so they didn't really have security. The last thing I saw at the Meadows, the John C. Rielly comedy The Promotion saw two strange incidents, the first three rows were roped off due to flooding, and teens snuck in the emergency exit, tripping over the rope.

Kerasotes hasn't implemented their "Enchanted Evening Shows" or their racist policies of not playing films that attract black people on break like they do in Springfield, Il. Then again they aren't playing Precious....

Same here in Rockaway, where the movie is not playing. Hopefully later this month and next month the movie will get wide attention, especially if it gets an Oscar nomination.

Saw "Precious" here - perfect presentation of an excellent film. So far this place is 2 for 2 with me. Long may that continue!

Made my first visit here a couple of weekends ago. Saw "2012" here, and while the movie itself oozed with cheese, it's also a good test of a theatre's presentation quality. On that score, this complex passed, with the special effects properly overwhelming on what seemed like a suitably big screen and the sound clear as well as loud. Some shots did look noticeably pixilated, suggesting that digital projection is still not indistinguishable from film. Not sure whether the theatre uses top or side masking, or where the auditorium for this screening ranked in terms of size within the whole complex. But either I'm becoming reconciled to the whole multiscreen, stadium-seating concept, or else some designers are just getting more clever at providing sightlines that give the impression of a large screen even in a small auditorium with top-down masking. (Here I'm not referring to this theatre, but to the AMC Aviation 12 in Linden, where I saw "Star Trek" in one of the small houses this summer and didn't feel like I was missing out.) Regardless, I'll come back to the Kerasotes, even if I miss the two Loews theatres it replaces.

This theater's Real3D presentation of "Avatar" was excellent, except when the picture went dark for a short time. Thankfully it was during a purely dialogue scene back at Command HQ. But even that was handled well - an employee walked to the front of the house and told us what the problem was, and that it would soon be fixed. A few years ago when I saw "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" at nearby Columbia Park 12 (when it was under different management), the picture and sound cut out and nobody did anything about it for at least 10 minutes.

This just in...
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/amc-entertainment-to-buy-kerasotes-theatres/
maybe this could mean that AMC is coming back to secaucus!!!

If you read the bottom of the first paragraph Kerasotes is keeping this and both Showplace Icon sites.