AMC Century City 14

An "expresso bar"...groan...this makes two theatres demolished in the last couple of years in Century City...

Correction: The Century Plaza was never much competition to the AMC Century 14. When AMC was able to day and date with Westwood it became the most successful multiplex in LA until Pacific's Grove was built years later with stadium seating.brucec

That mall is my favorite place in the world to eat...and I also love that the AMC is one of only two Los Angeles theaters with coffee (what is up with that????), but I got so sick of SOLD OUT SOLD OUT SOLD OUT for every single showing of every film that I stopped considering this theater as an option!
Westwood and it's theaters were just a five minute drive away.
That Century plaza is fine, but where the heck is the parking lot? When it was the PLITT Century Plaza, it actually served beer. That was some competition.
Since I don't go there anymore, here is my AMC parking secret: enter the parking lot from Constellation. Drive all the way forward until the lane ends. Turn left. Go to the end of that lane. Park in the corner. Go through the double industrial doors into the stairway. At the top, you will be at Houston's, with Brentano's and the AMC Theater on your right.
By the way, in Silverlake I saw a neon "eXpresso" sign! (emphasis mine)

The AMC Century 14 was among the handful of theaters that was equipped with Cinema Digital Sound (CDS), the 1990-1991 precursor to the contemporary digital sound formats.

In addition to being in close proximity to the film industry, the Century City theatre was also, quite literaly, in the shadow of AMC's west division offices (located in the Century Plaza towers). As such, this theatre was a flagship location; testing out every new idea/technology, holding test screenings, hosting VIPs, housing the west division academy (ie. gm school), etc. The special demands of managing this theatre were such that there was an extra yearly bonus handed out for working at the Century 14.

Following a corporate realignment, the West division offices were closed and the Century 14 became less central in the company's west coast operations.

After just over 18 years of operation (I want to say it opened in September of 1987), the AMC Century City 14 is closing tonight, December 13, 2005.

It did open in the Fall of 1987. The AMC CENTURY 15 is supposed to be all Stadium Seating auditoriums. I do not patronize the theatres because I prefer the Village, Bruin, National (Westwood) or Arclight and Grauman's Chinese (Hollywood). Those are ALWAYS my first choices for Cinemas. Maybe I will check out the 15 plex just to see what it is like.

This theatre has been demolished. Or at least, is in the process of being cut up for new mall stores.

Back when it was a 14 screener, I remember that certain films would open there before anywhere else. I remember fighting traffic just so I could see Celebrity, Being John Malkovitch, or American Beauty before everyone else. The theatre itself was nothing special; a few auditoriums were larger than others... but if you wanted to movie hop, and the two films you wanted to see were on the smaller screened wing of the theatre, it was incredibly easy to do so. The new 15 screen theatre is not quite as easy, depending on the time of day you are trying to hop... though the theatre in absolutely pristine. If only they had reserved seats I'd go there more often...

Funny story-- Last time I went there I ran into Bruce Willis. After seeing him ooze testosterone in the Live Free or Die Hard trailer, it was kind of weird watching him walk into the theatre to see Waitress.

So the theatre is no longer open and has been demolished?

AMC built a brand new facility on the south side of the mall, called the Century City 15 (it should be on this site).

The 14 was gutted out and reconfigured into a Container Store and other retail establishments.