AMC Pleasure Island 24 Theatres

This theater is super clean, just like everything in Walt Disney World. There's a really nice two story lobby on each end of the megaplex. While there are now somewhat similar high quality multiplexes like this around the country, this was the first one I was ever in when it was first built, and was quite impressive. I have been back there many times over the years, and it still is impressive.
It has to be one of the biggest multiplexes around too.

Can someone tell me how I can get a list of the films that are showing at AMC downtown disney over the next month please.

Tina, show schedules are only made at AMC about a week in advance. You wouldnt know till usually the Thursday before the the weekend.
Also, look at a site that has a list of release dates to give you an idea of what is opening that weekend you will be there.

Hey Bway...
You're right, the AMC Pleasure Island is a magnificent megaplex and when I lived in Orlando was my favorite theatre to go to. This was only the second Mega I'd ever been to just after being totally dissapointed when I'd gone to the Regal 22 Oviedo Marketplace with it's lousy projection and sound and unremarkable interiors. Unlike Oviedo, Pleasure Island is what every Megaplex should be like. Another O-Town Mega worth mentioning is Muvico's Pointe Orlando with it's Imax screen.

i love amc pi. so many wonderful memories. and the tickets are reasonably priced, as are the snacks (well, as reasonably for a movie theatre!) which is surprising because it's on property.

the movies that show there show all day long, new movies show about every 30 minutes to an hour, and they have about 18 different movies at any given time, so i wouldn't ever worry about not having something to see. it's definitely the kind of place that you just decide to go to a movie and then drive there and pick something out, any time of day or night.

The theatre grew from 10 screens to 24 with the expansion of Downtown Disney to include the West Side district (probably explaining why this movie theatre is still known as the Pleasure Island 24 even though it doesn't call the Pleasure Island district its home anymore. A few of the orginal screens are still there (I belive they have 18 theatres with stadium seating). The entire left wing (except for a retrofitted-with-stadium screen) is nearly intact from the days of the AMC 10-plex, as is the orginal loby (nearest to Planet Hollywood). The other loby (across from Virgin Megastore) is new and includes the gigantic screens 1 and 2, both with balconies.

It's been 11 years since I've experienced this theatre. I had the pleasure of doing a summer internship w/Disney in 1994. That was the summer of Lion King, Forrest Gump, True Lies, and Speed! I still remember seeing all 4 of those films in the main auditorium in THX and Dolby Digital. A great great summer and a great great theatre!

Are any of the auditoriums still THX certified?

1994 was pre-expansion back when it was still a 10-plex (I saw The Truth About Cats and Dogs while on vacation there) - the 24 screens I think arrived in 1996 (14 new stadium theatres and 4 retrofitted). I belive the main houses (which are quite an experience) - now theaters 1 and 2 (at the new entrance across from Virgin Megastore and Wolfgang Punk) are THX certified, as for the rest I'm not quite sure, but whats the big deal with THX anyway, it's pretty much a scam.

The former main houses (the two located next to the snack bar in the old 10 plexes) were retrofitted with stadium seating.

Does anyone know thow many seats are in each auditorium at Pleasure Island 24?

I would assume that the retrofitted theatres with Stadium Seating are Theatres #19 and 20?

The original left wing of the AMC Pleasure Island 10 Theatre is now Theatres #20-24 (#24 was original #1, #23 was original #2, #22 was original #3, #21 was original #4, and #20 was original #5). The right wing has Theatre #19 (original #6), Theatre #18 (original Theatre #10) and Theatre #17 (Original Theatre #9), with the location of original Theatres #7 and #8 is now a hallway to reach Theatres #1 to #16, with #13 to #16's screens in the spot where Original #8's right side wall used to be.

Thanks so much Mike for that information. I was in the theater when it was first built, and couldn't figure out how the layout used to be when I was there earlier this year.

So far, the only seat count I was able to get from the AMC pleasure Island 24 was 188 seats in House #22.

Correction on original Theatre numbers: current House #24 was Original house #2, and current House #23 was original House #1

I usually wind up going here on rainy days if in the disney area, and I guess everyone always has the same idea, as the place was packed when I went there back in january....almost uncomfortably so as almost every seat was filled!

The theater is in the news as analysts downgraded IMAX stock on word that AMC will install an EXT (Enhanced Theater Experience) at the complex. EXT boast a 20% larger, wall to wall screen, to compete with the digital IMAX and Cinemark's Extreme Digital (XD) system which is the same thing. Essentially EXT was developed when AMC couldn't install an IMAX at Younge & Dundas in Toronto (Scotiabank Theatre about a half mile away has one, and AMC and Scotiabank share a booking zone). Sadly it's no big deal, or at least not when I saw a character driven drama at the Toronto International Film Festival in EXT.

Claims are IMAX rejected the auditorium for conversion - I'm not so sure this is true. Regal, when they purchased the Muvico Pointe Orlando (which had an IMAX, closed it, and Regal re-opened both the IMAX and the complex) - might have beat AMC to the punch, they may have an exclusive territory for IMAX in greater Orlando (although AMC Altamonte Mall has IMAX).

Theater chains developing their own digital large screen experiences is a direct result of IMAX giving exclusive rights to certain territories. Which is why Cinemark decided to develop their own system (IMAX is now suing them claiming copyright infringement).