AMC Loews Bay Terrace 6
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
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Alright,I spoke too fast, we’re now getting Battleship and The Dictator along with Brave and the Amazing Spider-man.
Another big summer start here. Last week the Avengers at night all 6 screens. We’re not getting Dark Shadows, The Dictator, Battleship and Prometheus but hot dang we’re getting a Chinese epic this week.
This may not seem that ridiculous but it does to me. Currently the Avengers is on pace to break the alltime weekend record. If you look at the schedule on Fandango for this evening and considering the theater shows maybe 15 minutes of coming attractions and commercials before the films, at 9:30 pm “Marvel’s The Avengers” will be playing on all 6 screens!!!
Shows starting before noon are $6., as at all (most?) other AMC cinemas coast-to-coast.
The $4 surcharge on 3D films has been reduced back to $3. I don’t how long this has been for since I’ve managed to see 2D showings there of Ghost Rider, The Lorax and John Carter.
On the upcoming schedule for February 24 I noticed that the earliest showings were rather late considering New York public schools are closed that day. For instance the lone opener “Wanderlust” has its first showing is 3 pm. They said whilst I was there attending Ghost Rider that some doctor rented the whole theater and almost 800 guests were coming. He apparently does this once a year. Do they have conferances or do they actually watch some movie like when the schools come for special showings of those Disney Earth day films?
Went by the theater today and they say they are staying open and they gave me a different phone number for the theater which they do answer. Noticed that too,the people selling tickets and concessions holding up the lines pitching the Stubs cards.
Shocking they still change the marquee regularly – I’ve seen many AMC and Regal locations that permanently put up a message saying something like “For tickets and showtimes call … or visit www…..to me this screams cheapness and a lack of showmanship – but I understand the winter months it might be dangerous. Then again AMC Theaters are all about cutting corners and jacking up prices where they can lately, while harassing you about the stubs program at nearly every interaction with an employee (either to join or renew your card).
The phone number for this theater is no longer in service.
Sounds like this place is on the way out. They don’t get the product and when they do they don’t publicize it.
Now the marquee is just showing a Loews sign (they are AMC now) and it’s blank on the other side. They told me last week that the only guy who was brave enough to go up on the sign had been on vacation but now it’s covered up, if not covered blank.
They added 3 movies this week, Mission Impossible. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and War Horse but have not changed the marquee or I should say sign at the front of the shopping center since any of them open. Driving by you would think no new pictures are playing, none of the new ones listed.
I haven’t been to this theater in at least 5 or 6 years, perhaps longer. Even when I lived in Bayside, I much preferred the stadium seating at the College Point Multiplex.
Another low for this theater; they bring back 2 old pictures they got rid off, Real Steel for a 4th week (5 weeks out)after getting rid of after 3 and Moneyball for a 5th (7th overall) after playing the first 4 weeks here. No new pictures here, maybe we’ll be a second run house. Does anyone else who writes here ever visit this theater.
Went to see “Puss in Boots” here today and they jumped the price of 3D pictures to $4 extra. Why is this when it is becoming obvious that more people are choosing the 2D version. You can even tell by the theater’s showings with at least the last 3d films there, “Dolphin Tale”, “Three Musketeers” and this one having alternate 2D and 3D showings. AMC’s Fresh Meadows which had 3D first charged initially $4 additional then dropped it back to $3. Wasn’t this after some people in the city were being charged $20 total at some AMC theaters to see the 4th Shrek film?
MarkP, the girl told me the bulb would cost about $1800 but that didn’t count the mirrors or other parts of the equipment. Yesterday they said the picture was indeed running but they could be running it on a smaller screen, maybe cancelling a lesser performing picture. If they were doing that my guess would be “What’s Your Number” which opened weak last week. Since they are selling advance tickets to “Footloose” for next week I presume this flic is gone. I remember a few Christmas seasons back every time one wanted to buy a ticket for the Adam Sandler film “Spanglish” performances were always cancelled, different days too. I finally saw it on the 3rd or 4th attempt there.
Actually DARCYDT, your going to find more and more problems like what you had yesterday in the future. Whereas in the past with film, a projectionist like myself (36 years) would have spare parts and be able to fix things in an hour or two. Where I work now in NJ we have 3 digitals so far and during the summer one was down for over a week. What went was called a “light engiene” and they go for mucho dollars. In my theatre it was $25,000.00 And it had to be ordered. And they said ours was already extinct, and the equipment is only 1.5 years old. This digital projection is not going to be good as the years go one. Ever changing technology and costs are going to make the AMC’s and Regals see the error of their ways.
Went there today to see Real Steel and noticed they had cancelled performances of Ides of March which also opened today. They said the light in the projection system exploded and the mirrors which help the picture to be shown also broke. This appears to be in theater 6, one of their 2 big screens. How long does this take to fix and surpriasing it has happened since they are all digital which probably has nothing to do with projection.
The last paragraph in the introductory description to this theater needs to be updated or removed, since the ticket pricing policy is out of date. Probably wasn’t a wise decision on my part to include information that would quickly be so out of date! Anyway, uploaded the old photos I previously posted so they’ll be easy to find.
Thanks for the photos Ed posted on July 1.
According to the Bayside Times this week AMC has renewed the lease for this theater but will be doing renovations (hmmm).
Amazingly this week with 2 pictures opening predicted to make 100 million, Narnia and the Tourist Bay Terrace gets nothing. Yes we get another Fresh Meadows reject Love and Other Drugs but Fresh Meadows still puts Narnia on 2 screens. All right Bay Terrace is getting Tron but let’s see what picture of the Christmas season looks like a real underperformer, the Fighter, Yogi Bear, Gulliver’s Travels will they come here or some foreigh language epic exclusive to the city that no one knows is there or cares. Maybe they could become a $2 theater. Maybe the pediatric place moving next door to them will take some of their footage.
Today the first film of the Chinese picture deal started. The picture actually had an additional showing on another screen so it was on 2 screens at 1 time. It was in both big theaters, numbers 1 & 6. I went to the 3 pm showing in theater 1 where a whopping 3 people attended. Great start.
This week there are 2 screens here occupied foreign language films , the Korean flic Man From Nowhere and the Chinese film Aftershock. The latter is part of a deal where perhaps 15 Chinese language films may play here over the next year. This and the Korean deal leaves more mainstream Hollywood films that will not be shown in this neighborhood.
Bay Terrace 6 plex is currently playing a record 9 films there.
Nanny McPhee Returns
The Switch
Eat Pray Love
Step Up 3D (moveover from Fresh Meadows)
711: Into the Fire (Korean Film)
Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (moveover from Fresh Meaadows)
Inception
Despicable Me
Toy Story 3 (10th week here)
This was the 2nd week this year that there were 2 moveovers from Fresh Meadows