AMC Woodhaven 10
1336 Bristol Pike,
Bensalem,
PA
19020
1336 Bristol Pike,
Bensalem,
PA
19020
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It used to be a four-screen theater inside of the small-ish Woodhaven Mall, but the mall itself is no more, and AMC has turned the site into a ten-screen multiplex. Practically within walking distance to AMC’s Franklin Mills theater, the Woodhaven is your standard B+ effort from AMC: Stadium seating, solid projection, passable theater size. It’s no Neshaminy, but it’s certainly no AMC Orleans, either…
(I saw the original Star Wars at the Woodhaven, waaaay back in ‘77.)
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The Woodhaven Mall that has the AMC Woodhaven 10 Theatre, is now called Home Depot Plaza, and is located at the interseection of PA 63 (Woodhaven Road & Expressway) and US Route 13 (Bristol Pike), in Bensalem, PA. Less than a ¼ mile west from the Woodhaven Mall/Home Depot Plaza is Franklin Mills Mall, in Philadelphia, PA.
This mall opened in 1973 with Woolco, Woodhaven Mall 4 Cinemas, Gaudio’s Garden Center and Acme Super Saver Supermarket. Today, the Home Depot is on the site of the Woolco store, Babies R us is in the Gaudio’s building, and Acme Super Saver is just called Acme, and the Woodhaven Mall 4 became the AMC Woodhaven 10.
The June 1999 Philadelphia Magazine rated the AMC Woodhaven 10 a “3.8” on a 1 to 5 scale with comment “Across the road from GCC Franklin Mills and just as nice.” (that’s now AMC Franklin Mills). Highest possible rating was achieved in the Seating category, and very high ratings for Cleanliness and Screen & Sound.
The Woodhaven Mall 4 Cinemas, and the AMC Woodhaven 10 Theatre are, although 2 seperate buildings, one continuous operation.
AMC opened this theatre in 1973 as “Woodhaven Mall 4 Cinemas”, changed the name to AMC Woodhaven Mall 4 Theatre after they acquired the Leo Twin Theatre, the Bucks Mall Colonial Twin Theatre, and the Premiere Twin Theatre from Ramon Posel in 1980.
The AMC Woodhaven 10 uses the same original phone number that the Woodhaven Mall 4 Cinemas first used back in 1973.
Here is a partial seatcount for the AMC Woodhaven 10:
1 – 274
2 – 204
3 – 179
5 – 215
6 – 205
8 – 148
9 – 144
I couldn’t get the counts for #4, #7 and #10
I’ve saw “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – The Special Edition” here on 2/23/1997, in Auditorium #7, and “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” in 2D, in Auditorium #1 on 2/20/2012.
The AMC Woodhaven 10 Theatre opened in 1973 as the AMC Woodhaven Mall 4 Cinema. It was late 1995 when the current AMC Woodhaven 10 opened.
actually, according to Boxoffice Magazine (Week of April 3, 1972) The AMC Woodhaven Mall 4 was scheduled to opened in Fall of 1972. It’s announcement of construction was in March of 1972. http://www.boxoffice.com/the_vault/issue_page?issue_id=1972-4-3&page_no=17#page_start
The original Woodhaven Mall 4 Theatre seated 1,200, with 300 in each auditorium. The theatre also had Bright Red and Gold in the Wall coverings and the carpets when first opened.
Spent a lovely Sunday afternoon seeing the film “Side Effects”. Two things. ..
My dream came true, as bad as it might have been for business, I was the only person in this particular theatre.
Secondly I was very happy to be in one of what I know to be still showing movies on film ( as opposed to the digital) rooms. Venues Three and Four still run film. I can’t speak of the others, I believe 10 might as well.
I squee with delight when I learn a movie I want to see is there, since I’m not sure how much longer it will last.
Made yet another visit to AMC Woodhaven on Sunday (4/7/13) for a showing of “Evil Dead” – I really enjoyed it. It was on film.
Few things about this place. There was an issue with the computer system that morning, they held up the start of the movie to be sure those folks ( and it was quite a few) didn’t miss the movie or miss out on a trip to the concession stand.
For it being a violent horror movie, the crowd was quite well behaved. Couple of things stood out to me. One, during the movie a patron (young man) got up and actually left the theatre to take a call Second, during the movie, an AMC staffer came into to be sure things were well. They were.