Century San Francisco Centre 9
835 Market Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94103
835 Market Street,
San Francisco,
CA
94103
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Nine screen complex opened 9/28/06. Part of newly-built addition to the San Francisco Centre at Powell and Market.
Grand Opening attractions-
“The Guardian” (two screens)
“School for Scoundrels” (two screens)
“US vs. John Lennon” (two screens)
“Keeping Mum”
“Lara Smiles”
“Moonlight”
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I went to check the new place out.It is on the 5th floor of the new mall.The theaters themselves are on opposite ends of a long mall walkway, with the concession stand directly in the middle so mall shoppers can buy popcorn without going to a movie. I was in the side containing theaters 6-9.Theater 6 was a nice size with excellent sound and picture on a big screen, and yes the seats are leather. I also checked out theater 7 which was a bit smaller but also featured excellent picture and sound. The place itself does not have much personality.It is a typical Century mall movie theater.Just another set of boxes of varying sizes.
Thanks. lookin forward to going there in a few weeks on my vacation. I’ll take some photos and post em up here.
Like many new Century Theatres they don’t have a full scope screen. They just drop black masking down from the big flat screen and make it look like Cinemascope. To fit in as many shoebox’s as possible they made the screens not able to expand. Gone are the days that curtains closed and the masking went out for a wide screen show.
Photos
Entry from Shopping Mall:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaneur/260299791/
HugeLobby of movie theater:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/v63/255468910/
Mural in Lobby:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejcgerm/276790439/
Ceiling Light Fixture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbcastro/371599251/
Hey Terry… FULL “SCOPE” at SF’s infamous CASTRO THEATRE as well as lovely new curtains AND the Wurlitzer nightly!
Who needs any more shoe-box theaters when you have historic palaces?
Century has installed something they call XD, which I think stands for extreme digital, at this theater. It seems to be a mini Imax format.The screen is floor to ceiling and wall to wall, though the sound was not what you would experience in an Imax theater. I saw “Amelia”. Some of the scenes were in full screen, while other scenes almost looked letterboxed, with small black bars on the top and bottom of the screen.“The Dark Knight in Imax was like this also. Century is charging $14.00 a ticket for this cinematic experience. It is not available on all their nine screens.
An article about Cinemark’s XD screens (Cinemark owns Century) here: View link
Some of those photos posted above are rather neat, but those light fixtures look like they were picked up at a close-out sale at IKEA.
I’ve posted information and photos from a recent visit here.
This was the last theatre opened by Century Theatres before being sold to Cinemark only weeks later.