AMC Fallbrook 7
6731 Fallbrook Avenue,
West Hills,
CA
91307
6731 Fallbrook Avenue,
West Hills,
CA
91307
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This became the lone West Hills venue in the late-1980’s, effectively replacing the defunct Mann Fallbrook Twin Theatre, which was shut down by 1985 within the Fallbrook Square shopping mall.
Originally opened by General Cinemas as a six-screen multiplex, they soon added a seventh screen and under a shadow of the late-1990’s megaplex building boom, expanded by yet another three screens in hopes of keeping up with the competition, especially AMC’s Promenade in nearby Woodland Hills, whose 16 theaters of stadium-style seating had really raised patrons' expectations.
By 1999, word had spread that in a cost-cutting move, the GCC chain planned to essentially pull out of the West Coast, leaving numerous venues to literally fend for themselves. Some theaters were shut down and/or razed. Other venues continued operating as independents for however long they could last. And those truly fortunate ones, like Fallbrook, were purchased by another theater chain.
Enter the Laemmle family in late 2001, who agreed to purhase Fallbrook from GCC, then subsequently closed/tore down those three most recently-built theaters the following year to create retail space (as a source of lease income) while redirecting their newly acquired venue towards foreign films, art house fare and midnight movies like “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”.
As of 2006, the theater is open with all its seven screens intact, continuing to be a productive part of Fallbrook Square. It was taken over by AMC in early-2013.
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Where were the 3 additional screens located in relation to current screens?
The 3 screens that were added are on the northeast side of the building, just to the right of the main entry doors. They each seated about 125-180, and were the smallest in the complex. When Laemmle Theatres took over operations, those screens were converted to retail. They are currently a Pacific Sunwear and a Curves gym.
Here is the website for this theater.
The seating capacities are: #1) 183 #2) 210 #3) 298 #4) 386 #5) 386 #6) 298 #7)298
This week Laemmle Fallbrook is showing The Untouchables in 70mm! Mon to Wed, 3 shows a day. Was hoping to get here before AMC took over, and this is a perfect way to usher this cinema out in its current form!