Reston Town Center Multiplex Cinemas
11940 Market Street,
Reston,
VA
20190
11940 Market Street,
Reston,
VA
20190
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The Reston Town Center Multiplex Cinemas is a one of the architectural landmarks of this beautiful planned community dubbed the “Downtown” for the twenty first century.
It was taken over from National Amusements by Rave Motion Picture Theatres in December 2009. Taken over by Bow Tie Cinemas from April 1, 2011. Renovations will include de-twinning screens 1 & 2, to bring the total number of screens back to its original configuration of 11.
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Jack Coursey
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As of Friday, 4/1, Bow Tie Cinemas will assume operation of the Reston Town Center 13. A phased top-to-bottom reconstruction will soon begin (allowing the theater to remain open during construction), which will include all stadium seating, bigger screens, all digital projection with 3D capability, brand new concession stands, all new amenities and decor, and brand new rest rooms. The theater originally opened as an 11-plex, and National Amusements later ‘twinned’ theaters 1 & 2. In the reconstruction, Bow Tie will ‘de-twin’ the theaters, turning the facility back to an 11-plex.
I beleive this theater first opened as a Cineplex Odeon
Cineplex started the project in 1988 but didn’t finish it—National Amusements opened it in 1990. Cineplex lobby with NAI auditoriums…it never operated as a Cineplex Odeon.
I always remembered that it was one of the first theatres in the DC area to be equipped with Dolby Digital EX surround sound, ‘Toy Story 2’ sounded amazing when played back as such. As for the seats ALL the National Amusements had these really crummy seats where they were both ultra-squeaky and/or reclined back so far that you felt like you would flip backward off the seat. Will be interested in seeing the detwinned auditorium. I hope that Bow Tie can install some of the auditoriums to playback discrete 7.1 soundmixes – something that Rave hasn’t done over at their Centreville or Fairfax Corner theaters.