AMC Star Fitchburg 18

wescoast43 on March 4, 2010 at 3:08 pm

I worked at this theatre for 8 years and I am happy to answer questions about it.

This theatre is 18 screens… 17 plus the IMAX. When Kerasotes renamed it, they were clearly confused. The original name was Star Cinema-Fitchburg.

Theatre was constructed and opened for business in December 1999 as a 14 screen theatre with 12 station concession stand and 6 station box office. We ran exclusively Christie projectors with 4 THX certified auditoriums and half of them running DTS and the other half running Dolby Digital sound systems. The only significant change to the look of this building is the carpeting and hallways, which were changed to match the scheme in the IMAX addition. Street sign was also changed when IMAX was built. Mural above the concession stand was painted by a family member of the ownership, Mark Adamany of Rockford, IL.

I don’t remember the exact date (December 2006?) we added the IMAX addition, but it was opened with 3 additional 150 seat auditoriums to accommodate long first-runs and an additional 8 station concession stand and set of bathrooms. Was previously owned and operated by the Adamany family of AGT Enterprises in Prairie Du Chien, who still own and operate their original location there.

Kerasotes is obviously now AMC at the end of the month, so this information will be changing.

Michael R. Rambo Jr. on February 6, 2011 at 8:42 am

This theatre is now named AMC Star Fitchburg 18
[url]http://www.amctheatres.com/Fitchburg/[/url]