Hollywood Palms Cinema
352 S. Route 59,
Naperville,
IL
60540
352 S. Route 59,
Naperville,
IL
60540
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This eight-screen theater was built in 1998 for the Cineplex Odeon chain at the Westridge Court shopping center in Naperville, located at the intersection of Route 59 and Aurora Avenue. Following the bankruptcy of Loews Cineplex in 2001, the chain closed a number of theaters in the Chicagoland area, including the Westridge Court.
A year after it was closed, the multiplex was reopened by the Nova Cinemas chain, and renamed the Nova 8 Cinemas. It continued to show first-run films until closing for renovation in early-2009.
Now the sister theater to the Hollywood Boulevard Cinema in Woodridge (the former Woodgrove Festival Cinema), the Hollywood Palms Cinema opened September 24, 2009. Opened six years after the Hollywood Boulevard, both movie houses are operated by Ted Bulthaup as cinema and dining/drinking venues. Patrons sit at tables in high back leather chairs and are waited on by servers during the film. Each of the Palms' seven auditoriums has a different theme (for example; Chinese, Mayan, Egyptian and even Wizard of Oz!). Like its sister theatre, the Palms will also screen classic films in addition to first-run features, and host film festivals and guest appearances by Hollywood stars.
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This place opened on June 19th 1992 with Batman Returns on six sreens. I have the ad on microfilm.
Is this theatre chain part of (or owned by) the Reynolds chain? Nova is on Reynolds’s website.
Rivest’s website says that this place is closed. Is that true?
It’s still open. Tomorrow they’re opening “Dragon Wars”, while they still have “3:10 to Yuma” & “Halloween” to name a few.
It should now be listed as “closed/renovating”. Per Nova’s website, it will re-open as a Hollywood Boulevard.
Sounds great. I’ll have to try it once they re-open.
This theater, after a substantial remodeling, has already had a soft re-opening as the as the seven-screen Hollywood Palms; the grand opening is set for September 24th. Read more here:
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The theater’s name and number of screens needs to be changed. It’s official website is:
http://www.hollywoodpalmscinema.com
Here’s one reviewer’s take on the Hollywood Palms experience:
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