Kings Plaza 6 Theaters

This theater, like many Brooklyn theaters, is aweful now. The theater, its employees, the mall and the people that still go there directly reflect the neighborhood which is becoming increasingly ghetto. I also saw Batman back in the day at Kings Plaza. The lines were long and the theater was packed but it was fun. I can honestly say that I would rather go to the UA Sheepshead- a theater in which I dread going to!

I remember the Kings Plaza movies / mall back in 1970’s when it was a lot better. I though it opened in 1972/73? It was quite the big deal at the time. Mike81869: don’t be surprised if NOBODY has any vintage pictures. Frustrating; I know. There would be no reason to take a picture of a mall movie theater I suppose…

Does anyone have any pictures of the Kings Plaza Theatre from the 70’s and/or 80’s??? Please email them to me:

For big movies like Rocky sequels, the line would go straight down to the other side of the mall (near Macys)…

There is a marquee board on Flatbush Avenue outside the mall which is updated with the theatres features. Like people REALLY look at those things any more and say OH YES I WANT TO SEE THAT! I suppose the theatre doesn’t know what a fandango is yet.

In 1976 and 1977 I worked as an usher (and sometimes doorman, candy stand counterperson)at the Century Kings Plaza Twin theatre. As an usher in those days, I carried a flashlight to help people get to their seats in the dark and asked people not to smoke in the front of the theatre. I saw The Omen around 60 tiimes and remember we showed two terrible sensoraround movies – Midway and Rollercoaster. They played the original Freaky Friday with Jodie Foster. I worked the non-movie events including various wrestling and boxing shows and an extravaganza that featured Andre the Giant vs. Mohammed Ali!
I recall one of the ushers “steaking” (running naked) down the aisle of theatre number 2 in the days when “streaking” was a fad. I found condoms and other things behind the huge mesh screen.
Most of the staff and managers were very close with one another. Great times. Paul W

this theater has always had big box office #s

Here is some information on the seating capacity for each of the Kings Plaza’s auditoriums. Theatre 1: 124 seats, Theatre 2: 309 seats, Theatre 3: 125 seats, Theatre 4: 244 seats, Theatre 5: 560 seats, Theatre 6: 244 seats.

I remember this theatre one being part of the RKO Century Warner Chain, Then Cineplex Odeon.

Century’s Kings Plaza opened in 1970. Kings Plaza North was the larger of the two and was done in blue and Kings Plaza South was in red. A concession stand served both theatres and there was no sneaking in since both theatres were seperated and had their own restrooms. This was a popular theatre when it opened in conjunction with the mall. I remember abandoning my Flatbush Avenue movie palaces that I attended regularly to go to the new Century theatres.
This theatre as it is today is a LEASED property which Onex (Loew’s-
Cineplex) operates. They don’t own it. I wish the once proud Loew's
name didn’t apply to the altered theatres and multiplexes Onex operates. They aren’t worthy of the name.

This theatre opened around 1973 or 1975 in the Kings Plaza Mall as the Kings Plaza North and South it featured two large cinemas where the curtains opened and closed after every presentation. I remember seeing the movie “Moonraker” there. Around 1985 they carved it into four cinemas by splitting the north cinema in two and making a ramp that led beneath that cinema to enter cinema four. as the south auditorium remained intact for cinema 1.They added two more cinemas in the mid 90’s by splitting cinema one in two. thus making now six screening rooms what a tradgedy.