AMC Bay Terrace 6
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
211-01 26th Avenue,
Bayside,
NY
11360
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Another low for this theater; they bring back 2 old pictures they got rid off, Real Steel for a 4th week (5 weeks out)after getting rid of after 3 and Moneyball for a 5th (7th overall) after playing the first 4 weeks here. No new pictures here, maybe we’ll be a second run house. Does anyone else who writes here ever visit this theater.
Went to see “Puss in Boots” here today and they jumped the price of 3D pictures to $4 extra. Why is this when it is becoming obvious that more people are choosing the 2D version. You can even tell by the theater’s showings with at least the last 3d films there, “Dolphin Tale”, “Three Musketeers” and this one having alternate 2D and 3D showings. AMC’s Fresh Meadows which had 3D first charged initially $4 additional then dropped it back to $3. Wasn’t this after some people in the city were being charged $20 total at some AMC theaters to see the 4th Shrek film?
MarkP, the girl told me the bulb would cost about $1800 but that didn’t count the mirrors or other parts of the equipment. Yesterday they said the picture was indeed running but they could be running it on a smaller screen, maybe cancelling a lesser performing picture. If they were doing that my guess would be “What’s Your Number” which opened weak last week. Since they are selling advance tickets to “Footloose” for next week I presume this flic is gone. I remember a few Christmas seasons back every time one wanted to buy a ticket for the Adam Sandler film “Spanglish” performances were always cancelled, different days too. I finally saw it on the 3rd or 4th attempt there.
Actually DARCYDT, your going to find more and more problems like what you had yesterday in the future. Whereas in the past with film, a projectionist like myself (36 years) would have spare parts and be able to fix things in an hour or two. Where I work now in NJ we have 3 digitals so far and during the summer one was down for over a week. What went was called a “light engiene” and they go for mucho dollars. In my theatre it was $25,000.00 And it had to be ordered. And they said ours was already extinct, and the equipment is only 1.5 years old. This digital projection is not going to be good as the years go one. Ever changing technology and costs are going to make the AMC’s and Regals see the error of their ways.
Went there today to see Real Steel and noticed they had cancelled performances of Ides of March which also opened today. They said the light in the projection system exploded and the mirrors which help the picture to be shown also broke. This appears to be in theater 6, one of their 2 big screens. How long does this take to fix and surpriasing it has happened since they are all digital which probably has nothing to do with projection.
The last paragraph in the introductory description to this theater needs to be updated or removed, since the ticket pricing policy is out of date. Probably wasn’t a wise decision on my part to include information that would quickly be so out of date! Anyway, uploaded the old photos I previously posted so they’ll be easy to find.
Thanks for the photos Ed posted on July 1.
According to the Bayside Times this week AMC has renewed the lease for this theater but will be doing renovations (hmmm).
Amazingly this week with 2 pictures opening predicted to make 100 million, Narnia and the Tourist Bay Terrace gets nothing. Yes we get another Fresh Meadows reject Love and Other Drugs but Fresh Meadows still puts Narnia on 2 screens. All right Bay Terrace is getting Tron but let’s see what picture of the Christmas season looks like a real underperformer, the Fighter, Yogi Bear, Gulliver’s Travels will they come here or some foreigh language epic exclusive to the city that no one knows is there or cares. Maybe they could become a $2 theater. Maybe the pediatric place moving next door to them will take some of their footage.
Today the first film of the Chinese picture deal started. The picture actually had an additional showing on another screen so it was on 2 screens at 1 time. It was in both big theaters, numbers 1 & 6. I went to the 3 pm showing in theater 1 where a whopping 3 people attended. Great start.
This week there are 2 screens here occupied foreign language films , the Korean flic Man From Nowhere and the Chinese film Aftershock. The latter is part of a deal where perhaps 15 Chinese language films may play here over the next year. This and the Korean deal leaves more mainstream Hollywood films that will not be shown in this neighborhood.
Bay Terrace 6 plex is currently playing a record 9 films there.
Nanny McPhee Returns
The Switch
Eat Pray Love
Step Up 3D (moveover from Fresh Meadows)
711: Into the Fire (Korean Film)
Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (moveover from Fresh Meaadows)
Inception
Despicable Me
Toy Story 3 (10th week here)
This was the 2nd week this year that there were 2 moveovers from Fresh Meadows
Anyone that would pay $20.00 to see a movie needs their head checked.And they use to bitch when we went from $2.75 for a first run movie to $3.00 for “JAWS”. You guys are NUTS!
These are the times when I really get mad at management of this theater. 3 wide releases opening this week, all open at sister theater in Fresh Meadows. We get another Korean film and moveover of Predators. They should just shut this place down.
Apparently at AMC Loews Lincoln Square where I believe Shrek is also being shown in IMAX, regular ticket is $13 + $6 extra for the 3D IMAX showing for a bargarin price of $19.
How much do they charge in NY for 3-d. It’s $3.50 extra in Asheville and that’s bad enoough
There should be a comma above between exploition and what should be how many times, sorry.
I went to see the 9:40 am showing today of Shrek Forever After in 3D and I learned to my surprise that the additional price for 3D showings had dropped a dollar. So from $14.50 to $13.50 and $10 to $9 for pre noon showings. The ticket seller told me thay had a call from management last week to drop the price. Is this because of the theaters in Manhattan charging $20 a pop for Shrek and then dropping the price to $19.
If one looks at the coming attractions for 3D films or looks at forthcomong films to be released they are either all animated children’s pics or horror flics like Saw in 3D. Only Men in Black III and Harry Potter (kid’s flick)stand out and they’ll probably call Men in Black something like Men in Black 3D. It reminds of the films of the 50’s which after a few horror pictures most were B westerns jazzed up in 3D or some early 80’s exploition films (Friday the 13th Part 3-D). With so many kids pictures in the format and the others looking like forgettable exploition. How many times will parents fork over high prices for next month’s kids film. Maybe once or twice a year. If it continues like the way it is going I fear 3D will be gone by say 2012. If that doesn’t happen maybe they will charge normal prices for them and the gimmick will be a bonus. Afterall in the 50’s & 80’s they didn’t raise prices.
Has anybody noticed how many second run films from the Fresh Meadows theater come here for 1 week? Last week they brought over Hot Tub Time Machine in it’s 4th week for 1 week and the Bounty Hunter in it’s 5th for 1 show at night for 1 week. This was the first time I have seen 2 films transferred over from the Fresh Meadows theater in the same week. This week Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too comes here for evening shows. Earlier in the year the Tooth Fairy came here in it’s 6th week for 1 week.
How to Train Your Dragon is the first film to play in 3D here, opening March 29th on 1 screen in 3D and one in regular 2D.
Alice in Wonderland while opening here will not be in 3D.
Walking out of the theater tonight, which has its 3rd big Korean film (I saw the horrible ‘Shutter Island") there were boxes along the lobby wall containing the theater’s future. The hardwood boxes had on the outside of them the instructions on how to properly install the 3D screen. It’s here or coming, I’ll guess Alice in Wonderland on March 6th will be the first film to play in 3D here.
WhatI have read no one has a kind word to say about AMC.
Now according to the latest schedule the theater has apparently dropped late shows on Sundays. Usually it seems in the off season that there will be shows starting after 9 pm on weekends (Fri – Sun) with Monday to Thursday having no shows starting after 8. But this weekend coming up, on Sunday, the last show “When in Rome” commences at 7:50 pm. I’d swear I think sometimes AMC is doing everything in its power to have a reason to close this theater.
“Hauendae” now in it’s big fourth week here. I saw this opening weekend in theater 1, one of the big screens and there were about 250 people at the showing!