AMC Wayne 12
67 Willowbrook Boulevard,
Wayne,
NJ
07470
67 Willowbrook Boulevard,
Wayne,
NJ
07470
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Any plans for a 25th anniversary event at the theater one year from this month? It would be nice to see hit movies from every year that played at the theater. How has business been at Wayne after Clifton Commons opened?
I agree. AMC should renovate the Bridgewater theatre to have rockback seats, unlike the stale seats that were like the old rockaway theatre before it closed.
Really? They’ll probably make it look more AMC-like. AMC’s new constructions have awsome seats.
You know, when AMC completes the loews deal, they will close down the wayne theatre and make it stadium seating….
It’s a problem with all Loews Theaters actually – the worst is the ill designed Pallisades Center, but even in CT it’s a problem – the ticket line at the LCE Plainville takes 20 minutes to buy tickets. Hopefully this will all change, AMC is pretty good at running a movie theater, Clifton Commons is well run. They also know how to schedule showtimes so that things aren’t all starting around the same time. Theres a reason why AMC is the most successful chain in the country…
Theaters 5-6-7-8 are the cutup theaters from the original larger auditoriums…they’re not the best…I never look forward to seeing a film in these auditoriums…
plus, poorly managed, understaffed, and completely unfriendly box-office people and sooo slow….go to a weekend matinee….one box office person answering phones dealing with idiot patrons and sooo slow…I always complain to management to put more box office peole…I’m not the only one though…..all high school employees…know nothing about movies, are rude and unfriendly
Has anything changed since I last went to the theatre (last movie I saw there was “The Matrix” in the spring of 1999). Also which of the 14 screens have 8-channel SDDS? The clearview cinemas in my area don’t have the full surround sound of that system.
It makes enough sense so that I can see how they did it. Thanks; I guess the subdivided auditoriums really weren’t as deep as they were originally but the sightlines and screen size were good enough to sort of disguise this fact.
Okay, that didn’t make sense, bassicly one theater is behind the other, projecting on to what would have been the left side of the former auditrium wall, it wasn’t expanded out but the theater’s sight lines are good enough that you the divsion isn’t a hiderance (except for that long, dark hallway you have to walk down to get past one theater to the other).
Possable but these were larger than the current largest theaters there 3 and 4, they were split so that one theater is behind the other, in half, creating two shallow theaters.
Visual example:
| | | 7 |
| 6 | | _ |
| | to: | | 8 |
| __| | |____|
note: not anywhere near scale, but you get the point.
The Loews Wayne—whether it was 6, 8, or 14 screens—has always struck me as a perfectly decent place to see a movie. Early in the theatre’s history, it showed 70mm blowups (I think my first visit here was for “Gandhi,” and I also saw “Far and Away,” which was actually filmed in 70mm, here—awful movie but terrific image quality) and the bigger auditoriums seemed like an acceptable substitute for the single-screen houses that were falling by the wayside. My last visit here was for the “Alamo” remake that probably played about as well here as it would have in a “modern” stadium-seating multi; I believe it was on one of the six screens that were added in the ‘90s.
I’m a little hazy on exactly how the two biggest auditoriums were divided when the original 6 was turned into 8, because I remember seeing “Jurassic Park” here (post-8-plexing and pre-14-plexing) in what seemed like a good-sized auditorium—but not, as I recall, in what would have been the original Theatre #1 or the identically-sized #2 across the hall. In other words, if the two biggest theatres were simply split, I would have expected either long, narrow auditoriums or very shallow wide ones. Could Loews have redistributed the space a little more equitably across some or all of the auditoriums to turn 6 into 8?
Loews Wayne and Medows 6 are pretty much identical in design, that was until Loews Wayne cut the two largest houses in half to become 8 and then later added 6 to become 14. The Medows 6 is still open, as is the Plaza 8 (down the street) – both are low price first run houses, hanging on until Muvico comes to town.
are those six screens still intact in the theatre?
From Loew’s 1982 annual report:
“During 1982 the [Theatres] Division added seventeen new screens in three ultra-modem complexes. Our new theatres, featuring spacious lobbies with giant refreshment centers, and large, wide auditoriums with wall-to-wall screens, which our research indicates the public prefers, have met with great acceptance.
“In the fast-growing Houston suburbs, a five- screen complex was opened in the exclusive Southpoint Center. A six-screen free-standing building was constructed opposite New Jersey’s mammoth shopping center, Willowbrook Mall, and another six-screen theatre is the focal point of the Harmon Meadow complex of shops, hotel, restaurants and office buildings located within sight of the New Jersey Meadowlands sports complex.”
From Loew’s 1981 annual report:
“Construction was commenced during the year on two strikingly modern theatre complexes in New Jersey, one at Wayne, opposite the huge Willowbrook Mall, and one near the famous Meadowlands Sports complex, home of the New York football Giants.”
As stated in the description, this theatre opened with six auditoriums, two of which were later twinned. The additional six screens later added were the result of an addition to the back of the original facility. The addition featured an all-new concession stand (with kitchen), a managers' kiosk, and two indoor box offices, as well as an upper level in which three of the new screens reside. The entire facility was reoriented so that the addition, in the back, is now the theatre’s entrance, while the older eight auditoriums are now in the building’s rear. The original concession stand is now an auxilliary stand and the original box offices, with their exterior windows plastered over, have been converted to storage space.
The theatre’s original, six-screen design, can be seen at the Loews Meadow Six theatre in Secaucus, NJ (/theaters/10084/).