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.
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.
Why are there advertisements in the New York Daily News and Post for a showing of 1963’s “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” showing Sunday at the Fresh Meadows multiplex at 1 pm. There are no listings for it on fandango.com. Did somebody rent out the theater for some reason?
“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!
I think this is the strangest thing I’ve seen at this theater while I have been going to it. This beats actually seeing sneak previews here of “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and the “Great Raid” which while sneak previewed here never played regular engagements. Anyway the theater is playing the first Korean disaster movie “Haeundae” which is believe it or not the only cinema in the city playing the film!
Another big night here. Went to see “Taking Woodstock” in theater 6 for the 7:50 showing and they have the picture begin at 7:10 because the projectionist mixed the films up. So I missed the first 20 minutes of the film; at least they gave me a pass for a free showing.
Films that have played here 6 weeks since 1995 (longevity list not updated since May 2008).
Forever Batman 1995
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 1995
Jumanji 1995
Muppet Treasure Island 1996
Twister 1996
Independence Day 1996
Liar, Liar 1997
Money Talks 1997
Soul Food 1997
Flubber 1997
Titanic 1998 (came here in its 20th week of release)
Deep Impact 1998
Godzilla 1998
Lethal Weapon 4 1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back 1998
Blade 1998
The Faculty 1998
Patch Adams 1998
She’s All That 1999
Doug’s First Movie 1999
Life 1999
Blue Streak 1999
Double Jeopardy 1999
Bone Collector 1999
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 1999
Next Friday 2000
Pitch Black 2000
Road to El Dorado 2000
Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps 2000
Original Kings of Comedy 2000
Art of War 2000
Unbreakable 2000
Save the Last Dance 2001
Hannibal 2001
Recess: School’s Out 2001
Along Came a Spider 2001
Mummy Returns 2001
Shrek 2001
Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001
Dr. Dolittle 2 2001
Princess Diaries 2001
Training Day 2001
The One 2001
Not Another Teen Movie 2001
How High 2001
Snow Dogs 2002
Blade 2 2002
Changing Lanes 2002
Barbershop 2002
Santa Clause 2 2002
Burning Down the House 2003
X2: X-Men United 2003
Finding Nemo 2003
Bad Boys 2 2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 2003
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat 2003
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2003
My Baby’s Daddy 2004
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 2004
Spiderman 2 2004
Shark Tale 2004
Ray 2004
Are We There Yet? 2005
Hitch: The Cure for the Common Man 2005
Fantastic Four 2005
Sky High 2005
Four Brothers 2005
Chicken Little 2005
Curious George 2006
Pink Panther 2006
Cars 2006
Open Season 2006
The Departed 2006
Norbit 2007
Bridge to Terabitha 2007
Meet the Robinsons 2007
Disturbia 2007
Spiderman 3 2007
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married 2007
Bee Movie 2007
Iron Man (after Bow Tie took over)
Hancock 2008
Space Chimps 2008
Dark Knight 2008
High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008
Madagasgar: Escape 2 Africa 2008
Coraline 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009
That’s through August 19, 2009
I believe no film has played at the American 7 weeks or more since Bow Tie took over.
So 2 new films come out this week and we get nada. The cinema has a list of a number of films you can buy a ticket for, though it does not specifically say they will be at this theater. So Bruno is plugged as opening this week but we didn’t get it. Sister theater in Fresh Meadows gets it and I Love You Beth Cooper. What do we get, the return of Taking of Pelham One Two Three which we got rid of last week and now it’s back on a double bill with My Sister’s Keeper.How do they explain this weirdness?
This is the right theater. I made this comment originally for the Clearview 62nd and 1st Avenue theater.
I passed this theater today and it now has a big sign up surrounding the entrance saying coming soon NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) auditorium.
I remember seeing Cowboy Way here. Does anyone else remember that some of the last surviving cinemas on the deuce in the early 90’s used to show pictures that were opening on Friday on the Thursday night preceding. I believe there was about 2 theaters then. I can remember seeing Mother’s Boys with Jamie Lee Curtis and Naked Gun 33 1/3 double billed on the Thursday night before they opened the next day everywhere else. Saw a few other pics at Movie-Plex 42 but don’t remember what.
So we have a breakdown in the ads at the 7:40 showing of “Angels and Demons” which results in everything commencing about 15 minutes late. If that wasn’t bad enough the film then breaks down about 10 minutes from the end at a crucial scene. When they resume the film we see the scene and they have Lady Gaga singing “Just Dance', the music coming from the cd’s AMC promotes between shows.
Does anyone know the last film to play here? I remember I used to pass it and pick up WPLJ music surveys in the lobby. Only picture I saw there was a sneak preview of “The Babe” starring John Goodman as Babe Ruth back in 92 I think.
Again while we’re get the pic to be presumed to be #1 this week, “Race to Witch Mountain”, our sister theater in Fresh Meadows gets all 3 openers. We hold Fired Up which was 10th on the weekend and made about 2.5 million for a 4th week and that blockbuster “The Reader” which was #12. Douglaston gets 4 films including limited release Two Lovers. Why are we the stepchild cinema?
I notice outside of myself no one else seems to write about this theater, the last comment being from May 7, 2008.
Did you ever wonder if the parent company of a chain wants a theater to fail? The AMC Bay Terrace has only 3 showings a day Monday thru Thursday with nothing starting later than say 8 while its sister theater in Fresh Meadows has late showings. This theater also seems in non blockbuster seasons like winter, spring and fall to get the releases that AMC expects to do the worst at the box office. Fresh Meadows gets the expected hits. If Bay Terrace has a hit it’s because of a sleeper film. In the early part of the year the Bay Terrace theater got Gran Torino which is a big hit while Fresh Meadows got Bride Wars and the Unborn. Originally early predictions had Gran Torino making 10 million on the weekend then predictions moved closer to 18, but it actually opened in the upper 20’s. Bride Wars which Fresh Meadows got was expected to make 20 and originally the Unborn was to make more tha Gran Torino. Unfortunately for AMC Gran Torino hit. The following week both theaters got Paul Blart: Mall Cop while Fresh Meadows also got Notorious, My Bloody Valentine and Hotel for Dogs all which made over 20 million on the MLK weekend. Bay Terrace got the expansion of Defiance which made about 10 and currently has 22. Last week Fresh Meadows Got #1 Taken (24 million) and The Uninvited (10 million). Bay Terrace got New in Town, 9th place and 4.479 million. Now this weekend both theaters get 2 more. Fresh Meadows gets both He’s Not That Into You and Pink Panther 2, both expected to make 20+ million this weekend. Bay terrace gets Push, expected 11 and Coraline expected 9. Is this deliberate? Bay Terrace is played off like the 5 plex AMC had down the street from the Fresh Meadows which they tore down because the gas station’s oil tanks underground leaked. That whole block came down a few years ago except for the gas station. You would think the way they run this theater, the one I go to the most, that AMC wants it to fail.
I really enjoy the theater listings when you list all the films to play big screen theaters like for San Diego. Where I live in New York you’ve done the late Astor Plaza and the Ziegfeld which brought back a lot of memories of films I had seen there in the 80’s and 90’s. Will you be adding any histories soon?
Will any of the early cineramna releases like “This is Cinerama”, “Cinerama Holiday”, “Seven Wonders of the World” or “Search for Paradise” ever be released on DVD. I remember years ago finding out that 5 of the cinerama travelogue films (those 4 mentioned above + 1) all made the top 20 of the year at the box office yet none have ever been shown on television. All the ones with scripts (eg. “How the West was Won”. “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”) have though.
This theater has all 6 films playing all starting their shows at 7 pm. How can a theater survive just showing 1 show a day on weekdays especially a multiplex?
The newspaper has the new Star Wars cartoon advertised as playing here in the IMAX format. Does this theater have the capabilty of doing that now. I also notice that though the Dark Knight made 26 million last weekend it is no longer here, nor in Sunnyside or the Flushing Main Street. Why would they all drop a still potent box office film?
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.
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.
Why are there advertisements in the New York Daily News and Post for a showing of 1963’s “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” showing Sunday at the Fresh Meadows multiplex at 1 pm. There are no listings for it on fandango.com. Did somebody rent out the theater for some reason?
“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!
I think this is the strangest thing I’ve seen at this theater while I have been going to it. This beats actually seeing sneak previews here of “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and the “Great Raid” which while sneak previewed here never played regular engagements. Anyway the theater is playing the first Korean disaster movie “Haeundae” which is believe it or not the only cinema in the city playing the film!
Another big night here. Went to see “Taking Woodstock” in theater 6 for the 7:50 showing and they have the picture begin at 7:10 because the projectionist mixed the films up. So I missed the first 20 minutes of the film; at least they gave me a pass for a free showing.
Films that have played here 6 weeks since 1995 (longevity list not updated since May 2008).
Forever Batman 1995
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 1995
Jumanji 1995
Muppet Treasure Island 1996
Twister 1996
Independence Day 1996
Liar, Liar 1997
Money Talks 1997
Soul Food 1997
Flubber 1997
Titanic 1998 (came here in its 20th week of release)
Deep Impact 1998
Godzilla 1998
Lethal Weapon 4 1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back 1998
Blade 1998
The Faculty 1998
Patch Adams 1998
She’s All That 1999
Doug’s First Movie 1999
Life 1999
Blue Streak 1999
Double Jeopardy 1999
Bone Collector 1999
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 1999
Next Friday 2000
Pitch Black 2000
Road to El Dorado 2000
Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps 2000
Original Kings of Comedy 2000
Art of War 2000
Unbreakable 2000
Save the Last Dance 2001
Hannibal 2001
Recess: School’s Out 2001
Along Came a Spider 2001
Mummy Returns 2001
Shrek 2001
Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001
Dr. Dolittle 2 2001
Princess Diaries 2001
Training Day 2001
The One 2001
Not Another Teen Movie 2001
How High 2001
Snow Dogs 2002
Blade 2 2002
Changing Lanes 2002
Barbershop 2002
Santa Clause 2 2002
Burning Down the House 2003
X2: X-Men United 2003
Finding Nemo 2003
Bad Boys 2 2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 2003
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat 2003
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 2003
My Baby’s Daddy 2004
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed 2004
Spiderman 2 2004
Shark Tale 2004
Ray 2004
Are We There Yet? 2005
Hitch: The Cure for the Common Man 2005
Fantastic Four 2005
Sky High 2005
Four Brothers 2005
Chicken Little 2005
Curious George 2006
Pink Panther 2006
Cars 2006
Open Season 2006
The Departed 2006
Norbit 2007
Bridge to Terabitha 2007
Meet the Robinsons 2007
Disturbia 2007
Spiderman 3 2007
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married 2007
Bee Movie 2007
Iron Man (after Bow Tie took over)
Hancock 2008
Space Chimps 2008
Dark Knight 2008
High School Musical 3: Senior Year 2008
Madagasgar: Escape 2 Africa 2008
Coraline 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009
That’s through August 19, 2009
I believe no film has played at the American 7 weeks or more since Bow Tie took over.
So 2 new films come out this week and we get nada. The cinema has a list of a number of films you can buy a ticket for, though it does not specifically say they will be at this theater. So Bruno is plugged as opening this week but we didn’t get it. Sister theater in Fresh Meadows gets it and I Love You Beth Cooper. What do we get, the return of Taking of Pelham One Two Three which we got rid of last week and now it’s back on a double bill with My Sister’s Keeper.How do they explain this weirdness?
This is the right theater. I made this comment originally for the Clearview 62nd and 1st Avenue theater.
I passed this theater today and it now has a big sign up surrounding the entrance saying coming soon NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) auditorium.
I just realized this is the wrong theater I made the above comment about. The theater I meant is on 62nd and Broadway and I never knew its name.
I passed by this theater today and they have signs up saying coming soon NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) auditorium.
I remember seeing Cowboy Way here. Does anyone else remember that some of the last surviving cinemas on the deuce in the early 90’s used to show pictures that were opening on Friday on the Thursday night preceding. I believe there was about 2 theaters then. I can remember seeing Mother’s Boys with Jamie Lee Curtis and Naked Gun 33 1/3 double billed on the Thursday night before they opened the next day everywhere else. Saw a few other pics at Movie-Plex 42 but don’t remember what.
Now we have cancelled $6 matinees today May 24 due to supposedly Con Ed fixing outages that apparently the Con Ed website knows nothing about.
So we have a breakdown in the ads at the 7:40 showing of “Angels and Demons” which results in everything commencing about 15 minutes late. If that wasn’t bad enough the film then breaks down about 10 minutes from the end at a crucial scene. When they resume the film we see the scene and they have Lady Gaga singing “Just Dance', the music coming from the cd’s AMC promotes between shows.
$10.50 now to see a nightime show so I discovered Saturday when I bought a ticket for Star Trek.
Does anyone know the last film to play here? I remember I used to pass it and pick up WPLJ music surveys in the lobby. Only picture I saw there was a sneak preview of “The Babe” starring John Goodman as Babe Ruth back in 92 I think.
How come Columbia/Sony pictures never have bargain rates? I might be wrong but I think this same deal goes with the Main Street Flushing theater also,
Again while we’re get the pic to be presumed to be #1 this week, “Race to Witch Mountain”, our sister theater in Fresh Meadows gets all 3 openers. We hold Fired Up which was 10th on the weekend and made about 2.5 million for a 4th week and that blockbuster “The Reader” which was #12. Douglaston gets 4 films including limited release Two Lovers. Why are we the stepchild cinema?
I notice outside of myself no one else seems to write about this theater, the last comment being from May 7, 2008.
I guess AMC must be upset since Coraline outperformed expectations and Pink Panther 2 underperformed.
Did you ever wonder if the parent company of a chain wants a theater to fail? The AMC Bay Terrace has only 3 showings a day Monday thru Thursday with nothing starting later than say 8 while its sister theater in Fresh Meadows has late showings. This theater also seems in non blockbuster seasons like winter, spring and fall to get the releases that AMC expects to do the worst at the box office. Fresh Meadows gets the expected hits. If Bay Terrace has a hit it’s because of a sleeper film. In the early part of the year the Bay Terrace theater got Gran Torino which is a big hit while Fresh Meadows got Bride Wars and the Unborn. Originally early predictions had Gran Torino making 10 million on the weekend then predictions moved closer to 18, but it actually opened in the upper 20’s. Bride Wars which Fresh Meadows got was expected to make 20 and originally the Unborn was to make more tha Gran Torino. Unfortunately for AMC Gran Torino hit. The following week both theaters got Paul Blart: Mall Cop while Fresh Meadows also got Notorious, My Bloody Valentine and Hotel for Dogs all which made over 20 million on the MLK weekend. Bay Terrace got the expansion of Defiance which made about 10 and currently has 22. Last week Fresh Meadows Got #1 Taken (24 million) and The Uninvited (10 million). Bay Terrace got New in Town, 9th place and 4.479 million. Now this weekend both theaters get 2 more. Fresh Meadows gets both He’s Not That Into You and Pink Panther 2, both expected to make 20+ million this weekend. Bay terrace gets Push, expected 11 and Coraline expected 9. Is this deliberate? Bay Terrace is played off like the 5 plex AMC had down the street from the Fresh Meadows which they tore down because the gas station’s oil tanks underground leaked. That whole block came down a few years ago except for the gas station. You would think the way they run this theater, the one I go to the most, that AMC wants it to fail.
I really enjoy the theater listings when you list all the films to play big screen theaters like for San Diego. Where I live in New York you’ve done the late Astor Plaza and the Ziegfeld which brought back a lot of memories of films I had seen there in the 80’s and 90’s. Will you be adding any histories soon?
Will any of the early cineramna releases like “This is Cinerama”, “Cinerama Holiday”, “Seven Wonders of the World” or “Search for Paradise” ever be released on DVD. I remember years ago finding out that 5 of the cinerama travelogue films (those 4 mentioned above + 1) all made the top 20 of the year at the box office yet none have ever been shown on television. All the ones with scripts (eg. “How the West was Won”. “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”) have though.
This theater has all 6 films playing all starting their shows at 7 pm. How can a theater survive just showing 1 show a day on weekdays especially a multiplex?
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys Together , opening Friday is the 2nd picture to open here on 3 screens.
The newspaper has the new Star Wars cartoon advertised as playing here in the IMAX format. Does this theater have the capabilty of doing that now. I also notice that though the Dark Knight made 26 million last weekend it is no longer here, nor in Sunnyside or the Flushing Main Street. Why would they all drop a still potent box office film?