Cinecitta

50sSNIPES on November 23, 2024 at 4:58 pm

In 1970, Wolfram Weber, together with his brothers Eckard and Frank, opened their first movie theater in the city called the Meisengeige Cinema and would later operate the Atrium Filmpalast, Casablanca, Metropolis and the Manhattan Theatres in neighboring Erlangen during the 1970s and 1980s. It wasn’t until the early-1990s when the Cinecitta was officially planned.

After the city rejected the idea of ​​a new building for the Nuremberg City Library with integrated theaters for cost reasons, Weber decided to build a multiplex cinema on this site. It had several phases. The first phase of the Cinecitta opened in October 1995 and the second phase opened in 1997. This was followed by an IMAX theater which took three years in construction and opened in 2001.

As of now, the theater has two entrance halls with 14 box offices, 14 regular auditoriums with various seating capacities (between 103 and 547 seats), a multifunctional auditorium (which features both a movie/live theater and discotheque), three DVD studio auditoriums, five so-called premium auditoriums, three restaurants, a shop, and nine bars. In total, Cinecitta' has 17 regular screens, all designed according to the same concept. They are steeply inclined and the rows of seats are arranged concavely. The screens are curved and the seven largest auditoriums in the theater are THX-certified. Some auditoriums however have special equipment. The multifunctional Arena auditorium can be converted for various events, such as theater performances. Arthouse and other, less popular films are shown in the three DVD studio auditoriums, which are very small auditoriums. In 2013, Screen 16, which had already been equipped with Dolby Atmos, was converted into the first deluxe cinema with fewer, but electrically adjustable, more comfortable seats and with drinks and snack services at your seat. This was followed by Screens 14 and 15, so that these numbers are now missing from the numbering of conventional auditoriums the remaining numbers are 1 to 13 and 17. Until 2014, there was a motion ride theater called MAD (Maximum Dose of Adrenaline). There, the individual seats move simultaneously with the film. It has since become the fourth deluxe auditorium.