AMC Dine-In Menlo Park 12
390 Menlo Park,
Edison,
NJ
08837
390 Menlo Park,
Edison,
NJ
08837
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Please update, 1017 seats
Opened with(on different screens) “Hook”, “Beauty and the beast”, “Star trek 6 the undiscovered country”, “The Prince of tides”, “An American tail Fievel goes west”, “JFK”, and “Grand Canyon”.
Theater should be changed to AMC Dine-In Menlo Park 12.
December 12th, 1991 grand opening ad in the photo section. It opened on the 12th, not the 13th.
Talk about competition back then….
The GCC which I worked at for almost 15 years was across the street and was demolished after this opened in late 1991.
No, cineplex odeon owned the theater before it merged with Loews, then it was a loews cineplex before amc took over.
Wasn’t this also a GCC theater originally?
Went to see “Skyfall” last night. I must say the place has changed since it was first built, and I was installing the original screens there. My only complaint was how I could hear the movie from theatre 6 so well. (We were in theatre 5). There were 6 other people in the theatre. Of course we did go to the 5:00 show.
This theatre should have in the “also known” area it’s org. name, of Cineplex Odeon Menlo Park 12.
An article about the theater now that it is an AMC Fork & Screen location: View link
This theater will become one of AMC’s Fork & Screen theaters as Dec. 15, 2010: View link
http://www.amctheatres.com/dinein/
how’s the conversion going?
Essex Green will open first, with this theater and Bridgewater to follow.
Due to get a Fork & Screen and Cinema Suite upgrade – I know AMC had plans for this at Bridgewater (I don’t know if those were approved) but it’s a good idea in an over screened area in an upscale mall that is still is as crowded as ever in advance of the Edison Town Center project that will happen down the street. I believe AMC will open a location that Kerastoes had been planning (tragic that Kerastoes won’t be opening one of their Showplace Icon sites). Here’s the article about Menlo:
View link
O.K.
digital projection is now at this theater.
I worked as a manager in this theater for a few years in the mid 90s and loved working there. I am sad to hear Cineplex went away and that now it is an AMC theater. I liked the spacious environment the theater had and the design. I also worked with a lot of great people there.
The same company that is building the new theater in Secaucus is also planning to build and open a 16-screen stadium seating Kerasotes theater in Edison. Once that opens, this theater might close.
Funny enough after saying I’d wouldn’t make a special trip here to see a movie, this become what the tenplex was to me, The place where I go to see movies. I know AMC owns it (and has gone so far to replace the Cineplex Odeon logo ont he marquee with theirs, boo!) but after being used to the CO signage from the tenplex there’s a familiarity there. I saved the interior pictures from the tenplex and confirm thwe insides of thsi theatre are identical, even the carpeting is a close if not exact match.
Unlike the Garden State 16 where parking is a nightmare this mall has three levels of parking. I’ve never once had an issue getting a space.
The other thing I noticed is the same criticisms were leveled at this theatre that were leveled at the tenplex…until people found out it was closing.
I went to this theatre a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed. I like the fact that it’s throwback with Cineplex Odeon signage/seating. As choices become fewer these days it’s a nice change of pace. I also like that’s located directly across from an arcade in the mall. The closest thing to the tenplex feeling I'be gotten. While it’s too far for me to make a special trip just to see a movie if I’m in the area I’d go.
Maybe AMC should take a page from Paramus and Rockaway and rebuild the theater as a 16-screen stadium seater with digital sound and picture, in order to spruce up the shopping area.
I think part of the problem with the Menlo 12 is that it’s showing it’s age, poor theatre design and terrible parking situation. Parking is really limited on the upper parking deck area outside of the theatre with 2 main entrances to mall on that level so it’s mixed shopper and movie-goer parking.
Also, I recently went to the Menlo 12 and was surprised that the theaters and the interior area are looking a bit thread-worn and shabby compared to other theaters. Another factor that may be turning patrons away is the amount of loitering that goes on outside the theaters on the weekends and evenings. Going into the theaters is like running a gauntlet at times with young people hanging around outside the entrance area. On exiting that evening, mall security and Edison Police were breaking up what looked like a scuffle that was occurring 10 feet past the exit to parking deck.
probably both.