AMC Orange 30
20 City Boulevard W,
Orange,
CA
92868
20 City Boulevard W,
Orange,
CA
92868
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If you use one of the photos of the theatre instead of the ad, in the theatre summary.
Just upload some photos from my 2016 visit to this location in the photos section.
This theatre’s opening movies include Enemy of the State (SDDS, on six screens), Celebrity (on two screens), Elizabeth (SDDS; on two screens), American History X (SDDS), Gods and Monsters, Casablanca (part of the Warner Bros. Classic Series), True Friends, Beloved (SDDS), Living Out Loud (SDDS), Ronon, Dr. Dolittle, Mulan (SDDS), Holy Man, Simon Birch (SDDS), Small Soldiers, Soldier, Anastasia (SDDS), Apt Pupil (SDDS), The Parent Trap (SDDS), Urban Legend (SDDS), One True Thing (SDDS), Saving Private Ryan (SDDS; on two screens; an Orange County exclusive), Bride of Chucky (SDDS), and Pecker. The other movies were shown at the Century Theatres nearby.
Please update, the name is AMC Orange 30 according to AMC website
The Empire (NYC) and Burbank (Burbank, CA) are the top two most visited AMC locations. Third place varies slightly week to week.
I think i know what the 3 most visited amc theatres are. this one, AMC Empire 25 and AMC Studio 30 the one in Kansas
I was here for the autfest well because i have autism, adhd and ocd
as there are other most visted AMC Theatres and not all of them are in the top 3
no hdtv267 i don’t
What are the 3 most visited AMC theatres in the country?
The walls at most AMC theaters are pretty thin so the sound does travel. Of course they set the volume so low that it is hard to hear especially when there is a large crowd. Showmanship is dead and AMC helped kill it.
The use of Theater 15 as a church appears to have been a one-time-only event, and wrapped up around 11 a.m. on Sunday 03-18-2013. The screening room was back in cinema use by noon. Apparently the congregation will be moving to a hotel conference room until it finds a permanent locale, according to the article cited above.
We had a church in one auditorium when I worked at the AMC La Jolla 12… in fact, they effectively used three auditoriums, because the neighboring two had to be kept vacant during services because the singing/music were easily heard through the walls.
It was sad to see AMC give the two largest auditoriums the ETX and LieMax treatments… Despite being top-masked, they were always GREAT screens to watch movies on. (Now, you’ll have to fork over a hefty premium.) The slightly-smaller neighboring two houses remain very nice, but don’t have quite the same wow factor. The rest of the complex has pretty crappy, small auditorium design (most houses aren’t even 200 seats, I don’t think), but somehow it avoids the ‘bulky megaplex’ feel that so many less elegantly-built Edwards of the same period are plagued by.
This megaplex was designed by STK Architects.
I agree that business was not as great back then. But I should also note before the summer of 1999, this would play a movie that the Century 25 (2 miles away), would not played. Adult and Family movies would play at the Century 25, and the Teen and Young Adult oriented movies would play here at the Block. That’s why every single wide release movie would always get 3 – 5 screens at either theater. It wasn’t until late Summer of 1999 until all the prints were shared between the two theaters. Now the average is 2 – 3 per theater. Today, Century does better with Mature Adult films, and the Block does better with Teen and College Age movies (family movies do the best business at Downtown Disney).
Back to Business, After the Blair Witch Project, this theater became Jam Packed every weekend. Once Downtown Disney opened, this put a dent in our business, and business for family movies began to decline, but the teen movies still thrived. But once the Bella Terra theater opened, this put a dent in the business all together. Now, this is just a theater that does great business instead of Jam Packed.
Also, I like to correct an error in my first post. After: “the theater has four auditoriums” instead of “that” I should have put “in the main lobby”
The theatre was part of a large redevelopment on the site of the former City shopping plaza (which once housed a UA). While the Block 30 went on to be extremely successful, it actually opened to modest business, as the theatre was completed well before the other businesses, forcing patrons to venture through a construction site in order to acess the theatre.
Exemplifying the concept that “location is everything” the theatre has thrived more off the highly popular outdoor mall complex than what it offers as a cinema destination. Haven been built during a more budget concious phase, that emerged shortly after the intial megaplex boom, the Block 30 is standard late 90’s AMC in design and offers nothing particularly unique, despite it’s long standing flagship status.
During construction and opening, the Block was tied in to the former AMC Mainplace 6; officing out of the theatre and maintaining joint management for a time.