Showcase Cinemas Bridgeport
286 Canfield Avenue,
Bridgeport,
CT
06605
286 Canfield Avenue,
Bridgeport,
CT
06605
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updated a another grand opening ad
This theatre is now demolished.
Closed February 6th, 2020 to be replaced with housing. https://westfaironline.com/121187/bridgeports-showcase-cinemas-closed-to-be-replaced-with-housing/
The theatre across the way was built by Loews. Showcase Cinemas had been planning to build a theatre in the Danbury area. The two companies made a deal. In exchange for letting Loews have the Danbury area to themselves Showcase gained the theatre that Loews was building in Fairfield.
Guessing that maybe the older theater will close when their lease is over and they are just waiting it out.
This always puzzled me too. While I’ve never been inside either theatre here, I think it’s strange that the other theatre is the more modern one (didn’t somebody else build it?) and that this one that National built is the less modern. You’d think they would have done something to fix that if they could.
Still open, also seems strange how they own the theater right next door.
So open for a while longer. Still only 20 or so years not long for a multiplex before biting the dust.
According to their website they are still open.
My bad. Joe is correct. I misread the article and thought it had closed. I guess it will be closing, but has not closed yet.
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Fans-lament-movie-house-closings-5602214.php
This theater is still open….
20 years for a theatre. The life spans are getting shorter and shorter.
This theatre closed last year.
Uploaded the grand opening ad. It opened on October 15th, 1993
This cinema opened in 1993
Read an old article, it has 3,000 seats.
I finally went there in person last week. For a 12-plex, you wouldn’t know it. The height of the building is not too high and it’s more wider with trees in front and it’s very pedestrianized. It’s right behind the main drag a few blocks (Fairfield Ave) and behind it is the river. There’s substantial parking across the street and a parking garage attached to the theater, about 2 stories tall. Around the building behind the garage is a small crushed stone trail around to the other end, with benches, grass, etc. The marquee is at the end on the side. It’s not something you’d expect from a 12-plex. Very spaced out and there was thought in its existence in a residential neighborhood.
It’s right across the river from the Fairfield/Bridgeport border off Fairfield Avenue, in the Black Rock section. In the last 5 or so years it has been an increasingly trendy area, but not in the gentrification sense. Lots of indy music clubs, bars and it’s still in a neighborhood.