Cinemark Cantera Warrenville and XD
28250 Diehl Road,
Warrenville,
IL
60555
28250 Diehl Road,
Warrenville,
IL
60555
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New name is Cinemark Cantera Warrenville and XD
Reopening August 1, 2023 as a Cinemark location:
Warrenville, IL: Regal Cantera Closed, Reopening August 1 as Cinemark Location [Jul 27, 2023]
That’s the 3rd Chicagoland location that Regal closed in 2023.
Closing July 26th, 2023 per: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/regal-to-close-14-theaters-starting-this-week-here-s-a-full-list-of-locations/ar-AA1e5PXW
The AMC Cantera 30 launched at the height of the mega-led boom. Announced in 1996, the venue launched on March 20, 1998. In 2005, AMC merged with the Loews Circuit. In 2007, the Cantera was renamed as the AMC Loews Cantera 30. In 2010, AMC acquired the Kerasotes Circuit of theaters causing competition issues. On June 28, 2010, AMC sold four locations to Regal to be in compliance including the Cantera.
On July 12, 2010, the venue was renamed as the Regal Cantera 30. Regal was neither a proponent nor practitioner of 24+ screen megaplexes. A deal was consummated in 2011 with Regal off-loading 13 screens carving up the property - a move that had occurred in a number of other AMC 24+ locations. On September 30, 2011, the downsized venue became the Regal Cantera Stadium 17 and, in 2013, it added an RPX screens as the renamed Regal Cantera Stadium & RPX. The Main Event upscale arcade took on the 13-screen area redeveloping it for its newest location that launched in September of 2014.
Regal closed the Cantera on March 16, 2020 for the COVD-19 pandemic along with all other hardtop theaters. The venue reopened in September of 2020 but closed again on October 8, 2020 along with the Cineworld / Regal locations again due to COVID-19. The venue reopened in 2021.
The closed auditoriums were eventually gutted and turned into a Main Event Entertainment location.
Why did Regal downsize this theater? Did they demolish the unused auditoriums? Or are they just walled off and ignored?
March 20th, 1998 grand opening ad from the Tribune in the photo section
March 20th, 1998 and June 26th, 2010 ads uploaded here.
He was correct… the Regal website now has this theatre as the Cantera Stadium 17 & RPX. I’m not sure if the screen reduction was done in conjunction with the RPX renovations, but the timeline (the press release announcing the RPX theatre was dated March 16) indicates that it would have bben close.
A friend just visited and 13 of the screens have been walled off, making this a 17-plex.
the problem wasn’t that it was 30 screens it was mismanaged for years at Cantera 30. The latest guy in charge ( or last time few times i was there) a weasel looking guy named “ Mark” was to busy yelling at his employees in front of customers or standing around to get more staff to concession stands or clean bathrooms (which were consistently disgusting)
That place is run or was ( through june) piss poor by I’m assuming that Mark fellow who said he was the gm. He consistently had the place understaffed and was a dreadful man to deal with! Regal hopefully cut him loose.
Richie
A portion of the Cantera 30’s screens will now be dedicated to art house fare: View link
What we don’t need is another 30 PLEX.
With the AMC-Kerasotes merger on the horizon, this theater along with the Gardens 13, Glen 10, and Showplace 12 @ Bolingbrook will be sold to another chain as part of the anti-trust agreement.
I have not done an official count, but as a regular Cantera 30 moviegoer, I am highly skeptical of that figure. 592 seats sounds about right for the four auditoriums at the center of the cineplex, but for the ones at the edges, I doubt that. I don’t even think there are half that many seats in the auditoriums furthest from the center.