Mid Rivers 14 Cine'
1220 Mid Rivers Mall Drive,
St. Peters,
MO
63376
1220 Mid Rivers Mall Drive,
St. Peters,
MO
63376
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Marcus Theatres (Official)
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Operated by: Marcus Theatres
Previously operated by: General Cinema Corp., Wehrenberg Theatres
Firms: Rataj-Krueger Architects, Inc.
Functions: Movies (East Indian), Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Mid Rivers Mall 6
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
636.279.2734
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The Mid Rivers Mall 6 opened with the mall opening December 9, 1988 and was operated by GCC. When GCC left the St. Louis market, Wehrenberg Theatres took over the theatre on November 1, 1989. When the mall was remodeled and the food court moved in 1996 the theatre was renovated and expanded to 14 auditoriums and became the Mid Rivers 14 Cine'.
Wehrenberg Theatres did a great job on the decor and the comfort of the patrons. Most auditoriums are stadium seating and stereo sound in all auditoriums. St. Charles county being the fastest growing county in Missouri easily support both the Mid Rivers 14 and the St. Charles 18. It was taken over by Marcus Theatres in November 2016.
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Just out of curiosity, DAL, what kind of problems where they? Were they structure-related, location-related, or customer-related?
Aside from the split-level configuration of the lobby, which depended upon the lift elevator to give access for our disabled guests, the space had an ongoing problem with odor and moisture. Both GCC and Wehrenberg probably spent a lot of time and money trying to correct those issues.
Are they wanting to put some reserved seating in? I saw Interstellar there last week, and in that particular auditorium (Screen 9), there were two seats surrounded by velvet ropes, which eliminated one of the two spaces for wheelchair seating.
December 9th, 1988 grand opening ad in photo section.
December 10th, 1999 grand opening ad in photo section.
Since the Marcus takeover, they seem to be showing more Bollywood films here. According to the listings for this coming Friday, there will be five movies in either Telugu or Tamil. I don’t know if St Charles County has that big an Indian population, and even so, a mall multiplex doesn’t seem like the obvious place for them. The average teenage mall moviegoer would want more mainstream movies,
The theater closed in Feb 2021 for renovations, which were completed in May 2021: St. Peters, MO: Newly Renovated Marcus Mid Rivers Cinema Now Open [May 10, 2021]
Mid Rivers Mall opened on October 14, 1987 by May Co’s May Centers, the parent company of legendary St. Louis retailer Famous-Barr who anchored there at launch. The project was about six years behind its original, targeted opening date. And General Cinema’s interest in opening a multiplex there dated back to 1982.
The 1,400 seat General Cinema Mid Rivers was announced as a neighbor to the Paddlewheel Express Food Court with two larger, 400-seat auditoria for the major releases. They finally launched in the mall on December 9, 1988. At that point, GCC had St. Louis-area multiplexes in Mid Rivers, the venerable Lindbergh and the Northwest Plazas, and the outlying Jamestown Mall, Chesterfield Mall, and Sunset Hills Plaza. St. Louis would turn out not to be GCC’s Gateway City. Less than a year after its launch in Mid Rivers, Wehrenberg Theatres bought out all 32 GCC screens effective November 1, 1989. This venue was renamed to the Wehrenberg-preferred label of “ciné” becoming the Mid Rivers 6 Ciné.
Th megaplex era took hold in the mid-1990s and dated mutliplexes all over the country were on the bubble. The chain decided to go big closing the Mid Rivers 6 Ciné March 21, 1999 and announcing a revamped 14-screen facility that would launch at year’s end on December 10, 1999 - as the Mid Rivers 14 Ciné.
In November of 2016, Marcus Corp. bought the Wehrenberg locations and it would eventually change the name of this venue to the Mid Rivers Cinema. A major post-COVID pandemic refresh included a bar and one of the Marcus' SuperScreen DLX large premium format auditoriums at its May 7, 2021 reboot after a three-month closure. Marcus' Mid Rivers Cinema was still operating in the 2020s.
Hadnt been there in years, since I joined AMC A-List. Went yesterday, because of a better showtime. Renovations are impressive, except on the outside. They took away the closest wheelchair ramp to the exterior entrance. I had to go all the way to the corner of the building.
An article in the March 19, 1999 edition of he St Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the “[b]uilding housing the six theaters will be demolished, and a new theater will be built in close proximity to the currnt one at Mid Rivers Mall.”
This would suggest that the current theater is not a revamp but an entirely new construction.