Regal Meridian 16
1501 7th Avenue,
Seattle,
WA
98101
1501 7th Avenue,
Seattle,
WA
98101
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Please update, total seats 1096, this was reduced due to reclienrs installed over6 years ago
Opened on December 6th, 1996. Grand opening ad posted.
I went there went it was Cineplex Odeon
The venue has made the latest Regal closure list; no firm closing date is associated with that.
Tikahtnu Stadium 16 Imax and RPX (Anchorage, AK)
Metro Point (Costa Mesa, CA) Berkeley 7 (Berkeley, CA) Parkway Plaza Stadium 18 and Imax (El Cajon, CA) Escondido Stadium 16 and Imax (Escondido, CA) Hemet Cinema 12 (Hemet, CA) Sherman Oaks Galleria 16 (Los Angeles, CA) Yorda Linda and Imax (Yorba Linda, CA)
Meadows Stadium 12 (Littleton, CO) SouthGlenn Stadium 14 (Centennial, CO)
Shadowood 16 (Boba Raton, FL) South Beach Stadium 18 and Imax (Miami, FL)
Keauhou Stadium 7 (Kailua-Kona, HI)
Bolingbrook Stadium 12 (Bolingbrook, IL) Round Lake Beach Stadium 18 (Round Lake Beach, IL)
Fenway Stadium 13 and RPX (Boston, MA) Bowie Stadium 14
(Bowie, MD) Rockville Center Stadium 13 (Rockville, MD)
Brunswick 10 (Brunswick, ME)
Beaver Creek Stadium 12 (Apex, NC)
Omaha Stadium 16 (Omaha, NE)
Concord 10 (Concord, NH)
Hamilton Commons Stadium 14 (Landing, NJ) Pohatcong Stadium 12 (Phillipsburg, NJ)
Santa Fe Stadium 14 (Santa Fe, NM)
Village Square Stadium 18 (Las Vegas, NV)
Elmwood Center 16 (Buffalo, NY) Ithaca Mall Stadium 14 (Ithaca, NY) Cortlandt Town Center (Mohegan Lake, NY) Union Square Stadium 14 (New York, NY) Greece Ridge Stadium 12 (Rochester, NY) Transit Center Stadium 18 and Imax (Williamsville, NY)
Montrose Movies Stadium 12 (Akron, OH)
Barn Plaza Stadium 14 (Doylestown, PA) Oaks Stadium 24 (Oaks, PA)
Greenbrier Stadium 13 (Chesapeake, VA) Stonefield Stadium 14 and Imax (Charlottesville, VA)
Meridian 16 (Seattle, WA)
Gallery Place Stadium 14 (Washington, DC)
Ever heard the changes? It seems Cineworld the parent company of Regal is acquiring the second incarnation of Cineplex which was called Galaxy Entertainment, last month. Expect a reunion of many Regal’s former Cineplex Odeon theatres sooner than expected.
The Regal 16 has been renovated, and one auditorium has been converted to 4DX (rumbly tumbly smell-o-vision with weather.) I don’t know what the seating capacity is now, but it’s probably been greatly reduced by the installation of new, larger seats as seen in the photo on this web page. They apparently couldn’t be arsed to remodel all the way with stadium seating, though. Architects for the renovation were The Design Collective.
Added a few pictures from a trip I did last year in Seattle. Came here for a matinee of FADING GIGOLO.
This theater has clearly seen better days (or I suppose they haven’t, based on the previous comments I have read). Dirty throughout, the staff were rude to me on more than one occasion on my visit, and there were also several projection problems on my ONE visit here, leading me to believe no one has a clue how their projectors work. I did a quick peek on a few other screenings and two movies were being presented in the wrong format, and one was only projecting the color green on screen, also in the wrong format with open masking on all four sides of the screen.
Amazingly my presentation of FADING GIGOLO was pretty good and in the correct format. Which is more than I can say for the other movies I peeked in on.
I also agree with the sight-lines in this place. I had to move twice due to someone sitting even five rows ahead blocking my view. And I’m 6'2"! I can only imagine what this place is like on a busy night.
What a terrible theater. Regal would do well to shut this down and build a new location, either here or elsewhere downtown. This theater paled in comparison to the AMC Pacific Place which is a gorgeous cinema and very well run.
The Meridian 16 opened in November 1996. Regal’s purchase was no doubt aimed at keeping another vendor out of the market.
does anyone know when the Meridian opened?
This is one of ten theatres that AMC and Loews are selling off as part of their merger, to satisfy antitrust concerns. See this news item for more information and discussion.
Saw a picture here today and it was an average modern city multiplex, with big screens, bright images, clear sound and lots of coming attractions. Loews does run a decent show, so its mainstream fare is decently presented. I spoke to another patron, and he told me he prefers the nearby AMC, because the bathrooms are on the same floor as as the auditoriums. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. We could do worse.
The best (and only) aspect of this cineplex are the spacious lobbies. Any kudos should end there. Built before the stadium seating craze, the theaters have very little slope to them. When it opened, customers complained in droves regarding the fact that the high back seats blocked out the bottom part of the screen. So Cineplex-Odeon (the operator at the time) hurriedly replaced all 3000 seats with a more standard design. The replaced seats ended up at the Woodinville 12 in suburban Seattle.
As it is, the theaters are poorly designed little boxes. Even the two ‘large’ houses are nothing special. I avoid this theater like the plague and haven’t been there in years.