AMC Loews Paramus Route 4 Tenplex
260 E. Highway 4,
Paramus,
NJ
07652
260 E. Highway 4,
Paramus,
NJ
07652
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: AMC Theatres, Century Circuit Inc., Cineplex Odeon, Stanley-Warner Theatres
Architects: Drew Eberson
Functions: Gymnasium
Previous Names: Stanley Warner Route 4 Theatre, RKO Stanley Warner Theatre, Cineplex Odeon Tenplex
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News About This Theater
- May 23, 2012 — Celebrating the Original STAR WARS on its 35th Anniversary
- May 21, 2010 — Happy 30th, "Empire"
- Feb 10, 2010 — Back issue trade magazines online?
- Sep 5, 2008 — Biggest Non IMAX/Cinerama single theater screens ????
- Jul 9, 2007 — TRON...Happy 25th!
- May 25, 2007 — Happy 30th, Star Wars!
Also known as the Loews Cineplex Route 4 Tenplex, and not to be confused with the triplex on Route 17, this theater was the premiere theater in Paramus. Opened October 12, 1965 as a 2,000-seat single screen with Frank Sinatra in “Marriage on the Rocks”. It showed three strip Cinerama/Cinemiracle, and in the 1970’s it showed 70mm. Just a few years ago it was the first theatre in the state to present the digitally projected “Star Wars Episode I”.
Originally a giant modern theatre with the supersized Cinerama screen, it has been broken up and/or added onto multiple times. The first phase was the traditional upstairs-downstairs split which turned the balcony into a seperate theatre; the second split the former orchestra into two unequal rooms. Additional screens were added in two separate construction phases which probably quadrupled the number of seats.
It closed in May 2007.
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Became an Triplex cinema on August 4th, 1976.
Not much was spent since they ashamed to tout the cutting up of a cinema.
10 screens on May 25th, 1984. No ads bought except for the regular directory listings. However, it was renovated with that “Cineplex Odeon Toronto look” on June 16th, 1989 as you can see at the bottom right of the Worldwide Ad.
Cineplex Odeon Worldwide cinemas opening Fri, Jun 16, 1989 – 221 · Daily News (New York, New York, United States of America) · Newspapers.com
moviebuff82, Reopened as the Stanley Warner Quad on December 23rd, 1977. Another ad posted in the photo section.
Didn’t they have live music at this theater too?
This was the first theater in Paramus to use 70mm projection.
On this date 40 years ago the best star wars movie ever made the empire strikes back made its debut in 70mm and six track dolby stereo. With a cliffhanger ending and a darker storyline, it didn’t break a new hopes record gross but did solid business enough to warrant a third movie before the prequels were made and disney invested money in the sequels.
A chronology of 70mm presentations in Northern New Jersey has been published. The Route 4 complex gets several mentions in the article.
I posted a picture under the picture tab of the dolby processor that was in theater one.
Digital Cinema was introduced to the public twenty-five years ago today. This cinema was among the four US locales that began screening that day the D-Cinema version of “Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace.”
The more or less definitive history, based on reviewing all the photos and my experience seeing movies there, my first at the location in 1977. Original theatre opens. Per ad in photos, the Cinema is then built directly next to the Theatre. The big Route 4 Theatre, the Route 4 Cinema in its shadow as a second screen. Becomes a triplex, and then a quad, with the Theatre being an upstairs/downstairs and the Cinema divided down the middle. I don’t know which of those happened first, but that was the configuration in 1977. An up and a down, and two side by side. Screens 5 6 7 were new construction. As you walked in these were to the left, between the older buildings and the parking lot. And then the original building was further divided, first dividing the balcony into two theatres to make 8 screens, and then taking the left section of the main downstairs theatre and dividing into a top of the rake and a bottom of the rake. If you are looking at the photos of the original single screen auditorium, the aisle on stage left is the center aisle of the main screen, and the area to the right of the other aisle a front and back screen.