Bloomington 13 at Mall of America
401 South Avenue,
Minneapolis,
MN
55425
401 South Avenue,
Minneapolis,
MN
55425
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@m00se1111 In 2017 a documentary was made called Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four which features most of the cast and crew from the film including Roger Corman himself and in it they mention it great detail on how they were trying to organize it although Corman said plainly that those who were planning didn’t realize who owned the copyright for the film. The cast actually spent months prior doing a promotional campaign for the film on their own dime. Mind you this was a very low budget movie.
Interesting. Do you have any further information on that?
A story I recall reading on that movie on Den of Geek stated -
“The Fantastic Four was scheduled to open on Labor Day weekend in 1993. It wasn’t to be. A January 1994 opening was floated, but never materialized, either.”
There’s no mention of Mall of America. What might you have ?
The never released 1994 Fantastic Four movie which was produced by Roger Corman was supposed to premiere there, but it was canceled due to Marvel and 20th Century Fox preventing the release of the movie.
Please update, total seats 841 also just added Screen X with DTS:X sound
New grand opening ad posted in the pictures site, give updated capacity’s soon, 2 of the 13 screems weren’t on sale yet
read full story at https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftcbmag.com%2Fmall-of-america-movie-theater-to-reopen-as-bb-theatres%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cdbc26dee98764bd734a108d91631b1ef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637565224952296576%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=BUssAFMqHhqbmN71oAylbcb0ileWRdvNd2yYtLQqZgQ%3D&reserved=0
Please update, theatre reopening May 27 under B and B Theatres, the new name is Bloomington 13 at Mall of America
CMX Cinemas closed this along with all of its locations on March 16, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. A month later CMX declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy trying to renegotiate as many leases as possible. It was unable to do so with this location and closed it permanently. The venue awaited a new operator.
The theatre is removed from CMX Cinemas website, don’t know if it cloased or sold. No comments on the mall website.
I worked here as a cashier when it first opened as General Cinema Mall of America 14. Eventually I moved into management and worked as a manager at several General Cinema locations throughout the 90s. I sold the first ticket to this theater! (It was for “Stay Tuned”.)
Once in a while I challenge my memory to recall which movies were in which auditoriums on the day we opened. Here’s how I think it was:
Screen 1 – 3 Ninjas Screen 2 – Looney Tunes Hall of Fame & Unforgiven Screen 3 – Unforgiven Screen 4 – Single White Female Screen 5 – Single White Female Screen 6 – Stay Tuned Screen 7 – Cabeza de Vaca Screen 8 – Honey I Blew Up the Kid Screen 9 – Raising Cain Screen 10 – A League of their Own Screen 11 – Sister Act Screen 12 – Death Becomes Her Screen 13 – Diggstown Screen 14 – Whispers in the Dark
The theatre has 13 screens, CMX removed a screen. I saw a picture on yelp that screens said 8 to 13.
According to CMX website, it looks like they have only 13 screens now.
CMX Mall if America opens May 4, and will according to them will be the first movie theater with a food hall.
Tcb.com/news/articles/2018/april/mall-of-america-s-new-movie-theater-to-feature-new
Despite what Mall of America announced last year, this theater is not closed permanently, it’s being converted to a dine in cinema.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2017/01/18/mall-of-americas-replacement-for-movie-theaters.html
August 14th, 1992 grand opening ad in the photo section.
The movie “Jingle All The Way” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger was set in Minnesota’s Twin Cities metro area and filmed there at various locations between April 15 and May 10, 1996, including Bloomington’s Mall of America.
Schwarzenegger and co-star Sinbad – plus several of the film’s other stars – returned to attend the film’s world premiere at the Mall of America on Saturday November 16, 1996. By some accounts, the stars were met by a crowd of 20,000 that turned out to see them, the screening, and the mall’s annual Holiday Parade. The movie’s nationwide release was nearly a week later (Friday November 22, 1996).
As of today, this theater is no more. I’m sure another theater will open in in one of the mall’s expansions, but the original theater that was once one of the most successful in the country is gone forever. It will be interesting to see what will replace it.
Recently MOA has made an effort to bring some cooler brands into refurbished space and expansion plans, I’d love to see the Alamo Drafthouse expand into The Twin Cities marketplace. I’d love to see them take over the existing theater space or open up a theater in the new expansion space.
As of December 2012, Theaters at MOA is now fully digital, with all 14 screens running Christie Projectors. One theater is setup with D-Box motion seating, one is a VIP theater (21+, in-seat service including beer and wine), and one theater is capable of running 35mm features in addition to digital prints. 6 of the theaters are equipped with RealD 3d systems (including the D-Box and VIP theater), and all theaters run 5.1 digital Dolby sound.
At this point, any new theater in “Phase II” of the mall is likely at least 2-3 years away. Currently, the Theaters at MOA is consistently the highest grossing non-IMAX-capable theater in the Twin Cities region, and the mall is spending considerable effort and expense integrating the theaters into the same department as the amusement park, so it seems unlikely that they would give up control.
Also unclear is if the old theater would close down entirely, or if they would try and operate two theaters. The possibility certainly exists that this “new theater” would be a handful of IMAX-capable screens to use for new releases and screenings, and would simply be an extension of the existing theater.
Phase 2 is set to include “state of the art theaters” – – no word which exhibitor they are courting (or if the mall’s developers Triple Five will operate any new cinemas – – Tripple Five is also involved in the new (well very very behind schedule) American Dream complex.)
Cineplex runs a Scotibank location at Triple Fives' other mega mall West Edmonton – but Ellis Jacobs has stated Cineplex has no desire to return to the US even though they are interested in expanding to other english-speaking territories).
Not according to the theater’s website: http://www.theatresmoa.com/contact.htm
Chain should be updated to ndependent and url added for an official website.
So is AMC still operating this theatre?
Interesting note in the StarTribune today regarding AMC selling the space to the mall itself:
“Theaters Mall of America, the former AMC property being refurbished by the mall owners, is following suit. The multiplex is adding two 3-D digital projection systems, larger and plusher seats, food and full bar service, and real butter on its popcorn.
There will even be a 21-and-older VIP auditorium, with uniformed servers taking food and drink orders and delivering them on plastic trays half an hour before the feature begins. The theater will add a $2 ticket surcharge for that 170-seat hall. The mall will relaunch the facility with a grand reopening party on Friday."
http://tinyurl.com/MOA-AMC
I saw The Ex here on May 24th, 2007. Good presentation, comfy, well-worn seats, air conditioning blaring full blast. And since it was a Thursday afternoon showing a film which was ending later that night, about five people were there. Not bad of a film though. Zach Braff was weak but Jason Bateman was great as the villain.
The picture in your link isn’t the marquee, just one of the two box offices. The big marquee stretches across the top of that end of the mall and can be seen from anywhere in the amusement park. All neon lines and stars and the (now) AMC logo. True it still doesn’t list movies now showing.
Small trivia item about the marquee…The two stars that blink in the middle were used to line up one of the hanging Lego spaceships below, as if the spaceship is shooting the stars.
Rumor had it the first few years it was open it was the most profitable site GCC had nationwide, and managers made more money on concessions commission alone than their previous base pay running other sites in town.
No idea how it stacks up now. I have to imagine the lack of stadium seating hurts it. It’s been years since I saw them running either of the hallway satelite concession stands.