Universal Cinemark at Citywalk

The Century Stadium is a 15 minute drive from DisneYland. It’s not as though it’s located in Downtown Disney, which is a quick walk from both Disneyland Park and DCA. Referring it to ‘down the street’ is misleading.

On April 22, 2011, a 33-year-old man from Winter Haven was found unconscious in front of the Universal Cineplex after being tased by an off-duty Orange County Sheriff officer due to disorderly conduct. The man was then taken to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital and later died.

Renovations complete, new capacity 1. 76 2 and 3 73 4 69 5, 6 and 7 76 8 91 9 110 10 61 11 55 12 72 13 74 14, 15 and 16 73 17 237 XD (former IMAX) 18 92 19 98 20 66

New Total Seats, please update 1767

Over my visits to the theatre during different years, never saw the theatre at Universal crowded, usually empty. My guess AMC didn’t want to spend money on upgrading the Orlando location. They did a renovation in the Universal Hollywood location. Downtown Disney Springs AMC is much more busier than Orlando, They now have reserved seating in all auditoriums.

I don’t really know if that would be competition with the Disney multiplex as many guests stay on site at Disney, (or in the area of Universal), that both theaters could easily survive seperately. The only way they “compete” would be in terms of locals, but there are plenty of tourists at either location.

Now they’ll compete against the AMC in Disney World!!! This is going to be interesting…

This will become a Cinemark theater in September.

https://blog.universalorlando.com/whats-new/cinemark-coming-to-citywalk

Seating capacities at this theater:

• Theater 1 – 225 seats

• Theaters 2, 3, & 4 – 196 seats

• Theaters 5, 6, & 7 – 207 seats

• Theaters 8 & 18 – 258 seats

• Theater 9 – 365 seats

• Theaters 10 & 20 – 187 seats

• Theater 11 – 148 seats

• Theater 12 – 217 seats

• Theaters 13, 14, 15, & 16 – 212 seats

• Theater 17 (IMAX) – 362 seats

• Theater 19 – 380 seats

Theaters 1, 5, 8, 9, 12, 17, 18, & 19 are equipped to show 3D.

I thought parking was free after 6, if you go out to eat at City Walk a restaurant might validate. When we went many years ago before City Walk opened I remember hating having to walk from the garage to the studios with nothing along the way and no monorail, now with other stuff including Islands of Adventure its bearable. Also they offer Valet Parking next to the theater, which I remember was only a few bucks more than the regular parking and therefore seemed worth it since you were much closer to the gates to the parks.

City Walk has two floors, I don’t remember the divide, but I do remember they have a huge theater upstairs with seating right outside the doors (sort of a mini-lobby, reminds me for all you NJ movie goers of theaters 6 and 7 at the old Route 4 Tenplex). They also have a “party pass” I remember where for $20 bucks or so you can get dinner and a movie at certain restaurants (of coarse Emril’s wasn’t one of them), it was a great value. I hadn’t been there since AMC took over, but it suffered from the same issues as other Loews Cineplex sites, in that that chain had horrible operations, for that reason I preferred Muvico/now Regal down the street at Pointe Orlando (also why this theater won’t get an IMAX). I also remember this theater serving beer at the main concession stand as well.

Still, it’s worth noting this was intended to be a Cineplex Odoen theater before the merger happened, I also think it was intended to have 16 screens, but later was upgrade to 20. Fondest movie memory here: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the late show opening night – fun crowd.

Do you have to pay for CityWalk parking to park here?

Universal probably built this I guess to compete with Disney’s AMC Pleasue Island 24 Theatres in Downtown Disney, just like the whole City Walk thing is to have a Universal version of Pleasure Island and Downtown Disney. They really did a nice job at rebuilding Universal Studios over the last 5 years.