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Author Topic: Does anyone know the where the largest multiplex is and how many screens it is? Jeff Arellano Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Monterey Park, CA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 06-21-2009 11:01 PM                     Smallest theatre for one of the big chains: AMC Burbank Town Center 8. Theatre #5 Total Seats: 56 Screen: Small. As for the largest, AMC Covina is the smallest of their 30 plexes with a lot of 70 and 90 seat theatres, 2 over 400, 2 just under 400, and 4 at about 250, 4 at about 175.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-28-2009 12:06 PM                        quote: Robert LaValley Exclusive showings of a wide programme of 4D EXTREME SCREEN movies, produced to the most exacting international standards; *"4-in-1" multipurpose capabilities: the 4D EXTREME SCREEN Cinema can screen 2D; 3D and 4D films in 35mm and 70mm formats and is fully equipped Wow....the lastest, state-of-the-art equipment, but wait.... no digital? -- it's all film based. Wonder what prompted that decision. And what movies are they showing in 3D that are film-based rather than digit based? Certainly not our current crop of Hollywood/Pixar/Disney 3D cartoons. What film-based 3D content have they got over there? And is it dual projector....over/under? And what "exacting international standards" exist for 3D film projection?  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 06-28-2009 06:13 PM                     I read somewhere that the 68 seat single screen where I used to project from time to time until quite recently was the second-smallest cinema in Britain. If this is true I have no idea where the smallest is.  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-28-2009 06:40 PM                     There was a ridiculously small cinema somewhere in the UK, literally in a shed in someone's garden with maybe 40 seats at most. It was run as a proper business with tickets and food sold. The West End has some very small cinemas, pretty much screening rooms. Odeon Leicester Square 'Mezzanine' is a 'miniplex', five screens with most seating about 50-60. Apart from some small films it is a move-over house for the bigger Leicester Square Odeons. It's also about £10 a ticket, complete rip-off unless you really want to see the film in a cinema. Empire 3 and 5 are possibly around the 50 seat mark as well, saw Rendition in Empire 3 and it is very small but nicely kept.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2009 07:33 PM                     The smallest cinema auditorium that I am aware of that you can actually buy a ticket to is the video only Screen #4 at the Coolidge Corner Cinema in Boston: 17 seats.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 06-28-2009 10:18 PM                        quote: Jeff Arellano AMC Burbank Town Center 8. Theatre #5 Total Seats: 56 Hmm, I saw both Texas Rangers (2001) and The Hunted (2003) on that screen (not that anybody cares). I wouldn't have remembered it as being "super small" or anything. I remember a very small screen/auditorium at the GKC Coed in Champaign, IL ... but that has long since closed. The auditorium called "Salon" at the ARS theatre in Krakow, Poland is rather small too. You walk into the auditorium under the screen, and there are 20 seats (according to their website - though I only remember 3 rows of 6 ... perhaps the last row had 2 extra seats?)  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-29-2009 12:14 AM                        quote: Mark Ogden the video only Screen #4 at the Coolidge Corner Cinema whaaaaa...? the coolidge corner has been 'plexed? it was a single screen as of the late '90's. the smallest auditorium i've seen a film in was 26 seats in 3 rows. this was the second screen in a swedish duplex that i think has since moved or shut down.  |  IP: Logged William Short Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Southborough, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2009 posted 06-29-2009 06:12 AM                        When I did work there in the late 80's, the Coolidge had already been twinned, with the balcony sealed off. The original booth served the new balcony theater, and a new booth was built under the balcony for the main theater. Downstairs had Norelcos, capable of any of the usual 35 or 70mm formats, as well as dual-strip 3D. I can't recall upstairs (Century?), but it was equipped for 35mm mag.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-29-2009 01:59 PM                        well damn, i guess i only ever saw anything on the main screen. i do kinda remember a balcony area in the back that i suppose was closed off. so is it this balcony area that's been further subdivided, or did they cannibalize some storage area, or steal some real estate from next door, or did they carve up the main auditorium?  |  IP: Logged William Short Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Southborough, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2009 posted 06-29-2009 08:06 PM                        The two new screening rooms were carved out of previously under-utilized space, so the balcony theater and the main theater were not altered by the addition.  |  IP: Logged

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