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I forget what the exact number was but the chains negotiated a fee per each membership admission.

My two closest theaters are an AMC and a Regal - the AMC is about 5 minutes away, the Regal is about 20. The AMC is pretty barebones - they have the new power recliners and will occasionally show something in 3D, but no premium auditoriums like IMAX and no premium sound formats like Atmos. The...

Does anyone here have the Regal Unlimited program? There’s $50 off if you subscribe for a year today. I almost did but it appears to be less customer friendly than the AMC version. It looks like Regal charges you a convenience fee for making online reservations, and adds surcharges for any...

A single AMC ticket in my neck of the woods is $16. If you go to the movies more than once a month here, even just twice, A-List saves you money.

The few times I’ve been out at the movies this past year, setting aside when I went into the big city to see Bond and Dune in IMAX, have been at a local suburban theater now owned by an AMC. It was originally opened around 1990 as a Cineplex Odeon, and retains the same six auditorium...

It was the first big movie to move and they had been very aggressive about continuing to push it even when other movies stopped shuffling around so I do wonder if they were thinking that an audience might not be as into a movie that did turn out to have infectious disease as a subplot.

I disagree. I’m almost certain the reason it would have been converted would have been for the Chinese release - 3D is still hugely popular in China. The country has a very strict quota for how many non-Chinese productions can be released in their territory each year, and one of the quirks of...

Anecdotally, I’m seeing more 3D availability in general at the Long Island Regals than the AMCs…

And that actually discourages me from seeing it in 3D at all, because I don’t want to fall in love with one version of a film and then never be able to see it that way again. Better not to have seen it that way at all, then to see it in 3D once and then feel disappointed with every subsequent...

I wanted to see this in 3D but it wasn’t possible for this week, and sadly, it appears my local theaters are dropping the 3D showtimes for this title today. I have really missed going to the theater but one of the things I haven’t missed is this pressure to see something right away or miss the...

I like that Moonraker is having quite the resurgence :)

That’s why I find it so disingenuous when filmmakers were opposed to home viewing at the height of the pandemic, when they spoke about home viewing like it was some anomaly and not how most people see most content most of the time. Something like Avengers Endgame was in theaters for weeks but...

Which pretty much puts you and your fiancé (is the “fiancé” part new?! congratulations!) on par or still above the average moviegoer. Absolutely nothing wrong with that! I went to the movies so much more before marriage, and then when the kids came along that was basically it, and then the...

I think it’s less than that for a renewal, and in the past they let you use rewards dollars to pay for the resubscribe so I don’t think I’ve paid out of pocket for it since my inaugural year.

I loved having A-list - I only let it go just before my twins were born in ‘19 because I knew there was no way I’d get out enough to use it, and that was certainly true before the pandemic. I think it’s probably gonna be a while before I have the chance to go regularly again :D AMC had talked...

Can you just splice the last year out of your memories so you jump cut from ‘33 Kong to ‘21 Kong? :D

We all have our own entry points into the uncanny valley...

I just was into the movie and didn’t think twice about it. I bought the effect, and the actors working around it certainly helped sell it. If they had used a real dog, I think they still would have had to use a CGI one for some portions of the film, and it probably worked better for me that they...

Worked fine for me.

Yeah, my last was Harrison Ford’s version of Call of the Wild. I enjoyed the movie, had the auditorium to myself, and the popcorn was fresh.

I think the prices Malcolm quoted are just asking too much unless you’re doing an entire kids birthday party or something like that. On the other hand...if I could rent out AMC Lincoln Square’s giant IMAX when there’s nothing going on, I’d pay some money for that. Whenever they’ve shown an...

I have to say, I hope AMC continues to offer this when normal resumes. There’s a lot of dead space in a theater’s schedule - plenty of weekday and weeknight showings with zero attendance, particularly when you get to the places that have a dozen or more screens. If they widened the offerings to...

I’d bet anything it’s DCP. I’m doubtful that big chains have consumer level gear like DVD/BD players as a regular fixture in their auditoriums. In my limited booth experience that’s more like something I’d expect at an indie venue.

It was still happening at my local Regal pre-shutdown and it definitely led to some long entry lines at busy showtimes...they just kinda poke a stick around in your bag. But they never once asked to check my pockets so if I had anything, I just put it in my coat pocket. No one ever asked why I...

I’ve never had a problem bringing stuff into AMC. Not that that’s my grand ambition in life but I used to go to AMC on my way home from work and would often have leftovers from my lunch or dinner meal with me - I’d rarely eat them at the theater but I still had them with me and never had a...

Everyone is pretty much caught between a rock and a hard place this year and I’m normally so cynical that I don’t know why this surprises me, but I’m stunned on a frequent basis at how so many companies and individuals aren’t interested in even having a conversation about how to get through this...

I saw an ad for AMC offering a private screening in their theaters for $100 at off peak times and more during busier time. I think that’s a step in the right direction but still wildly overpriced in the current environment. They have a mix of films playing to empty auditoriums and films...

Theaters and studios should make an effort to allow private rentals of auditoriums for both current releases and repertory product. Generally there are holdups from both ends that results in private screenings being excessively expensive and now is an opportunity to make that easier. If...

AMC just announced that due to feeeback from their customers, they are reversing course and will require masks.