The 14-screen theater at Regal Essex Crossing — the first mainstream-movie multiplex on the Lower East Side — opened yesterday at 125 Delancey St. at Essex.
Here you can see films like "Us" or "Shazam!" or "Pet Sematary" in 2D, 3D or "RPX Regal Premium Experience," which is described on the Regal website like this:
RPX presents movies the way filmmakers intended with powerful, uncompressed surround sound and bright eye-popping images in 2D and RealD 3D. Guests will enjoy the custom-built premium environment creating the perfect moviegoing experience. A giant immersive screen is illuminated by high-quality digital projectors and completed with a state-of-the-art sound system.
The theater, with reclining seats and snack trays, will eventually offer a more extensive food menu as well as a full liquor license. (Community Board 3 didn't approve a full liquor license in December 2012 for the now-closed Sunshine Cinema on East Houston.)
You can find movie times at the Regal site here. They also have pre-sale tickets for the 182-minute "Avengers: Endgame," opening April 25.
The theater is located inside the Essex, the tallest building in the mega-Essex Crossing project at 26 stories. This building is also home to the new Essex Street Market.
Oh why are this killing the old Essex Street Market? Why are they killing the Lower East Side?
ReplyDeleteSince a small box of popcorn is $7 what would a martini cost $32,
ReplyDeleteI’m looking forward to the new Essex Street Market. Many of the vendors say they are looking forward to it too, and will have up to twice as much more space as they have now. The old place was really gotten dark and dingy over the years, with a musty bodega smell that made shopping for food less than ideal, and walking traffic has been down in recent years. This is one of the few upgrades that just might work.
ReplyDeleteThe movie theater also looks like a nice addition to the area. I’m not sure I want to spend three hours watching an Avengers movie, but I;m sure there will be huge crowds. If only The Sunshine Cinema could have survived to see the rebirth of movie theaters on the LES.
Wait, this useless mainstream junk house got a liquor license and the Sunshine didn't?
ReplyDeleteAnd what happened to the promise that this theater would screen more interesting or art films than most mall screens?
That's what we're getting: a mall with a theater. Ugh.
I love the old school neon signage that’s now up on the corner of this building.
ReplyDeleteLiquor at a multiplex?
ReplyDeleteSo no surprise when the fights start, right?
Popcorn stink is bad enough. Now everyone has to endure the redolent stench of tacos and pizza and probably chicken tikka as well? Still another reason to stay away from movie theaters.
ReplyDeleteIt's ALWAYS hard to eat food in the dark. Period.
ReplyDeleteActually, its the regular movie theaters where you have to smell other people’s smuggled in Chinese food. The new theaters with the food and drink service don’t allow that, and their food by design doesn’t smell at all. Remember the Auto Pub in the GM building? It’s about time that Manhattan got the kind of food that you can get at any nice suburban Drive In.
ReplyDelete... and yet The Sunshine was denied a liquor license but this multiplex has acquired one? Hmm, how much is now in the back pocket of the Community Board?!?
ReplyDelete3:48 The rats always know where to find it.
ReplyDeleteI rarely watch films in theaters anymore. With the advent of streaming from your television, who has reason to go out and waste twenty dollars? Seriously. Most movies are released to Netflix, iTunes, and Prime within a few months. This new addition to the neighborhood is a needless and awful eye sore. Not for me!
ReplyDelete"their food by design doesn’t smell at all"
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered if Soylent Green had an odor...now we know.
Hey did anyone notice that this Regal, and NO OTHER Regals in NYC, is showing Unplanned - an anti-abortion propaganda "film" financed by the right wing whackjob that owns MyPillow? Please highlight this!!!
ReplyDeleteOh but they do feature independent cinema! They're currently showing Unplanned, which if you don't know, is religious anti-abortion propaganda shlock created by and for the flyover states. I for one was psyched to have a theater close by but I'll be avoiding this one.
ReplyDeleteDuring Oscar season Regal Cinemas also showed Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Favourite, The Wife and Cold War, plus they carry many Bollywood movies and have broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera and Bolshoi Ballet. I just hope they roll out the full menu by the next awards season,
ReplyDeleteAdmission to a movie at this THIRD Regal Cinemas multiplex in Manhattan below 14th Street is $17+.
ReplyDeleteTicket prices have reached the point where you're better off buying the movie on dvd for the price of admission or less. If the movie sucks at least you own it and could either give it another chance where it grows on you or resell it.