Dan416
Senior Member
You would think a big company like AMC would plan things better to ensure that crowding doesn't become a safety issue :S
I was at I am Legend as well -- it kinda disturbed me the number of people who brought their children and babies into the theatre - did you notice that smuncky? Oh, and the girl who decided to run to the front of the theatre as it was beginning, stand to the side, and talk on her cell phone. Come on.
Northeast corner of Yonge and Gerrard you'll find one of those jewellery mini malls. Used to be a theatre. Before home video this area had many porno theatres. I think this was one of them.
Here is a link for the film schedule at the new AMC theatre starting on the 28th.
http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=10818&rdate=3/28/2008
A truly atrocious selection of films. Any notion of the AMC Younge Dundas theatre adding anything to the local cinematic landscape is thrown out the window. Even the AMC in Whitby has a more diverse film selection than this. The film list is nothing more than the worst mainstream also rans Scotiabank disposed of more than a month ago + 21 on 3 Screens!!!!!!!
If you look at the list of films the Amc in Montreal plays, with an English speaking population of less than 100 000 it only makes one cry.
http://www.cinemaclock.com/aw/ctha.aw/que/Montreal/e/AMC_Forum_22.html
It seems not a single one of the 24 screens will be reserved for any independent/foreign/arthouse fare. Secondly these types of films are available only in the Superior 35mm format so it is safe to assume this situation is permanent. Truly sad for a city and its film culture to be subjected to this gross homogeneity.
It's not unusual for a new cinema complex to open with some second-run fare until the film booker can negotiate the number of screens, seats and terms that a distributor demands for a given film. As new films open they will replace the "filler" films that AMC is opening with this coming weekend.
I have every confidence that AMC TLS will test the theatre for demand for such product. Keep in mind that independent/foreign fare has a limited audience and with Carlton, Varsity and Cumberland in the area they face a competition that some other AMC's cinemas don't have.
Now that digital projection is available the smaller distributors will be motivated to make their films available in the digital format if they can get booked into a theatre such as AMC.
To my eyes 35MM is no longer a superior format in today's cinema. What I saw this weekend at AMC challenged some of the best 70MM presentations of the 1970's & 1980's.
It's not unusual for a new cinema complex to open with some second-run fare until the film booker can negotiate the number of screens, seats and terms that a distributor demands for a given film. As new films open they will replace the "filler" films that AMC is opening with this coming weekend.
I have every confidence that AMC TLS will test the theatre for demand for such product. Keep in mind that independent/foreign fare has a limited audience and with Carlton, Varsity and Cumberland in the area they face a competition that some other AMC's cinemas don't have.
Now that digital projection is available the smaller distributors will be motivated to make their films available in the digital format if they can get booked into a theatre such as AMC.