IMAX previously had agreed to build a 13-screen cinema in a new shopping center near the mall.īut about a year ago, when the financial markets collapsed, the company withdrew its letter of intent, said developer Larry Owsley. The Quail Springs theater will be the only AMC IMAX in the Oklahoma City market, Myers said.
In 2007, the company partnered with AMC and agreed to add IMAX auditoriums in 100 AMC theaters across the country. "They’re working to make big blockbusters even bigger,” Scott said. Myers said the Hollywood movies are digitally remastered for IMAX theaters. A new IMAX screen, sound system and digital projector were installed.īut it’s not just the equipment that makes the IMAX movies unique. To revamp the auditorium, several rows of the front seats were removed, reducing the capacity from about 525 to 450. Movies shown in the IMAX theater also will be in a regular auditorium, so moviegoers will have a choice, said Justin Scott, AMC Entertainment spokesman.
Some movies, but not all, are shown in 3D. between the spring pads on the front side of the center beam section. The auditorium will be operational and showing "Disney’s A Christmas Carol” starting Friday the grand opening, set for Dec. "The idea is that you feel like you’re in the movie, not only with immersive images but with incredibly powerful and immersive sound,” said Jackson Myers, IMAX spokesman. Hollywood would continue to shed locations including the Brixton 8 until it had just one theater in the market in January of 2008.One of the theater’s 24 auditoriums was converted to an IMAX theater, complete with a larger, curved screen, and the latest sound system and digital projector.
With a marketplace oversaturated with aging discount houses - perhaps the greatest number of discount venues per capita in the nation - both the Almonte 6 and Quail Springs 6 were quick casualties closing in 2000. But the launch of the AMC 24-plex forced Hollywood to reposition the aging six-plex to a dollar house along with the Almonte 6 location. It ran its expanded portfolio with the Quail Springs 6 staying first-run to 1999. Hollywood Theaters picked up all of the discarded GCC locations as of August 15, 1997. It opened Decemand has all the modern features, including stadium seating, surround sound, etc. But the launch of the AMC 24-plex forced Hollywood to reposition the aging six-plex to a dollar house along with the Almonte 6 location. The Quail Springs 24 is located on the far north side of Oklahoma City. At the 15-year leasing option of the Quail Springs 6, GCC not only bailed there but totally left the OKC market. Hollywood Theaters picked up all of the discarded GCC locations as of August 15, 1997. The writing couldn’t have been clearer on the GCC wall. A month later, Cinemark announced a 20-screen Tinseltown and another circuit planned a downtown 16-screen megaplex. Then AMC announced the 24-screen Quail Springs complex that would detroy its aging Quail Spring six-plex. Regal announced the 16-screen Crossroads that would compromise its 8-screen Crossroads facility. But times were changing quickly ten years later in 1997.įour OKC megaplexes were announced in 1997 that would decimate General Cinema’s multiplex business model. Five years later, General Cinema would expand in the Ok the Brixton Square 8, Penn Square Mall, and Crossroads 8. The theater launched Jand that date would prove to be significant. It would be General Cinema’s first Oklahoma City (OKC) venue and was part of complex addition known as “The Center.” General Cinema signed on for the 1981 expansion to include an outparcel six-screen theatre seating 2,000 patrons at launch. Theaters Nearby Flix Brewhouse - Oklahoma City (4.1 mi) AMC Penn Square 10 (5.9 mi) Kickingbird Cinema (6.5 mi) Cinemark Tinseltown and XD (7.1 mi) Dome Theater - Science Museum Oklahoma (7.5 mi). An immediate hit, United Centers decided to expand to the West and to the East. AMC Quail Springs Mall 24 Read Reviews Rate Theater 2501 West Memorial, Oklahoma City, OK 73134 View Map. Quail Springs Mall opened theatre-less on March 1, 1980.