Two luxury iPic movie theaters coming to South Florida
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Wise Owl
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Two luxury iPic movie theaters coming to South Florida
Mizner Park in Boca Raton and Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach are the locations set to debut the first iPic Theaters in Florida, an upscale line of "destination" movie theaters with restaurant and lounge services inside.
A 43,000-square-foot, two-story theater will transform the old Sunrise Cinemas location in Mizner Park. The new theater is set to open in May. The iPic Theater in Boca Raton will include an independent 7,000-square-foot restaurant and bar concept called Tanzy. The restaurant is connected to the theater and will allow moviegoers to dine before and after a film, or order while watching in the theater.
The restaurant will have indoor and outside seating facing Federal Highway. Restaurant fare will include flatbread pizzas, sliders and more.
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Sounds a lot like an upscale, nicer version of Muvico/Cinemark. 500 new jobs is a plus too. Especially in this economy and with the increase of students on campus.
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Wise Owl
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My point is I think we need more theatres like this, the one at muvico was great, but fairly expensive and the movie slelection was limited, something like the cinebrew place I think would be great since it is not so upscale and you could watch any movie that is out.
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Wise Owl
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Re: Two luxury iPic movie theaters coming to South Florida
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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VIP DONOR
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Then the Mizner Park theater went down because everyone went to Cinemark instead, so iPic took that over. It sounds to me that it's basically going to be a smaller Cinemark. Not that it's a bad thing but I think there would have been a definite opportunity to open a "second run" theater showing, you know, 1-2 month old movies at half price. I think the Mizner theater could have filled that niche instead.
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Wise Owl
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In ways, yes it's a smaller cinemark, but it also has reclining seats and waiter/waitress service at your seat. Something Cinemark doesn't do. Plus if you get to a movie at the palace 20 and it's sold out and the next one isn't for 2 hours, what are you going to do? Likely drive to the mall, maybe get dinner or drinks at chilis. Being in mizner there's plenty of other places to go and walk around while waiting for your movie or even after the movie
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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Jab979 said
The problem with showing discounted movies that are a few months old is the clientele that it would attract, the senior citizens. If we're ever to become more of a younger crowd in Boca this is the step in the right direction.
I see where you're coming from and I would agree that a lot of senior citizens would be attracted to that. However, I could see students going there too because we tend to be poor as well.
However, I think an upscale theater could price out students as well depending on the cost.
Jab979 said
In ways, yes it's a smaller cinemark, but it also has reclining seats and waiter/waitress service at your seat. Something Cinemark doesn't do.
Don't they do that upstairs? I've never done the Premier thing at Cinemark but I thought that's how it worked.
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Wise Owl
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However, if you are going to a 9pm movie, you can get there at 7:30 and have dinner at the restaurant, even bring your drink into the theater with you.
The seats are very comfortable upstairs as well, but according to this article seats in this new theater will recline. Because I wasn't falling asleep in the movies before, now the seats will recline lol
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All this movie talk makes me wonder how the Living Room Theaters is doing. Have you guys gone? Decent crowds?
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