The AMC Metreon 16

135 4th St. | map | 

Opened: June 16, 1999 as the Loew's Metreon. The 2005 photo was taken by Fred Beall when the complex was under Loew's management. Thanks to Jack Tillmany for sharing this from his collection. 

 

The theatres are part of a development initially called the Sony Entertainment Center. At the time they owned the Loew's circuit. The building is at 4th and Mission St., a block south of Market St. The complex is now managed by AMC.

Website: www.amctheatres.com

Seating: 4,416 originally in 16 auditoria. The Imax house sat 616. The others varied in size from 106 to 589. Recliner seats were installed beginning in 2016 reducing the capacity to 1,727. 

Architects: David Rockwell Group, Gensler. 

The screen in the Imax house is 97' x 76', tying the one at the AMC Lincoln Center complex in New York as the largest in North America. This auditorium got digital equipment in 2014 but retained 15/70 film capability. Initially all the auditoria were THX certified. House #13, the second largest in the complex, got a Dolby Vision installation in 2016. 

 

 

Interior views: 

 

 

The AMC ticket counter in 2015. Thanks to the blog Elokuvateattereita for this photo and others from their page about the theatre that appear here.  

 

The main lobby upstairs. Photo: Elokuvateattereita- 2015

 

The snackbar.  Photo: Elokuvateattereita- 2015

 

An inner lobby area. Photo: Elokuvateattereita- 2015 

The Imax auditorium. It's a photo Edward Havens posted on on Cinema Treasures in 2011.

 

Another exterior view: 

 

A 2015 view of the revamped entrance and AMC signage. Target took over the original entrance on the corner and the theatre entrance moved off to the side. It's a photo from the page about the theatre on the blog Elokuvateattereita.

More information: See the Cinema Treasures page on the AMC Metreon 16. At last look the site had 86 photos, many of them interior views. The Cinema Tour page has many, many interior photos.

Jack Tillmany's Arcadia Publishing book "Theatres of San Francisco" can be previewed on Google Books. It's available from Amazon or your local bookseller.  

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