Warren Expanding ?

[venture]

Very nice...can't wait! Refuse to go to any other theatre and this pretty much locks it up totally.

[kevinpate]

suites?

[Consci]

I think its highly unlikely that it opens in 2011 as suggested in the article, they would have to be breaking ground very soon.

They are planning on opening for the Christmas season and they can pull it off if they get a good contractor.

[megax11]

Holy bells good ole Moore is going to continue to see lots'o metro visitors especially during the summer blockbusters

Yeah. That's about the only time I give Moore my money.

Got to spend more on Southside. I make sure I always pay in cash, so people don't know that they're getting a southsiders money. Moore's only good for two things. Vintage Stock (when they actually have something good in stock), and Warren. Don't need Moore for any other reason.

I do wonder though, how often Moore patrons are giving us OKC folk money when they attend Thunder games?

[Ginkasa]

I wonder how many people care. I doubt that very many people even think about spending their money in this town or that town. I'm sure they just shot close to home and don't care when they spend a few dollars elsewhere for a night on the town.

Let the city take care of its finances and spend your money where you will.

[Easy180]

Yeah. That's about the only time I give Moore my money.

Got to spend more on Southside. I make sure I always pay in cash, so people don't know that they're getting a southsiders money. Moore's only good for two things. Vintage Stock (when they actually have something good in stock), and Warren. Don't need Moore for any other reason.

I do wonder though, how often Moore patrons are giving us OKC folk money when they attend Thunder games?

Surprised you don't go to the crossroads theater

[SkyWestOKC]

When I have a convenient choice, I spend my money inside of OKC city limits so OKC gets the tax benefit. For example, I frequently drive past the 7/11 on 119th and Penn, and on 4th and Telephone Road on the same trek. If it's not critical, I will stop at the one inside OKC to spend my money. It doesn't cost me any different as I will drive by both of them regardless, but I get the most benefit (indirectly by sending my sales tax to the city which I live in, and drive on the most) by stopping at the one in OKC. Now if it comes down to going out of my way to spend money inside OKC, I won't do that. If I'm going to jack in the box, the closest one is in Moore and I'm going to go there. Not drive across town. If it doesn't add time or money to my trip to spend my money in OKC, and I have a convenient choice of doing it -- I will always pick OKC.

[Jesseda]

Same here, i try to keep my spending money in moore where i live, its a lot easier now doing that since almost everything in need and want is now in moore, i couldnt say that 10 years ago..

[Dustin]

Does anyone know if the IMAX screen is going to be larger than the one in Wichita? I think the Wichita IMAX is one of the largest in the world.

[Ginkasa]

Probably will be the same size.

[John1744]

I'm going out on a limb and guessing it's true IMAX with the dome and everything and not faux AMC IMAX?

[Dustin]

I'm going out on a limb and guessing it's true IMAX with the dome and everything and not faux AMC IMAX?

I doubt a dome.. The domes are used more for documentaries and nature films. It's probably just going to be a GIANT curved screen.

[MikeLucky]

I'm going out on a limb and guessing it's true IMAX with the dome and everything and not faux AMC IMAX?

The dome is as 'faux' as it gets with the IMAX... it WILL NOT be a dome. I have been to the one in Wichita and it was, without a doubt, the best IMAX theater I've ever been to... If you are a true lover of the movie experience, it's worth the drive to wichita just to check it out... it's amazing, and I'm very excited that Bill Warren has decided to put one here.

[Spartan]

I do wonder though, how often Moore patrons are giving us OKC folk money when they attend Thunder games?

You realize that one has 580,000 people and the other has like 60,000 people, right? The real question is how many times a day people living in Moore go to OKC.

If you think provincially in terms of the far south side, then Moore will continue to be the "kingpin" of Cleveland County. If you think in terms of strip malls and fast food drive-thrus (think "Taco Bell Ate My Town") then Moore will continue to rule the roost of the south metro. If you think holistically of the south side, starting at the south edge of downtown, and try and incorporate ways to revitalize the inner south side, then there are unique opportunities. Moore is already doing so good at attracting strip mall development, and that is not really a "unique opportunity," so ergo, that will continue to be what happens in Moore. You have to develop the unique opportunity.

[Dustin]

From their IMAX website:



This is what we can expect! Exciting!

[warreng88]

One of largest IMAX screens in the country coming to Moore
By Brianna Bailey
Journal Record
Oklahoma City reporter - Contact 405-278-2847
Posted: 11:29 AM Tuesday, April 26, 2011

MOORE – Warren Theaters plans to break ground on a new $10-million theater here that will feature one of largest IMAX screens in North America.

“We anticipate this will be the No. 1 grossing IMAX theater in North America,” Warren Theaters CEO Bill Warren at a news conference Tuesday.

The new 600-seat IMAX theater will be 250 percent larger than the Oklahoma City metro area’s only other IMAX venue at the AMC Quail Springs Mall theater.

Construction on the new IMAX addition on the north side of Moore’s Warren Theater complex in Moore off of Interstate 35 will begin in the next few weeks.

The theater has a targeted open date in December, with “Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol” in IMAX 3D slated as the opening feature.
The IMAX screen at the new theater will be two stories higher and 20 feet wider than the existing main screen at the Moore Warren Theater, which is the largest in the state.

The new Moore theater will be a sister to the IMAX theater Warren opened in December 2010 in Wichita, Kan. The Wichita IMAX is the largest screen in North America.

Warren Theatres operates theaters across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Moore’s Warren Theatre is is the top grossing megaplex in a four-state area and one of the top ten grossing theaters in the country.

[Consci]

Does anyone know if the IMAX screen is going to be larger than the one in Wichita? I think the Wichita IMAX is one of the largest in the world.

Yes it will be larger than the one in Wichita, which will make it the largest Digital IMAX in the world.

[SkyWestOKC]

Well, in order for Oklahoman's to embrace this, the popcorn buckets also need to be the largest in the world.

In all seriousness though, this is a great add for Moore and I will be excited to see it in person when it is complete.

[kevinpate]

Maybe that big purple curtain has an Okie size popcorn bucket behind it

[iMAX386]

The Dark Knight Rises is going to be incredible on this.

[Jesseda]

So I guess the new imax to be built is on the back burner, i thought they it was going to be ready by christmas time? there has not even been any ground breaking for this thing yet? Does anybody know if it is canceled or delayed

[MikeLucky]

I have watched now 3 Warren projects go up... and one thing that is universally true is that the timetables are ALWAYS on his time... lol. The east Wichita location was announced and ended up being done about 8 years later.

[jn1780]

I saw a Key construction truck the other day parked on that side of the building. That means were two years away from ground breaking. LOL How long were the Key construction signs up before construction actually started on the theater? It was over a year I believe.

[jn1780]

Good news! The construction office trailer was delivered today. Construction should begin at anytime.

[zcamaro70]

Ground breaking Monday July 11th 10 am. Just got an email to go watch it from Warren Theatres.