Randolph’s movie screens have flickered back to life. Regal has opened a new theater at 73 Mazzeo Drive, the former home of Showcase Cinema de Lux, bringing IMAX and what a company spokesperson called a “kaiju-sized screen” to a building that had sat dark since March.
The opening, reported by Enterprise News, marks the return of moviegoing to a site that had been a fixture of the South Shore cinema scene for decades. The new Regal Randolph includes an IMAX auditorium, and earlier plans described in a separate enterprisenews.com report indicated the theater would also offer RPX auditoriums, giving moviegoers multiple premium-format options under one roof.
Those same plans called for Regal Randolph to retain all 16 of the existing screens and more than 2,000 seats from the previous operation, according to the outlet’s reporting. The site has long been built for scale: a connectcre.com account of the property’s sale noted the three-level theater had operated with 16 screens accommodating 2,240 seats since 1997.
A Multiplex With a Long History
The Randolph location has been a movie destination since Showcase Cinemas opened it as a 16-screen theater in 1998, per the same enterprisenews.com account. The building later got a significant refresh: a $5 million, multi-year makeover beginning in 2007 replaced more than 4,000 seats and added an IMAX screen, the report noted…