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Moviegoing is back! Or at least AMC’s Lincoln Square cinema is, having quickly bounced back from a brief shutdown due to Monday night’s downpour, which caused a roof pipe to burst, flooding the lower levels of the multi-story building. The Upper West Side movie theater reopened in time for screenings Tuesday evening and will continue operations as scheduled, with only some auditoriums and areas on the bottom floor closed for cleanup.
Cinephiles can return to debating the latest summer blockbuster over M3GAN and Jaws themed popcorn buckets without further concern.
New York City experienced the second-wettest hour of its recorded history (after Hurricane Ida in 2021), with 2.07 inches of rain falling between 7 and 8 p.m. As photos and videos of the storm poured into everyone’s social media feeds, a widely shared video on TikTok showed a concessions counter at the Manhattan multiplex being badly beaten with water. Audiences had to be evacuated from the theater Monday night, though no one was injured.
Located steps away from Lincoln Center, AMC’s Lincoln Square theater houses one of the largest IMAX screens in the world—currently treating audiences to around 75 feet worth of David Corenswet in the latest Superman—as well as a Dolby Cinema auditorium. Both the IMAX and Dolby halls were undamaged, but a few of the other screens and areas in the lower levels of the cinema remain shut.
Refunds were automatically issued by AMC to ticket-buyers affected by Monday and Tuesday’s closure. A message which read, “We apologize for the inconvenience, but this theatre is temporarily closed for unforeseen maintenance,”was briefly on the cinema’s website.
The following screenings will continue as scheduled today: Superman, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Elio, Jurassic World Rebirth, How to Train Your Dragon, 28 Years Later, F1 The Movie, Materialists, The Phoenician Scheme and Sorry, Baby.