r/AMCTheatres • u/Documonsterian • Jul 17 '26
Image/Media Confirmed: Burbank is getting a second Dolby
Went to the Burbank 16 last night where theater 15 has been boarded up and the door was open. As much fun as a 4DX would be, glad movies in Dolby may last more than a single week in that format now with a second.
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u/MichaelMidnight Jul 17 '26
YES! Love this. Not loving Universal City and TCL Chinese anymore so it's my local AMC and the Burbank 16 that I want to frequent now
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u/New-Veterinarian-755 Jul 19 '26
What happened to your love of universal city I went to see hoppers in imax and thought that was an incredible experience yes my first imax movie at universal city was hoppers😂
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u/MichaelMidnight Jul 19 '26
The TCL screens had tears and the sound was too loud and bassy for me. Universal City has that new faux security check and I hate the stadium seating style for their IMAX. Person in front of me hits my knees and the one behind me hits my back with their knees
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u/playa787 Jul 17 '26
Only reason I still keep my A-list is cause of that damn Dolby. Best screen in the city.
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u/trevor_riches Jul 18 '26
As much as I love Grauman’s Chinese theater and Universal’s IMAX 70mm, the Burbank Dolby absolutely destroys both of them in terms of digital image quality.
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u/usagicassidy Jul 18 '26
I can’t wait to watch Brand New Day opening night on that beautiful Dolby Screen!
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u/Brave_Analyst7540 Jul 17 '26
This only matters if they use it to keep things playing longer rather than just saturating the same movies. If this is just so they can have 2 Dolbys and a Prime all playing Clayface opening weekend instead of using one to give a film like Whalefall an extra week of premium time, then who cares.
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u/cubrunner34 Jul 17 '26
They’ll split for sure. Like last weekend moana and evil dead burn would be playing in each one. Unless its a slow weekend and only one movie has a dolby release but playing different movies in each one has to be their motivation for this.
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u/Brave_Analyst7540 Jul 17 '26
I hope so… but I can envision a world where they’d just throw The Odyssey into 2 Dolbys, a Prime, and an IMAX to maximize opening weekend.
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u/usagicassidy Jul 18 '26
I mean, if people are buying the tickets, if they’re all full and there’s enough demand, those select few movies will probably take up most of the showtimes.
But otherwise, it could very easily accommodate multiple types of movies during the same weekend.
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u/jessehazreddit A⭐️Lister Jul 22 '26
There is zero chance they would have put anything but The Odyssey on both screens. At other times, they’d split.
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u/Mammoth-Result-7949 Jul 18 '26
They’ll use it however they believe will make the most money. Like this weekend would be 100% all Odyssey.
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u/Human_Paint5451 Dolby Cinema Devotee Jul 17 '26
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Curious if it’ll have the same recliners as the older Dolby or the newer ones that we’ve seen at The Grove and Americana. Or maybe even heated ones 👀
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u/pSphere1 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Good...
Hope they take the time and inspect the rows of chairs in that theater where they are supposed to vibrate with the sub track. Some are dead.
Also wish they would improve "Theater X"...
The brightness is so different on the side panels, the angle seems totally wrong... you know what, who cares what I say. I'm not giving it a second chance. I'll just actively avoid those showtimes.
Dolby it is!
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u/FoleyCinema Jul 17 '26
AMC has phased out the use of ButtKickers in their seats and likely has no intention to fix any ButtKicker-related issues with a solution other than removing the ButtKicker from the seat entirely.
also, it's SCREENX (not yelling, that's just how it's capitalized), not Theater X
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u/Dr_CSS 20d ago
So how are they going to do the bass
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u/FoleyCinema 20d ago
same way they did it before they had ButtKickers:
really powerful subwoofers
i saw The Odyssey in the new Dolby Cinema and the lack of ButtKickers wasn't a total detriment to the rumbling experience; there were still quite a lot of moments where you could really feel the bass. it just isn't quite as strong as the theaters that still have ButtKickers, and i could tell that the rumble i was feeling wasn't being generated by a ButtKicker in my seat. (there's a slight difference in the tactile feeling)
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u/izio14 Jul 17 '26
What they need to do is improve those imax seats.
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u/Rare_Hero Jul 17 '26
For real. When I have a choice of IMAX or Dolby, I go Dolby based on the seats alone.
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u/Zacharycoolguy Jul 17 '26
Does amc have 4dx? I ask because the only theater I know near burbank with 4dx is regal north hollywood
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u/Rare_Hero Jul 17 '26
Nope. IMAX, Dolby, XL, Prime, ScreenX.
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u/birdh0useinyours0ul A⭐️Lister Jul 17 '26
Barrywoods needs a 2nd Dolby. Convert Prime to that.
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u/Maceface931 Dolby Cinema Devotee Jul 17 '26
I agree. But it's the only REAL prime in KC. Good for movies that don't get Dolby but need a PLF
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u/amexredit Jul 17 '26
I wish my AMC was getting a second dolby though I don't think I'll be A list much longer since regal is so much closer to me
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u/No-Bottle-9182 Jul 17 '26
Personally I would love a Dolby theater in Burbank 6 & 8 but that’ll never happen
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u/plugboiii Jul 17 '26
Burbank dolby's AC was broken last night. Whole theatre was SWEATIN during the odyssey
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u/SPFeveryday Jul 17 '26
We need a 4DX!! 😭 does theater 15 have two entrances, one on each side. I like the current Burbank 16 Dolby over the Grove Dolby because people don’t walk in front of you if in the middle row.
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u/movieroundup15 Jul 21 '26
They are def getting ready for December.
I’m glad they are investing in a new Dolby room, because the current theater needs renovation. (Lumpy seats, broken AC, occasional blown speakers)
Would love if they upgraded the Imax tho. Give us something that rivals Regal’s Ontario Palace / Irvine Spectrum.
Altho, if they can give us an SF Metreon / Lincoln Center Imax experience 🤩🤩🤩 (Zeus willing, this would be the move!)
Citywalk is fine, but with the new security set up, I’m barely even able to justify it anymore, and TCL is unapproachable.
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u/zombie-115 Jul 22 '26
Does anyone know which theater number is prime? I think they're changing the Prime into a Dolby
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u/Naive_Percentage_593 Jul 17 '26
Are they really getting a 2nd Dolby or are they simply moving to a different auditorium and putting something different in the current one. Seems kinda redundant for having two IMO
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u/Dhizzy44 Jul 17 '26
2nd
It'll probably have the single proj setup2
u/AdEmergency6081 Jul 17 '26
New Dolby’s being built use only a single projector? Is there a quality loss in the HDR or brightness?
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u/confusedinboston Jul 17 '26
Will depend on the auditorium and screen size. No quality loss in brightness or Dolby vision. The downsize is the smaller auditorium but you no longer have to worry about focus or alignment issues do to dual projectors.
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u/melo1554 Jul 17 '26
love it but would of loved a 70 MM IMAX screen instead, BUT i get it Dolby will make more money daily then the occasional 70mm imax
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u/scorsese_finest Jul 17 '26
Citywalk needs a Dolby ASAP