AMC operates two theatre complexes in Marina Del Rey: The Marina Marketplace 6 at 4335 Glencoe Ave. was opened in 1973 as the UA Marina Del Rey 4. The nearby Dine-In Marina 6 at 13455 Maxella Ave. opened in 1988 as the Cineplex Odeon Marina Marketplace Cinemas.
The AMC Marina Marketplace
6
4335 Glencoe Ave. Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 |
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Opened: October 17, 1973 as the UA Cinemas Marina Del Rey, a four-screen complex located in what was then called the Villa Marina Center, now the Marina Marketplace. Two screens were added in 1977. Marina Del Rey is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County. It's just south of Venice, which is part of Los Angeles. In this 2025 Google Maps image we're looking north on Glencoe with the Marina Marketplace 6 on the left and on the far right, across Maxella Ave., it's AMC's Dine-In Marina 6.
Another angle on the two complexes. We're looking west with the Marina Marketplace on the left with the entrance indicated with an arrow. On the right, one can enter the Dine-In complex via the escalators down the block, indicated with an arrow. That brown area at the rear of the complex is a parking deck. Image: Google Earth - 2026
An October 1973 pre-opening ad located by Scott Weinfeld.
An October 17, 1973 opening day ad. Thanks to Mike Rivest for locating it. Visit his site:
Movie-Theatre.org
An October 18, 1973 ad Mike Rivest found in the Marina Del Rey Argonaut.
Two screens were added by United Artists in 1977 and on March 23 it became a 6-plex. Howie Taormino comments:
"You know - I used to manage that UA Marina del Rey back in the day - when I worked for UATC. We had six auditoriums: the four original, and the two they added on to
the
end of the building with a long hallway where we always had sneak-ins
and all kinds of gang problems. But 'Tootsie' was playing, and it was a
packed Friday night, and I remembered Dudley Moore and Susan Anton came
in to see it together at the same time.
"My district manager showed up,
put on a white glove and walks over to the door that heads from the
lobby to the projection room and wipes his hand over the top of the door
jam. He said 'Look there’s dirt.' I said 'Yeah, there’s dirt. But I’ve got
more important things to do. Like take money out of the registers and
drop it into the safe.'"
A 1977 ad for the 6-plex located by Cinema Treasures contributor Brade48.
Regal ended up with the UA circuit following the UA bankruptcy. It has also been known as the United Artists Marina and the United Artists Marina Del Rey 6. They closed the complex in 2012.
After a refurbishment AMC reopened it as the AMC Marina Marketplace 6 on October 10, 2014 as a "family" venue. Their nearby "Dine-In" 6-plex is 21 and over. The new seats are plush "leather" rockers, but not recliners.
Status: Open with first-run films on 6 screens.
Interior views:
A peek into the lobby after Regal took over. the operation. Thanks to Matt Kutthans for sharing his 2009 photo, one of nine from him on the
Cinema Tour page about the theatre.
A wider view from the front doors. Thanks to Larry Karstens for sharing this 2009 photo as well as four others on
Cinema Tour.
One of the auditoria in 2017, a shot from
Reuben Hernandez Studios taken before a Marina Del Rey Film Festival screening.
Thanks to Damon Packard for sharing three November 2025 photos in a
Facebook post. He commented:
"Alright,
well ...guess it's an 11pm of that 'Sisu' sequel or whatever the hell
it's called ('Sisu: Fury Road To Revenge'?) at the cruddy Marina
Marketplace which is raining inside. I'm not kidding. The sound of the
leaking rain hitting the seats overpowers their sound system.
"Pretty
sure this theater won't last. What's
strange is, Marina Del Rey is a very upscale place, you have to be a
millionaire to live there. Yet AMC put their cheapest, lousiest, theaters
there. The Marketplace theater used to be the UA Marina theater in the
80s. I saw Poltergeist there in '82 in 70mm."
Photo: Damon Packard - November 2025
More exterior photos:
A 2008 photo by Ken McIntyre.
A look along the entrance in 2009. Photo: Ken McIntyre
The boxoffice in 2009. Photo: Ken McIntyre
Inside the boxoffice - Photo: Larry Karstens - Cinema Tour - 2009. Thanks!
The entrance doors. Photo: Matt Lutthans - Cinema Tour - 2009
The back of the building in 2009. Note the UA logo at the center. Photo: Matt Lutthans - Cinema Tour
A closer look at the backwall signage. Photo: Matt Lutthans - Cinema Tour - 2009. Thanks!
"Fun for all ages." Signage announcing the reopening in 2014 as an AMC venue. Thanks to Chris Utley for sharing this shot and the two below on Cinema Treasures.
The boxoffice. Photo: Chris Utley - 2014
A look into the lobby. Photo: Chris Utley - 2014
A 2024 image looking north across the entrance from Google Maps.
A bit of a water issue in November 2025. Thanks to Damon Packard for sharing his photo.
More information on the Marina Marketplace 6: See the Cinema Treasures page about the Marina Marketplace 6. The Cinema Tour page includes 14 photos from Larry Karstens and Matt Luthans. Yelp has a page on the AMC Marina Marketplace 6 with nearly 200 photos.
The AMC Dine-In Marina 6
13455 Maxella Ave. Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 |
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Opened: December 9, 1988 as the Cineplex Odeon Marina Marketplace Cinemas on the second floor of a building in the Marina Marketplace shopping center at Maxella and Glencoe. The older AMC Marina Marketplace 6 is a half-block south on Glencoe from this one. When it opened, all six auditoria had Dolby stereo and auditorium #1 was 70mm equipped and THX certified. There was a cafe with a full menu and a dining area. This 2024 entrance view is from Google Maps.
Seating: Originally 1,782. After a 2012 rebuild as a "dine-in" venue it's down to 419. Richard Havens worked for Cineplex Odeon in 1991-93 and, in a comment on Cinema Treasures, shared some numbers:
#1 - 489, #2 - 298, #3 - 289, #4 - 294, #5 - 182, #6 - 230
The current numbers:
#1 - 109 , #2 - 70, #3 - 70, #4 - 70, #5 - 43, #6 - 57
A Cineplex Odeon 1988 grand opening ad located by Scott Weinfeld.
Meredith Rhule commented about the operation on Cinema Treasures in 2006:
"In 1987, I came over to open the Cineplex Odeon Marina Marketplace. Wes Stockman was the manager at the time. This art-deco place had marble floors, beautiful lighting and a really cool cafe. You could order expresso, have spaghetti, a salad or one of their fine pastries. Finally, you could sit down and enjoy your meal in its own dining area. Here, with my partner Bob Seeling, we put on a great show in what we had considered to be the best-run, high-tech projection booth in the city. Also, it was the first computerized projection booth in the nation. Oh, and yes, we had curtains to close and re-open between the coming attractions and feature presentation.
"Garth Drabinsky, the C.E.O. for Cineplex, said that if we make this thing work, we would have a job for life. We made it work with pride, and Cineplex really took care of us. The 2,500 square foot booth floor was stripped and polished weekly. You could eat off the floor. It had its own water filter for the coffee maker and a desk for the computer. There were no fingerprints on the walls because we enforced keeping it spotless. Bob and I even won an award from the union for having the best running projection room in the local. This place hired only off-duty L.A.P.D. detectives for its plain-clothed security. Mark Fuhrman of the O.J. Simpson trial was one of them. It was pretty common to see a couple officers escorting celebrities to and from auditoriums.
"In addition to regular public showings of movie releases, the studios would rent auditoriums to do Audience Response Screenings (ARS) and get public feedback while in a film’s production. Then, they would alter a film’s production and make changes based on the questionaires that were handed out to be filled-out by the audience at the end of the screenings. The stars of the films being screened would typically hang-out in the projection booth and peek out the port windows to see the audience’s responses.
"Between regular public showings and weekly studio premieres and screenings, the Marina Marketplace was making tons of money. We were all very proud of our baby. Unfortunately... I was fired in 91... and the
projectionists were reduced from fourteen to five shifts per week. Bob Seeling
had senority and got to stay... Drabinsky ended up in prison... Today, it is ran like any other ordinary theatre, and the stars don’t come out to play here anymore."
Edward Havens added some comments in 2009:
"... Cineplex did threaten to lock out the union projectionists, and many of the Cineplex assistant and general managers were sent to the Marina Marketplace to train as projectionists should the lockout occur. I had run my own booths during my four years at United Artists (1986-1990), so I ended up helping out with the teaching, but the lockout thankfully never materialized. Of all the years I have worked in exhibition (23 years and counting), the two years at Cineplex were the only time I have ever had union projectionists, and I was damn glad to have them.
"As for the theatre itself, it was a minor version of the Universal City complex, which had opened the year earlier. A nice theatre, overall, and one I continued to enjoy attending even after I left Cineplex. I love that it has those huge windows in the lobby to let in natural light… although I am certain they can be a distraction to the concessionists who have to work near them when the sun is setting. I haven’t been there in a good 14 or 15 years, but it looks like it held up well."
Bob Seeling adds:
"The 1992 contract between Cineplex and Local 150 was essentially a 'phase out' contract. We got 5 years of security in exchange for losing about half of our union operator jobs, including Meredith Rhule’s at the Marina."
Bill Gabel notes:
"The last two full-service projectionist Cineplex houses were Cineplex Universal City Cinemas ('The Hill') and Cineplex Century Plaza Cinemas."
In 1997 a merger of Cineplex with Loews Theatres was underway. The Loews circuit was at the time owned by Sony. In "Cineplex Odeon Planning Merger With Loews," a June 21, 1977 L.A. Times story, they noted:
"... Current shareholders would remain in the combined entity, Cineplex said. Seagram Co.'s Universal Studios Inc. and Seagram Co-Chairman Charles Bronfman together own about two-thirds of Cineplex’s outstanding shares. Cineplex, based in Toronto, has 1,586 screens in North America. Loews has about 900 screens. If it were to occur, the acquisition would make Japan’s Sony one of the largest theater operators in the United States.."
"Cineplex and Loews tie knot" was an October 1977 Variety article about the proposed deal. When the merger was consummated in 1998, the operating company was known as Loews Cineplex Entertainment, with Sony, the owner of the Loews circuit, as the largest stockholder, owning just over 50 percent. The theatres owned by Loew's had been set up as a separate company from MGM following a 1954 consent decree ruling, with stockholders in the original Loew's Inc. getting shares in both new companies.
Loew's Corporation, the entity with the theatres, had sold their circuit to the Tisch Brothers in 1959 and they dropped the comma. In 1985 the circuit, then with 350 screens, was sold to a private equity firm. They turned around and unloaded it in 1986 on Tri-Star Pictures, then controlled by Coca-Cola. Sony got it in 1989, then with nearly 1,000 screens, when they bought Columbia Pictures. In 1994 they changed the circuit's name to Sony Theatres, then back to Loews in 1996. Sony didn't do well with it. This complex became the AMC Marina Marketplace 6 after they sold the chain to AMC in 2006. Got all that?
Your invitation to the AMC Dine-In Theatres Marina 6. In November 2012 they did a soft reopening after a refurbishment. Thanks to Mike Rivest for locating this. See Richard Verrier's November 2012 L.A. Times article "AMC to open dine-in theater in Marina Del Rey." Chris Utley commented at the time:
"They conducted their soft opening starting the Saturday after Thanksgiving... . Awesome, awesome theatre! Great food, awesome power reclining seats, film and sound presentation top notch! I think that if AMC builds more of these around LA, ArcLight will have it’s first real, legitimate competition in town!"
Status: Still open as a 6-plex with first-run films and food service.
Interior views:
Looking in from the front doors in 2009, before the renovations to turn it into a "dine-in" facility. Thanks to Matt Lutthans for sharing this photo and four others on
Cinema Tour.
Over toward the snackbar. Photo: Matt Lutthans - Cinema Tour - 2009
A 2009 snackbar view from Ken McIntyre.
The bar area after the rebuild. Thanks to Chris Utley for sharing this 2012 photo and others appearing here as posts on
Cinema Treasures.
A seat detail. Photo: Chris Utley - 2012
A look toward the screen in one of the revamped auditoria. Photo: Chris Utley - 2012
Call buttons between the seats. Photo: Chris Utley - 2012
More exterior views:
On Maxella in 2008. It's a photo taken by Ken McIntyre. He commented at the time: "When I moved to LA in 1984, both sides of Maxella between Lincoln and Glencoe were empty lots. Over the years the mall was built along with a Tower Records and Good Guys across the street. All of the buildings on the south side are now closed, with the exception of the Barnes & Noble on the corner. The mall on the north side isn’t doing much better."
The 2nd floor boxoffice area in 2008. Photo: Ken McIntyre
Wandering the 2nd floor. Photo: Matt Lutthans -
Cinema Tour - 2009
An entrance view. Photo: Matt Lutthans -
Cinema Tour - 2009. Thanks!
Inside the boxoffice. Photo: Larry Karstens -
Cinema Tour - 2009. Thanks!
The entrance at night. Photo: Chris Utley - 2012
The ticketing kiosks. Photo: Chris Utley - 2012
At Maxella and Glencoe in 2025. Image: Google Maps
The green oval at the top indicates the AMC Dine-In 6. A bit south on Glencoe it's the Marina Marketplace 6. At the bottom it's the location of the former Metropolitan Marina Del Rey Theatre at Admiralty and Fiji. Image: Google Earth - 2026
More information on the Dine-In Marina 6: See the Cinema Treasures page on what is now the AMC Dine-In 6. The Cinema Tour page features eight photos from Larry Karstens and Matt Lutthan. Yelp has a page on the AMC Dine-In Marina 6 with over 800 photos.
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