A Regal Entertainment Group movie theater is opening in Gainesville at Celebration Pointe and offering preview screenings to benefit charities ahead of its grand opening.
Crown Pointe 10 & RPX, located at 4901 SW 31st Place, will open for three days of preview screenings April 8 ahead of a grand opening on April 12, Richard Grover, Regal Entertainment Group’s vice president of communications, wrote in an email. During the preview event, tickets, popcorn and soda will be $3 each, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go to March of Dimes, Ronald McDonald House and Child Advocacy Center, Grover said.
The new theater will have 10 screens, reclining chairs and surround sound technology, Grover said.
The theater will join a Bass Pro Shops store, which opened November 2016, as the anchor of Celebration Pointe, a 160-acre mixed-use development in Gainesville near the intersection of Southwest Archer Road and Interstate 75, according to Alligator archives.
A Tommy Hilfiger store and Nike factory store are among the shops planned to open near townhouses, restaurants and live entertainment, according to Alligator archives.
Alyssa Marotta, an 18-year-old UF biological engineering freshman, said she likes the reclining chairs feature but is looking for a closer theater.
“If (the theater) was super high tech I would probably go once, but would otherwise find something closer,” Marotta said.
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