New movie complex Blockbuster to open next year will become the largest in Ukraine
Kyiv’s movie goers will have another cinema to choose from as Blockbuster movie complex opens at 34V Moskovskiy in the beginning of next year. Blockbuster sounds serious, not only because of its pretentious name – the complex is claimed to become the largest movie theater in Ukraine, involving 12 screening halls, with 3,000 seats total.
Blockbuster will also become the first IMAX cinema to open in Ukraine with Triumph film company, and justifying its name will specialize in Hollywood mega-budget flicks, showing them with new video and sound quality provided by IMAX technology, as well as educational and documentary films IMAX in IMAX 2D and IMAX 3D formats.
Apart from a great number of big screens, Blockbuster, being a multiplex, will feature various other entertainments, such as carting, roller-skating, bowling, a billiards club, children’s entertainment complex, game machines, internet club, rock climbing wall, and of course, fast foods and a restaurant.
At the moment Kyiv counts over 20 movie theaters – some of them were opened in recent years, while a large number of them are revived Soviet cinemas that stopped operating after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Still, the latter differ greatly as well – while some were renovated and turned into modern cinemas with a nostalgic flair like Kyiv and Zhovten, others still retained their ancient look and level of comfort.
As for the ultramodern movie complexes, the largest one so far is Butterfly Ultramarine, with its six halls. There are also a number of theaters, including four to five screens, all of them being part of big entertainment complexes. The benefit of the big cinemas is of course that they are showing many films and offer frequent screenings. On the other hand, this usually means mainly mainstream films and an atmosphere similar to that of a shopping mall, with too many people and too much noise around. Therefore to me, news of another mega movie complex opening basically means that it should lure some of the viewers away from my favorite small and cozy movie theaters, and that suits me just fine.
