Five years after the former Regal United Artists movie theater closed at the Riverview Plaza in South Philly, plans are moving forward to reopen the building next year with an IMAX screen

IMAX and Apple Cinemas, a small theater chain based in Massachusetts, announced Thursday that they are moving forward with renovations to the multiplex theater at 1400 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd. It will have one IMAX screen with a laser system.

"A number of our locations in Suburban Philadelphia are among our best performing in the country, so we're excited to return to the city itself in a prime location with a great partner in Apple Cinemas," IMAX CEO Rich Gelfrond said in a statement.

When the former Regal theater closed during the COVID-19 pandemic , it was the highest grossing multiplex in Ph

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