When will Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas open in Mountain View, Santa Clara?

South Bay film fans have spent months wondering one thing When will the two disclosed Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas open in Santa Clara County Well that answer was provided definitively for the Mountain View location and more loosely for the Santa Clara spot during an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema press event held on Thursday afternoon The Mountain View spot located in San Antonio Center will show its first films on June Advance tickets are expected to go on sale to the general via drafthouse com and the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema app in early June As far as the Santa Clara location We are expecting it to open not long after Mountain View John W Smith West Coast marketing director for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema explained during the media event held at the Mountain View cinema These two Santa Clara County cinemas represent the rd and th location in the national movie-house chain which got its start in Austin in and now has locations in Los Angeles New York Chicago and overall different markets Alamo has bought by Sony Pictures in Both the Mountain View cinema and the Santa Clara spot which is located in Westfield Valley Fair will operate in theaters formerly run by the ShowPlace Icon operators Those ShowPlace locations shut down after owner Kerasotes Theatres went out business earlier this year Various Bay Area movie lovers are already familiar with the Alamo chain which has been operating its New Mission location in San Francisco s Mission District now for years Yet this marks the first time Alamo has expanded its Bay Area reach beyond the New Mission cinema The Mountain View Alamo measures just shy of -square feet and will have auditoriums able to hold a total of -plus guests The Santa Clara cinema will be even bigger measuring just over -square feet with the ability to hold over film fans across its auditoriums The Santa Clara and Mountain View spots will be the largest cinemas in the entire Alamo chain Smith says Neither of the theaters will be fully Alamo-ized by the time they open and organizers say that the movie-going experience will continue to improve over the first scant months as they work out the kinks and otherwise make changes Yet they craved to get these theaters open as soon as achievable in order to take advantage of the big summer movie season which includes such eagerly anticipated openings as M GAN I Know What You Did Last Summer Superman and The Fantastic Four The First Measures We are heading into an amazing summer of film Smith explained At Thursday s media event organizers took the time to underscore various of the plenty of things that differentiate Alamo from other movie theaters and have built the former such a fiercely loyal following among die-hard cinephiles First and foremost is the sheer breadth of film that is show at Alamo spots Of discipline Alamo shows the same first-run new films that populate the AMCs and Cinemark screens Yet its initiatives also extends to vintage and often quite obscure horror sci-fi and other genres as well as cool thematic series like a latest spotlight on the works of director David Lynch film festival fare and so much more We show a ton of variety Smith says And we re proud of it The numbers tell the story best Last year Alamo screened several different films across its locations Compare that with the movies shown at the vastly larger AMC in Cinemark clocked in with different films which is almost exactly half of what Alamo proved These figures were provided at the Alamo media event Patrons will also be able to dine at these locations drawing from a menu that Alamo supporters see as two or three policies up from what you ll find at the greater part theaters that serve food People order from their seats from a menu ranging from acai chia smoothies to pulled pork sandwiches and then the food is served right to them Draft beer is also a big deal which one might expect given that Alamo bills itself as a Drafthouse and the Mountain View location will have two dozen brews on tap Another major difference between Alamo and other movie houses is the strict focus on preserving and enhancing the movie-going experience through such measures as limiting the number of previews trailers having an ad-free curated preshow and greater part famously a no texting talking code We take presentation seriously Smith says We have the highest standards in the industry