Beavercreek theater adds large-screen format auditorium

The new auditorium in Beavercreek features a massive screen stretching more than 41 feet wide; a 32,000 lumen digital projector; and a 52.950-watt digital audio system with an 11.1 speaker array.

Credit: Jim Witmer

Credit: Jim Witmer

The new auditorium in Beavercreek features a massive screen stretching more than 41 feet wide; a 32,000 lumen digital projector; and a 52.950-watt digital audio system with an 11.1 speaker array.

Regal Entertainment Group has upgraded its Beavercreek movie theater with a large-screen format auditorium, company officials announced Friday.

The Regal Fairfield Commons Stadium 20 theater opened its digital giant-screen auditorium, called Regal Premium Experience (RPX), on Friday with the movie “300: Rise of an Empire” in 3-D.

“We are excited to transform one of our existing 20 screens at Fairfield Commons into the exciting RPX format,” said Russ Nunley, Regal Entertainment Group’s vice president of communications, in a statement.

The new auditorium features a massive screen stretching more than 41 feet wide; a 32,000 lumen digital projector; and a 52.950-watt digital audio system with an 11.1 speaker array.

Officials said the Beavercreek RPX auditorium is the first Regal location in Ohio to be equipped with the new Auro 3-D Technologies immersive audio format.

Regal Entertainment Group, headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., operates the largest theater circuit in the U.S., consisting of 7,381 screens in 578 theaters in 42 states, along with Guam, Saipan, American Samoa and Washington D.C. as of February 20, 2014.

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