The multiplex era, in brief

1970s — 2022

Twins, mall houses, and stadium screens: After the Holiday showed the way, Fort Wayne's screens multiplied and shrank. The mall and strip years brought the twins and triples the listings keep — the Northwood Park 1 & 2 (opened by General Cinema in the late 1970s; Regal ran it 1993–1996, and it later lived a second life as the Northwood Cinema Grill), the Glenbrook Square cinemas, the Southtown Mall Cinemas 1-2-3, which closed with their mall, the Gateway Cinemas, and the Georgetown and Time Corners houses. The stadium era reset the map three times. Regal expanded its eight-screen Coldwater house by six screens — the News-Sentinel of March 14, 2003, reported the plan: a 69,000-square-foot, fourteen-screen complex seating 3,250, opened in 2004 — and the Regal Coldwater Crossing, recliners added in later years, remains the north side's multiplex. At Jefferson Pointe, opened in August 2001, the theatre opened that November as a Rave Motion Pictures house of eighteen screens; an auditorium was converted to the region's only IMAX in 2011, Carmike bought the house in 2012, and AMC, which absorbed Carmike, runs it still. The third stadium house was the biggest and the shortest-lived of the three: the Carmike Stadium 20 at 3930 East Dupont Road, a project announced in 2000 and delayed by Carmike's bankruptcy, opened on July 2, 2005; AMC renamed it the AMC Classic Fort Wayne 20 in 2017 and closed it on July 31, 2022. The building stands vacant; Parkview Health bought the property in 2025.

Sources:

1. The News-Sentinel, March 14, 2003 — Regal's Coldwater Crossing expansion: six screens added to the Coldwater 8, 69,000 square feet and 3,250 seats, opening in the second quarter of 2004, and Carmike's Dupont Road twenty-screen project, announced in 2000 and delayed by its Chapter 11 filing.
2. Cinema Treasures — AMC Classic Fort Wayne 20, 3930 E. Dupont Road (opened July 2, 2005, as the Carmike Stadium 20; AMC takeover 2016; renamed 2017; closed July 31, 2022) and AMC Jefferson Point 18 comments (the Rave opening, the IMAX conversion, and the Carmike purchase); Northwood Cinema Grill comments (the Northwood Park 1 & 2, General Cinema's late-1970s opening, Regal 1993–1996); Regal Coldwater Crossing comments (fourteen auditoriums, built with eight).
3. Jefferson Pointe Shopping Center (Wikipedia and center records) — the center's August 2001 opening and the IMAX addition of 2011; Cinema Graveyard, "AMC Classic Ft Wayne 20" (2026) — the Dupont Road building's vacancy and its July 2025 purchase by Parkview Health.
4. Corridors section of this history — Southtown Mall (opened 1969, closed 2003, demolished 2004), the Southtown Mall Cinemas' home, from the News-Sentinel's mall record.