The former AMC 1000 Van Ness movie theater in the historic eight-story Cadillac building on Van Ness Avenue and O'Farrell Street closed in February, and now the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that South Korean company CJ CGV America Holdings, Inc. will reopen the theater:

An entirely futuristic movie-going experience is headed to the heart of San Francisco, courtesy of CJ-CGV, a South Korean cinema company.

The new 14-auditorium movie house will take over the space that formerly housed the beleaguered AMC Van Ness 14, which had been operating at 1000 Van Ness since 1998 before it closed in early February.

CGV is reportedly executing substantial renovations to the space — a good idea, considering the spate of bad reviews around the theater's cleanliness and even bedbugs — to premiere a cinema with some brag-worthy sensorial upgrades.

It goes on to say that the theater is not planned to reopen until early 2020, and it mentions that they are installing a "4D screen" that has motion-based seating and environmental effects as well as a ScreenX installation, which has a screen flanking the primary screen for movies with ScreenX encodiing.

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We don't have an official name, so for lack of anything different, we're going to refer to it as the CGV San Francisco. It will join the company's two other locations, the CGV Buena Park 8 and CGV Cinemas LA.

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