Star Wars Triple-Feature & Movie Membership
United Palace 95th Anniversary Celebration
4140 Broadway, New York, NY 10033
Saturday, February 22 | Doors: 12:00pm | Screenings: 1:00pm; 4:00pm; 7:00pm | $30 Tickets ($20 for children 12 and under, students, and seniors)
Tickets on sale Monday, February 3 at 10am
For our 95th anniversary, held exactly on the United Palace's 95th birthday, join us for a triple-feature screening of Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi projected on our 50-foot screen, with 7.1 surround sound, and accompanied by live, interactive entertainment throughout the day.
This once-in-a-lifetime event features:
- A battalion of Stormtroopers from Empire City Garrison
- A Yoda impression contest with special guest judges
- A costume parade across the stage
- A lightsaber duel of the fates by BBQ Films
- Specialty cocktails, raffles of movie memorabilia, and more!
EVENT SCHEDULE
12:00pm – Doors Open
12:30pm – Stormtroopers from Empire City Garrison
1:00pm – Star Wars: A New Hope
3:15pm – First raffle drawing
3:30pm – Yoda impression contest
4:00pm – Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
6:15pm – Second raffle drawing
6:30pm – Costume parade across the stage
6:45pm – Lightsaber duel of the fates by Project Mayhem Corp.
7:00pm – Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
9:15pm – Final raffle drawing
9:30pm – End of event
MOVIES AT THE PALACE MEMBERSHIP
The celebration is part of our limited-time $95 Movies at the Palace Membership, which offers access to all regularly priced UP-produced screenings for the entire 95th anniversary season.
Benefits include:
- One (1) free ticket to the 95th Anniversary with the Star Wars triple-feature on Feburary 22
- One (1) free ticket to all UP-produced screenings that are regularly priced at $10 (at least 6 in 2025)
- Two (2) early access tickets to all free Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda screenings (at least 3 in 2025)
- Priority seating to all above screenings (as available)
- Priority access to special activations (as available)
- One (1) free bag of popcorn at each screening you attend
- One (1) free raffle ticket for fun movie swag at each screening you attend
- One (1) vote for a "member's choice screening" for a film you would like to see on the big screen
- Your name in lights on the screen before each movie
- Special access to other UP programs and activities throughout the year
- The knowledge that your support is helping to maintain the movie program at the largest, largest, most over-the-top cinema in New York City
- We will announce the full season of Movies at the Palace 2025 and Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda 2025 in the coming weeks.
We have 3,000 seats, but demand will be high for this celebratory event. Get your membership TODAY so you can get your tickets TODAY and help celebrate the next 95 years of movie magic at the United Palace.
UNITED PALACE HISTORY
The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew's 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theater and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theaters in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theater ended in April 1969 with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey .
With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres ( In the Heights and Halftime and as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics ( It's A Wonderful Life ), to community favorites (the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom about local school children winning a citywide dance contest).
Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.
One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather , described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn't get any better.”
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