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Grab some popcorn, a soda – or a vodka soda – and head into a movie this weekend. Cobb Theatres, Leesburg’s newest cinema, opened July 22. The 68,000 square-foot, 12-screen theater broke ground last summer. Moviegoers may be just as delighted at the selection of food and drink as they will for the feature flick. A full-service bar, complete with beer, wine and liquor, sits beside a two-story window on the main level that overlooks the main thoroughfare at the Village at Leesburg. Patrons can order a drink while seated around the bar from a server or they can order a cocktail and take it to their seat inside the theater. In addition to a concession stand, the grill menu selection may seem more expansive than most patrons are used to at a movie theater. Food items include Italian sausage ravioli, hand-made pizza, barbecue chicken nachos, chicken fingers, coconut shrimp and healthier fare including pita chips and hummus and frozen yogurt with fresh fruit toppings. When it comes time to settle in front of the big screen, the 12 theaters offer stadium-style seating with custom-designed, rocking seats, wall-to-wall curved high-grain screens, Real-D 3D cinema technology and D-Box seating. D-Box seating is a technology that introduces motion in the stadium seating – movement in the seats is concurrent with the action on the screen. Only a selection of the theaters offer this option. “[This] entire theater is an entire break from the traditional theater,” said Guy Austin, executive director of theatre operations.