Village Plaza 5

Chapel Hill, NC

141 South Elliott Road

, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States

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Status:	Closed/Demolished
Screens:	Multiplex (5 Screen)
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	1275
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Unknown

The Plaza Theatre opened in 1969 as the Village Plaza Theatres. A third screen was added in the late-1970's and it was also equipped to screen 70mm presentations. Two more screens were added in the mid-1990's by splitting the third auditorium in two.

It was closed in 2004 to make way for construction of a new ten screen by the same name.

The new theatre will feature stadium seating and digital sound which the old Plaza Theatre was not equipped for.

The Plaza Theatre was operated by Eastern Federal Theater, as will be the new ten screen.

Contributed by Chuck Van Bibber, Raymond Caple

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CHARLOTTE, NC – July 30, 2003 - Eastern Federal Corporation, a Charlotte, NC based movie theater circuit and one of the leading regional exhibitors in the country, is pleased to announce the first phases of the reconstruction of the Village Plaza Theater in Chapel Hill, NC. The existing Village Plaza theater will close July 31, and - together with the adjacent retail shops - will be demolished shortly thereafter to make way for Chapel Hill’s newest & largest theater. Depending on government approvals and construction schedule, the brand new Plaza Stadium 10 is slated to open in summer 2004.

The current Plaza theater debuted in 1970 as a twin theater, was expanded to a triple in 1973, and then converted to its current five-screen format in 1996. The Plaza’s heyday had long since passed, however, as newer movie theaters opened in Chapel Hill and in neighboring Durham.

posted by TC on Feb 16, 2005 at 12:49pm

Here is a 2002 article that discusses closure of the Plaza:
http://tinyurl.com/26y45u

posted by ken mc on Jan 29, 2007 at 3:10pm

Lots of bureaucratese from 2003:
http://tinyurl.com/2zwqtx

posted by ken mc on Feb 2, 2008 at 12:32pm

The Village Plaza Theatre was a Chapel Hill landmark for 33 years from 1970 until 2003. Located at the corner of Elliott Road and East Franklin Street in the Village Plaza Shopping Center. The theatre opened in 1970 as a twin cinema,a third auditorium was added in 1973,making it a triplex. Two more auditoriums were added in the late 1980's-early 1990's until its demise in 2003.

posted by raysson on Sep 30, 2008 at 12:13pm

Owned and operated by Eastern Federal Corporation.

posted by raysson on Mar 20, 2009 at 1:46pm

A lot of good movies played at here at the Village Plaza...
"Airport"
"The French Connection"
"Chinatown"
"Purple Rain"
"Terminator 2:Judgment Day"
"Dirty Harry"
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
"The Empire Strikes Back"
"Goodfellas"
"Blazing Saddles"
"Young Frankenstein"
"ALL of the Planet of the Apes movies"-original
"The Towering Inferno"
"Terminator 3"
"Staying Alive"
"Lawrence of Arabia"-re release
"Ben-Hur"-re release
"Gone With The Wind"-re release
"The Poseidon Adventure"-(1972)
"Sounder"
"Harold and Maude"
"A Man Called Horse"

posted by raysson on Nov 17, 2009 at 1:27pm

FYI: The Village Plaza installed the systems for DOBLY STEREO in 1980(in screen 3) for the showing of The Empire Strikes Back during its initial run.

The third screen was equipped for films to be shown in either 35MM or 70MM presentations.

posted by raysson on Nov 17, 2009 at 1:29pm

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