Rocky Mount Cinema Grill
1100 North Wesleyan Boulevard,
Rocky Mount,
NC
1100 North Wesleyan Boulevard,
Rocky Mount,
NC
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This theater coincided with the opening of Golden East Crossing Mall in 1986 adjacent to the Food Court. It remained in operation until mid-2003, when the Carmike chain shut it down due to a lack of profitability. The Cinema Grill organization re-opened the theater under a new name in December 2003 and even moved its headquarters to Rocky Mount in an effort to give it new life. However, the theater closed up again after less than six months in operation.
No further attempts have been made by mall management to get the theater space operational once again. I think it is a shame that such a space in a prime location would go unused. That space could possibily be used for other purposes, such as a theater showing second-run movies or a dinner theater offering live plays or musicals.
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Jimmy Storey
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This theatre was originally operated by Cineplex Odeon, who also owned the Cardinal 3 theatres at Crossroads Plaza (formerly Kmart Plaza) located at the intersection of US 301 and Sunset Avenue. The Golden East 4/Cinema Grill is now a Books-a-Million bookstore.
The Cardinal Theatres is NOT listed on this site. NOR is the Englewood Theatres I & II. Both theaters were located in Rocky Mount and NOT listed on the Cinema Treasures site(but will be soon)
The Cardinal was originally operated under ABC Southeastern Theatres,and later on was part of the Plitt Theatres chain before it was Cineplex Odeon and later under Carmike Cinemas.
The Englewood Cinemas I & II were owned and operated under Charlotte based Stewart and Everett(which controlled all of the movie houses in Eastern North Carolina)until 1986 when Carmike took over.
The Golden East Crossing Cinemas were located on the food court section of the shopping center and it also had a mall entrance accessible to the theatre. It was the only 4-plex cinema in town until 2003.
The Golden East Cinema was dethroned as Rocky Mount’s largest cinema in 2000 when the Premiere Theatres 12 (now 14) opened in the old Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse on Benvenue Road at Hunter Hill Road. The end of Carmike Cinemas in Rocky Mount followed shortly thereafter.