Hudson Mall Cinemas 7
701 State Route 440,
Jersey City,
NJ
07304
701 State Route 440,
Jersey City,
NJ
07304
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Built around 1970, the Hudson Plaza had a grand foyer as well as about 1,500 seats in its large auditorium. In its role as a modern movie palace, the theater even contained a grand staircase. The design standards at the Hudson Plaza were quite high for the 1970’s, and in many ways it seemed more like an old style palace than a modern multiplex. It has since been divided and re-divided into seven screens losing all of its 1970’s-era opulence.
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So, does General Cinema even exist anymore? Is the chain now non existent? If not, where are their remaining theaters?
General Cinema declared bankruptcy, and sold the chain to AMC. I don’t think Richard Smith has much emotion about the failure of his family to be successful in running the business started by his father, Phil Smith, so many years ago.
This cinema was a Regal (or Magic Cinemas, a chain they aquired in the mid 90’s) way before AMC ever came upon purchasing this house. I belive it was first subdevided as 4 screens (owned independently) and then 7 under Regal (or Magic Cinemas).
This theater close . It is not listed in regal’s web site
The theatre reopened tonight (three screens operating, the rest to follow over the next couple of weeks) as part of the Galaxy Theatre Corp.’s chain.
The new name is the HUDSON CINEMAS.
Theater is now running full 7 screens…visit was very pleasant, 6 dollars all shows, staff was very nice, and the popcorn was nice and fresh.
Hudson Plaza Cinema was where I saw some of the best films of the 60s/70s when I was a kid growing up in the West Side section of Jersey City. I didn’t have too many freinds so I found great comfort as a kid cathcing the Bargain Matinee at the Hudson Plaza Cinema. Among the films I saw there—
“Yours, Mine, and Ours,” “The French Connection,” Woody Allen’s “Bananas,” “The Andromeda Strain,” “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,” “The Great White Hope,” “The Godfather,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and “Jaws.”
I still can recall the General Cinema Corporation’s little film intro which preceded each film.
I liked the theater best when it was a one-screen theater.
The theatre is now owned by Boston Culinary Group using CMCI as a booking service.
Sound is mono but projection is good. Mark, the operator, does his best to do a very good job. Nice employees also.
The Hudson Plaza Cinema opened on December 22, 1967, according to an item in Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of January 1, 1968. It was one of five new theaters opened across the country by General Cinema on the same day.