Carmike Monroeville
200 Mall Circle Drive,
Monroeville,
PA
15146
200 Mall Circle Drive,
Monroeville,
PA
15146
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This four-screen cinema opened near Monroeville Mall in the early-1970’s. It closed in December 1998 and was demolished and replaced by a Best Buy.
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It definitely was all the same theatre. It did originally open as a Jerry Lewis Cinema in the 1970s. According to someone else, there was another one located on McKnight Road. I’m assuming it was in the Northway Mall or the McKnight Road Shopping Center.
“Dawn of the Dead” was filmed at the Monroeville Mall—I wonder if it ever played here?
Bloop,
I don’t know whether you can look that up. What you’d have to do is find out the year of release of the movie. You can do that on www.imdb.com and then you’d have to go to the library and look up old newspapers from that year.
I remember going to this theatre into my twenties. I think it was run-down towards the end, but me and my friends would see a show here after shopping at the mall. I was surprised to see all the theatre listings for Monroeville. I never knew that it had that many theatres.
“Dawn of the Dead” did play here in April and May of 1979, and also at the Cinema 22 and Penn Hills theaters when all were owned by Cinemette.
I don’t know if this was ever a top-grossing house, as they tended to play a lot of B-movies and titles that Showcase East didn’t want or had already played.
It did open as a Jerry Lewis twin cinema. A second Jerry Lewis Cinema was in a strip mall on the eastern side Route 19 North (McKnight Road); it was north of the two shopping plazas inquired about above. That cinema’s structure remains.
Cinemette took over the Monroeville Jerry Lewis Cinemas and added two screens, making it a quad, all side by side with the screens facing east.
Cinema World bought it as part of the purchase of the Cinemette circuit. Finally, if briefly, Carmike took over and closed it.
I may stand corrected, 71Dude, but I don’t think the building was demolished. Didn’t Best Buy retain the shell of the structure?
The nearby 10-screen Showcase Cinemas East in Wilkins Township could gross significantly more per screen than Cinemette East and much more frequently scarfed up the pictures that had greater grossing potential.
I am almost certain that Best Buy demolished the structure to reposition its location in the space provided.
The address given for the Carmike Monroeville 4 is:
200 Mall Circle Drive
Monroeville, PA 15146
Renewing link.
Here are photos of the theater, from both the Cinemette and Cinema World days:
Cinemette – View link
Cinema World – View link
I (strangely) remember going to this theater when I was young, back in the late 90’s when I was 4 or 5, I can’t remember if it was a Carmike then or not. Come to think, I never remember it being a Carmike, but apparently it was according to this website. We would usually go to the bigger Showcase East theater but sometimes, we’d stop here for a flick. I can’t remember much about this theater, but I remember it nonetheless.
Same theatre as #16661, no?