Berkeley Cinema Four
3101 Cashwell Drive,
Goldsboro,
NC
27534
3101 Cashwell Drive,
Goldsboro,
NC
27534
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The Berkeley Cinema Four opened in 1976 as a Twin, and the first multi-screen theatre in Goldsboro. Sometime in the early-1980’s, Stewart and Everett Theatres sold their chain to Carmike, and the Berkeley along with it. It was also around this same time that the original 300 seat auditoriums were flanked by two 150 seat auditoriums on either side.
In the late-1990’s, all the seating was replaced with new cupholder seating, and DTS was added to two of the now four screens. The Berkeley Cinema Four was running strong, outperforming most megaplexes in terms of sales, that is until Premiere Theatres built a twelve-screen on the other side of town. It was newer and flashier, so the people flocked there, and the Berkeley became second run.
The staff were fighting to keep this theatre open, and were slowly winning the war against the megaplexes. Sadly, the Berkley Cinema Four was closed by Carmike Cinemas in November 2007.
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Enter 2882 Cashwell Drive on Google to see a view of the cinema.
Give it a rest!
The fact that the address has to be altered shows how inaccurate Google is.
I Want to buy or Rent the cinema.Please contact me at 404-978-5292 Travis McNair
@Karolinalock: The location is terrible and the price tag is $900,000+. The building will need some serious cosmetic work and the state of any and all hardware is completely unknown. I’ll be honest, it wouldn’t be worth the near $2,000,000 you’d spend to buy it and get it functional again because there’s already a 20 screen movie theater on the other side of town, a multi-screen movie theater on the military base just down the road, and an all digital multi-plex twenty five minutes away (Carmike 10 in Wilson).
Looks like a nice Four Plex.
Carmike may have put a deed restriction on the property as they have done elsewhere in Eastern NC (Greenville, Rocky Mount and Jacksonville come to mind). According to WaldoOliverOxenfree’s comment on the Regal 6 (Wilson, NC) page, Carmike finagled a deed restriction on REGAL’S former cinema there. Reopening a dead Carmike has succeeded only three times in Eastern NC: Neuse Boulevard 3 in New Bern, Roanoke Rapids Cinema 1 & 2, and the Gateway 1 & 2 in Elizabeth City. An attempt to revive the Golden East Crossing 4 in Rocky Mount as a Cinema Grill failed miserably (it is currently a Books-a-Million). The Berkeley Cinema should either be demolished or turned into a church, given its location. The theater on the other side of town is the Premiere Theatres, which has only 12 screens; there are no 20-screen theaters east of Cary.
Berkeley Cinema Four building is still there as of July 2012. Now Premiere Theatre is the only one in Goldsboro. Before it closed the movie theatre was showing previously release movies for less than 2 dollars. It is in a good location in Goldsboro but the building is sitting and rotting away. What a waste.
Berkeley Cinema added a third screen in 1978 (Berkeley Cinema 1-2-3) and a fourth screen about 1981 (after the Plitt Quad opened in Greenville but before the Litchfield 4 opened a few blocks away).
The Berkeley Mall Cinema opened on November 20,1976 as a twin cinema seating 300 seats in both auditoriums under Charlotte-based Stewart and Everett Theatres. A third screen was added in 1978 with 150 seats bringing the total seating capacity of 750. By 1981 a fourth auditorium added on another 150 seats bringing the total capacity of 900 seats until it close in 2007 under Carmike Cinemas.