Berkeley Cinema Four
3101 Cashwell Drive,
Goldsboro,
NC
27534
3101 Cashwell Drive,
Goldsboro,
NC
27534
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Goldsboro now has only one cinema open to civilians, the UEC Premiere Theatres 12. There may be a military cinema on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.
It is demolished now.An idea for this lot is a new theater for Goldsboro I think their is only 2 theaters open
The Berkeley Cinema Four (aka Berkeley Four) was not located at Berkeley Mall, but on Cashwell Drive two blocks southeast of the Eastgate Cinema Twin. The Berkeley Mall did not have a cinema of its own; instead a road (North Eastgate Drive) connected the mall parking lot to Cashwell Drive and ran in front of the Eastgate Cinema.
By the early-2000’s,Premiere Theatres built a huge 12-screen all stadium seating multiplex cinema on the opposite end of Goldsboro that reduced the Berkeley Mall Cinema 4 from showing first-run movies to becoming a second run discount cinema under Carmike Cinemas,when closed this theatre in 2007.
The original STAR WARS movie played here first-run at the Berkeley. Not to mention THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and RETURN OF THE JEDI got first-run billing here as well as THE PHANTOM MENACE.
SUPERMAN:THE MOVIE, E.T., STAR TREK II, BATMAN, and THE COLOR PURPLE played here first-run at the Berkeley.
Correction: The Berkeley Cinema became a three screen by December 25,1980 and it became a triple screen theatre under Stewart and Everett Theatres. Opening Attractions:
I-“Nine To Five”
II-“The Private Eyes”
III-“Flash Gordon”
By April 15,1983 it became a quad screener renamed the Berkeley Cinema 4 under Stewart and Everett Theatres. The opening attractions for the Berkeley Cinema 4 on April 15,1983….
I-“Sophie’s Choice”
II-“Lone Wolf McQuade”
III-“Flashdance”
IV-“An Officer and a Gentlemen”–(Re-release)
According to Google Earth (aerial view) the Berkeley Cinema Four has been demolished; Google street view still shows the abandoned theater on the site (Street view usually lags behind the aerial view by at least a year for Eastern North Carolina locations).
I have the original ad of the Berkeley Cinema 1 & 2 from the Goldsboro News-Argus Friday May 20,1977.
The Berkeley Cinema 1 & 2,under Stewart and Everett opened on May 20,1977 as Goldsboro’s first-ever twin theatre that has…
ACRES OF FREE PARKING
GIANT CLEAR VIEW WIDESCREENS
SPACIOUS LOUNGE CHAIR SEATING
FULLY AUTOMATED SOUND AND EXCELLENT MOVIE PROJECTION
MATINEES DAILY!!!
The premiere attractions for the grand opening of the Berkeley Cinema 1 & 2 for Friday May 20,1977…..
SCREEN ONE: Goldsboro Exclusive!!! Winner of 4 Oscars! Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch & William Holden “NETWORK”
SCREEN TWO: Michael Caine in “THE EAGLE HAS LANDED”
THE COMING ATTRACTIONS FOR THE BERKELEY TWIN CINEMA:
–“VIVA KNIEVEL”
–“SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER”
–“OUTLAW BLUES”
–“FOR THE LOVE OF BENJI”
–“From the writer and creator of JAWS comes the next thrilling underwater adventure "THE DEEP”
It was known as the Berkeley Cinema 1 & 2 that opened on Friday May 20,1977 as Goldsboro’s first-ever multi twin cinema under Stewart and Everett Theatres with a seating capacity of 600(300 seats each in both auditoriums).
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).
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.
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.
Looks like a nice Four Plex.
@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).
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Enter 2882 Cashwell Drive on Google to see a view of the cinema.
Here is an article about the closing from the Goldsboro News-Argus in November 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/d9s7eb
Status should be closed, function unknown.
THEATER FOR SALE $975,000
Employee tribute video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ow49P5BfXik
This cinema closed in 2007.