Mission Valley Cinemas
2109 Avent Ferry Road,
Raleigh,
NC
27606
2109 Avent Ferry Road,
Raleigh,
NC
27606
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Located at the intersection of Avent Ferry Road and Western Boulevard in the Mission Valley Shopping Center (not to mention the nearby campus of North Carolina State University), the Mission Valley Cinemas remains one of Raleigh’s showcase palaces for grand entertainment.
Its also the one movie house that still has huge auditoriums and brilliant wide screen projection.
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You can get the Ambassador Entertainment which features this theatre at this link Related website need to be updated.
Chuck 1231: I have the original ads from March 2, 1973 grand opening of the Mission Valley Cinemas in Raleigh,aka The Mission Valley Cinema I & II. Source: Raleigh News and Observer.
raysson, I didn’t have any questions as to when this theatre opened. I was just saying that the Related Website needed to be updated for Ambassador Entertainment.
STAR TREK II:THE WRATH OF KHAN played here in DOBLY STEREO at the Mission Valley Cinemas I & II in 1982.
The second auditorium showing was the musical ANNIE.
But it was the capacity crowds that were around the block in 1982 for STAR TREK II.
Disruption at local movie theater results in charges…. From the November 28, 2012 edition of the Raleigh News and Observer….during a screening of the new “Twilight” movie at Raleigh’s Mission Valley Cinema……
More details on this are located at this website…..
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/27/2510253/raleigh-man-charged-with-disrupting.html
This was also the same person who disrupted crowds during a screening of the James Bond “Skyfall” movie that also played at the Mission Valley Cinema that same night.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/27/2510253/raleigh-man-charged-with-disrupting.html.
The largest auditorium at the MISSION VALLEY had a seating capacity of 500 that was equipped with a full 180-degree widescreen projection that was equipped to show bigger presentations in the 70MM format.
The theatre opened on March 2,1973 as a twin cinema under Litchfeld Theatres and by 1983 expanded to five screens under United Artists Theatres and also Ambassador Entertainment Group.
To: Mike Rogers and Michael Coate
I have the original newspaper ad from the Raleigh News and Observer that indicated upon it’s May 25,1983 general release that the movie RETURN OF THE JEDI did played here,but it was NOT mentioned anywhere in the ad that the film was in 70mm…NOR anywhere in the ad that film was mentioned in DOBLY STEREO. As Michael Coate quoted in on this site that the MISSION VALLEY and the CARDINAL were absent from the 70mm presentations. At the time the film opened MISSION VALLEY was a twin theater and the film played in it’s largest auditorium with a seating capacity of 515.
ONLY two cities in the state had RETURN OF THE JEDI presented in full 70mm-6 Track Dobly Stereo upon it’s May 25,1983 release:
Charlotte: Park Terrace
Winston-Salem: Thruway
For further information go to this site: http://www.in70mm.com/news/2008/jedi
Further proof that cities like Raleigh,Greensboro and Fayetteville were absent from the 70mm presentations of this film.
I visited this theatre many times when United Artists was operating it. Lovely COMFORTABLE auditoriums, extremely clean floors (tiles) under the seats — far nicer than any Carmike dump!