Salisbury Mall Cinemas
1935 Jake Alexander Boulevard N,
Salisbury,
NC
28144
1935 Jake Alexander Boulevard N,
Salisbury,
NC
28144
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The Salisbury Mall Cinemas opened on December 13, 1985 as a first-run theatre by Premiere Theatres. Initially a 3-screen theatre, it is located in the Salisbury Mall Shopping Center, and was the first multiplex to open in all of Salisbury and Rowan County. Three other screens opened in 1986. Later taken over by Cinemark Cinemas, today it operates as a second-run theatre under an independent company.
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Opened around Christmas of 1985 as a three screen operation,and by early 1986 expanded into six screens making one of Salisbury’s largest multiplex cinemas,and the town’s only multiplex theatre in all of Rowan County. Originally showing first-run features and family films,the Salisbury Mall Cinemas was the place to see a great movie until 2000 when Cinemark Theatres built a huge 14-screen megaplex that gave this theatre some competition. By 2000 it was reduced to a discount movie house.
Kleesburg Theatres owns and operated the Salisbury Mall Cinemas as a discount house by showing second-run films at bargain prices.
The third screen could not have opened on December 13th since OUT OF AFRICA hadn’t yet been released.
Information: The Salisbury Mall Cinemas originally opened on December 13,1985 as a three screen cinema,replacing the Rowan Plaza Twin(which became a discount movie house). The Salisbury Mall Cinemas opened as a three screen,but it was really a multiplex six screener(the other three screens would open in late January or early-February of 1986).
THE OPENING ATTRACTIONS FOR THE SALISBURY MALL CINEMAS:
Screen 1: Sylvester Stallone in “ROCKY IV”
Screen 2: Michael Douglas “JEWEL OF THE NILE”
Screen 3: Steve Guttenburg in “BAD MEDICINE”
Screens 4,5,and 6(Opened in January,1986)
THE COMING ATTRACTIONS: Robert Redford and Meryl Streep “OUT OF AFRICA”
Steven Spielburg’s “YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES”
Coate: From the previous comment: The third screen could not have opened on December 13th since OUT OF AFRICA hadn’t yet been released.
OUT OF AFRICA was generally released on December 18th.
The Salisbury Mall Cinemas wouldn’t get the film until mid-January,so larger cities like Charlotte would get first venue,but Salisbury would get the film until later on.