Mega Movies
755 State Highway Route 18,
East Brunswick,
NJ
08816
755 State Highway Route 18,
East Brunswick,
NJ
08816
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Opened in 2000 in the Brunswick Square Mall.
Features thirteen screens with stadium seating. large lobby area with concession, Nathan’s Restaurant, and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
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John Hendrickson
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Some time in the mid to early 90’s this cinema opened as Movies at Brunwick Square Mall, with 5 screens, deviding the General Cinema house (which I think was a twin). The cinema then closed a few years later and was tottally retransformed in to Mega Movies (even though it looks like a National Amusements house and has a Nathan’s and a Ben & Jerry’s it’s not, although I wonder if somehow this one inspired Cinema De Lux?).
Nope — it’s certainly not a treasure, but it is a clean and well run “facility.”
I was here last weekend to see a film. It is a somewhat unusual suburban mulpiplex. It also appears to be an indy but I could be wrong.
Given large multiplexes, I’ll choose this one over the nearby New Brunswick on Route 1.
It’s owned by George Grant, who used to own the Movie City chain, some of which were aquired by Clearview, another one (about a mile down Route 1) is closed. Mega Movies is his entire design and in some ways almost seems like the inspiration for the food court at National Amusements' Cinema De Lux, this one pre-dates their first suberban (ie: not The Bridge) Cinema De Lux, Island 16.
I haven’t been here in a while but it’s well run, comfortable, modern and non-corporate.
This theater was a GCC Brunswick Square Mall Theater. The GCC theater had two screens. 1-700 seat and 1-550 seat. The 700 seat was split into 3 theaters and the 550 was split in 2. These are still used and make up 5 of the 13 screens. They still have the GCC chairs in them. The other 8 screens were added later and have stadium seating.
I’m looking for contact information for the owner of MegaMovies, George Grant. I want to ask George if he would donate a theatre for the screening of ‘Darfur Diaries’, a 1-hr documentary about lives of displaced people in Darfur, Sudan.
Can anyone help? Leslie
Some of the auditoriums in this new space are okay, but there is at least one room that is barely bigger than a utility closet and seemed to be the place I kept getting stuck in any time I went to see a movie there. Therefore I gave up on it and started going elsewhere, much preferring the AMC New Brunswick on Route 1. Haven’t been there in four years, so maybe things have changed.
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I worked as a projectionist for megamovies i’ve got to give them credit and say they gave it a 100% effort in making sure that each operator provided a perfect presentation. In the larger auditoriums seeing a movie is a great experiance.
This theater is getting some D-BOX seats: View link
Starplex Cinemas has taken over operation of the theatre, effective 5/3/12.