Fox Sun & Surf 8 Cinema
14301 Coastal Highway,
Ocean City,
MD
21842
14301 Coastal Highway,
Ocean City,
MD
21842
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Heartbreaking
The building has been demolished. Fox Theatres retained the property when the business was sold to Carmike and Fox took it back in the Mid 2000’s. Now that it’s gone the Gold Coast 4 is the lone movie theatre in Ocean City proper but Flagship has a complex on Rt 50 in West Ocean City.
This theater closed Sep 5, 2022:
Ocean City, MD: Fox Sun & Surf Cinema Closed [Sep 8, 2022]
Tragic news. Wonder how the Gold Coast Mall will accommodate summer crowds on rainy days, or maybe business just dipped all around the city. :(
Opened on 26th August 1972 with “Carnal knowledge”.
Added pics of my May 2016 visit, with recliners
I’m going back to Ocean City this summer! Anyone know if they kept the theaters the same inside or if they’ve upgraded to stadium seating, etc.? Hoping it’s the way I remember. :)
I went to this theater a number of times when I was teenager. My family used to vacation in Fenwick Island and this theater was within walking distance of our cottage. Also, a friend of mine worked there, and I was pretty friendly with most of the staff. I saw Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Young Guns, one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, Midnight Run, Darkman, and a little obscurity known as North Shore here…
The Sun & Surf was originally built as a twin by Schwartz Theatres of Dover Delaware sometime in the late 60’s or early 1970’s. It was then expanded to four screens in the mid 70’s.
Schwartz sold its entire circuit to Fox Theatres of Reading PA in 1980. Fox Theatres then sold most of its entire circuit to Carmike sometime I believe in the mid 1990’s.
Well, if CARMIKE has it is probably closed today or nearing its end.:Look at that crappy marquee!
Info from the July, 1986, issue of Boxoffice Magazine: this theater, then called the Sun and Surf Cinemas, was acquired by Fox Theatres (a Reading, Pennsylvania-based company founded by Richard A. Fox in 1958, and not related to the earlier Fox circuit founded by William Fox) in 1980, when it was a four-screen house. It was expanded to eight screens in 1983. I don’t know who owned it before Fox, nor what year Carmike took it over.
Here is a 2007 photo of the marquee:
http://tinyurl.com/26kvqu