Commerce Cineplex
2110 Live Oak Street,
Commerce,
TX
75428
2110 Live Oak Street,
Commerce,
TX
75428
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Previously operated by: Cinemark, Hollywood Theaters, Plitt Theatres, Trans-Texas Theatres
Previous Names: Cinema III, Commerce 3, Dollar Movies 3, Dollar Cinema 3
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This three screen cinema is next to Texas A & M University. Located in the back of the University Shopping Center it opened as the Cinema III in December 1979. It was closed on August 31, 2005.
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this sold dec 2005
Has anyone been here as of late?
This theater was located in the University Shopping Center on the Northwest corner of Hwy 50 and Live Oak. It is diagonal from Texas A&M – Commerce Memorial Stadium.
Cinemark opened the “Cinema III” during the second week of December 1979 with “Star Trek The Motion Picture” at Screen 1, “Rocky II” at Screen 2, and “Starting Over” at Screen 3, marking the first movie house to operate in Commerce since the closures of the Palace Theatre and the Commerce Drive-In.
Despite starting life as a Cinemark theater, Cinemark operated the Cinema 3 for only a few months. Plitt Theatres then took the Cinema III’s ownership over from Cinemark in June 1980. Plitt operated the Cinema III until mid-1986 when Cinemark brought back its original ownership of Cinema III. The theater was renamed “Commerce 3” in February 1987.
In 1988, Front Row Joe never made it to Commerce after Trans-Texas Theatres took over ownership from Cinemark. The theater was renamed “Dollar Movies 3” and became a $1 house, retaining its first-run policy.
On the evening of June 19, 1989 at approximately 8:00 PM, three men entered one of the three auditoriums in a middle of a movie and began beating up a 21-year-old Channelview man with wooden sticks. The man immediately rushed out of the theater after receiving only minor injuries and was taken to Citizens Hospital of Commerce where he was treated and released. The three men were caught in the landslide and were all charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Trans-Texas Theatres operated the theater until 1995 when Hollywood Theaters took the operation over. It was renamed “Dollar Cinema 3”. This lasted until November 1999 when the theater became a $2 house, and was renamed Commerce Cineplex under an independent operator.
The Commerce Cineplex closed for the final time on August 31, 2005.