Rocky Mount Cinema Grill
1100 North Wesleyan Boulevard,
Rocky Mount,
NC
27804
1100 North Wesleyan Boulevard,
Rocky Mount,
NC
27804
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December 19th, 2003 grand opening as also uploaded in the photo section.
Full page ad from December 18th, 1987
Found on Newspapers.com
Cineplex Odeon also opened the Egyptien in Montreal, The Pantages, Oakville Mews and the Sherway Gardens in the Toronto area on the same day. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
JURASSIC PARK played here first-run in 1993 on 2 screens with the largest auditorium having Dolby Stereo system equipped.
SEATING CAPACITY FOR THE GOLDEN EAST CROSSING CINEMAS that opened on December 18, 1987 under Cineplex-Odeon and later Carmike Cinemas.
Screen 1=200 seats the largest auditorium that was equipped with a Dolby Stereo system….
Screen 2=150
Screen 3=175
Screen 4=150
Total number of capacity seats: 675
You have to be trolling about Poltergeist 2. In some ways its better than the first. The evil character Kane is far scarier than anything in the original.
Carmike’s last day of operating the Golden East 4 was May 1, 2003 (a Thursday). The Cinema Grill opened in December 2003 and was gone by April 2004. Raysson: I had the extreme displeasure of watching “Harry and the Hendersons”…made even worse by watching it at the Plaza Cinema in Greenville – in the middle auditorium (a rotten shoebox with a postage-stamp screen, it was the right half of the original auditorium). From my one time watching a movie at the Golden East 4 (in 2003), it seemed that Carmike had brought in people from the defunct Plaza Cinema 3 in Greenville to run Golden East 4. The Rocky Mount theater was just as run-down as the Greenville shoebox was on its last night of operation (August 6, 1998 – I saw “There’s Something About Mary”). The Cinema Grill concept was too upscale for Rocky Mount; it may have fared better in Greenville at the Carolina East 4, Buccaneer 3 or Park Theater locations. The Golden East should have been converted to a 99-cent second-run house instead; Books-a-Million wound up moving in the vacant theater at Golden East Crossing.
Not only “Batteries Not Included” was a real turkey of a film produced by Steven Spielburg,but Spielburg also produced the dreadful “Harry And The Hendersons”…a movie that was so bad and totally stupid that one theatre in Durham took it off the schedule after one week!!! I can say Spielburg was behind the horrible “Poltergeist II” which he served as executive producer.
I have them ads for the opening of the GOLDEN EAST CROSSING CINEMAS from December 18,1987.
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“Batteries Not Included” from what I heard was a real turkey; one showing at Greenville’s Plitt Quad (later Carolina East 4 and co-owned with this theater) had free admission! Did Golden East 4 also do the free showing of “Batteries Not Included”? The reviews I read were so bad I passed on the free show!
I have the original ad for this theatre’s grand opening. The Golden East Crossing Cinemas opened on December 18, 1987 under Cineplex Odeon Theatres. The opening attractions for the grand opening of the Golden East Crossing Cinemas were:
1- Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss in NUTS
2- Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen in WALL STREET
3- BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED from Steven Spielburg
4- Tom Selleck and Ted Danson THREE MEN AND A BABY
The Golden East Crossing Cinemas was Rocky Mount’s largest and most popular multiplex cinema until the 1990’s until Carmike Cinemas took over operations until it closed in 2003.
Raysson: I have just posted the Oakwood Twin – didn’t know you were going to put it up – sorry about that! Anyway, I went to the Golden East Cinema back in 2000, about the time when the Premiere 12 opened. I had to wait 15 minutes before someone showed up at the ticket booth to sell me a ticket – according to their schedule they were supposed to be open at that moment. I bought my ticket and went in – the place was deserted. Carmike had not yet reopened the Cardinal at this point; judging from my experience at the Golden East Carmike should have let the Cardinal stay closed. I found it hard to believe that the Golden East was once a Cineplex Odeon; it looked as bad as any ancient Stewart & Everett shoebox.
In 1986,Cineplex Odeon had two movie houses within the greater Rocky Mount area. The Golden East Crossing Cinemas was one. The other was the Cardinal 1 & 2 at Crossroads Plaza(formerly K-Mart Plaza).
The Englewood Cinema 1 & 2 and the Oakwood Plaza 1 & 2 were operated under Stewart and Everett until 1986,before Carmike Cinemas took over operations.
The Oakwood Plaza Cinemas 1 & 2 is also NOT listed on the site but will be very soon.
The Golden East Cinema was dethroned as Rocky Mount’s largest cinema in 2000 when the Premiere Theatres 12 (now 14) opened in the old Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse on Benvenue Road at Hunter Hill Road. The end of Carmike Cinemas in Rocky Mount followed shortly thereafter.
The Golden East Crossing Cinemas were located on the food court section of the shopping center and it also had a mall entrance accessible to the theatre. It was the only 4-plex cinema in town until 2003.
The Cardinal Theatres is NOT listed on this site. NOR is the Englewood Theatres I & II. Both theaters were located in Rocky Mount and NOT listed on the Cinema Treasures site(but will be soon)
The Cardinal was originally operated under ABC Southeastern Theatres,and later on was part of the Plitt Theatres chain before it was Cineplex Odeon and later under Carmike Cinemas.
The Englewood Cinemas I & II were owned and operated under Charlotte based Stewart and Everett(which controlled all of the movie houses in Eastern North Carolina)until 1986 when Carmike took over.
This theatre was originally operated by Cineplex Odeon, who also owned the Cardinal 3 theatres at Crossroads Plaza (formerly Kmart Plaza) located at the intersection of US 301 and Sunset Avenue. The Golden East 4/Cinema Grill is now a Books-a-Million bookstore.