Commerce Cineplex

2110 Live Oak Street,
Commerce, TX 75428

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on January 2, 2024 at 5:25 am

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.

  • Prior to grand opening, the movie “10” was originally supposed to be the grand opening feature at Screen 3, but turned it down for unknown reasons. Instead, “Starting Over” was the replacement for the originally scheduled “10” as its grand opening feature.

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.

Vz3601
Vz3601 on January 7, 2016 at 6:53 am

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.

Michael Furlinger
Michael Furlinger on January 9, 2007 at 3:47 am

Has anyone been here as of late?