History
General Cinema Lakehurst opened in 1974 as a part of Lakehurst Mall, a 1,100,000-square-foot (100,000 m2) shopping mall across the street from the theater.
The theater was built in keeping with General Cinema's tradition of adding screens near major shopping destinations. General Cinema Lakehurst was originally built with three screens, and its opening film was The Exorcist. In 1984 the theater expanded to eight screens, and finally in 1987 to 12-screens and 3,200 seats; boasting the record for "Most Movie Screens in America", although theaters with more screens did already exist at that time.
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