CMX CinéBistro has closed its ten screen theater at Halcyon (5180 Town Center Boulevard) in Alpharetta. The theater spanned nearly 38,000 square feet and helped anchor the mixed-use development.
The theater reportedly closed abruptly Sunday but while it has been marked permanently closed on Google and removed from the CMX website, Fandango (via Google) was still showing listings through February 26, but fortunately would not allow payment to be processed.
When it opened on September 27, 2019, it was the third in metro Atlanta for the "dinner & a movie" theater operator, joining locations in TOWN Brookhaven and Peachtree Corners Town Center.
Cinemex Holdings USA, Inc., the parent company of CMX, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past July, its second such filing in the past five years. Cinemex Holdings USA is the U.S. division of Mexico City-based Cinemex, one of the largest cinema operators in Latin America.
Each of the location's ten theaters features curved high-gain screens with Christie Digital 2K projectors, RealD 3D and a digital 7.1 sound system. The theater also featured a full restaurant and bar along with its CMX Stone lobby sportsbar.
The Halcyon CMX had a not-so-stellar 3.2 star rating on Google with more than 1,000 reviews and many recent comments mentioning recurring issues like poor food quality, cleanliness issues, and disappointing service. In total, six of the theater's ten most recent reviews were one star, with two others awarding two stars.
The TOWN Brookhaven location, the group's first in the market, opened September 23, 2011. At the onset of the pandemic, it closed temporarily in March 2020, and after CMX filed for bankruptcy the following month, it closed permanently in September 2020.
The Peachtree Corners location opened on March 8, 2019, and closed this past December.
(LOOK Dine-In Cinemas opened in place of the former TOWN Brookhaven CinéBistro November 4, 2022, but while still open, its 31,710 square foot space is actively being marketed for lease.)
The Peachtree Corners location opened on March 8, 2019 and closed this past December.
The closure of CMX CinéBistro's Peachtree Corners location follows the January 2025 closure of Regal Cinemas Hollywood 24 in Chamblee.
The Atlanta area has lost several other theaters in recent years including Regal Town Center Stadium 16 in Kennesaw, which closed September 27, 2020, Regal Stadium 22 in Austell, which closed June 6, 2023 (it's becoming a new Rural King), and AMC Fork & Screen, which closed July 14, 2021 after 45 years in business and remains vacant.
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