Cinema 8

rivest266 on July 17, 2025 at 5:28 pm

October 15th, 1976 grand opening ad.

Malco’s Twin Cinema opening 15 Oct 1976, Fri The Jackson Sun (Jackson, Tennessee) Newspapers.com

dallasmovietheaters on July 17, 2025 at 5:04 pm

Malco’s Twin Cinema opened on October 15th, 1976. It became the Malco Quartet Cinema on June 28th, 1985. On November 9, 1990 it reached its final count of 8 screens with 1,248 total seats and the building doubled in size.

Ajay Theatres took on the Cinema 8 8-plex on November 18, 2000 along with the Regal Jackson 10. They steered to closure completing the 25th year of the lease after showtimes of July 26, 2001 with “Fast & Furious” being the final of eight movie showtimes that night. As the building reached its 30th anniversary, the building was demolished likely to get it off of the tax rosters in July of 2006.

jbrown on February 4, 2009 at 6:03 pm

This theater was last named the Malco Cinema 8. It was closed and later demolished. The only thing left is the original concrete slap it was built on.