Auburn Movieplex 10

This started life as the Plaza Twin Cinema, opening in 1976 at the Grant Avenue Plaza. The plaza’s Kmart opened on September 16 of that year, but the twin cinema’s opening date is still unknown at this time. It was later renamed the Auburn Twin Cinema by the late-1970s.

Cinemim last operated the original twin-screener, who also operated the nearby Finger Lakes Drive-In at the time, and the original twin-screener closed for the final time on December 2, 1996 with “Jingle All The Way” in Screen 1 and “Ransom” in Screen 2 due to the theater management losing money and the declining loss of other businesses across the plaza, including its Kmart in February 1995. Towards the end of its operation, the twin-screen theater was the only one operating in the plaza. The theater sat abandoned throughout the remainder of December 1996 and into most of 1997.

On October 4, 1997, an eight-screen multiplex opened at the same site as the twin-screener called the Auburn Movieplex 8, and two more screens were added in 2001 bringing a total to 10 screens, and was named the Auburn Movieplex 10.