Cinco Cinema IV

50sSNIPES on May 13, 2024 at 7:53 am

Corrections to fix: The Cinco Cinema III actually opened on March 27, 1975 with “Young Frankenstein” in Screen 1, “The Towering Inferno” in Screen 2, and “Freebie And The Bean” in Screen 3. The theater was already in operation on October 3, 1975.

• The previous name also needs an update. It was known as Cinco Cinema III until a fourth screen was added in the early-1980s when it became known as Cinco Cinema IV.

50sSNIPES on May 12, 2024 at 1:51 pm

With the exception of its closing, the entire history is completely wrong. Here’s the real story.

Fort Walton Beach’s first multiplex indoor theater, known as the “Cinco Cinema III”, opened its doors by Gulf State Theatres on March 27, 1975 with “Young Frankenstein” in Screen 1, “The Towering Inferno” in Screen 2, and “Freebie And The Bean” in Screen 3. It was later taken over by Ogden-Perry Theatres by the end of the decade, and a fourth screen was added in the early-1980s (renaming it Cinco Cinema IV).

The only correct information is its closing, which the theater itself closed in December 1999 and became a church in 2000. With the best of my luck, I cannot find who operated the Cinco Cinema after Ogden-Perry.

• NOTE: It was never known as both Santa Rosa Cinema 3 or Cinco Cinema II. Judging by the information I looked up, it was only known as both Cinco Cinema III and Cinco Cinema IV.

• ALSO: I accidentally added a duplicate page on this theater.

rivest266 on April 22, 2022 at 12:08 pm

Opened October 3rd, 1975 per: Cinco Cinema II opening 03 Oct 1975, Fri Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) Newspapers.com